Venue: Concert Hall
Dates: July 18-19, 2018
Programme
July 18th
Modest Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Piano: Boris Giltburg
——Intermission——
Dmitri Shostakovich
Ballet Suite No. 1
Arr. Nigel Osborne
The Beatles' Classic Songs
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields Forever
Yesterday
Imagine
When I'm 64
All You Need Is Love
Hey Jude
July 19th
William Walton
Johannesburg Festival Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Piano: Boris Giltburg
——Intermission——
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Conductor
Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Petrenko, Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, started as Principal Conductor in 2006 and became Chief Conductor in 2009. During this time, he has led the Orchestra on international tours to Japan, China and the major European cities.
He is the Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic and European Union Youth Orchestra and in 2017 conducted major UK and international orchestras, including making a series of highly successful debuts with North American Orchestra.
Born in 1976, he started his music education at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School – the oldest music school in Russia – and then studied at the St Petersburg Conservatoire and is keen to support young musicians, which has included work with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and young musicians in Liverpool. For his outstanding contribution to the arts and Liverpool’s cultural scene, he has been awarded Honourary Doctorates by the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Hope University and Liverpool John Moores University, and was admitted to the Roll of Citizens of Honour of the City of Liverpool in 2016.
He was the Classic BRIT Awards Male Artist of the Year 2012 and 2010, Germany’s Echo Klassik Awards Emerging Artist of the Year 2012, Gramophone Classical Music Awards Young Artist of the Year 2007 and Artist of the Year 2017.
In a distinguished discography with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, their recordings of Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies 1, 2 and 5 won Orchestral Recording of the Year and Recording of the Year at the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2017.
