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An Evening to Remember — Closing Concert
For this final concert as part of the Symphonic Middle East festival, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra is joined onstage by the celebrated Hungarian violinist, Graf Mourja, for a performance featuring works by Beethoven, Brahms and contemporary composer Alexey Shor. During his studies Mr. Mourja became the top prize winner of
numerous international competitions, among them: N.Paganini, Vianna da Motta, Tchaikovsky Xth International Competition, J.Thibaud, P.Sarasate, R.Lipizer, UNISA and others. The repertoire of the violinist is more than 30 concerts with the orchestra, among them are rarely performed works of E.Dohnanyi, H.Badings, G Dmitriev, M.Nosyrev, B.Bartók, E.Lalo, N.Kapustin dedicated to violinist. Following Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, the third overture Beethoven composed for his opera Fidelio, the orchestra welcomes Graf Mourja to present a performance of Alexey Shor’s Four Seasons of Manhattan, a violin concerto in four movements that takes the journey on an imaginative journey through Shor’s experiences of New York’s changing seasonal landscape. Following the interval, the orchestra returns for a performance of Beethoven’s cheerful and at times lightheartedly ironic Symphony No. 8. This concert is proudly presented by CMDI Group and SAMIT Event Group, with the support of the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC).
Programme:
L. Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3 (from the opera Fidelio)
A. Shor
Four Seasons of Manhattan
--Intermission--
L. Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Dmitry Yablonsky
Grammy nominated conductor, cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonksy was born in Moscow into a musical family. He began playing the cello when he was 5 years old and was accepted to the Central Music School for gifted children. At the age of 9 he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn’s cello concerto. Since then, his career had taken him to the most important stages in the world, such as the Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Moscow Great Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Taiwan National Hall, Theatre Champs Elysees,, Tokyo Opera City Hall among others. He has collaborated with many world renown artists as Monserrat Caballe, Roberto Alagna, Olga Borodina and many more.
Dmitry started to conduct at age 26 and has conducted more then 50 orchestras all over the world including The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he made 4 cd’s. Dmitry Yablonsky has studied cello with Isaak Buravsky, Lorne Monroe, David Soyer, Aldo Parisot and Zara Nelsova. He also took master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker, Andre Navarra, Maurice Gendron, Misha Schneider among others. His conducting teachers have been Otto Werner Muller, Yuri Simonov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. He has participated in many festivals all over the world including Marlboro Festival. He has recorded more then 90 CD’s as cellist and conductor to great critical acclaim.
He is an Artistic Director of Gabala Music Festival, Puigcerda Music Festival and Wandering Music Stars Festival.
Dmitry Yablonsky is Music Director of Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra.
Since fall 2016, he is teaching cello and chamber music at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and has been recently named Head of International Relations of the same University. Dmitry plays two cellos: a Joseph Filius Andrea Guarneri and a Matteo Goffriller.
Graf Mourja
Violin
Graf Mourja is one of the most distinctive Hungarian-Russian violinists of nowadays. During his studies Mr. Mourja became the top prize winner of numerous international competitions, among them: N.Paganini (1990), Vianna da Motta (1991), Tchaikovsky Xth International Competition (1994), J.Thibaud (1996), P.Sarasate (1997), R.Lipizer (2000), UNISA (2002), and others. In addition, in 1994 G.Mourja was awarded the prize of festival "Juventus" by Council of Europe.
Graf Mourja studied under the supervision of Professor I.Bochkova in Moscow Central music school and Moscow Conservatory from 1982-1999. Also he finished his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with the M.Marincovich, there he won Hattory prize in London for outstanding achievements in studying.
Since 1990 Mr.Mourja gives chamber music concerts, recitals and concerts with symphony orchestras in Russia and Europe. The repertoire of the violinist is more than 30 concerts with the orchestra, among them are rarely performed works of E.Dohnanyi, H.Badings, G Dmitriev, M.Nosyrev, B.Bartók, E.Lalo, N.Kapustin dedicated to violinist.
Graf Mourja recorded 3 CDs for the company Harmonia Mundi, collaborated with Alpha, Integral, Hanssler-Verlag, Naxos, Chant du Monde, Classical Records, Melodia. Recordings of works by Stravinsky, Szymanowskyi, Schnittke, Prokofiev, Ravel and the recording of virtuoso miniatures "Violin vagabond" were highly prized by "Strad" and "Gramophone" magazines, as well as the prestigious awards "Diapason d'Or "and "Choc". In 2013 in cooperation with ensemble “Kheops” he recorded the project with Dohnanyi and Penderecki sextets for the firm Fuga Libera.
In 2004, G. Mourja was awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia". Now Mr.Mourja is the professor of Moscow Conservatory. In June 2010, Graf Mourja won The Gold Medal - Grand Prix at the prestigious Violin Competition «Violin Masters» in Monte Carlo. Violinist plays violin by Alessandro Gagliano, Neapol, 1719. That was given him in lifetime use by a philanthropist.
During last five years, Graf Mourja played 24 Capriccios by N.Paganini over 50 times.
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA was established in 1936 as a small studio ensemble, which grew into the Palestine Broadcasting Service Orchestra. With the foundation of the State of Israel the orchestra became the national radio orchestra, known as the Kol Israel Orchestra. In the 1970s, the orchestra was expanded and became the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Broadcasting Authority. The orchestra was the first to perform in Israel the works of Sofia Gubaidolina, Henri Dutilleux, Alfred Schnittke and others. Through the years some of the greatest musicians have performed with the orchestra, among them Arthur Rubinstein, Igor Markevitch, Otto Klemperer, Henryk Szeryng, Isaac Stern, Radu Lupu and Yefim Bronfman. One of the most notable premières performed by the orchestra was The Seven Gates of Jerusalem by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, conducted by Lorin Maazel, which was composed for the finale of the Jerusalem 3000 celebrations. This was a joint venture with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. The orchestra often tours in Europe and the United States, and has played in some of the most prestigious venues.
Recently JSO had successful tours to USA, where concerts took place from Florida to Massachusetts and for the first time a tour in Japan, both tours with Dmitry Yablonsky as conductor and soloist.