James Feddeck

James Feddeck is an American conductor who appears with orchestras across the United States leading standard symphonic and concerto repertoire. In these Albuquerque programs he pairs Romantic staples like Brahms and Shostakovich with Classical-era works by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, offering listeners a chance to hear how his approach adapts across two centuries of orchestral writing.

Across these two programs, expect a conductor moving between the stormy, sea-swept color of Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture and the darker, more compressed drama of Shostakovich's First Cello Concerto, where a four-note motif recurs like a knock at the door. The Brahms Third Symphony that closes the first concert is known for its quiet, unresolved ending, a rarity among symphonies of its era. The second program turns to earlier, leaner sounds: Mozart's Figaro overture bursts out of the gate at high speed, Haydn's "Mourning" symphony mixes minor-key seriousness with wit, and Beethoven's First Symphony, though his earliest, already hints at the disruptive energy to come in his later works. Listeners can expect clearly delineated phrasing and attention to orchestral balance across these contrasting styles.