PLANO, TX: The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is thrilled to continue its 2024/2025 Season, New Beginnings, with the concert The Beat Goes On! on Saturday, January 18 at 8:00 PM at the Robinson Fine Arts Center. In addition to the internationally acclaimed percussion ensemble Tambuco joining the PSO, the concert will feature a commissioned world premiere entitled Shine Time from the brilliant young composer Quinn Mason. Tickets range in price from $33-$85 and can be purchased through the Plano Symphony Orchestra Box Office (972-473-7262/planosymphony.org).
With 30 years of international concerts and the recording of an original repertoire, Tambuco Percussion Ensemble has celebrated an acclaimed career, establishing itself among the finest percussion quartets today. Audiences throughout the world have enjoyed the musicianship of Tambuco in programs devoted exclusively to showing a vast universe of percussion music.
Four-time Grammy nominees including Best Classical Album and Best Chamber Ensemble, Tambuco was founded in 1993 by four distinguished musicians and is ranked among the finest and most innovative in the world. These four musicians refuse to be tied down to one style, with a repertoire ranging from structuralist percussion music to a wide range of ethnic drum music and avante garde sound interpretation. The one constant is their desire for perfection and unique, virtuoso performance. The musicians of Tambuco use all conceivable and inconceivable means to realize their musical ideas. Tambuco has been awarded with many distinctions and prizes from cultural organizations in Mexico and abroad. They have performed concerts in five continents in such prestigious concert halls as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Hall, Ino Hall, Toppan Hall, Barbican Centre, and Germany’s Berliner Festspiele as well as practically all of Mexico’s concert halls.
The PSO is honored to perform a commissioned world premiere from composer Quinn Mason. The composition, Shine Time, is a short showpiece for orchestra designed to showcase the virtuosity of the PSO and celebrate Maestro Héctor Guzmán’s 41 fruitful seasons with the orchestra. Shine Time was made possible through a generous donation from Tammy and Charles Miller. It is the second of three newly commissioned pieces by local composers to be performed this season by the Plano Symphony in thanks to the Miller gift.
Praised as “one of the most sought-after young composers in the country” (Texas Monthly), composer and conductor Quinn Mason has distinguished himself as an artist of national and international renown. He recently finished a successful tenure as Artist in Residence of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra for the 2022–2023 Season. He also recently served as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Classical Roots composer in residence in 2022 (the youngest composer appointed to that role) and as KMFA 89.5’s inaugural composer in residence.
For more information about all the concerts in the 2024/2025 Season, visit planosymphony.org.
About the Plano Symphony Orchestra:
Founded in 1983, the Plano Symphony is a non-profit symphony organization dedicated to providing the citizens of North Texas with rich and varied programming of orchestral music and to educating the youth and adults of the community about the joy of classical and popular music through live performance.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) is widely acknowledged as one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in the region. Under the artistic and musical direction of Maestro Héctor Guzmán and leadership of Executive Director Gregory Patterson, the PSO produces eight subscription concerts annually as well as myriads of music education and community outreach programs that serve nearly 150,000 people annually.
Of the 18,000 students who participate in its School Concert Program, over 40% attend various Title I schools in Dallas or Collin counties.
The Plano Symphony Orchestra is supported, in part, by the City of Plano, Tammy and Charles Miller, The Andrea-Mennen Family Foundation (TAFF), Atmos Energy, the Aware Foundation, Baylor Scott & White Plano, Dianne and Marion Brockette, the City of Richardson, The Dallas Morning News, Nancy Freeman, Frisco Association for Arts, Frost Bank, Gittings, H-E-B, Sandy Nachman, National Endowment for Arts, Nylo Hotel, Wanda and Cliff Parker, Plano ISD, the Plano Rotary Club, the Plano Symphony Orchestra Guild, the Plano Symphony Orchestra Virtuoso Society, the Rea Charitable Trust, Retirement Planners of America, Signs by Tomorrow Plano, SoloShoe Communications, Carol and Bill Tempest, Texas Commission on Arts, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano, Veritex Community Bank, Methodist Hospital for Surgery, Bartlett & West, GP Consulting, LLC, and hundreds of individual donors, foundations, and corporations who make transformative gifts to the PSO.
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