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Dearborn Symphony Orchestra Opening Night

The Opening Night Concert for the 52nd season of the award-winning Dearborn
Symphony under the direction of Maestro Kypros Markou at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center Michael A.
Guido Theater will feature musician is world-renowned pianist Christopher
O’Riley.



Some of you may be familiar with
O’Riley’s National Public Radio program, “From the Top,” as well as his
critically-acclaimed transcriptions of the music of Radiohead and Nirvana. In
his October 4 performance with the Dearborn Symphony, O’Riley will bring the
concert to a thrilling finish with Tchaikovsky’s spectacular First Piano
Concert, the piece that propelled Van Cliburn to a phenomenally successful
career when he won the 1958 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. The
concert begins with Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld Overture” described
by Maestro Markou as “champagne” that includes the famous “Can-Can” followed by
Schubert’s Symphony No. 2 that he says “will make the audience dance.”



O’Riley’s long list of credits
includes winner of many prestigious awards including the Leeds, Van Cliburn,
Busoni and Montreal competition, as well as an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
O'Riley was a finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in
1981.

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Christopher O’Riley has appeared
with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, the Minnesota
Orchestra, and the symphonies of Pittsburgh, Detroit, Colorado, Atlanta and
Baltimore. Prior to the concert, O’Riley is expected to mingle with dinner
guests following an introduction by Dearborn Symphony Maestro Kypros Markou.  For more information on O’Riley, visit his
website at http://www.christopheroriley.com/



Symphony concert tickets range from $15 to
$30 each in the balcony and main level. Dearborn Sausage Company along with owner
Don Kosch and wife Mary are this year’s Opening Night sponsor. Lodging for
Chris O’Riley is provided by The Dearborn Inn-A Marriott Hotel.

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For tickets, phone 313-565-2424 or visit the Dearborn Symphony website at www.dearbornsymphony.org
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