PRESS
Scott Parkman; photo © Emily O'Brien
Concert Review
Theatre and Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Heidelberg
Eye-to-Eye with the Concertmaster — Erik Satie "Parade" and Rinski-Korsakov "Scheherazade"
Press Excerpts
Bruckner Symphony No. 4, Oakland East Bay Symphony
"Guest Conductor Scott Parkman ... allowed Friday's performance to evolve with a
surety that one associates with mature Brucknerians. The young maestro had a good
feel for Bruckner's episodic musical argument – one block of sound followed another
with plenty of breathing room. "
"... this performance… stressed otherworldliness. There were mysteries aplenty in the string
tremolos, the carefully gauged pauses, and the beautiful, haunting flute and clarinet solos.
There was dread in the hammering repetitions of weighty brass chords and exuberance in
the explosive Scherzo."
photo © Emily O'Brien
Haydn Symphonies 6-8, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra
"...Scott Parkman is charismatic and clearly gifted; his work is genial, alert, and informed…."
"Parkman, showing good control and drawing on early-music models, elicited crisp stylish playing from the orchestra. "
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Oakland East Bay Symphony
"Parkman obviously is the conductor to make it work. His choices were thoughtful. The music flowed well as Parkman showed a mastery of the orchestra.... "
All-Mozart Program, Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra
"For pace, for spirit, for an appreciation of this music's dazzling brilliance and infallible beauty, this performance worked extremely well to bring it to life. "