Violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou returns to South Africa to work with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra in the Early Spring Season concert. Susanne Hou will perform Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No 2 in d-minor on 28th of August under the baton of Mo Daniel Boico. Their concert will be repeated with the Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban on September the 4th.
We are delighted to announce that maestro Oleg Caetani joins our roster for Polish representation. One of the finest conductors of his generation, Caetani has long been recognised for his outstanding interpretations of Eastern European, French, Italian and German symphonic and operatic repertoire. During his tenure as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Caetani recorded Alexandre Tansman’s complete symphonies released on Chandos that belong to his most critically acclaimed recording projects. The albums were awarded three Diapason d’Or in 2006 and 2008.
Oleg Caetani conducts Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C major The Great with the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra in two concerts next season.
Yaroslav Shemet, General Music Director of the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, makes his debut with Prague State Opera in the 2025/2026 season conducting Puccini’s La Bohème. A highly successful production directed by Ondřej Havelka with dramaturgy by Jitka Slavíková and sets by Martin Černý will see its revival in nine performances between December 2025 and January 2026.
Polish distinguished maestro Antoni Wit appears with Saarländisches Staatsorchester in two concerts on May 4th and 5th 2025 at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbruecken. Maestro Wit is joined by the orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence renowned violinist Kirill Troussov in Henryk Wieniawski’s virtuosic Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 in D minor. A defiant 20th century classic, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra is the focus of Polish music exploration in the second half of the concert preceded by Wojciech Kilar’s Orawa for strings. Glazunov’s obscure unfinished Symphony No 9 opens the programme. The concert is recorded by SR kultur Radio.
Janáček Quartet’s concert performed at The Queen’s Hall in August 2002 is to be broadcast as part of the BBC Radio 3 documentary series “Great String Quartets at Edinburgh” on 25th of August 2022. The legendary performance features a programme of some of the most outstanding works in string quartets’ repertoire from the Bohemian and Moravian music traditions by Martinů, Dvořák and Smetana. For more details see HERE
