Teo Gheorghiu returns to Germany to play a double bill of Ravel Piano Concerto in G and Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue in his first appearance with Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal under the baton of John Nelson. His two concerts will take place on 18th & 19th of November at the Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal.
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Maestro Wit returns to the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra to conduct an all-Brahms programme in two concerts on 18th and 19th of October. He will lead Symphony No.4 as well as Concerto for Violin and Cello Op.102 with soloists Tianwa Yang and Gabriel Schwabe at Baluarte and Auditorium de Tudela.
Antoni Wit will then travel to Malaga to work with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Malaga conducting Schubert Symphony No 3 as well as Symphony No 3 by Bruckner on 25th and 26th of October at Teatro Cervantes. For more details, please see here and here
Vladimir Ovodok is back in Italy to conduct Pagliacci with Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini and the Chorus of Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, directed by Cristina Mazzaviliani Muti. The performances will take place at Teatro Municipale di Piacenza on October 4th and 7th in co-production with the Ravenna Festival .
Maestro Wit conducts a defiant Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra on his return to Tampere Filharmonia in their concert on 28 September at the magnificent Tampere Hall. Joined by the acclaimed Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski in Dohnanyi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune, Wit will fittingly open the programme with Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain. See more details HERE
After winning 2006 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London which launched his international career, Dworzyński quickly established himself as one of the leading sought-after young conductors. Working extensively in the UK, continental Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, he built a reputation for his mature performances continuously recognised as “unrivalled for poetic eloquence, kaleidoscopic colouring, and dramatic grandeur.” Former Artistic Director of the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra, Dworzyński returns to the international podium in the 2018/19 season.
Antoni Wit returns to Japan to make his debut with the TMSO on 6th of September at the prestigious Suntory Hall. In this first concert of the season, Maestro Wit will conduct Lutosławski’s Symphony No 3 preceded by Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 performed by the International Chopin Piano Competition prize-winner, Canadian pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin. The programme, which will open with the rarely heard Wagner’s Polonia Overture, is a fitting tribute in Poland’s 100th Year of Independence.
Following his successful visits in the last two seasons, Vladimir Ovodok returns to Ravenna Opera Academy this month to participate in Riccardo Muti’s this year edition of the project focused on music by Verdi.
Minsk-based Vladimir Ovodok first attended Riccardo Muti Opera Academy in 2015 and two years later launched his international career at the Ravenna Festival conducting a trilogy of operas directed by Cristina Mazzaviliani Muti to high critical acclaim. He will come back to Italy this autumn to conduct Pagliacci with Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini at Teatro Reggio di Piacenza on October 4th and 7th , as well as a symphonic concert with a programme including Verdi’s Overture to Forza del destino on October the 6th in Forli.
Teo Gheorghiu takes over at short notice from the indisposed Boris Berezovsky at the annual Lille Piano Festival 2018 on 10 June. In the recital’s exceptionally strong programme which will be heard at the historic Abbaye de Vaucelles, Teo Gheorghiu will play originally planned Debussy Preludes adding spectacular Enescu Romanian Rhapsodie and Ravel’s La Valse. For more information please see here: http://lillepianosfestival.fr/2018/dimanche_10_juin/p28-b/
Maestro Wit will close his 8th season as Music Director of the Orquesta Pablo Sarasate conducting a mighty programme of Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem preceded by Strauss Metamorphosen in three concerts on May 31st , June 1st and 2nd. Antoni Wit recorded both works on Naxos . His Strauss disc with Weimar Staatskapelle was released in 2009 while Brahms’ A German Requiem was recorded with the Warsaw Philharmonic and released in 2014.
