KZN PHILHARMONIC EARLY SPRING SEASON

 

(Left: Polish British conductor Ewa Strusińska)

 

All women focus for KZN Philharmonic Orchestra’s Early Spring Season

Playhouse Opera: Thursday August 22, at 19h00

Playhouse Opera: Thursday August 29, at 19h00

 

To honour Women’s Month, the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra will host a two concert Early Spring Season on August 22 and 29, in the Playhouse Opera, each with a women conductor and a woman soloist.

Two concerts comprise the early Spring Season. On August 22, renowned Polish British conductor Ewa Strusińska is on the podium to open the Spring Season with Schumann’s enchanting Carnival Opus 9. Originally written in 1834–1835 for piano solo, and subtitled Little Scenes on Four Notes, the work consists of 21 variations on a theme by Schubert, representing masked revellers at Carnival.

 

(Right: Australian violinist Emily Sun)

Internationally celebrated Australian violinist Emily Sun takes centre stage in a performance of Samuel Barber’s highly regarded Violin Concerto. After intermission, Beethoven’s titanic Seventh Symphony is guaranteed to set the audience’s pulses racing. The work was premiered with Beethoven himself conducting in Vienna on December 8, 1813.

 

The internationally acclaimed Panamanian American maestra Kalena Bovell conducts the second, and closing, concert of the season. She opens her programme with Holst’s St Paul’s Suite, a popular work for string orchestra.

Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara, a popular figure with South African audiences, returns to wow her admirers performing Saint-Saëns’ glittering Piano Concerto No 2. Composed in 1868, it is the most popular of the composer’s five piano concertos. The second half of the programme comprises Mendelssohn’s ‘Reformation’ Symphony.

For those who prefer not to self-drive to town for the evening KZN Symphony Season concerts, there are buses from Caister Lodge (R60 ret / dep 18h20); Westville Senior (R80 ret / dep 18h10; St Agnes Kloof (R100 ret / dep 17h50); Grace Church Umhlanga (R100 / dep 18h10). Book through Quicket / subscribers book through KZNPO offices.

KZN Philharmonic Season tickets, and bookings for individual concerts, are available at Quicket outlets. For more information call 031-369 9438, email info@kznphil.org.za or visit www.kznphil.org.za.

Concert 1: Thursday August 22 @ 19h00

Conductor: Ewa Strusinska

Soloist: Emily Sun (Violin)

Programme:

Robert Schumann: Carnival Op.9

Samuel Barber: Concerto for Violin, Op.14

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92

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There is NO morning rehearsal.

 

Concert 2: Thursday August 29 @ 19h00

Conductor: Kalena Bovell

Soloist: Pallavi Mahidhara – piano

Programme:

Gustav Holst: St Paul Suit, Op.29, No.2

Camille Saint-Saens: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in g minor, Op.22

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.5 in D Major, Op.107 ‘Reformation’

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There is NO morning rehearsal.

 

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