Mischa Maisky and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra Concert

Published on Mar 23, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: Saturday, May 23, 2015

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Features: Principal conductor Jonathan Nott will be leading the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and outstanding talent cellist Mischa Maisky to perform at Concert Hall of NCPA in Beijing on Saturday May 23rd, 2015.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Mischa Maisky
Mischa Maisky is the only cellist to have studied with Mstislav Rostropovich and Gregor Piatigorsky. This unique heritage has given him the ability to combine delicate poetry with a strong musical personality and brilliant technique.

Born in Russia, a prize-winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition, he emigrated to Israel in 1971. He made his debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York with William Steinberg. For his first concert in Paris in 1976, he played with Martha Argerich and Ivry Gitlis. He has played with an extraordinary array of musicians including Radu Lupu, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Maxim Vengerov, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Daniel Barenboim. Maisky is the first cellist to have recorded the complete works for cello by Johann Sebastian Bach at DGG.

With Martha Argerich, he has recorded the sonatas of Bach, Schubert, Franck and Debussy as well as the complete variations and sonatas by Beethoven, winning a Diapason d’Or in 1992. His recordings have been recognised by Tokyo’s Record Academy for the Elgar Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Giuseppe Sinopoli.

Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Nott made his conducting debut in 1988 at the Opera Festival in Battignano, Italy. In 1989, he was appointed Kapellmeister at the Frankfurt Opera. In 1991, he was appointed Erster Kapellmeister at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, and became interim chief conductor for the 1995–96 season. He later became music director at the Lucerne Theatre and served as principal conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from 1997 to 2002.

Nott became principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in January 2000. With the orchestra, he made his New York City conducting debut. Several years after his 2009 contract extension through the 2011-2012 season, in 2011, Nott and the orchestra agreed on a further extension of his contract with the Bamberg Symphony through the 2015-2016 season. In 2014, he became principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.

The Bamberg Symphony
The Bamberg Symphony is a German orchestra based in Bamberg and well known for its artistic excellence and frequent international touring. The orchestra was formed in 1946 mainly from German musicians expelled from Czechoslovakia under the Benes decrees, who had previously been members of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. The orchestra received the title of Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie (Bavarian State Philharmonic) in 1993. The orchestra commemorated its 60th anniversary on 16 March 2006.