Teo Gheorghiu makes his recital debut at the renowned Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogota, Columbia on 17 July. His varied programme will feature works by Debussy, Enescu, Granados, Albeniz and Ravel and will be presented as the launch of the 36th International Piano Festival in Bogota. On 16 July Teo will also conduct a Masterclass.
At this year 30th edition of the Ravenna FestivalVladimir Ovodok returns to conduct Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini in three performances of Bizet’s Carmen at Teatro Alighieri on November 3, 7 and 10. The new production directed by Lucca Micheletti will be presented as part of the Festival’s annual operatic Autumn Trilogy alongside performances of Norma and Aida directed by Cristina Mazzavillani Muti.
Antoni Wit conducts two concerts with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra on 19th and 20th of September at the Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana in the programme featuring Rachmaninov, Chopin Piano Concerto and a contemporary work by the Slovenian native composer Alojz Ajdic celebrating his 80th birthday. Maestro Wit will then travel to Skopje where he will open Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra’s new season with the performance of Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra on 26th of September at the Macedonian Philharmonic Hall. Antoni Wit will be joined for the programme by the acclaimed Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 1.
Unanimous First Prize winner of three prestigious International Violin Competitions in France, Italy, and Spain, Yi-Jia Susanne Hou has performed and toured with leading orchestras around the world. In 2013 she recorded the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra playing an outstanding 1735 Guarneri Del Gesu Violin which belonged to Fritz Kreisler at the time of his writing the cadenzas for the Beethoven Concerto. In 2016 she performed and recorded the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor John Nelson at Cadogan Hall which she subsequently toured with in Canada, China and Taiwan. Susanne Hou is a devoted advocate for music education who passionately engages in creative projects involving early classical music coaching and mentoring aspiring young artists.
Closely associated with Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish capitals, the 19th-century composer Moniuszko was born in Belarus and spent his childhood and formative years in Minsk before moving on to work and live in Vilnius where he wrote his most significant works, and later on to Warsaw as principal conductor of the Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera. This year’s Vilnius Festival symbolically presents Moniuszko’s Four Litanies of Ostra Brama, the work dedicated to Vilnius, under the domes of St. Johns’ Church, where the composer served as an organist between 1840 –1842.
In his final concerts this season with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra, Maestro Antoni Wit leads two performances of Schubert’s magnificent Symphony No 9 “The Great”at Auditorio Baluarte on 9th and 10th of May. In teh first half of the programme, Maestro Wit will be joined by French pianist François-Frédéric Guy in Liszt Piano Concerto No 2 preceded by rarely performed Carl Maria von Weber’s Peter Schmoll Overture.
Teo Gheorghiu returned to Taiwan earlier this month for a series of recitals and masterclasses. He successfully appeared at Taipei National Concert Hall on 9 April, at Tainan Cultural Center on 11 April and at Hualien Cultural Center on April the 12th.
As part of the Moniuszko 200 celebrations, Jakub Chrenowicz conducted highly successful performances of The Haunted Manor at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk this month. One of the key Polish national operas directed by Marek Weiss was led by Jakub Chrenowicz on April the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th. For more information please click HERE
