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4 Seasons of Manhattan
On Sunday 6th March, the South-Ural Symphony Orchestra will be joined onstage by Korean violinist Zia Shin (recipient of the "First Great Prize for Académie des Beaux-Arts", "Prize of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France", "Prize of the Prince Albert II of Moncao" and "Prize of the Students of the Paris Conservatoire" at the 2008 Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition and prizewinner at the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium) for a concert of contemporary and historical classics. The evening will begin with Alexey Shor’s Four Seasons of Manhattan, a four-movement work evoking the changing seasons in New York’s bustling metropolis, before continuing with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, a distinctive three-movement work which, following its influential premiere in 1845, has become a concert favourite and is now recognised as an important work in the violin’s repertoire. Following the intermission, the orchestra will return to perform Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 8, a relatively lighthearted piece the composer referred to as "my little Symphony in F", though one that is no less masterful in its composition. This concert is organised by CMDI Group and SAMIT Event Group, with the support of the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC).
Programme:
A. Shor
Four Seasons of Manhattan
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
-- Intermission --
P. Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29
Massimiliano Caldi
Massimiliano Caldi (Milano 1967), graduated in piano, composition and orchestra conducting has a big international experience in the felds of symphonic music, opera, operetta and ballet as well as an attention on contemporary music and on the revival of the 19th century opera. he stands out for his high professional preparation and for his bright and linear directorial style.
Among the last commitments of the 2020/2021 season, the debut of Il Don Bucefalo at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, the recorded concert at the Teatro alla Scala with I Virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, the Polish premiere of the cello concert of Castelnuovo Tedesco with Silvia Chiesa and the inauguration of the 60th Łańcut International Festival. Moreover, during the summer 2021, in Italy he conducted the Roma 3 Orchestra in a tour and he also performed at the closing evening of the frst edition of the International Festival Accordi Musicali. In Poland, he performed at the Mozart Festival and at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw for the Polish Music Competition.
Winner of the frst prize at “G.Fitelberg” International Competition (1999), Caldi is the Principal Conductor of the "A. Malawski" Precarpathian Philharmonic of Rzeszów. He had been President of the Jury of the International Piano Competition Massarosa - IX and X edition (2018 and 2019), teacher of the Florence Conducting Masterclass (2015-2017), Principal Conductor and Artistic Consultant of "St. Moniuszko" Koszalin Philharmonic(2014-2017), Artistic Director of Silesian Chamber Orchestra (Katowice, 2006-2010) and Principal Conductor of "Milano Classica" Chamber Orchestra (1998-2009).
In the last ten years he took tournées in Israel, Oman, U.S.A. , Chile, Brasil, Germany, Austria, Russia and Turkey.
During the 2018 year, in opera feld, he conducted the prologue from Mefstofele by Boito (Gdansk, June 2018) Cavalleria Rusticanaby Mascagni (Rzeszow June 2018) and Bastiano e Bastiana by Mozart (Oliwa August 2018).
In the recent past, he conducted Gluck's "Orphee et Euridice" and Puccini's "La Bohème" at Bologna Opera House (Italy), Verdi's "Nabucco" and Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" at Poznań Opera House (Poland) and he took part at three editions of "Festival della Valle d'Itria" of Martina Franca (Italy) with rediscovered italian masterpieces of the XIX century like Cagnoni's "Don Bucefalo" and "King Lear" and an unusual French version (1907) of R. Srauss' "Salome".
He took part in the past at "Festival Terre Verdiane" in Busseto (Italy) with "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" and he conducted Verdi's "Il Trovatore" at Szeged Opera House, (Hungary) at the end of the Nineties.
He conducted Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" at Cicuito Lirico Lombardo (Italy) at Pavia, Cremona, Brescia and Como Opera Houses.
For the same cycle, he conducted Nino Rota's "I due timidi" and "La Notte di un nevrastenico" at Vittorio Veneto and Como Opera Houses (Italy).
In Poland, at Cracow Polish Music Festival in 2011 he conducted Poniatowski's "Pierre De Medicis", a XIX century "grand opera", in the frst world performance, after rediscovering.
In symphonic feld he went back to St. Petersburg with the Philharmonic Orchestra in March 2020 and on the podium of Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in July 2019. He conducted among the others Berliner Konzerthaus Kammerorchester, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Sinfonica "Giuseppe Verdi", Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
In Poland he had been invited by International Festivals and he appears regularly on the podium of the most important Philharmonic and symphonic orchestras like, for example, Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw Polish Radio Symphonic Orchestra and the "Sinfonia Iuventus" Orchestra at the hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw and at Studio Lutoslawski S-1, the Szymanowski Philharmonic Orchestra of Krakow, the Beethoven Academy Orchestra of Krakow and the Philharmonics of Lodz, Bydgoszcz, Torun, Olsztyn... and many others.
Caldi has recorded for Acte Préalable, the CD Raul Koczalski - Piano concertos (January 2018) and for Sony Classical, the CD Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Riccardo Malipiero Cello concertos (April 2018).
Massimiliano Caldi is the only Italian who won the Gazzetta Italia Prize - 2018 edition for having distinguished in the promotion of Italian music in Poland and the Polish one in Italy.
In 2020, Maestro Caldi discussed his PhD thesis entitled "Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni: fdelity to the text or performance tradition?" At the Musical University "F. Chopin" in Warsaw, on which he has worked in the last 3 years, consulting among other things some manuscripts at the "S. Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome and at the Stanford University Music Library in California.
