7-Time ASCAP Award Winner
delta david gier
CONDUCTOR
Listen to the SDSO on
SDPB's "In the moment"
2016 – 2017 season
APRIL 2016
Beethoven CELEBRATION
Beethoven, Violin Concerto
Beethoven, Mass in C
The South Dakota Symphony
MAY 2016
Mahler Symphony No. 7
Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra
JUNE 2016
Bernstein, Candide Overture
Barber, Adagio for Strings
Copland, Appalachian Spring
Barber, Violin Concerto
Qingdao China
AUGUST 2016
Mozart, Serenade K. 361
Gran Partita
Dvorak, Symphony No. 9
From the New World
Hungary Crescendo Summer Institute
SEPTEMBER 2016
Ye Xiaogang, Cantonese Suite
Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations
Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 3
Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra
OCTOBER 2016
John Luther Adams, BECOME OCEAN
The South Dakota Symphony
NOVEMBER 2016
Jon Kimura Parker Plays BRAHMS
The South Dakota Symphony
DECEMBER 2016
Holiday Collage
Handel MESSIAH
Schumann Symphony No. 2
The South Dakota Symphony
JANUARY 2017
Mozart DON GIOVANNI
The South Dakota Symphony
FEBRUARY 2017
Ravel's, BOLÉRO
SDSO FAMILY CONCERT:
A Family for Treble
The South Dakota Symphony
MARCH 2017
The Fellowship of the Strings
The South Dakota Symphony
APRIL 2017
Beethoven Symphony No. 1
Bach B MINOR MASS
The South Dakota Symphony
—Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
—an unprecedented programming innovation.
Delta David Gier . . . decided to perform a piece by a living
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer on each of the classical programs . . .
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Winner of the John S. Edwards Award
for Strongest Commitment to
New American Music
I just heard your performance of my second symphony. It was deeply committed and moving, and your orchestra played it. Please give them my thanks and congratulations.
You obviously understand what the root of my music is, and I only hope to hear more performances by you of my work.
Thank you so much.
With admiration,
John Corigliano
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2019–2020 season
JULY 2019 - AUGUST 2019 / HUNGARY, OSPA
Hungary Crescendo Summer Institute
HAYDN The Seven Last Words
of Our Savior from the Cross
Festival Orchestra Tokaj Hungary
SEPTEMBER 2019 / SDSO
GEORGE GERSHWIN Celebration
Catfish Row
Cuban Overture
An American in Paris
OCTOBER 2019 / SDSO
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
JOHN CORIGLIANO Symphony No. 1
Of Rage and Remembrance
NOVEMBER 2019 / SDSO
HINDEMITH Mathis der Maler
SCHOENBERG Finding Rothko
MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition
DECEMBER 2019 / SDSO
HANDEL'S’ MESSIAH
JANUARY 2020 / Thailand Philharmonic
JANUARY 2020 / SDSO
ZHOU LONG Poems from Tang
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloe (Complete)
FEBRUARY 2020 / SDSO
PROKOFIEV Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125
soloist Tony Ross, cello
TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony, Op. 58
MARCH 2020 / SDSO
WAGNER/MAAZEL The Ring Without Words
APRIL 2020 / SDSO
Pärt Stabat Mater
MAY 2020 / Thailand Philharmonic
JULY 2020 - AUGUST 2020 / HUNGARY, OSPA
Hungary Crescendo Summer Institute
SDSO Pictures at an Exhibition
David Gier gave a splendid reading of the Mahler [4]. The long slow movement unfolded as if in one breath, and you could absolutely feel the audience being drawn into the music. You could have heard a pin drop for the entire length of that slow movement. . . .
Watching David speak at a post-concert dinner and interact with the Volunteer League at their luncheon and the board at their meeting, it is clear that he is the complete music director package.
—Henry Fogel, On the Record Blog February 2008
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Video
Performances Videos
Visit Delta David Gier's YouTube Channel
Interviews
New York Philharmonic
Young People's Concerts
Discussing the SDSO with Greg Sando
Radio Interviews
Lakota Music Project builds cultural bridges
MPR Arvo Pärt SDSO Performance
Articles
Can Orchestras Be Reinvented
as Humanities Institutions?
by David Skinner
A Museum Culture of Symphony Orchestras?
Unanswered Question
Joe Horowitz on Music
America's Most Exceptional Orchestra
Joe Horowitz on Music
Builiding an audience in South Dakota
. . . with Pulitzer Winners
Making inroads through the back roads
Listen here to learn about the
SDSO and the 2016 Bush Prize
2011 Pulitzer Prize Music Jury chair