Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring, II.The Sacrifice [18:18] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 20, 2011 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring, II.The Sacrifice [18:18] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Allen Tinkham is increasingly recognized as one of the most inspiring and exciting conductors and teachers of his generation. He is hailed by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune as both a conductor and teacher, described as working “wonders” as one of the most important "educators, mentors and inspirational guides in the training of tomorrow's orchestral professionals” and defined by his “communicative” conducting bringing forth “an adrenalin rush of superior playing.”

Under his leadership as the longtime Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO), both the Chicago Tribune  and Chicago Sun Times  have described performances by the  CYSO Symphony Orchestra as "professional level,"   and under his baton, the Chicago Tribune  has noted his “impressive” conducting and “uncanny control” and has compared the  CYSO Symphony Orchestra's  "ferocity and theatricality"  to that of the Chicago  Symphony Orchestra.

For the 2015/2016 season, Tinkham celebrates his fifteenth season as Music Director of CYSO and begins his first season as Music Director of the Chicago Composers Orchestra (CCO), an ensemble devoted to performing contemporary works of living composers. He begins the season guest conducting the opening night of the Adrian Symphony Orchestra and ends the season  conducting CYSO Symphony Orchestra in performances  of Mahler's 6th Symphony.

As Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras and the Chicago Composers Orchestra, 2015/2016 season highlights also include Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 with contemporary highlights including Boulez’s Dérive 1, Zwilich's Symphony No. 1 and works by David Lang and Chicagoan Anthony Chueng. In guest engagements, Tinkham conducts Dvorák’s Symphony No. 6 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11.

For more info, visit www.allentinkham.com.

Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring, II.The Sacrifice [18:18] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

ALLEN TINKHAM, Conductor | www.allentinkham.com