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Erwartung und Errettung Rachmaninow 3. und Barber Violinkonzert, Lee IIIBarberRachmaninoff
Symphoniker HamburgTchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, Lee IIIHigdonTchaikovsky, P. I.
Louisiana Philharmonic OrchestraThe Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, TamusuzaLee IIIAkihoBeach, A.Chausson
Carnegie HallAnthony McGill and Michael McHale, Lee IIIHailstorkBernsteinMontgomery, JessieCopland
Barbican CentreBBC Philharmonic | 25 November, CoplandNielsenFagerlundLee III
BBC PhilharmonicFrench Passions & Enduring Dreams, RavelLee IIIDukasRoussel, A.
Detroit Symphony OrchestraUpcoming performances
40Andris Nelsons conducts Lee, Copland, Thompson, and Stravinsky featuring Paul Lewis, piano, Lee IIIStravinskyCoplandThompson, R.
Boston Symphony OrchestraAlsop & Vondráček, Lee IIIChopinShostakovich
Chicago Symphony OrchestraAlsop Conducts Chopin And Prokofiev, Lee IIIChopinProkofiev
Baltimore Symphony OrchestraMendelssohn & Dvořák’s New World, Lee IIIMendelssohnDvořák
Symphony Nova ScotiaYeol Eum Son plays Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, Lee IIIProkofievRespighi
BBC Symphony OrchestraHeyward And The Planets, Lee IIIClyneHolst
Baltimore Symphony OrchestraBiography
James Lee III, born 1975 in St. Joseph, Michigan cites as his major composition teachers Michael Daugherty, William Bolcom, Bright Sheng, Betsy Jolas, Susan Botti, Erik Santos and James Aikman. He graduated with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 2005. As a composition fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 2002, he added Osvaldo Golijov, Michael Gandolfi, Steven Mackey and Kaija Saariaho to his roster of teachers, and studied conducting with Stefan Asbury. In 2006 he premiered Beyond Rivers of Vision in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra. During his inaugural concerts as the new music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Slatkin premiered A Different Soldier’s Tale with the orchestra in De
