Unanimous First Prize winner of three prestigious International Violin Competitions in France, Italy, and Spain, Yi-Jia Susanne Hou has performed and toured with leading orchestras around the world. In 2013 she recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra playing an outstanding 1735 Guarneri Del Gesu Violin which belonged to Fritz Kreisler at the time of his writing the cadenzas for the Beethoven Concerto. In 2016 she performed and recorded the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor John Nelson at Cadogan Hall which she subsequently toured with in Canada, China and Taiwan. Susanne Hou is a devoted advocate for music education who passionately engages in creative projects involving early classical music coaching and mentoring aspiring young artists.
Maestro Wit’s first programme with the Orchestra will feature Bruckner Symphony No 3 (1889 version) preceded by Mozart Symphony No 41 Jupiter. The concert will take place on March 16th at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan. For more information please see Website: www.apo.am.
Antoni Wit returns to Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
February 2018
Antoni Wit will conduct his former orchestra in all-Rachmaninov programme on February 23rd and 24th at Warsaw Filharmonia Narodowa. Maestro Wit will be joined on the podium by Russian acclaimed pianist Nikolai Lugansky performing Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3 that will precede the composer’s exhilarating Symphonic Dances. More details can be found here.
Artist Management Worldwide is proud to announce the signing of the Belarusian conductor Vladimir Ovodok for general management.
February 2018
Mentored by Riccardo Muti at the Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna, Vladimir Ovodok’s international career was launched in 2017 when he was invited to conduct the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini in the production of Opera Trilogy directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti at the Ravenna Festival. Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Opera Studio at the Belarusian State Academy of Music, Vladimir Ovodok works frequently with Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of the National Belarusian Television and Radio in Minsk.
Teo Gheorghiu will appear in recital at the acclaimed Meisterinterpreten series in Zurich on 15 January. He will present a programme of Brahms Intermezzi, Chopin Mazurkas, Schumann Kinderszenen concluding with Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition.
Teo Gheorghiu debuts with Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
November, 2017
Teo Gheorghiu will be making his debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 24 under the baton of the charismatic Harish Shankar. The Italian flavoured programme will also include Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture and Mascagni’s Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana. The concert will take place at the Bournemouth Pavillion on 12 November, presented by Classic FM’s Catherine Bott.
This week Antoni Wit returns to conduct L’Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya at L’Auditori Barcelona in a programme of Dvořák’s 9th Symphony paired with Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in the 60th anniversary year of its premiere in Moscow. Maestro Wit joins forces with Denis Kozhukin as soloist, combining youth and experience in a fitting manner for music composed by father for son. Concerts take place on the evenings of October 13th and 14th, with a morning performance on October 15th. Click here for more information.
Antoni Wit returns to the helm of the St Petersburg Philharmonic this weekend to conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major. The concert will also feature Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, with young Russian prize-winner Alexander Ramm as soloist. This exclusive programme will be performed for one night only on 22 October. More information and tickets are available here.
Antoni Wit opens his 9th series with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra
September 21, 2017
Antoni Wit has been Artistic and Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra since 2013 and has met with huge success. His first concert of the season, on September 21st, includes works by Mozart, Beethoven and Pasqual Aldave, a 20th century Spanish composer born in Navarra. The opening work, Aldave’s Nerabe Sorta for string orchestra, was inspired by songs that mothers of the region sang to their children. This is followed by the well-known Toy Symphony by Mozart, then the concluding work: Beethoven’s great 9th Symphony. The first concert will take place at the Palacio de Congresos y Auditorio de Navarra, with two further concerts on September 22nd and 23rd, the last one in Tudela. For further information, please click here.
Antoni Wit closes the season with Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra and returns to Porto
June 2017
Antoni Wit returns to Pamplona to conduct three concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, of which he is Musical Director, on June 8th, 9th and 10th. The two works included in the programme are the cantata for soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra, Jesucristo en la Cruz by 20th century Navarran composer Fernando Remacha, and Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
He then travels to Porto, where he conducts an all-Polish programme on June 17th. The Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música will perform Górecki’s powerful and moving 3rd Symphony for orchestra and soprano, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, which is based on three texts about the separation of mothers and children during wartime. The second work in the programme is Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, which has its roots in Polish folk music.
