August 2010

photo: Marco Borggreve

As part of their celebration of the work of Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Gérard Korsten as Principal Conductor of the Vorarlberg Symphoniorchester-Bregenz, conducts the composer’s Sinfonietta No 1 and Trumpet Concerto in concerts at Bregenz and Schwarzenberg.

photo: Benjamin Ealovega

Nicholas Collon brings music to young people in a children’s prom on 30 August. His innovative Aurora Orchestra collaborates with members of the National Children’s Chamber Orchestra and National Youth Chamber Orchestra. Music includes John Adams, Bernstein, Brahms, Prokoviev and Rimsky-Korsakov.

photo: Simon Butterworth

Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra come together in a late night Prom on 20 August with a mix of challenging contemporary UK and US composers’ works. There are London premieres of Feldman’s Piano and Orchestra with John Tilbury and Cardew’s Bun No 1 and music by Cage and Skempton.

photo: Sheila Rock

Always a special event at the Proms is the annual performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. On 7 August Semyon conducts this talented young band in a programme including Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique as well as the eagerly-awaited London premiere of Julian Anderson’s Fantasias (first performed by the Cleveland Orchestra in the USA last year). Semyon also appears with the NYO at the Snape Maltings Proms in Suffolk and Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

photo: Benjamin Ealovega

Nicholas Collon conducts the Opera Group in a newly commissioned opera The Lions Face by Elena Langer at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House and at the Cheltenham Festival. Told through theatre and music, Glyn Maxwell’s story follows four characters that are touched in different ways by memory loss and ageing.

photo: D. Vass

Jaime Martin is recording an all Albeniz CD with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra for the Trito label. His CD with the same orchestra of music by Augusti Charles is released in July and includes the composer’s Double Variations, Effigies and Elapsed Memories. Also with the Barcelona Symphony orchestra, Pablo Gonzalez takes the orchestra to Peralada to conduct Verdi’s Requiem as a precursor to his becoming the orchestra’s Music Director in September.

photo: Anders Krison

Two Van Walsum artists are performing at the newly refurbished Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires with Orqesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires this summer. Sharon Bezaly has recently returned from playing the Khachaturjan Flute Concerto with the orchestra conducted Enrique Arturo Diemecke. In July, Ilan Volkov conducts the orchestra in a programme that includes Sibelius’ Oceanides, Grieg’s Piano Concerto with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder and Nielson Symphony No 4 The Inextinguishable.