– Kyong Mee Choi, 35, an assistant professor of musical composition in Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, has been awarded the $10,000 Robert Helps Composition Prize for her work titled “Gestural Trajectory.” The 12-minute piece for two pianos and percussion, which she wrote as a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will premiere Feb. 14 in Tampa.
– Italian conductor Roberto Abbado will replace Sakari Oramo on the podium for Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription concerts March 8 and 10 at Symphony Center. Oramo has withdrawn because of scheduling conflicts, according to a CSO spokeswoman.
Abbado will conduct a revised program consisting of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Cherubini’s Symphony in D Major and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, with Alfred Brendel as soloist. Abbado, whose uncle is former CSO principal guest conductor Claudio Abbado, made his CSO podium debut in 2003.
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