Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra - 2010 Concert Season

Heidelberg Symphony is again delighted to present an inspiring range of concerts in 2010 including performances by four outstanding guest artists..

• Tristram Williams will perform Lovelock’s Trumpet Concerto and Bizet’s Carmen Fantasy for Trumpet on Saturday March 27th
  
• Natsuko Yoshimoto, soloist in Residence, will return to play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D on Saturday June 26th..
  
• Amir Farid will perform Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Prokofiev ‘s Piano Concerto No 1 on Saturday September 11th.
• Jonathon Bam will sing J.S Bach’s Cantata BWV 82: Ich Habe Genug on Saturday December 4th.

Concert dates and details of the individual concerts are as follows.

SATURDAY MARCH 27th AT 8.00pm

‘West Side Story’

Venue: Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Performing Arts Centre, Ivanhoe

Guest Artist – Tristram Williams | Trumpet

The opening concert of this series offers a wonderfully varied program encompassing a number of styles and historical periods. From Beethoven’s impressively dramatic Egmont Overture to Bizet’s lustrous Carmen Fantasy, to the archetypically American sounds of Bernstein’s West-Side Story - this concert has a distinctly theatrical tone..

SATURDAY JUNE 26th AT 8.00pm

‘Love Beethoven?’

Venue: Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Performing Arts Centre, Ivanhoe

Guest Artist – Violin | Natsuko Yoshimoto

The excitement and sense of invention that informs the orchestration of Grainger and Holst, and the youthful Romantic sweep of Wagner’s overture to his early opera, Rienzi, are certain to be enjoyed as attractive works in their own right. However the pure beauty, majesty and compositional perfection of Beethoven’s violin concerto, a work that easily stands amongst the greatest of all concertos ever written, occupies a rarefied musical and spiritual level that is completely its own.

*This concert will be repeated on Sunday June 27th at 2.30 pm at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Performing Arts Centre, Ivanhoe

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 11th AT 8.00pm

‘Rhapsodies’

Venue: Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Performing Arts Centre, Ivanhoe

Guest Artist – Amir Farid | Piano

The rhapsodical offerings of this concert are highly representative of twentieth-century mainstream American and English music. Gershwin and Copland typify the energy and vigour of the New World, whilst Vaughan-Williams and Arnold encompass the more far-sighted cultural vision of the Old, notwithstanding Arnold’s reference to modernism and innovation. These works display a distinctiveness of national styles that provides excellent points of comparison between the two cultures. Meanwhile, Prokofiev’s first piano concerto, more than ably carries the banner of the third great powerhouse of twentieth century music - Russia

Complimentary pre-concert performance by Heidelberg Wind Ensemble from 7-7.30pm

SATURDAY DECEMBER 4th AT 7.30pm

‘From Bach to Tchaikovsky’

Venue: Ivanhoe Girls Grammar School, Performing Arts Centre, Ivanhoe

Guest Artist – Jonathon Bam | Baritone

The contrast between the lightness and humour of Johann Strauss’ music and the devotional depth of Bach’s cantata provides an ideal foil to the centrepiece of the final concert of the series, Tchaikovsky’s mighty 5th Symphony. This is a work that is completely engrossing in a way that only the great symphonic works can be. It takes the listener on a journey that encompasses the full gamut of human emotion.

Twilight Concert by HSO associate orchestras *Junior Strings of Banyule & Robertson Youth Orchestra — 5.30-6.30pm
*Heidelberg Wind Ensemble 7.00 — 7.30pm

Ticket prices for individual concerts and for the complete 4 concert season are given below. To make a season booking, please download and print the booking form here or contact  the Concert Manager.

The 2010 concert program brochure can be download in Adobe .pdf format here. The brochure also contains a booking form to purchase tickets to upcoming performances.	Brochure2010 (1.67MB file)
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