Vladimir Ashkenazy and Sydney Symphony Orchestra Concert

Published on September 9, 2012

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Friday, October 19, 2012

Prices: 180, 280, 400, 520, 600, 680, 880

Features: Vladimir Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist with a career spanning over fifty years of music-making. On October 19th, He will leading the Sydney Symphony Orchestra presents at concert hall of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

In the years since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw he has built an extraordinary career, not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-lovers across the world.

Conducting has formed the largest part of his activities for the past 20 years. Formerly Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic (1998-2003) and Music Director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo (2004-2007), in January 2009 he took up the new position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Alongside these positions, Ashkenazy continues his longstanding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra of which he was appointed Conductor Laureate in 2000. In addition to his performances with the orchestra in London and around the UK each season, he tours with them worldwide, and has developed landmark projects such as "Prokofiev and Shostakovich Under Stalin" in 2003 (a project which he also took to Cologne, New York, Vienna and Moscow) and "Rachmaninoff Revisited" in 2002 at the Lincoln Center, New York.

Ashkenazy also holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra, with whom he tours each year, and Conductor Laureate of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. He maintains strong links with a number of other major orchestras with whom he has built special relationships over the years, including the Cleveland Orchestra (of whom he was formerly Principal Guest Conductor), San Francisco Symphony and Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin (Chief Conductor and Music Director 1988-1996), as well as making guest appearances with many other major orchestras around the world. He returned to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in October 2007.

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Sydney Symphony has evolved into one of the world's finest orchestras as Sydney has become one of the world’s great cities. The orchestra is resident at the iconic Sydney Opera House as well as performing throughout Sydney and in regional New South Wales.

The Sydney Symphony promotes the work of Australian composers through performances, recordings and its commissioning program. Recent premieres have included major works by Ross Edwards, Liza Lim, Lee Bracegirdle, Gordon Kerry and Georges Lentz, and the orchestra's recording of music by Brett Dean was released on both the BIS and Sydney Symphony Live labels.

Other releases on the Sydney Symphony Live label, established in 2006, include performances with Alexander Lazarev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Charles Mackerras and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and the complete Mahler symphonies under Ashkenazy, recorded in 2010 and 2011. The Sydney Symphony has also released recordings with Ashkenazy of Rachmaninoff and Elgar orchestral works on the Exton/Triton labels, and numerous recordings on the ABC Classics label.

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Booking From: Sunday, Sep 09, 2012

Booking Until: Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012

Show Time: Oct 19, 2012 / 7:30pm

Running Time: 1 hours 50 minutes

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