HCMC – A Night of Russian Music

Sat 19 Mar 2016, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House

From the organizer:

You are invited the night of Russian music with the performance of two young and talented artists: conductor David Gomez Ramirez and violist Anna Sowanna Takeda.

Program

PART I:
Modest Mussorgsky – Overture “Dawn over the Moscow River” from opera Khovanshchina
Piotr Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
I. Allegro moderato
II. Canzonetta: Andante
III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Violin: Anna Sowanna-Takeda

PART II:
Vasily Kalinnikov – Symphony No. 1 in G Minor
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante commodamente
III. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
IV. Finale. Allegro moderato

Performing: HBSO Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: David Gomez Ramirez

David Gómez Ramírez is one of the most promising young conductors and composers in Spain. He has conducted all the major Spanish orchestras and he appears as a guest conductor in Europe (Italy, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, in Asia and in South America, in such musical centers as Paris, Caracas (Venezuela), Havana (Cuba), Brussels (Belgium), Hanoi and Hue (Vietnam). In 2010, he received the “Giraldillo de Oro” prize, a highest award given by the Excellency Cultural Arts and Sciences Association (Institution recognized by UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture of Spain).

Anna Sowanna Takeda was born in 1992 Bangkok, Thailand. At the age of 10, Anna won First Prize in the 1st Australian Music Examination Board in Thailand. In 2002 through to 2004, she won the Gold Medals from the Thai National Youth Music Competitions, and also won the Espoir prize of the 6th Osaka International Music Competition, The Finalist of the All Japan Student Music Competition in Tokyo. She has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras including Budafoki Dohnanyi Zenekar in Budapest, Hungary conducted by Hollerung Gabor and Alpaslan Ertiingealp, Sinfonia de Cuba en tres (The National Cuba Symphony Orchestra), The Vietnam National Opera & Ballet Orchestra and The Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music Orchestra, Myanmar National Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Lira Saguntina in Valencia, Spain, Senzuku New Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tickets

Ticket price: 550,000 – 400,000 – 350,000 – 200,000 – 80,000 VND (for students only)

Booking and delivery: 08 38237419, Ms. Huong: 0989874517, Ms. Huong Ly: 0908057972
At HCMC Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square
Online Booking: www.ticketbox.vn

Listen to Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 here:
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