MONTEREY SYMPHONY OPENS ITS 62^ND SEASON WITH WORKS BY BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERT, AND BRAHMS FEATURING AMERICAN PIANIST BARBARA NISSMAN, OCTOBER 13, 14, 15, 2007

September 25, 2007, Carmel, California: Monterey Symphony music director Max Bragado-Darman will present Brahms monumental Second Piano Concerto with acclaimed American pianist Barbara Nissman. Also, on the program are Schubert's Fourth Symphony in C minor, "Tragic" and, for the first time on a subscription program, Beethoven's original Overture for his opera, Leonore, known as Leonore No.1.

Single tickets for the Saturday, October 13, 8:00 p.m. performance at Salinas' Sherwood Hall are $38, $28, $18 and $16 students. For the Stage Door Performance at 3:00 p.m. (final rehearsal) tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Single tickets for the Sunday, October 14, 3:00 p.m. and Monday, October 15, 8:00 p.m. concerts at Carmel's Sunset Theater are $60, $55, $50, $45, and $35—not including Sunset Center's Facility Use Fee. Visa and MasterCard are accepted. Ticket buyers are urged to call immediately for tickets as the likelihood of sold-out performances is great. Call 831-624-8511 extension "0," for exact seat locations.

Making her Monterey Symphony debut is American pianist Barbara Nissman. Miss Nissman's international career was personally launched by Eugene Ormandy who had previously engaged her as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has performed with the leading orchestras of Europe and America including the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic; in the US she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the National Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra among others. She has worked with some of the major conductors of our time including Eugene Ormandy, Riccardo Muti, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Leonard Slatkin.

Well known for her definitive recordings of the complete piano music (solo & chamber) of Alberto Ginastera, and the complete piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev, recently reissued on Pierian Records, Barbara Nissman's roots remain within the nineteenth century. Hailed by a New York critic as "one of the last pianists in the grand Romantic tradition of Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Rubinstein" her connection to romantic pianism reaffirms her approach to the twentieth-century pianism of Prokofiev and Ginastera.

Also well known for her writings and interpretations of the music of Alberto Ginastera, Barbara Nissman, along with Leonard Slatkin, was one of the participants at the recent Kennedy Center 25th Anniversary Gala Concert which was broadcast on PBS Television. She now calls West Virginia home and lives on a farm in the Allegheny Mountains.

The Monterey Symphony, under the artistic leadership of Max Bragado Darman, is the only fully-professional symphony orchestra serving the communities of the Monterey Bay, Salinas, Salinas Valley, Big Sur, and San Benito County. It provides triple performances of a seven-concert subscription series at Carmel's Sunset Theater and Salinas' Sherwood Hall, annual holiday concerts, summer classic series, and an extensive youth activities program, including more than 200 visits to classrooms by musicians, which culminates in concerts by the full orchestra for school children.

The Monterey Symphony is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, supported, in part, through the fundraising efforts of the Friends of the Monterey Symphony; and grants from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Harden Foundation, The Robert and Virginia Stanton Fund at the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation, The Monterey Peninsula Foundation, The General Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The Chapman Foundation, The Communities Advancing the Arts Initiative of the Community Foundation of Monterey County, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Graniterock Company, The Nunes Company, Upjohn California Fund, and many other generous foundations and individual donors.

The next performances by the Monterey Symphony will take place on December 1, 2, and 3, and feature guest conductor Christoph Campestrini conducting music by Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. For additional information, please call 831-624-8511 or visit our web site:

www.montereysymphony.org.

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MONTEREY SYMPHONY 62^nd SUBSCRIPTION SEASON 2007-2008

Concert I

Max Bragado-Darman, conductor

Barbara Nissman, piano

Saturday, October 13, 2007, 8:00 p.m. Sherwood Hall, Salinas

Sunday, October 14, 2007, 3:00 p.m. Sunset Theater, Carmel

Monday, October 15, 2007, 8:00 p.m. Sunset Theater, Carmel

　PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven Overture to Leonore No.1

Franz Schubert Symphony No.4 in C minor, "Tragic"

Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major, Op.83

Barbara Nissman, piano

　This program will be broadcast on KUSP 88.9 FM on Sunday, November 11, 2007, 11:00　a.m.