In the Beethoven year 2020, conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the opera “Fidelio” (2nd version, 1806) at the Theater an der Wien, staged by the actor Christoph Waltz.
Find here the press release of the Theater an der Wien.
Omer Meir Wellber is currently in Eilat in South Israel to conduct and hoste the Isrotel ClassiCameri Festival together with Raanana Symphonette.
The festival runs from 2 – 5 January 2019.
You can find further information on this festival here.
Hamburg’s General Music Director Kent Nagano will spend this year’s Christmas and New Year in the Hanseatic city and will conduct the following concerts and opera performances:
In July 2019, Omer Meir Wellber will be Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have been nominated for three Grammys with their current CD (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” and Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 1) with the Label Reference Recordings, in the categories “Best Orchestral Performance” , “Best Engineered Album, Classical” and “Producer of the Year, Classical”.
“We are honored to be recognized again this year with these three GRAMMY® Award nominations. On behalf of the entire PSO, I want to say how pleased we are that the outstanding talent of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and our wonderful Sound Mirror and Reference Recordings Team have received this honor,“ said Music Director Manfred Honeck.
The award ceremony will take place on February 10, 2019 in Los Angeles.
Omer Meir Wellber is currently conducting the Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester in the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. At the concerts on 13 and 15 December, pianist Jonathan Biss plays two piano concertos by Beethoven and Sally Beamish. Furthermore, Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben” is presented.
Find information about the concerts here.
Cellist Jan Vogler gave a big interview for the German magazine SPIEGEL. You can read this here (only for subscribers).
Furthermore, a few weeks ago Jan Vogler finished the successful Australia and New Zealand tour with “Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends”. Read here an interview with the cellist on the occasion of this tour.
Violinist and UN Messenger of Peace Midori travels with MUSIC SHARING’s International Community Engagement Program (ICEP) through Vietnam. As every year in the second half of December, ICEP as a non-political foundation brings Western classical music into regions in Asia with limited exposure to it. From December 18-27, ICEP’s touring string quartet performs and interacts with Vietnamese residents. They will visit schools and music schools, orphanages, hospitals, communities and schools for people and children with special needs such as for patients with Hansen’s Disease, as well as the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in and around Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. A visit of the touring musicians to Tuyên Quang Province is being coordinated by the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), with field visits and programs in the IFAD projects.
MUSIC SHARING, which was founded by Midori in 1992, focuses on bringing live music to people who are living under special and marginalized circumstances such as resulting from natural disasters, medical conditions, geographical limitations, and economic positions. ICEP, in particular, coordinates and organizes musical presentations into regions in Asia with limited exposure to it.
The touring string quartet, with Midori, this season includes Tatjana Roos (violin), Charlotte Malin (viola) und Alan Toda-Ambaras (violoncello). The young musicians were selected through a rigorous audition process and will travel in June 2019 to Japan for follow-up concerts.
Here you’ll find more information on Music Sharing and ICEP and here about the Touring Party Personnel.
Midori and her team are chronicling their activities in Vietnam on the Music Sharing Blog, which also includes entries from the last travels to India in 2017 and Nepal in 2016. On MUSIC SHARING’s YouTube channel you can also find videos of those last two ICEP tours.
For further information on Midori’s commitment as a UN Messenger of Peace, you can find
This year’s ICEP tour is, in part, organized in collaboration with IFAD, the office of the Honorary Consul of Vietnam in Aichi – in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the Vietnamese-Japanese Diplomatic Relations –, and the Sasakawa Memorial Health Foundation.
Special thanks go to the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). MUSIC SHARING values the IFAD’s commitment to invest in rural people, empowering them to increase their food security, to improve the nutrition of their families and to increase their incomes.
MUSIC SHARING is a non-political entity and operates solely on generous support provided by individuals, corporations, and foundations. For ICEP Vietnam, these include: Kikkoman Corporation, Mitsui Oil Exploration Co., Ltd., Kao Corporation, Saigon Tourist, Hermes Gift Ltd., The Japan World Exposition 1970 Commemorative Fund.
Find here the concert dates of our PR and management artists from March until May 2019 at a glance.
You will find information about our artists on each artist page on our website.
Please contact us for more details: office[at]pr2classic.de.
On 11 November, David Philip Hefti’s story in music The Snow Queen was premiered on the occasion of the Tonhalle Society Zurich’s 150th anniversary in two family concerts at the Tonhalle Maag in Zurich. Following some impressions from the rehearsals.
You can find further information the work on David Philip Hefti‘s website.
Rehearsal on 31/10/18; from left to right: Mojca Erdmann (Snow Queen), Delia Mayer (Gerda, narrator), Max Simonischek (Kay), David Philip Hefti; © Tom Kawara / Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich
Rehearsal on 9/11/18; David Philip Hefti; © Tom Kawara / Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich
Rehearsal on 9/11/18; Mojca Erdmann; © Tom Kawara / Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich
Rehearsal on 10/11/18; orchestra on stage and spatial music; © Tom Kawara / Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich
Rehearsal on 10/11/18; Delia Mayer, Max Simonischek; © Tom Kawara / Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich
Rehearsal on 10/11/18; © Tom Kawara / Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich