The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO) has announced the exciting details of its 2020 summer season programme running at the Linder Auditorium in Parktown, from 12 February to 7 March.
“We are proud to showcase our 2020 World Symphony Series this summer season with a spectacular line-up of international talent and leading South African soloists, who will join us in taking the experience of concertgoing in the city of Johannesburg ever onwards and upwards,” said JPO artistic director and chief executive, Bongani Tembe.
The JPO summer season launches with a special Valentine’s Variety Gala programme being performed from 12 to 14 February. Tembe said American conductor William Eddins shares the spotlight with two guest soloists, the Montenegrin guitarist Goran Krivokapic and the gifted young South African soprano, Zandile Mzazi, who join the orchestra in performing a richly curated programme of concert bonbons by Berlioz, Rodrigo, Mascagni, Massenet, Khachaturian, Verdi, Lehar and Tchaikovsky.
Perennially popular Japanese maestro Yasuo Shinozaki returns to the JPO podium on 19 and 20 February, putting his players through their paces in three concert staples of widely different character: Ravel’s hugely popular Bolero; and his fiercely taxing Piano Concerto for the left hand (the soloist is the prize-winning French pianist, Maxime Zecchini); concluding with a show stopping outing for Mussorgsky’s masterly Pictures at an Exhibition.
The Netherlandsborn conductor Arjan Tien takes the podium on 26 and 27 February to salute the 250th Beethoven anniversary with performances of two 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 Bizet’s delightful Symphony in C.
“While we are deeply appreciative of the support we enjoy from our family of regular concertgoers, we urge each of you to introduce the wonder of music to as many more members of your family, colleagues and peers, as possible. “Encourage them, empower them, to share your experience. Music in our lives matters on so many levels.”
He added that the dynamic IsraeliAmerican conductor Daniel Boico is at the helm for the summer season’s final concerts on 4, 5 and 7 March with a twopiece programme featuring Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with soloist Jan Jiracek von Arnim, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 4. Season tickets for the Johannesburg Philharmonic’s World Symphony Series 2020 Summer Season are available through Computicket. To book, phone 0861 915 8000 or book online at www.computicket.com. Details: Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra vivian@jpo.co.za; www.jpo. co.za
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