Dalia Stasevska returns to North America for her debut with Seattle Symphony with two concerts on 3 and 5 March and a riveting programme featuring Bartók’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. The programme opens with Adolphus Hailstork’s Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed, which commemorates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She will then return to NAC Orchestra in two concerts on 9 and 10 March with a programme of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Gabriela Montero (cello) and Karen Donnelly (trumpet), Dvořák’s Symphony No.8 and the Canadian premiere of Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi’s Wildwood, which Dalia calls ​“a work that grabs you from the very beginning and takes you on a magical, musical trip”.