The stage becomes electric when 2002 IVCI Gold Medalist Barnabás Kelemen and his wife Katalin Kokas, an award-winning violinist and violist, perform. The April 16th program features duo works for two violins or violin and viola from the Baroque to the twentieth century including duos by Leclair, Mozart and Bartók. Mr. Kelemen will also play Bach's D minor Partita for Solo Violin which is known for the famous Chaconne.
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Violinist Augustin Hadelich, accompanied by pianist Robert Kulek, will make his Carnegie Hall recital debut on Friday evening, March 28, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. This concert, presented by the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI), will be performed in Isaac Stern Auditorium.
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Concert violinist David Juritz has performed in many of the world's greatest halls as a soloist, guest artist and concertmaster of London's famed Mozart Players.
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Join Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for a world premiere event April 20-22 at Bass Performance Hall! Concertmaster Michael Shih will perform the newly commissioned Violin Concert written by FWSO composer-in-residence Kevin Puts. One of Rossini's finest overtures, the Overture to Semiramide, opens the concert.
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One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams will conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in his own works in Orchestra Hall later this month. The program includes Adams' Violin Concert with soloist Leila Josefowicz, and his stirring tribute to the victims of September 11, 2001, the Pulitzer Prize-winning On the Transmigration of Souls.
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Grammy Award-winning violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn will make her debut with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra in a one-night-only Classic Concert Special, HILARY HAHN AND PICTURES! on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at 8:00 pm at the Tucson Music Hall. Music Director and Conductor George Hanson will lead Ms. Hahn and the TSO in a performance of the Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 by Jean Sibelius.
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Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti makes his Dallas debut with a tour de force program featuring heartrending music and a spectacular light show. The evening will begin with Tchaikovsky's Fantasia Francesca da Rimini, based upon the fifth canto from Dante's Inferno, in which lovers Francesca and Paolo are brought together only to be torn apart by a vicious storm.
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Three performances by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in March will underscore musical development and change from the classical to the contemporary, and will also introduce the young Latvian violinist, Baiba Skride, to audiences across the state. Under the baton of Neeme Järvi, the concerts begin with A.S. In Memoriam by Swedish composer Rolf Martinsson, a work in which the composer states he has "sought to mirror the vocabulary, gesture and musical characters present in the works of Arnold Schoenberg."Â
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A daring, thoroughly original, and completely fearless artist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg remains on the cutting edge of classical recording and performing, is in high demand with orchestras world-wide, and is unanimously considered one of the handful of truly great violinists of this or any era.
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Conductor Harry Bicket leads the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra through four brilliant Baroque works: Telemann's Water Music; Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in D, with violinist Eric Wyrick; Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 with flutists Bart Feller and Kathleen Nester, and Eric Wyrick; and Handel's Water Music Suite No. 1 from his betterknown work of the same name, Water Music.
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It must have looked nice from the Southam Hall stage: The Ottawa Symphony Orchestra gave its third concert of the season and the musicians, rather than looking out at hundreds of empty seats, found themselves in the presence of the largest OSO audience this reviewer can remember.
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One night only at Roy Thomson Hall! Tuesday, April 17, 2007. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to announce a special concert on April 17 with Grammy Award-winning violinist Maxim Vengerov and the outstanding young musicians of the UBS Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra. This concert is a rare opportunity for audiences to witness Vengerov both 'on the podium' and off!
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