Korean violinist Hye-Yoon Park
The third of five concerts in the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra’s (CPO) Summer Symphonies takes place on Thursday October 31, at the Cape Town City Hall, at 7.30pm.
The American conductor Jonathan McPhee will be on the podium for his second and last concert.
The soloist will be Korean violinist Hye-Yoon Park who will perform the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor.
The other works on the programme are two CPO premieres – Nielsen’s Helios Overture and Elgar’s Falstaff. The Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Charlene Verster, will open this concert with a piece called For the Next Thousand by Otto M Schwarz.
Bernhard Gueller, the CPO’s principal guest conductor, will be on the podium for the concert on Thursday November 7 with cellist Maja Bogdanović performing the Rococo Variations by Tchaikovsky and Bruckner Symphony No. 4.
The Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra under the direction of Liam Burden will open the concert with two movements from Arthur Feder’s Miniature Suite.
Gueller will also direct the Brahms Requiem on Thursday November 14, with the New Apostolic Church Choir Cape Town. Soloists in Ein deutsches Requiem are soprano Siphamandla Moyake and baritone William Berger.
Tickets cost from R175 to R400 from Artscape Dial-A-Seat on 021 421 7695 or through Webtickets.
There will be no platform seats for the Brahms Requiem, and the dress rehearsal will be the night before, at 7pm, at the City Hall, with tickets through Quicket where you can can also get tickets for the dress rehearsals on Thursday October 31 and Thursday November 7 at 11am. Tickets cost from R65.