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Childhood Memories from South Korea
Having impressed audiences and critics in multiple concert halls over the years, the South-Ural Symphony Orchestra will now be taking to the stage in Dubai, in a concert organised by CMDI Group and SAMIT Event Group, with the kind support of the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC). Led by the acclaimed Italian conductor Gianluca Marciano, the orchestra shall be collaborating with Gold medallist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and multiple First Prize Winner at numerous other international competitions, South Korean pianist Yekwon Sunwoo to present a programme of sublime favourites. Opening with the Overture from Giuseppe Verdi’s I vespri siciliani, the orchestra and Sunwoo shall then perform contemporary composer Alexey Shor’s Childhood Memories, a concerto in nine nostalgic movements which loosely trace the path from early childhood until the cusp of early adulthood. Finally, after a brief intermission, the orchestra shall return to close the performance with Antonín Dvořák’s famed Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, which has delighted concert-goers for more than 100 years ever since its premiere in New York City on 16 December 1893.
Programme:
G. Gave
Overture from I vespri siciliani
A. Shor
Childhood Memories
--Intermission--
A. Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178
Gianluca Marcianò
Praised by the Sunday Times "for his unfailingly theatrical and idiomatic conducting", conductor Gianluca Marcianò made his debut in 2006 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. Originally from Lerici, in the province of La Spezia, he founded the Suoni dal Golfo Festival in his hometown overlooking the Gulf of Poets, renamed Lerici Music Festival in 2020, of which he is artistic director. Marcianò has very strong ties with the Opera Houses of Oviedo, Minsk, Ljubjana, as well as in the UK (English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and Longborough Opera Festival). At Grange Park Opera, since 2010, he conducted La Traviata, Tosca, Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte, Alzira, Nabucco, Don Carlo, Evgenij Onegin, Samson et Dalila and Madama Butterfly. He is Artistic Director of the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and Principal Guest Conductor of Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. From 2011 to 2014 he was Music Director of the Tbilisi State Opera, conducting La Forza del Destino, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nabucco, Attila, Il Trovatore, Mithridates, King of Pontus and Aida. From 2017 to 2019 Gianluca Marcianò has been Principal Conductor of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad.
Marcianò has worked with many great singers and instrumentalists, such as: Elina Garanča, Sumi Jo, Joseph Calleja, Simon Keenlyside, Sondra Radvanovsky, Olga Peretyatko, Danielle De Niese, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Arabella Steinbacher, Anna Tifu, Francesca Dego, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Steven Isserlis, Boris Andrianov, Maria João Pires, Gloria Campaner, David Geringas, Khatia Buniatshvili, Sergei Krylov, Nina Kotova, Giovanni Sollima, Sergei Nakariakov, Denis Kozhukin and Alexander Buzlov. He conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, Polish Baltic Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Georgian Philharmonic, Tokyo New City Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hallé
Orchestra, Oviedo Filarmonia, Moscow City Russian Philharmonic, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Classica de Madeira, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, BBC Concert Orchestra, World Orchestra, Voivodina Symphony Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and others. He recently recorded the album "Momento Immobile" for Rubicon Classics, with soprano Venera Gimadieva and Hallé Orchestra.
His 2021/22 engagements include Falstaff with Bryn Terfel at Grange Park Opera, Nabucco at Opera de Oviedo, a concert with Joseph Calleja at the Ljubljana Winter Festival, a concert with Carmen Giannattasio at the Inclassica Festival in Malta conducting the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, two new productions of Tosca and I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Slovenian National Theatre of Ljubljana, concerts with Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica della Città Metropolitana di Bari, Tokyo 21c Philharmonic.
In 2017 Marcianò receive the Honorary Citizenship of the City of Lerici for his achievements and in 2018 has been awarded of the Pavlova Award.
He is Principal Conductor designated of Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto and Matera.
Yekwon Sunwoo
Piano
Gold medallist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo has been hailed for his “unfailingly consistent excellence” (International Piano) and celebrated as “a pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to thunder without breaking a sweat” (Chicago Tribune). A powerful and virtuosic performer, he also, in his own words, “strives to reach for the truth and pure beauty in music”.
The first Korean to win Cliburn Gold, Yekwon’s 19/20 season includes appearances with Fort Worth and Tuscon Symphonies and the Bucheon Philharmonic and debuts with Washington Chamber Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra and Danish Radio Orchestra amongst others as well as a debut appearance at the Vail Festival with Dallas Symphony. Recital highlights include Four Season Arts, San Antonio Arts and the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg. 20/21 will see Yekwon make his debut with Orchestra Chambre de Paris and Tugan Sokhiev and return to KBS Symphony with Jaap Van Zweeden.
In previous seasons, he has performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Houston Symphony, National Orchestra of Belgium, Sendai Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. Recital appearances include Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Salle Cortot and Kumho Art Hall.
An avid chamber musician, Yekwon’s collaborators include Benjamin Beilman, Linus Roth, Andrei Ioniță, Sebastian Bohren, Isang Enders, Tobias Feldmann, Gary Hoffman, Anne-Marie McDermott and the Jerusalem and Brentano Quartets. He has also toured Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama with the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, performed at Chamber Music of Lincoln Center’s Inside Chamber Music Lectures and been invited to the Summit Music, Bowdoin International and Toronto Summer Music Festivals.
In addition to the Cliburn Gold Medal, Yekwon won first prizes at the 2015 International German Piano Award, the 2014 Vendome Prize held at the Verbier Festival, the 2013 Sendai International Music Competition and the 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competiton.
Born in Anyang, South Korea, Yekwon began learning the piano at the age of 8 and made his recital and orchestral debuts in Seoul at 15. His teachers include Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Richard Goode and Bernd Goetzke.
In 2017, Decca Gold released Cliburn Gold 2017 two weeks after Yekwon was awarded the Gold Medal and includes his award-winning performances of Ravel’s La Valse and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata.
A self-proclaimed foodie, Yekwon enjoys finding Pho in each city he vists and takes pride in his own homemade Korean soups.
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