Masterworks: Mahler’s Titan Symphony
Masterworks I: Mahler’s Titan Symphony
Monday, September 29 at 7pm
Troy University’s Davis Theatre for Performing Arts
Experience a powerful evening of music as the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra performs Voices Shouting Out by Nkeiru Okoye, a vibrant tribute to resilience and hope. Acclaimed pianist Evren Ozel joins the MSO for Mozart’s lyrical Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, followed by the sweeping drama of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major—a program rich with contrast, expression, and energy.
Okoye – Voices Shouting Out
Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488
Evern Ozel, piano
Mahler – Symphony No. 1 in D Major “Titan”
Meet Evern Ozel
American pianist Evren Ozel has established himself as a musician of “refined restraint” (Third Coast Review), combining fluent virtuosity with probing, thoughtful interpretations. Having performed extensively in the United States and abroad, Evren is the recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and is currently represented by Concert Artists Guild as an Ambassador Prize Winner of their 2021 Victor Elmaleh Competition.
Since his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra at age 11, Ozel has been a featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, and The Orchestra Now at Bard College, with conductors Jahja Ling, Courtney Lewis, and Leon Botstein. In March of 2025, his first album of Mozart Concertos with the ORF Radio Symphony of Vienna and conductor Howard Griffiths will be released on Alpha Classics.
Watch Evern Ozel perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 with The Cleveland Orchestra.