Robertson Rocks Granada

The Music Academy of the West celebrated the penultimate week of its 77th summer festival with a performance at the Granada of the Academy Festival Orchestra under conductor David Robertson, who was chief director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and formerly led the St. Louis Symphony from 2005 to 2018.

Robertson, who is also director of orchestral studies at Juilliard in New York, was in top form as he directed Canadian violinist Leila Josefowicz, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, in John Adams’ 1993 “Violin Concerto.”

Malibu-born Robertson, who studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, then wrapped the one hour 38-minute concert with Prokofiev’s “Symphony No. 5 in B-flat.”

A sublime evening…