Maestro Antoni Wit returns to the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra to lead special concerts with Beethoven’s Symphony No 9. Their performances on December 14th and 15th at Aichi Prefectural Arts Theater will begin with Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No 3. On December 6th & 7th Maestro Wit will also conduct the Schumann & Tchaikovsky programme with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestras’s Concertmaster Satoshi Morioka as soloist in Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor .
Yaroslav Shemet makes his debut with the Presidential Symphony Orchestra at the CSO Ankara Main Concert Hall in Turkey on December 13th. Their programme opens with Turkish Capriccio as a tribute to the work of 20th century Istanbul-born composer/conductor Ferit Tüzün, followed by Nielsen’s Clarinet Concerto with the young Italian clarinet virtuoso Kevin Spagnolo as soloist. Premiered in Prague, Dvorak’s Symphony No 8 in G-major in the second half of the concert brings focus to “the Bohemian folk music that Dvořák loved” in the Year of Czech Music.
On 31st of October at the Bulgaria Hall in Sofia Antoni Wit conducts the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in an all-orchestral programme devoted to 20th century Polish music. The concert features Karłowicz’s Eternal Songs coupled with Kilar’s Kościelec 1909 in memory of Karłowicz’s death under an avalanche in the Tatra mountains. The defiant Concerto for Orchestra by Witold Lutosławski opens the concert.
Yaroslav Shemet brings Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer directed by Tomasz Konieczny to this year’s Baltic Opera Festival. The performance involving an international cast as well as the orchestra, chorus and dancers of the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk takes place on 24th of July at the Forest Opera in Sopot historically “renowned for prestigious events including Wagner Festivals, earning the esteemed title of the “Bayreuth of the North” . For more details see HERE
Following successful performances of Nos 1, 4 and 9 as part of Mahler’s symphony cycle with the Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra, Yaroslav Shemet conducts Symphony No. 6 “Tragic” in Katowice this month. Shemet has been consistently building a loyal audience following of his classical music concerts with the transformed orchestra since he became its youngest music director in 2021, and his appearance on May 24th is another much awaited event at Filharmonia Śląska.
Antoni Wit returns to the Lithuanian National Symphony in the orchestra’s Schumann Complete Symphonies cycle to conduct Symphony No 4 in D-minor, Op.120 on May the 3rd this year at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall. The programme opens with Karłowicz’s Lithuanian Rhapsody Op.11, a highly personal symphonic poem which incapsulates the nostalgia of the rich Lithuanian folk musical culture that surrounded the Polish composer in his childhood. Szymanowski’s ecstatic Violin Concerto No 1, Op.35, composed in Ukraine and performed here by the acclaimed Lithuanian violinist Dalia Kuznecovaite, will bridge the late romantic works.
Yi-Jia Susanne Hou performs Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy Op. 46 in two concerts with the Stockton Symphony on April 6th & 7th at the Atherton Auditorium in Stockton, California. One of Bruch’s signature works for violin and orchestra, Scottish Fantasy dedicated to the virtuoso violinist Pablo de Sarasate is part of the programme’s musical excursions depicting destinations of wonder, led by the orchestra’s music director Peter Jaffe.
Antoni Wit returns to the Lisinski Hall in Zagreb to conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No 6 with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra on 16th of February. The concert will also include Mozart Symphony No 38 in D major “Prague” and will be held in memory of the renowned Croatian conductor Lovro von Matačić.
