Antoni Wit returns to Japan to lead the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra on 19th of December at Suntory Hall. The concert features Krzysztof Penderecki’s Symphony No 2 “Christmas” and Wojciech Kilar’s Prelude & Christmas Carol bridged by the Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor with the International Chopin Piano Competition prize-winner Kyohei Sorita as soloist.
This month marks the release of Antoni Wit’s new recording on Naxos of late works by Krzysztof Penderecki with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra . This new recording is a continuation of a series of releases of the Polish composer’s orchestral works recorded by Antoni Wit to high critical acclaim.
Antoni Wit returns to Kusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival in its 43rd edition this year themed: Prague and Vienna Two Musical Cities―Mozart, Brahms and Dvořák. Mo Wit will conduct symphonic concerts with the Gunma Symphony Orchestra on August 13th and 16th in the programme featuring Brahms Academic Overture and Dvorak’s Symphony No 7. On August 20th he will lead the Festival main choral concert with Dvořák’s magnificent Stabat Mater op. 58.
Polish conductor Antoni Wit returns to the Norrkoping Symphony to lead the orchestra in Lutosławski’s masterpiece Concerto for Orchestra at their concert at Geerhallen on March 18th 2023. The renowned Swedish-Danish cellist Andreas Brantelid will perform Tchaikovsky The Variations on a Rococo Theme in A major, Opus 33 inspired by Mozart whose Symphony No 38 ‘Prague” opens the concert.
In February 2023 Maestro Antoni Wit travels to Tallinn to lead the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in a programme of Wagner, Elgar and Lutosławski. He will be joined by the award-winning young generation Estonian soloist Marcel Kits performing Elgar’s Cello Concerto. The concert will take place at Estonia Concert Hall on February the 3rd. For more details, click HERE
On 22nd of November 2022 Yi-Jia Susanne Hou is playing the iconic Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestra Tong Chen. The performance takes place at the Orpheum as part of the cultural event Image China East-West Symphonic Concert presenting renowned soloists and featuring Chinese and Canadian classical music .
Susanne Hou recorded live He Zhanhao’s & Chen Gang’s Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Cadogan Hall in London. She subsequently toured the work with the RPO under the baton of Mo John Nelson in China and Taiwan. Her connection to the piece has been both artistic and personal since her violinist father was chosen to make a premier recording of the concerto in Shanghai.
Clip from Susanne Hou’s concert on tour at NCPA Beijing:
In his first appearance abroad this season, Maestro Antoni Wit conducts the Dortmunder Philharmoniker at the Konzerthaus Dortmundon 10th of October this year. Together with an exceptional soloist Jasminka Stancul they will open the “Wiener Klassik” series with two Mendelssohn’s Piano Concertos. Schubert’s Symphony No 5 will follow and conclude the concert programme.
Yi-Jia Susanne Hou returns to the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra to perform the Sibelius Violin Concerto in d-minor in the opening concert of the orchestra’s Early Spring Season conducted by Daniel Boico. The performance takes place on August 25th at the Linder Auditorium in Johannesburg with the programme including Dvorak’s Symphony No 9 “From the New World” and the arrangement of the song Moon We shall rise again by the renowned South African jazz songwriter Don Laka. For more details see HERE
Following the pandemic pause, Antoni Wit participates in the 42ndKusatsu International Summer Music Academy & Festival in August 2022. Mo Wit conducts Bruckner’s Symphony No 2 with the Gunma Symphony Orchestra on August 16th in Takasaki and on August 17th in Kusatsu. He also leads the Festival’s choral concert on August 21st featuring Requiem by Saint-Saëns.
Long-postponed by the pandemics, Canadian violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou finally fulfils her invitation by the Folsom Lake Symphony, premier community orchestra in California, to work on a joint project at the start of the new season. Yi-Jia Susanne Hou performs the Sibelius Violin Concerto under the baton of the orchestra’s music director Peter Jaffe on October 21st at the Harris Centre for the Arts and she participates in extensive educational activities as part of the orchestra’s wider community mission. For more details see HERE
