Isabelle van Keulen Returns to Cincinnati This Week

Cincinnati welcomes Paavo back to the Music Hall podium this week. Dutch violinist Isabelle van Keulen makes her first return appearance to Cincinnati this week since performing the U.S. premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür's Violin Concerto in 2001. Partnering once again with Paavo and the Cincinnati Symphony, van Keulen will perform Anton Berg's "To the Memory of an Angel" Violin Concerto. Also on the program are Sibelius' Symphony No. 4 in A Minor, and Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture-fantasy.

Concerts are Friday, January 12 and Saturday, January 13 at 8 pm. Friday night is College Nite with $10 tickets for students with valid IDs, an after-party with Paavo and CSO musicians, and complimentary food and beverages. Hyde Park Outrage will perform.

Listen to Paavo's Notes via MP3 here. And read this week's Program Notes before you go. This program will air via streaming audio for the rest of the world on 90.9 FM, Classical WGUC on Sunday, February 25, at 7:30 pm ET.