RepertoireSaint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 61 (1880)Bruckner/Novak: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major (1874/80) ('Romantic')About the ConductorArthur Fagen has been professor of orchestral conducting at the Jacobs School of Music since 2008. Additionally, he has been music director of the Atlanta Opera since 2010. He has conducted opera productions at the world's most prestigious opera houses and music festivals. From 1998 to 2001, he was invited regularly as guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera, in addition to performances at the Metropolitan Opera, Staatsoper Berlin Deutsche Oper Berlin, Munich State Opera, and many more. On the concert podium, he has appeared with numerous internationally known orchestras. Fagen has an opera repertory of more than 75 works. He has served as principal conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, as chief conductor of the Flanders Opera of Antwerp and Ghent, as music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the conducting staff of Lyric Opera of Chicago. From 2002 to 2007, he was music director of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dortmund Opera. He and the Dortmund Philharmonic were invited to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels, and to Salzburg, Beijing, and Shanghai. Fagen conducted a new production of Turandot at the Atlanta Opera in 2007, opening the season and inaugurating the new opera house, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. He was a regular guest conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra and guest conducted the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and many others. He was first-prize winner of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors Competition as well as a prize winner of the Gino Marinuzzi International Conductors' Competition in Italy. Fagen has recorded for BMG, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SFB, and WDR Cologne. He records regularly for Naxos, for which he has completed the six symphonies of Bohuslav Martinů. His Naxos recording of Martinů's piano concertos was awarded an Editor's Choice award in the March 2010 issue of Gramophone magazine.Rachel McClellan, from Good Hope, Georgia, is carving out an international presence as a violinist. She has received prizes in competitions and festivals across the globe. In 2024, she won the PRISMA Music Festival Concerto Competition in British Columbia and, in 2022, was a prize winner of the Leopold Auer International Violin and String Quartet Competition based in St. Petersburg, Russia. McClellan earned first prize in the 2022 Atlanta Music Club Scholarship and 2019 John H. Head Scholarship Competitions, and she won the 2023 Georgia MTNA Young Artist Performance Competition. She has performed as soloist with the PRISMA Festival Orchestra, MasterWorks Festival Orchestra, University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, ARCO Chamber Orchestra, and Alpharetta Symphony Orchestra. McClellan's festivals include the International Festival of Winter in Brazil, PRISMA Festival and Academy in Canada, MasterWorks Music Festival, and Chamber Music Athens Festival, where she performed as soloist, concertmaster, and chamber musician. Highlights of recent concertmaster repertoire include Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Mahler's Fifth Symphony. McClellan is the recipient of the Hugh and Jessie McKee Hodgson Scholarship, Fantona Fowler Bisson Scholarship, Bennett Family Scholarship for Orchestral Performance, and Claassen Orchestra Award. A student of Simin Ganatra, McClellan is in her final semester of the Master of Music in Violin Performance degree at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has served as assistant concertmaster, section first violin, and principal second in orchestras at the Jacobs School. She is also on faculty at the Jacobs String Academy.