concert talks
Concert Talks with Chia-Hsuan Lin
Enrich your concert experience this season!
This season Rochester Symphony is proud to partner with 125 Live to present concert talks with Music Director Chia-Hsuan Lin. The week prior to select concerts, through musical clips, stories, and accompanying visiting musicians, Maestro Lin will share the history and musical elements that will enhance your understanding of classical music and enrich listening experience. Musical selections will focus on those that are included in Rochester Symphony’s upcoming concert for those who wish to hear selections performed in full.
Event registration is through 125 Live, but no membership is required to attend.
See concert talk dates below for registration details.
UPCOMING 2024/25 SEASON CONCERT TALK DATES:
Thursday, March 13, 2025 | 2-3PM
THE LAST ROMANTICS
with featured guest: Andrew Staupe, piano
125 Live | 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester
Join Rochester Symphony conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin and special guest, concert pianist Andrew Staupe, as they present insight into the show-stopping melodies and distinct sound of Russian Romantic era composers. Staupe, a Rochester Symphony audience favorite who will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in concert March 15th, will share a demonstration at the piano.
Andrew Staupe, piano
This event is open to the public.
No 125 Live membership is required to attend.
$10 for non-members | $5 for 125 Live fitness members | free for 125 Live social members
Please register by March 12.
To register by phone, call 125 Live at 507-287-1404.
To register online, you will be requested to create a free account:
Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 2-3PM
SYMPHONY OF PEACE
125 Live | 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester
Join Rochester Symphony conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin as she shares her musical insight into selections of music that inspire peace and hope in times of upheaval and uncertainty. Selections will include George Butterworth’s The Banks of Greenwillow, and Joseph Haydn’s masterpiece for chorale, Mass in Time of War. Widely acknowledged as a call for peace, Maestro Lin reflects on its jubilant message of strength and hope.
This event is open to the public.
No 125 Live membership is required to attend.
$10 for non-members | $5 for 125 Live fitness members | free for 125 Live social members
Please register by April 9.
To register by phone, call 125 Live at 507-287-1404.
To register online, you will be requested to create a free account:
PREVIOUS 2024/25 SEASON CONCERT TALKS
Thursday, February 6, 2025 | 2-3PM
THE SOUND OF FATE
125 Live | 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester
Join Rochester Symphony conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin, together with Rochester Symphony's co-principal horn, Corey Henke, as they share insight into Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Learn about Tchaikovsky’s battle with fate represented in the music and how he takes the listener on a heroic journey through an ominous beginning, a stirring middle, and victorious conclusion. Henke will share musical demonstrations on horn.
Corey Henke, Rochester Symphony co-principal horn
Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 2-3PM
SLEEPER'S AWAKE
125 Live | 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester
Join Rochester Symphony conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin, together with Chorale Director Pat Anderson, for a presentation about one of the most beloved pieces of choral music ever composed - J.S. Bach’s Cantata 140. Also known as “Sleeper’s Awake!”, the music has a recognizable and iconic melody that has been included in many Christians hymnals.
Pat Anderson, Rochester Symphony Chorale Director
Thursday, October 10, 2024 | 2-3PM
IMMORTAL BEETHOVEN
with featured guest: Alexandra Bartoi, Rochester Symphony Guest Concertmaster
125 Live | 125 Elton Hills Drive NW, Rochester
Join Rochester Symphony conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin (pronounced jah-shwen), together with Rochester Symphony violinist and Guest Concertmaster Alexandra Bartoi, as they present insight into two of the most iconic and famous melodies in classical music: Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Bartoi, Rochester Symphony’s 2024/25 Concertmaster, will share a demonstration on the violin.
Alexandra Bartoi, Rochester Symphony Guest Concertmaster