Press articles

"Guest cellist brings passion, expertise"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 3/22/2010

"Basketball's March Madness did not keep a very large audience away from the Spokane Symphony on Saturday night. The orchestra, conductor Eckart Preu and cello soloist Gautier Capuçon showed the crowd at The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox what the symphonic shouting was all about." continue »

"Symphony shines light on Russia"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 3/1/2010

"The Spokane Symphony delivered a spectacular sonic gift package Saturday from Mother Russia to the large audience in the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. Conductor Eckart Preu and the orchestra players along with piano soloist Valentina Lisitsa sometimes used raw power but mostly an impressive array of orchestral and pianistic color in one of the orchestra's most impressive performance" continue »

"Chorale shows range of Mozart's Requiem"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 2/15/2010

"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem is a strangely wondrous work, and the Spokane Symphony, Symphony Chorale and an excellent quartet of soloists made more of its wonder than its strangeness as the featured work in Saturday's performance at The Fox" continue »

"Violinist brings freshness, warmth"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 1/25/2010

"Eckart Preu and the Spokane Symphony, along with violin soloist Vadim Gluzman, delivered the energy and brightness of a spring day to the audience at The Fox on a dark, chilly January night Saturday. By the calendar, this rite of spring may have been premature, but the performance was a joy to hear." continue »

"Flamenco flavors a night at the Fox"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 10/26/2009

"How often does a symphony orchestra present a guitar soloist? Rarely. Spokane Symphony's audiences at the Fox had an opportunity this weekend to hear Manuel Barrueco. The Cuban-born American guitar master is one of the great guitarists. He was heard in a new work alongside conductor Eckart Preu's fine exploration of earlier works by Liszt and Bruckner that have not been heard here in more than a decade." continue »

"Spokane Symphony triumphs with Beethoven mini-festival"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 10/12/2009

"The Spokane Symphony staged a Beethoven mini-festival over the weekend with two excellent concerts at the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox.

Conductor Eckart Preu took the highly appreciative audience from Beethoven's First Symphony into his innovative middle period, with stops at the Fifth Symphony and the Violin Concerto. Both concerts were filled with the kind of festive dramatics that is Beethoven's trademark." continue »

"Symphony season off to brilliant start"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 9/28/2009

"The opening of the Spokane Symphony season was all about color. And conductor Eckart Preu showed the orchestra at its colorful best in the controlled unfolding of hues in Maurice Ravel's all-too-famous “Bolero” and in the huge washes of color in Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov's “Sheherazade.”" continue »

"Symphony ends season on extreme note"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 5/10/2009

"Extreme sports – those that emphasize extremes of speed plus a high level of physical exertion – enjoy great popularity. Saturday's large audience at The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox was treated to a thrilling evening of extreme symphony." continue »

"Symphony offers mystical e"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 3/9/2009

"The Spokane Symphony and the women of the Symphony Chorale soared to space this weekend. The concert was a visual and sonic spectacular with the music of Gustav Holst's “The Planets” and photographs from NASA missions." continue »

"A stirring celebration of our 16th president"
   Travis Rivers (The Spokesman Review), 3/2/2009

"Spokane Symphony audiences enjoyed a rare treat this weekend. World premieres carry their own thrill, but rarely does an audience find itself witnessing a masterful composer celebrating a great occasion by delivering an impressive work into the hands of ideal interpreters." continue »