Program Information
GABRIELA ORTIZ | Kauyumari
FALLA | Suites Nos. 1 & 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat
RODRIGO | Fantasia para un gentilhombre
RAVEL | Bolero
Chad Goodman, conductor
Ana Vidovic, guitar
Ticket Information
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Chad Goodman has received widespread praise for thrilling conducting that combines “precision, agility and fervor” and for displaying the “pitch perfect combination of abandon and subtlety” (South Florida Classical Review).
The 2023/24 season marked Goodman’s inaugural year as Music Director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra—only the fifth leader in the orchestra’s prestigious seven-decade history. Goodman also serves as Artistic Director of IlluminArts, Miami’s art song and chamber music concert series. In this role, he curates site-specific classical music programs in collaboration with the leading museums, art galleries, and historic venues of Miami.Goodman made his Minnesota Orchestra subscription debut in June 2024, stepping in on short notice to lead the season finale program featuring works by Smyth, Poulenc, and Tchaikovsky.
From 2019 to 2023, he was the Conducting Fellow of the New World Symphony, where he was the assistant conductor to Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition to leading the orchestra in more than fifty performances, Goodman created the educational program “SPARK: How Composers Find Inspiration,” which blended engaging audience participation with captivating light design and videography.
Goodman has served as an Assistant Conductor to the San Francisco Symphony, working alongside Michael Tilson Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Daniel Harding, Elim Chan, Simone Young, and James Gaffigan, among others. He has recently made debuts with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Puebla (OSEP).
As Founder and Artistic Director of Elevate Ensemble, Goodman’s ambitious vision for concert programming resulted in the pairing of music from San Francisco Bay Area composers with underappreciated gems of the 20th and 21st centuries. Under his leadership, Elevate Ensemble established a Composer-in-Residence program and commissioned fifteen new works.
Goodman also leads workshops that teach young musicians the business skills needed to successfully navigate the music world. Forbes praised the conductor’s bold strides both on and off stage and hailed him as “An entrepreneur bringing innovation to classical music.” Last year, he published the book You Earned a Music Degree. Now What?
Goodman holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from San Francisco State University. His mentors include Michael Tilson Thomas and Alasdair Neale. -
Ana Vidovic’s extraordinary talents have established herself among the elite musicians of the world. She is known for her beautiful tone, precise technique, well-defined phrasing and
thoughtful artistry and musicianship. Her performances include recitals, concerto engagements and festival appearances in most of Europe’s cultural destinations and major concert venues in Amsterdam, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, many cities in Germany, London, Oslo, Paris, Rome, Salzburg, Vienna, Warsaw and Zagreb. Her tours have also taken her to Australia, Brazil, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Spain. Equally impressive is her recording career which includes a new release by Octave Records, a live performance with works by Bach, Giuliani, Mangore, Scarlatti and Sor.
In addition to the Canadian cities of Calgary, Edmonton, Kitchener, Toronto and Winnipeg, Ana Vidovic has performed in recital at almost every major venue throughout the United States and her dazzling concerto performances have taken place with numerous regional symphony orchestras including those of Asheville, Austin, Bangor (ME), Elgin (IL), Erie, Flint (MI), Hartford, Illinois, Knoxville, Missoula, Reading (PA), Rogue Valley (OR), Iowa, West Virginia, Wheeling and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra; and with the Slovene Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic, Hungarian Philharmonic and Orquesta de Valencia (Spain). North American festival appearances include Le Domaine Forget (Quebec), International Guitar Festival (London), Big Sky, Montana, Caramoor Festival (Katonah, NY), Colorado Music Festival, Lake Tahoe Summerfest and Ventura Music Festival (CA); and in Europe at Madrid International Guitar Festival, Mediterranean Guitar Festival (Barcelona), Festival Iberico Badajoz. New Ross Festival (Wexford, Ireland), and Drôme Guitar Festival (Valence, France). During the Covid-19 pandemic, many of Ms. Vidovic’s engagements were redesigned to perform at venues in live-stream concerts, including the 92nd St Y in NYC, Philadelphia and San Francisco.
Ana Vidovic’s 2023-24 season included recitals throughout Spain; in Copenhagen and Viborg, Denmark; Ottobrun, Germany; Montreal, Seattle, San Francisco, Portland (OR), Miami and concerto engagements with the Flint (MI) Symphony, Reading (PA) Symphony and a tour in Spain with the Hungarian National Philharmonic. In Summer, 2024, Ms. Vidovic toured Japan and performed with orchestra at Classical Tahoe (NV). Her 2024-25 season is highlighted by solo recitals at New York City’s 92 nd Street Y; and in San Francisco and Austin. Concerto engagements include Elgin Symphony, Stockton Symphony (CA), SW Utah Symphony and Victoria Symphony (TX). In Europe, Ms. Vidovic will tour with Cuarteto Casals as well as appear in recital in Split, Croatia; Bad Aibling and Hamburg, Germany; and Copenhagen. She will perform with orchestra at Opéra de Rouen Normandie (France).
Ms. Vidovic has won an impressive number of prizes and international competitions including first prizes in the Albert Augustine International Competition in Bath, England, the Fernando Sor competition in Rome and the Francisco Tarrega competition in Spain. In Croatia, the guitarist has performed with Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio and Television, as well as having been featured in three television documentaries by the eminent Croatian film director Petar Krelja. Ana Vidovic comes from the small town of Karlovac near Zagreb, Croatia, and started playing guitar at the age of 5. She became the youngest student at age 13 to attend the prestigious National Musical Academy in Zagreb where she studied with Professor Istvan Romer. Ms. Vidovic’s reputation in Europe led to an invitation to study at the Peabody Conservatory from which she graduated.