The Santa Barbara Symphony Presents AMADEUS LIVE

The Santa Barbara Symphony continues their 65th Anniversary season this March, with a performance of Amadeus Live, featuring guest conductor Dirk Brossé, and pianist Natasha Kislenko alongside the Santa Barbara Symphony choir, on Saturday, March 16 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 pm at The Granada Theatre.

Experience the multi-Academy Award winning 1984 motion picture Amadeus on the Granada's 4K digital cinema screen, while Mozart's most celebrated works are performed live in-sync by the Santa Barbara Symphony, with accompaniment from the Santa Barbara Symphony Chorus. Winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Milos Foreman's sumptuous Amadeus is a sensation. Amadeus tells the story of Vienna court composer, Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) and the envy that consumes him as he discovers the virtuosic talents he has always longed for in the young, new composer Mozart (Tom Hulce).

"Amadeus weaves a beautiful, tragic fable, enchanting to children and adults alike. It has gore, a pact with God, celebrity, a masked stranger, murder and some of the best music ever written. What other film offers half as much?" --The Guardian
Guest conductor Dirk Brossé comes to the Santa Barbara Symphony from Pennsylvania where he currently serves as the music director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Born in Ghent, Belgium, Brossé began his music studies at the Music Conservatories of Ghent and Brussels. He subsequently specialized in conducting, which he studied in Maastricht, Vienna, and Cologne. Outside of conducting for prestigious orchestras in his native Belgium, Brossé has also conducted for the like of the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra of Shanghai, and l'Orchestra de l'Opéra de Lyon. He has also written and composed some 200 works, including concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music, and symphonic works, that have been performed all over the world and have been recorded in more than 40 countries.

Playing alongside the Symphony and Symphony Chorus will be pianist Natasha Kislenko. Kislenko is a continuing lecturer in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Music, with a successful performing career that has taken her all across her native Russia as well as continental Europe and South America. She holds graduate degrees in piano from the famed Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from Stony Brook University, New York.

Join the Santa Barbara Symphony for this masterful performance combined with the thrill of the big screen at The Granada Theatre. Special acknowledgment goes to Principal Concert Sponsor, The Samarkand. For tickets click here or call the Granada Box Office at (805) 899-2222. To learn more about the Santa Barbara Symphony and how to support the organization and its programming, visit www.thesymphony.org/.

The Santa Barbara Symphony, founded in 1953 on the belief that a special city deserves a special orchestra. Consistently lauded for its unique ability to present brilliant concerts, engage the community, and deliver dynamic music education programs, the organization prizes both innovation and artistic excellence and is widely recognized as one of the region's premier cultural institutions. Its award-winning Music Education Center serves more than 10,000 students throughout Santa Barbara County each year. Charismatic Israeli conductor Nir Kabaretti was appointed music director of the Santa Barbara Symphony in 2006.