Conducting student Jake Taniguchi MM ’22 waits backstage with Maestro Yampolsky. Victor Yampolsky conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The Pick-Staiger Concert Hall audience offers a standing ovation at the end of the performance. Victor Yampolsky takes his final curtain call as Bienen School conductor and faculty member. Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra student musicians gather around their esteemed conductor after the performance.
On the weekend of June 4, Northwestern students, alumni, faculty, staff and music patrons gathered in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall to celebrate Victor Yampolsky’s final concerts as conductor of the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. Yampolsky selected Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 for his last time on the podium to conclude his 38-year tenure as professor of conducting and ensembles in the Bienen School of Music. Photos by Todd Rosenberg