Zia Hyunsu Shin
Violin
Zia Shin is a violinist representing South Korea, who has astounded the world through her international accomplishments, without studying abroad.
In 2008, Zia Shin expanded her domestic and international career by winning four prestigious awards at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, which is a world-renown international classical music competition in France, namely the “First Great Prize of Académie des Beaux-Arts,” the “Prize of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,” the “Prize of the Prince Albert II of Monaco,” as well as “Prize of the Students of the Paris Conservatories.”
While in the midst of over 100 global performances in Japan, all Asia, and other foreign countries, Shin continued to challenge herself and ultimately received the “Count de Launoit Prize (Third Place)” at the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium, which is considered as one of the most prestigious competitions for instrumentalists.
Starting 2012, Shin further showed her tenaciousness by making an important decision to change her Korean name from ‘Hyun Su Shin’ to ‘Zia Shin’ in order to make her name more easily pronounceable for her international audiences and with a global outreach in mind.
Zia Shin started playing the violin at the age of four, and upon graduating with honors from both Jeonju Middle School and High School for the Arts, in 2004, she was admitted early to Korea National University of Arts Preparatory School as a music prodigy. Since her elementary age, Shin participated in the Education for Art Prodigies Program at Korea National University of Arts, under the guidance of violinist and Professor Nam-Yoon Kim.
Korean Domestic Awards:
- 1996: Honam Art Festival (Grand prize)
- 1997: Hankook Children’s Daily Music Competition (1st prize)
- 1999: Ewha Kyunghyang Music Competition (1st prize)
- 2001: National Youth Music Concours (Ministry of Culture and Tourism Award and Grand prize)
International Awards:
- 2002: Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists (Junior category, 2nd prize)
- 2003: 3rd Annual Johansen International Competition for Young String Players (1st prize)
- 2004: Paganini Competition (3rd prize with no 1st prize)
- 2005: Tibor Varga International Violin Competition (3rd prize)
- 2005: International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition (3rd prize)
- 2006: Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover (2nd prize & Audience Award)
- 2007: International Tchaikovsky Competition (5th prize)
- 2008: Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition (1st prize)
- 2012: Queen Elisabeth Competition (3rd prize)
Shin is praised to be quite extraordinary to have received multiple, internationally recognized awards without any foreign education. In addition to receiving the “Grand Prize” at the 1st Annual Shinhan Music Award in 2009 and the “Talent Award of Korea” from the South Korean Government in 2010, Shin has performed with numerous orchestras, including the following: The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) of Washington D.C. under Maestro Ivan Fischer; NHK Symphony Orchestra; Japan Philharmonic Orchestra; Tokyo Symphony; Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra; Nagoya Philharmonic; Sapporo Symphony; and New Japan Philharmonic. She has also performed at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Vienna Musikverein Golden Hall, as well as with Maestro Daniel Harding in Japan and with Maestro Gilbert Varga in Mexico in 2012.
Aside from her successful trio tours and performance at the HKGNA Music Festival with Myunghwa Chung and Yeol Eum Son, Zia Shin also performed at diverse domestic and international music festivals, including the Beppu Argerich Music Festival, Copenhagen Music Festival, Macao International Music Festival, Ishikawa Music Festival, and the PyeongChang Music Festival.
In 2015, Shin performed the “Beethoven Triple Concerto” with the world-class Maestro Myung Whun Chung, cellist Mischa Maisky, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In April of 2018, she had a successful recital at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall with pianist Akira Eguchi, whom she had previously performed with on her very first classical album, “Passion.”
In 2007, Shin performed at the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's inauguration celebration held at the UN General Assembly in New York. She participated in the “Asian Games Concert: Music for Sports & Harmony” hosted by UNESCO to celebrate the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010. Shin also performed the opening ceremony at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. In the same year, she was appointed as the ambassador for K-Classics in South Korea.
In addition to her performance at the eve of 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade, in 2017, Shin performed the “The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto” in Beijing at the “Korea-China Cultural Exchange Night,” in front of the South Korean president Moon Jae-In and the Chinese president Xi Jinping, to celebrate the two countries’ diplomatic ties for 25 years. In the same year, Shin was appointed as one of the 25 brightest K-Arts artists at the 25th anniversary of Korea National University of Arts. Recently, Shin was invited to perform at the “To the Heroes” to commemorate the 70th year of the 6.25 Korean War.
TV:
Host of “The Concert,” KBS 1TV Program
TV Commercial:
“Lancome” commercial, with actresses Sung-Ryung Kim, Ji-min Han, Jain Kim
Discography:
- 2005: “Toi” (Japan)
- 2012: “Passion” (Korea & Japan) / 2011, February (Universal, AVEX)
- 2015: “Canto Antigo”
- 2016: “Serenade solo”
- 2018: “Duo” with violinist Richard Yongjae O'Neill
Zia Shin’s previous violin, Stradivarius (1710), was generously loaned by Nippon Music Foundation, while Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation and SooYoung Art Trade loaned her various violins, Samsung Foundation of Culture also loaned her previous Stradivarius. Currently, Zia plays a modern violin by “Stephan von Baehr.”
“… [Zia Hyunsu Shin] is a perfectionist, not letting even a short single note slide. She is a sculptor who knows how to carve out clearly and reveal the outlines of a melody. She is a violinist who can unveil the inner depth of music…exposing sensuously tunes that are elaborately intertwined.”
- Recital Review in Auditorium (2010 December Issue)
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