14
Jul 2016

Garrett Keast is at the world–renowned Aspen Music Festival to conduct a production of Puccini’s La Bohème.  The Aspen Opera Center Orchestra accompanies a cast of promising young artists from across the country, the Juilliard School’s Edward Berkeley directs.  Performances are in the Wheeler Opera House, July 14, 16 and 18. 

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04
Jul 2016

Welcome, Stefan Vladar!

Stefan Vladar was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in 2008. In this season Stefan Vladar will also conduct the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Bankok Symphony Orchestra, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra and the Tschaikowsky Symphony Orchestra Moscow. As a pianist he will perform e.g. with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Prague and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and play solo recitals in Vienna, Zagreb, Munich and Budapest amongst others.

In autumn 2015 the Austrian Label CAPRICCIO is starting a close partnership with Stefan Vladar and will first release a CD with piano solo compositions by Maurice Ravel. In 2016 a 4CD-Box with the complete recording of Beethoven´s solo concertos - 5 piano concertos, triple concerto, violin concerto, 2 violin romances – will follow, Stefan Vladar performing as a pianist and conducting his Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

On 15 November 2015 Stefan Vladar conducted the Russian State Symphony Orchestra in the Tschaikowsky Hall Moscow. The programme: Dvorak - Carnival Ouverture, Grieg - Piano Concerto and Brahms - Symphony Nr. 2. Nikolai Luganski was the solist of the piano concerto.

Watch full video here

www.stefanvaldar.com

13
May 2016

Cello Duello at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival

Jens Peter Maintz and Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt perform as "Cello Duello" the opening concert at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, with works from von Haydn, Servais und Paganini. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt also presents a lunch concert with pianist Robert Thies.

The Festival brings renowned cellists from all over the world together. It presents orchestral concerts, chamber music performances as well as master classes.