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Published: 12 July 2010
Leonidas Kavakos will return to the Verbier Festival in July for a series of chamber and orchestral concerts. Kavakos’ concerts begin on 24 July, with a programme by young Russian composer Lera Auerbach, the 2011 Composer-in-Residence at the Dresden Staatskapelle. Players will include Gautier Capuçon and Auerbach herself on the piano. Kavakos will then join the Festival Orchestra and Charles Dutoit for a performance of Bartok Violin Concerto...
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Published: 11 July 2010
Andreas Haefliger performs Mozart Piano Concerto No.25 as part of the Aspen Music Festival in July before joining Matthias Goerne at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Domaine Forget Festival in Quebec, the Toronto Summer Music Festival and at Tanglewood to perform a programme of Schumann and Brahms lieder. Haefliger will also be involved with educational activities and masterclasses during his time in Toronto.
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Published: 05 July 2010
On 23 July Gilbert Varga will be the guest conductor of the newly-founded China NCPA Concert Hall Orchestra in the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. This young, international orchestra will play an all-Dvořák programme, including The Carnival Overture and selections from the Slavonic Dances, Op.46.
Earlier in the month, Varga will conduct the recently-formed Philharmonia Corea for their Anniversary Concert at the Seoul Arts Center...
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Published: 05 July 2010
Paul McCreesh returns to the Verbier Festival to conduct the festival chamber orchestra at the Salle des Combins on 26 July. The concert, concluding with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, begins with a Suite of Dances from Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, arranged by McCreesh, and Berlioz’s La Mort de Cléopâtre cantata with the Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman.
With the Gabrieli Consort and Players, McCreesh will celebrate the 400th anniversary of...
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Published: 05 July 2010
Colin Currie's appearance at the BBC Proms as soloist in Simon Holt’s a table of noises met with critical acclaim. Performing together with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer, The Guardian commented: "..the work, arranged in six main sections interspersed with cadenza-like passages, is complex in structure and must be the very devil for even a soloist of Currie's ability. In fact, he performed it with an authority...
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Published: 04 July 2010
Jonathan Biss joins the New York Philharmonic for a concert as part of the Vail Valley Music Festival on 23 July. Biss will perform Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4 under the baton of Alan Gilbert.
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Published: 03 July 2010
James Ehnes has been named a Member of the Order of Canada. Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada made the appointment in recognition not only of James’s contribution to musical life in Canada but on the international stage. Along with the other recipients, James will accept his insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.
The Order of Canada was established in 1967 to recognize outstanding...
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Published: 01 July 2010
In July, Baldur Brönnimann opens the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia’s second annual International Symphonic Festival at the Colsubsidio Theatre in Bogotá. The opening concert on 10 July features Sibelius Symphony No.5 and Elgar’s Cello Concerto with Natalie Clein as soloist, and on 31 July, Brönnimann will conduct the orchestra in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
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Published: 01 July 2010
Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct the Nashville Symphony Orchestra on 9 and 10 July, in concerts featuring Haydn Symphony No.103 ‘Drum Roll’ and Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 'Italian'. They will also be joined by soloist James Zimmermann for Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra.
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Published: 01 July 2010
Ingrid Fliter will appear at the Aspen Music Festival on 8 July where she will be joined by Russian clarinettist Anton Dressler for a programme focusing on Chopin and Schumann. Fliter will later go to the Colico Festival (of Water Music) and play a selection of Chopin Nocturnes and Waltzes on 18 July and Piano Concerto No.2 on 24 July with the Kaleido Ensemble.