Following last year successful performances of Pagliacci at the Ravenna Festival , Vladimir Ovodok will make his debut conducting Leoncavallo’s iconic opera at the Bolshoi Theatre Belarus on 14 February. Mentored by Riccardo Muti at the Italian Opera Academy , Minsk-based Vladimir Ovodok launched his international career conducting Pagliacci in 2017 in Ravenna as part of the Opera Trilogy with Tosca and Cavalleria Rusticana.
Teo Gheorghiu starts the New Year at the spectacular setting of Schloss Elmau, legendary hotel & concert hall with over 100 years concert tradition. He will be joined by the Swiss cellist Chiara Enderle and the clarinettist Moritz Roelcke on 8th of January performing a programme of chamber works by Brahms and Beethoven. All three young artists are among the most promising of their generation and passionate chamber musicians in addition to their solo careers.
On November 11th Maestro Wit will make his debut with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in all-Polish programme of Moniuszko, Karłowicz and Lutosławski. He will be joined by the award-winning young generation Polish violinist Agata Szymczewska in the Karłowicz Violin Concerto. The concert will take place at Bulgaria Hall in Sofia and will mark the 100th Anniversary of Independent Poland. For more details see here.
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.
