Evening of Swedish and Finnish Music

2016 / 2017                    Chamber Hall               the 4th season

3 June * Saturday *6.00pm

Evening of Swedish and Finnish Music

The program of the evening features works of Swedish composers of late baroque,  Finnish classical composers as well as works of Kazakhstani composers.

Astana Opera Chamber Orchestra will take part in the concert.

Conductor–Mats Liljefors.

Soloist – Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan Bagdat Abilkhanov (violin).

Mats Liljeforsis the Principle Conductor of the Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and Art Director of the “Music in the Royal Palace” and the Royal Baltic festivals.

He studied violin and music theory in his native city of Stockholm as well as in Lucerne, Trier and Paris.Mats Liljefors taught for two years at the Minnesota State University Moorhead and in 1993 he became the first guest conductor of the St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra.

Mats Liljefors has performed with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, the Parma Opera in Italy, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Academic Symphonic Orchestra, the San Carlo Orchestra in Naples, the Estonian State Symphonic Orchestra, the Latvian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra amongst others.

He has conducted the performances of such prominent musicians as Brigit Nielsen, Nikolai Gedda, James McCracken, Barbara Bonney, Josef Suk and many others. Paying great attention to young talent, he devotes much of his festival programs to potential future soloists.

The discography of Mats Liljefors includes more than forty CDs recorded in Sweden, the Netherlands, Russia and Japan.

On the programme:

Johan Helmich Roman (1694-1758). The Drottningholm Music

Armas Järnefelt (1869-1958). Prelude and Berceuse

Khabibulla Setek (1958). Scherzo

Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927). Two sentimental Romance for violin and orchestra, op.28

Dag Wirén (1905-1986). Serenade for strings, op.11

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). Andante festivo

 

Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Management reserves the right to substitute performers and works performed