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.
ABC Classics Recording Artist Jayson Gillham returns to MSO to perform Beethoven’s epic Piano Concerto No 3 under the baton of Joshua Weilerstein. Both artists’ eagerly awaited collaboration will take place at Melbourne’s Hammer Hall in three concerts on July 20th, 21st and 23rd. For more details please see here.
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.
On his third visit to the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Maestro Wit conducts all- French symphonic programme of Faure, Debussy, Ravel and Roussel in a performance at Zagreb’s Lisinski Concert Hall on 11th of May. Find more details here.
Antoni Wit will then undertake another trip to Daegu in Korea to lead the final concert of the 4th Asia Pacific International Chopin Competition there on 18th of May. Chopin Competition in Daegu
Jayson Gillham makes his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London Cadogan Hall on 9th of May playing Chopin Piano Concerto No 2 under the baton of Alexander Shelley. He will join the RPO and Maestro Shelley for further concerts in Aylesbury and Crawley on May 10th and 11th playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3. For more details see here.
