Sheridan Solisti Chamber Orchestra
Susan Merdinger, Artistic Director and Conductor
Sheridan Solisti Chamber Orchestra is a new ensemble founded and directed by Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger. Featuring some of Chicago's finest musicians, the ensemble plans to promote new music by contemporary composers, as well as distinguished professional soloists. Currently in fundraising stages, patrons and supporters, volunteers and member musicians are being actively sought. Please contact Susan Merdinger for more information.
Steinway Artist, Susan Merdinger, studied conducting under distinguished conductors Robert Kapilow and Otto Werner Mueller, while an undergrad and grad student at Yale University and the Yale School of Music. While in high school, she also studied under Michael Pollon, who was himself a protege of George Szell.
Ms. Merdinger arrives at the podium as a conductor with a wealth of experience as a piano soloist, duo pianist and chamber musician, and already has a substantial orchestral repertoire available for guest conducting appearances.
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Orchestral Repertoire
Here is a partial list of the major works which may be featured in future concerts:
ORCHESTRA CONDUCTING REPERTOIRE:
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Beethoven: Leonore Overture
Beethoven: Symphony No.7
Beethoven: Symphony No.3
Beethoven: Symphony No.5
Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from Westside Story
Bizet: Symphony in C
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56a
Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Coleridge-Taylor: Petit Suite de Concert
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Dukas: Fanfare from La Peri
Ewazen: A Western Fanfare
Grieg: Peter Gynt Suite
Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Huprikar: Olympus for Piano and Orchestra
Janacek: Sinfonietta
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Prokofieff: Classical Symphony
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
Ravel: Mother Goose Suite
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
Stravinsky: Three Movements of Petrouchka
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons