Violin Great Robert McDuffie to Play in Troy

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall will get a taste of violin virtuosity when revered musician Robert McDuffie appears live in concert with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio on February 18.

The event will see McDuffie performing Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 77 while the orchestra is also presenting performances of pieces by Dvorak and Beethoven. The show is part of the first-ever US tour of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under Mercurio, who is currently the only US-born artistic director leading a major European symphony orchestra.

Here, McDuffie performs a piece that’s strongly identified with the Hudson Valley, Jay Ungar’s “Ashokan Farewell”:


The Troy concert comes ahead of “A Night of Georgia Music,” McDuffie’s upcoming PBS television special that features the Georgia native teamed up with two of his longtime friends and collaborators: bassist Mike Mills of R.E.M. and keyboardist Chuck Leavell of the Rolling Stones and the Allman Brothers Band. (The special is set to begin airing nationally next month; see local listings for times and dates.)

Robert McDuffie will perform live in concert with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall in Troy on February 18 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $35 and $45 (students $15).