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Viola Charms
On Monday 7th March, the Symphonic Middle East presents the first of four performances by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Dmitry Yablonsky. To open the performance, the orchestra will present the rousing and melodically majestic Overture from Weber’s only English opera, Oberon. Next, the concert turns to an arrangement for viola of Elgar’s famous Cello Concerto, featuring the First Prize Winner of the Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition and recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award and 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the renowned international violist David Aaron Carpenter. The orchestra returns after the intermission to perform Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, a work notable for its departure from the composer’s more angst-ridden symphonies, instead embracing a cheery, optimistic mood with influence taken from Bohemian folk songs. This concert is proudly presented by CMDI Group and SAMIT Event Group, with the suppxort of the European Foundation for Support of Culture (EUFSC).
Programme:
C. Weber
Overture from the opera Oberon
E. Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, arr. viola
--Intermission--
A. Dvorak
Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163
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.
David Carpenter
Viola
Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award, First Prize Winner of the Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition and the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, David Aaron Carpenter is widely considered one of the most talented and charismatic musicians of his generation.
Recently called “the hottest violist of the 21st century” by the influential music critic Norman Lebrecht and “stunningly talented” by The New Yorker, David is also a former Rolex “Protégé” for which he was mentored by Pinchas Zukerman. David made his solo debut at the Kennedy Center in 2002 after winning the Presidential Scholar Award and the first-ever Gold Medal Award at the National Foundation For Advancement In The Arts. Since then he has performed with leading musicians and orchestras around the world, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Philharmonia, the Dresden Staatskapelle to the Lucerne Symphony. In May 2013, David played the Schnittke Viola Concerto at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach. The concert was a musical tribute to the great cellist and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich.
David’s first recording, released in 2009 and featuring his own viola arrangement of the Elgar Cello Concerto (after Lionel Tertis) and the Schnittke Viola Concerto with Eschenbach was an international success, winning the coveted ‘Editor’s Choice’ accolade from Gramophone. His next disc featured Berlioz’s Harold in Italy and Paganini’s Sonata per la Grand Viola with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. His third album, a world premiere recording of the recently rediscovered Viola Concertos of “the Swedish Mozart” Joseph Martin Kraus, was released in 2012. The fourth album with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “Making music with these incredible musicians,” he says, “has been one of the inspiring highlights of my career.”
As a chamber musician, David has collaborated with such renowned artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Sarah Chang, Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer, Alan Gilbert, Julian Rachlin, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jan Vogler, and Yuja Wang. He is a regular guest artist at the Verbier Music Festival, and was proud to be an integral part of their 20th anniversary season. David plays on a viola made by Michele Deconet, Venice (1766) known as the “Ex-Hamma, King David.” He is currently the Artistic Director of the New York-based Salomé Chamber Orchestra, which he co-founded with his brother Sean and sister Lauren. The Orchestra inaugurated the annual Salomé Music Festival at The Hamptons in August 2012, where David played in the opening concert alongside singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright.
In addition to David’s musical accomplishments (he studied for five years with the revered viola teacher Roberto Diaz), David received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and International Relations from Princeton University in 2008. David was featured in The New Yorker article “Musical Gold” by Rebecca Mead in July, 2014, on the cover of The Strad magazine in August 2013, and a few months earlier was the subject of a three-page article in The New York Times. Along with the Salomé Chamber Orchestra, David released his Warner Classics recording featuring Vivaldi, Piazzolla and Shor's Twelve Seasons. His newest release on Warner Classics features the Bartok, Walton, Shor and Dvorak Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestros Vladimir Jurowski, David Parry, and Kazushi Ono.
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.
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