KZNPO launches summer season
The four-concert 2020 Summer Season runs in the Durban City Hall every Thursday between 13 February and 5 March.
THE KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra has announced details of its four-concert 2020 Summer Season which runs in the Durban City Hall every Thursday between 13 February and 5 March, starting at 7.30pm.
Perennial favourite Yasuo Shinozaki returns to the Durban City Hall podium to launch the season on 13 February with two towering concert staples by Brahms, the Tragic Overture and the Fourth Symphony, which frame Rachmaninoff’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, played by the leading SA concert pianist, Francois du Toit.
On 20 February, the American conductor William Eddins shares the spotlight with two guest soloists, the Montenegrin guitarist Goran Krivokapi? and the gifted young South African soprano, Zandile Mzazi, who join the orchestra in performing a richly curated programme of concert bon-bons by Schubert, Rodrigo, Mascagni, Massenet, Verdi, Elgar and Tchaikovsky.
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Japanese maestro Shinozaki returns for the third concert of the season on 27 February, when Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and his magnificent Emperor Concerto, played by German pianist Jan Jiracek von Arnim, can be heard in the first half of the evening, followed by a performance of Dvorák’s immensely rewarding Symphony No 7.
Netherlands born conductor Arjan Tien makes a popular return to round off the season on 5 March, with two more Beethoven favourites, the Leonore Overture No 1 and the Triple Concerto, played by pianist, Malcolm Nay, violinist Tai Murray and cellist Aristide du Plessis. The evening closes with a performance of Bizet’s delightful Symphony in C.
Season tickets for the KZN Philharmonic’s World Symphony Series 2020 Summer Season are available through Computicket. Call 0861 915 8000 or book online at www.computicket.com. Email bookings@kznphil.org.za or call 031 369 9438 (office hours).
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