Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra & Wolfgang Schmidt

Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra & Wolfgang Schmidt

Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra - Third Symphony Season 2011

Conductor: Bernhard Gueller
Soloist: Wolfgang Schmidt (Cello)

Programme
MUSSORGSKY Khovantchina: Introduction (Dawn on the Moskva River)(Rimsky-Korsakov)
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto op.104, B minor
BORODIN Symphony No.1, E-flat major

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt has performed in Europe, Russia, Asia and the USA as soloist with such prestigious orchestras as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Houston and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras as well as the Prague Philharmonia under the batons of Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski, Yutaka Sado, Gerd Albrecht, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jiri Belohlavek, Vassili Sinaiski, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Andrey Boreyko, Hugh Wolff, Michael Sanderling, Gabriel Feltz, Fabrice Bollon and Markus Poschner.

He devotes himself to chamber music and has already performed together with such renowned artists as Lang Lang, Christoph Eschenbach, Emanuel Ax, Gil Shaham, Nicolaj Znaider, Leonidas Kavakos, Kyoko Takezawa, Miriam Fried, Edgar Meyer and David Shifrin. From 2000-2002 he was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center in New York and together with Jens Peter Maintz he forms the cello duo “Cello Duello”.

His first CD for Sony Classical French Impressions was released in autumn 2001. The second in 2004 – all cello concertos by Sergei Prokofiev followed by the cello concertos by Schumann and Elgar in April 09 (Sony Classical). For Capriccio he recorded Bloch’s “Voice in the Wilderness” with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt plays on a cello made by Matteo Goffriller which previously belonged to Hugo Becker.

Date:
18 August 2011
Time:
20:00
City/Town:
Johannesburg
Venue:
Linder Auditorium
Address:
St Andrews Road, Parktown
Bookings:
http://www.computicket.com - 083 915 8000
Organiser/Presenter:
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Phone Number:
+27 (0)11 789 2733
Email Address:
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Website:
http://www.jpo.co.za

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