Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra tour - Osaka, Japan Filharmonia Narodowa

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The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra with its Music & Artistic Director Andrzej Boreyko will perform 9 concerts in 7 major concert halls in Japan and South Korea between 4 and 14 February 2024.

The orchestra will be accompanied by five outstanding pianists: Rafał Blechacz (winner of the 15th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2005), Bruce Liu (winner of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2021), Masaya Kamei (winner of the First Prize at the Long-Thibaud International Competition in 2022), Michie Koyama (winner of the fourth prize at the 11th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 1985) and Yekwon Sunwoo (winner of the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, among others).

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra will perform music by Witold Lutosławski (Little Suite) and both Piano Concertos by Fryderyk Chopin. During his two performances with the Orchestra, Rafał Blechacz will present the solo part in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54. Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 and Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 will complete the programmes of the tour’s concerts.

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Andrzej Boreyko

2023/2024 marks Andrzej Boreyko’s final season as Music and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. This season, they return to the International Krzysztof Penderecki Festival, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival and Chopin and his Europe Festival and will tour across Japan and South Korea. Andrzej Boreyko also enters his season as Resident Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, conducting their season-opening concert at the Teatro alla Scala which pairs Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. He returns to open the Mahler Festival in Leipzig with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and will also conduct the passacaglia Mystery of Time by Czech composer Miloslav Kabelač.

In the spring of 2023, he made an outstanding return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducting Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 alongside works by Victoria Poleva and Elena Langer. He received glowing reviews, including: ‘[Boreyko] gave a masterclass in how a conductor serves the interests of composers and their works, and how to leave the audience shouting for more… rapturous playing by the whole orchestra; elegant and insightful conducting’ (bachtrack.com).

Andrzej Boreyko is also a popular guest conductor of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symfoniorkester and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, as well as many others, including the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (NOSPR).

In 2022, Andrzej Boreyko concluded his eighth and final season as Music Director of Artis—Naples. Previous appointments include Music Director positions of the Jenaer Philharmonie, Symphoniker Hamburg, Berner Sinfonieorchester, Dusseldorfer Symphoniker, Winnipeg Symphony and Belgian National Orchestra.

 

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