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2025–26 Season

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Feb 5 - Feb 7, 2026

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Feb 5 - Feb 7, 2026

Featured Artists

Rafael Payare

Conductor

David Kim

Violin

Concertmaster David Kim steps into the spotlight in Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto, a breathtaking, emotionally intense thrill ride. Rafael Payere, whose five-star reviews hail performances ablaze with color, intensity and strength (Cleveland Classical), leads this heart-pounding program. 

Audiences are accustomed to seeing Concertmaster David Kim front and center at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, but to hear this gifted musician as soloist in a classic like the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto is a special treat.

Ranked among the finest violinists performing today, Kim first picked up a violin as a child, auditioning for and entering the Juilliard School at the age of eight. There he studied with the legendary teacher Dorothy DeLay, who trained such stars as Itzhak Perlman, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and Gil Shaham. DeLay called Kims Juilliard audition magical and predicted that he would someday win the vaunted International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow; he did in fact take home the prize in 1986, the only American to do so that year. 

Tchaikovskys Violin Concerto races through emotions, taking your pulse along with it—an exhilarating experience you will share with this remarkable musician.

Manuel de Fallas El amor brujo sets the stage afire with a tale of smoldering passion told in sizzling dance rhythms. In it, a young gypsy woman is haunted by the ghost of her husband, whose jealousy from beyond the grave prevents her union with a new love. Through ingenious trickery, the ghost is banished—a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to a tale well told. The Philadelphia Orchestra performed the United States premiere of El amor brujo in 1922. 

Program

Ballard

Devil's Promenade

Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto

Falla

El amor brujo (first version, 1915)