KZNPO hosts symphony season
KZN Philharmonic’s 2019 Spring Season will be at the Durban City Hall on Thursdays from 31 October to 21 November.
THE KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2019 Spring Season, featuring a stellar line-up of international and local talent, runs in the Durban City Hall every Thursday from 31 October to 21 November at 7.30pm.
The celebrated German maestro Wolfram Christ returns to the podium to launch the season on 31 October. Enjoy an evening of Mozart concert gems with Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, one of the best-loved of all classical compositions. The programme’s centerpiece is the exquisitely crafted Violin Concerto No 5 in A Major, performed by Avigail Bushakevitz. The Symphony No 39 K543 in E-flat concludes the programme.
Daniel Boico takes the podium for the second concert of the season on 8 November. The programme includes Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto in E Flat, spotlighting young British virtuoso Matilda Lloyd as soloist. Joining forces with each other at the concert are the Clermont Community Choir, Durban Symphonic Choir, SA Singers, and Joyful Sounds, who will perform a selection of music by Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn, Koapeng, Sibisi, Moerane and Hofmeyr.
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Roderick Cox makes his bow on 14 November. The young German-based American conductor opens his programme with Ravel’s neo-baroque masterpiece, Le Tombeau de Couperin. Multi-award winning Dmitry Shishkin takes centre-stage to perform Tchaikovsky’s B-flat minor Piano Concerto, and after intermission, Brahms’s Symphony No 4 brings the evening to a close.
Rounding off the season on 21 November, conductor Conrad van Alphen opens his programme with Dvoák’s Carnival Overture. Chopin’s Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor heralds the arrival on the Durban’s concert scene of South African pianist, Megan-Geoffrey Prins, this year’s prodigiously gifted Standard Bank Young Artist for Music, and the evening closes with Dvoák’s New World Symphony.
Season tickets and bookings for individual concerts are available at Computicket outlets.
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