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Rising star conductor Benjamin Manis makes his Sarasota Orchestra debut with a program that sparkles with color and imagination. International piano sensation Zlata Chochieva takes the stage for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23. With extraordinary musicality and captivating stage presence, she has “a rare ability to make time stand still,” according to the San Francisco Classical Voice. Be swept away by Antonín Dvořák's Seventh Symphony, a dramatic work pulsing with driving rhythms and vaulting melodies. The concert opens with Benjamin Britten's Four Sea Interludes, evoking the crashing waves, shifting skies, and rugged beauty of England's coastline.