Claude Debussy : La Mer, III.Dialogue of the wind and the sea [9:58] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 11, 2012, Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Claude Debussy : La Mer, III.Dialogue of the wind and the sea [9:58] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Claude Debussy : La Mer, II.Play of the Waves [6:49]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 11, 2012, Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Claude Debussy : La Mer, II.Play of the Waves [6:49] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Claude Debussy : La Mer, I.From dawn to midday on the sea [9:19]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 11, 2012, Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Claude Debussy : La Mer, I.From dawn to midday on the sea [9:19] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Richard Strauss : Also sprach Zarathustra [32:50] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 19, 2013 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Richard Strauss : Also sprach Zarathustra [32:50] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

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)

Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring, 1.The Adoration of the Earth [15:25]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 20, 2011 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Igor Stravinsky : The Rite of Spring, I.The Adoration of the Earth [15:25] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, V.Rondo [16:25] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, V.Rondo [16:25] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, IV.Adagietto [11:06] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, IV.Adagietto [11:06] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, III.Scherzo [17:31]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, III.Scherzo [17:31] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, II.Sturmisch [14:49] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, II.Sturmisch [14:49] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, I.Trauermarsch [12:54] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, I.Trauermarsch [12:54] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, IV. Allegro giocoso [10:36]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 22, 2015 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, IV. Allegro giocoso [10:36] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, III. Adagio [12:44]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 22, 2015 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, III. Adagio [12:44] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, II. Allegro marcato [8:28]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 22, 2015 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, II. Allegro marcato [8:28] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, I. Andante [13:18]
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : November 22, 2015 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Sergei Prokofiev : Symphony No. 5, I. Andante [13:18] (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.

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