Springtime classics with Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra returns with a spring in its step for an Early Spring Season of classical music gems.
After a highly successful Winter Season, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) returns with a spring in its step for an Early Spring Season of classical music gems, this time at full capacity seating!
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The JPO’s World Symphony Series continues from August 25 to September 8 on Thursday nights at the Linder Auditorium at Wits University.
As a special treat, the popular annual joint concert with the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic (KZNPO), which has not been possible for the past two years due to Covid-19 restrictions, is also back to delight lovers of fine music.
As has become tradition, the JPO has a stellar array of accomplished international conductors and soloists lined up for this season, as well as the cream of South African artistic talent.
This includes conductors Daniel Boico and Rebecca Tong, with Yi-Jia Susanne Hou on violin, Nina Schumann on piano and Magdalena de Vries on marimba.
“The success of our Winter Season showed that Gauteng residents still have a healthy appetite for classical music. In fact the hunger for great music has grown more robust during the pandemic,” says JPO CE and artistic director Bongani Tembe.
“We look forward to bringing audiences another season of beautiful music.”
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The JPO’s Early Spring Season will kicks off with dynamic Israeli American maestro Boico, artistic director of the Free State Symphony Orchestra, leading the JPO.
The soloist for this concert is acclaimed Canadian Chinese violinist Hou, three-time winner of International Violin Competitions.
The programme of popular favourites selected for this concert includes Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite, from the ballet based on Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece; as well as George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances.
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