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Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Kyoto, Japan)

Japan Arts Festival Performance Asia Orchestra Week 2024

2024/10/19(sa.) 16:00 Starting

Kyoto Concert Hall, Main HallKyoto

Official https://www.orchestra.or.jp/aow2024/

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra, highly acclaimed in European classical magazines, will finally visit Japan.

The Singapore Symphony Orchestra is one of Asia's leading orchestras with an established international reputation, and was named third in the "Gramophone's Orchestra of the Year Award" by the British classical magazine Gramophone in 2021 and one of the "Best Orchestras in the world" by BBC Music Magazine in 2022. In 2022, the BBC Music Magazine selected it as one of the "Best Orchestras in the world" in the UK. The orchestra also includes excellent musicians from Japan and other countries.

The soloists with whom the orchestra has performed include Martha Argerich, piano; Lan Lan, piano; Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano and conductor; Lorin Maazel, conductor; Charles Dutoit, conductor; Neeme Järvi, conductor; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor; Joe Hisaishi, conductor and composer; and Leonidas Leonidas, composer. (conductor and composer), Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Janine Jansen (violin), Yo-Yo Ma, Misha Maisky (violin), Gil Shaham (violin), and Christian Zimmermann (piano).

With Gil Shaham, the group released an album of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and other works in 2008.

The Kyoto concert will be conducted by Hans Graf, the renowned Austrian conductor who will become the orchestra's principal conductor in 2020, and will feature Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major, a piece by renowned French pianist Hélène Grimaud, and "Singapore Light" by a young Singaporean composer, Koh Chien Jin. The concert will also include "The Light of Singapore" by a young female composer from Singapore, Koh Chien Jin. We look forward to seeing you there!

Concert details:
Singapore Symphony Orchestra Kyoto Concert
(Japan Arts Festival Performance Asia Orchestra Week 2024)
Saturday, October 19, 2024 16:00 (Doors open at 15:15)
Venue: Kyoto Concert Hall Main Hall
Conductor: Hans Graf
Piano: Hélène Grimaud
*Performers are subject to change, so please check the organizer's official website "Asia Orchestra Week 2024" for the latest information.
https://www.orchestra.or.jp/aow2024/

The orchestra's official YouTube:
https://tinyurl.com/4e3kvn4j

Program

  • Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Op. 21

    Felix Mendelssohn

  • Piano Concerto in G major

    Maurice Ravel

  • Singapore Light

    Koh Chien Jin

  • Symphony No. 5 "Destiny" in C minor Op. 67

    Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer

  • Hans Graf.

    Conductor

  • Hélène Grimaud.

    piano

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