KZN Philharmonic Summer Symphony Season
The orchestra moves back to the Playhouse for this season – performing in the magnificent Opera House
The glorious KZN Philharmonic Orchestra is half-way through its six-concert Summer Symphony Season which is currently taking place every Thursday in the Playhouse Opera.
The orchestra moves back to the Playhouse for this season – performing in the magnificent Opera House.
The soloists selected for this season represent some of the most exciting vibrant talent of the new generation of global music makers – marrying rock-star appeal and accessibility with heavy weight music credentials, applauded virtuosity. All have recently won major international music competitions.
The KZN Philharmonic’s associate guest conductor Daniel Boico joins the orchestra for the following two concerts.
Next week he conducts multi award-winning young pianist Daniel Ciobanu from Rumania.
The all-Russian programme features at its centrepiece Prokofiev’s viscerally exciting Piano Concerto No.3. Either side of it are Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony Pathetique: No. 6 in B minor – the composer’s final completed magnum opus.
The March 2 concert features Mariam Batsashvili on piano as the soloist performing Franz Liszt’s virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 1 – a 20 minute piece Liszt composed over a over a 26-year period: the main themes of which were written in a sketchbook dated 1830, when Liszt was nineteen years old.
Booking is through www.computicket.com / 0861 915 8000 / Shoprite Checkers Money Market Counters.
Morning tea and symphony: Catch the final rehearsal on the morning of the scheduled concerts every Thursday during season at 10am for a nominal charge.
Contact KZN Philharmonic offices for bookings and for more info: bookings@kznphil.org.za / 031 369 9438.
To better appreciate the music ahead of the concert: pre-concert lectures take place in the Alhambra Room at the Playhouse from 6 until 6.40pm prior to the concert every Thursday.
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