Cape Philharmonic Orchestra Winter Symphony Season

Conductor: GINTS GLINKA
Soloist: DMITRY KOUZOV (cello, photo)

Programme:
BERLIOZ: Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet
LALO: Cello Concerto in D minor
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Born in Latvia in 1975, GINTS GLINKA was awarded the Classical Conductor’s Prize by the Danish Conductors’ Association in 2001 and invited to join the association the same year. He was principal guest conductor of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra between 2006 and 2009. He is a laureate of the Great Music Award 2006 for outstanding interpretation of Beethoven’s Symphony Nr. 9. This prestigious award is the highest prize given by the Latvian State in the field of music.

A versatile performer, cellist DMITRY KOUZOV has appeared with such orchestras as the St. Petersburg Symphony, National Symphony of Ukraine, the South Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic (Czech Republic), and the Symphony Orchestra “Classica” (Russia), to name but a few. He was awarded First Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in the Czech Republic and he is a two-time laureate of the International Festival-Competition “Virtuosi of the Year 2000” in Russia and a winner of the New York Cello Society Rising Star Award.