A poster for the Korean Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming live performance / Courtesy of Korean Chamber Orchestra
The Korean Chamber Orchestra (KCO) will open its new season with a live performance that includes music by a French composer largely unknown to Korean audiences.
In response to the orchestra, the KCO will premiere Germaine Tailleferre’s Concertino for Harp and Orchestra with solo harpist Kwon Min-young at its season-opening live performance on the Seoul Arts Middle, Feb. 10.
Tailleferre (1892–1983) was the one feminine member of Les Six, a bunch that helped form French neoclassical music with wit and magnificence within the early twentieth century. She studied on the Paris Conservatoire and composed prolifically throughout genres, producing greater than 200 works regardless of persistent gender limitations and the frequent lack of publication of her scores. Lively as a composer till the age of 91, her music is marked by lyricism, bitonality and jazz influences.
This system additionally contains Robert Schumann’s Overture, Scherzo and Finale for Orchestra, Op. 52, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 43, that includes pianist Solar Youl. The live performance will conclude with Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály’s “Dances of Galánta.”
The orchestra shall be performed by Sergey Smbatyan, a conductor from Armenia.
“This system brings collectively works from totally different eras and areas right into a single, natural arc, spotlighting each the musical expansiveness the KCO has pursued and the finely honed ensemble aesthetics that outline its sound,” the orchestra mentioned in a press launch issued Wednesday.
Based in 1965, the KCO has grown into certainly one of Korea’s oldest and most revered chamber ensembles, steadily increasing its dimension and creative scope over the previous six many years. The orchestra now has 120 members.
Till final yr, the KCO has introduced greater than 800 performances, together with 141 abroad concert events, and launched 19 albums. It carried out at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 1999 and on the United Nations headquarters in New York in 2000, engagements that earned it the title “U.N. Official Chamber Orchestra of Peace.”
For tickets and extra data, go to kco.or.kr.
