Eternal Horizon

Experience a program of elegance, color, and expressive flow in our second Masterworks concert, conducted by Nadège Foofat, Music Director Finalist, and featuring the Carolina Master Chorale. The evening opens with Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, filled with lightness and vitality as its shimmering textures create a sense of effortless motion. This is followed by Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, a work of refined elegance and luminous orchestral color inspired by the French Baroque tradition. Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune expands the sound world even further, unfolding in a fluid and dreamlike atmosphere where time seems to drift freely. In the second half, joined by the Carolina Master Chorale, the orchestra presents Gabriel Fauré’s deeply moving Requiem, a work shaped not by drama but by warmth, lyricism, and quiet reflection. Gentle, intimate and profoundly human, it brings the evening to a peaceful close, while the program as a whole celebrates the beauty of musical flow and the expressive power of orchestral and choral color. 

Nadège Foofat has an active guest conducting career across North America. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Classical at the MSV, a chamber music series based in Winchester, Virginia. She received her Doctor of Music in Orchestral Conducting from the Université de Montréal and a Diplôme de Perfectionnement in contemporary orchestral conducting from the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.