“Each subtle gesture of Kondakçi’s baton seemed to suspend time... The audience was transfixed.”
What’s in Motion Right Now?
K²O opens its 2025–2026 season with The Wild and the Tame, featuring Ortiz’s Kauyumari, Brahms’s Double Concerto with Sophia Szokolay and Alan Toda-Ambaras, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.
Recent Interview with ABC News Albania
Recorded live on 1.28.2025
This essay explores how Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony navigates survival, sorrow, and subversion within the constraints of Stalinist Russia.