CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Returns to Lincoln Center Tonight

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO), under the direction of Music Director Louis Langrée, returns to New York City in 2016 for tonight's (January 6) performance at 8 p.m at David Geffen Hall. The concert will be part of the 50th anniversary season of the prestigious invitational Great Performers series at Lincoln Center.

The CSO will perform Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and First Piano Concerto with soloist Alexander Gavrylyuk. This same all-Tchaikovsky program with Mr. Gavrylyuk was presented at Cincinnati's Music Hall in November 2014, thrilling audiences and inspiring critics to say that the "orchestra has never sounded better" (Cincinnati Enquirer). Mr. Langrée's position as Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival and Orchestra (a major component of Lincoln Center's summertime Mostly Mozart Festival) has earned the respect and praise of New York's critics and audiences.

"I am so very honored, proud and excited to be taking the CSO to Lincoln Center. Very few American orchestras are invited to this series, so it's quite an honor and privilege to expand our role as Cincinnati's ambassador in this way," said Mr. Langrée.

Also on the 2015-16 Great Performers are the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Joshua Bell, the Emerson String Quartet, pianist Murray Perahia and other high-profile ensembles and soloists.

Tickets are available by visiting LCGreatPerformers.org.

The CSO is grateful to the following funders who made this performance possible: Molly and Tom Garber, Sandra and Stephen Joffe, The Carl Jacobs Foundation.