Yehuda Gilad, music directorSasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Program Adams: “Am I In Your Light?” from Dr. AtomicMahler: Ruckert liederDvorak: Symphony No. 7 Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, hailed by the New Yorker as having “a luminous tone, a generouslysupported musical line, a keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction” joins conductorYehuda Gilad and... [read more]

                      Yehuda Gilad, music directorSasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano Program Adams: “Am I In Your Light?” from Dr. AtomicMahler: Ruckert liederDvorak: Symphony No. 7 Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, hailed by the New Yorker as having “a luminous tone, a generouslysupported musical line, a keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction” joins conductorYehuda Gilad and the Colburn Orchestra for vocal works of John Adams (“Am I In Your Light?” from Dr. Atomic) and Gustav Mahler (Ruckert Lieder). The program concludes with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7. About Sasha Cooke Radiant American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke caused a sensation as Kitty Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic. She was praised in The New Yorker for her “fresh, vital portrayal, bringing a luminous tone, a generously supported musical line, a keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction. The 2010/11 season brings several notable debuts for Sasha Cooke: with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in Mahler’s Rückert Lieder; with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Edo de Waart in Das Lied von der Erde; with Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in Mozart’s Davidde penitente;  and with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in sacred music of Bach. She performs Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony both with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony and with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; returns to Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall with James MacMillan’s Raising Sparks; reprises Alexander Nevsky and Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody with the Kansas City Symphony; essays the title role in a concert version of Carmen with the Brazos Valley Symphony in Texas; and gives recitals at the Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and the University of Minnesota. Sasha Cooke opened the 2009/10 season of the Milwaukee Symphony with Bernstein’s “Jeremiah” Symphony in the inaugural concerts of new music director Edo de Waart. She performed two engagements with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony