Conductor Laureate of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra comes to the Kennedy Center!
World-famous conductor and longtime Icelandic citizen Vladimir Ashkenazy together with Midori's prodigy younger brother, violinist Ryu Goto, join the National Symphony Orchestra to celebrate its 75th Anniversary in a series of three spectacular concerts!
Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11 and 12, at 8 p.m.
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Tickets $20-$79
For tickets go to the website of the Kennedy Center.
Ashkenazy leads two works by Sibelius - the Violin Concerto and excerpts from The Tempest - along with music by Ravel and Roussel.
SIBELIUS: Excerpts from The Tempest
SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin
ROUSSEL: Suite No. 2 from Bacchus et Ariane, Op. 43
*AfterWords November 10: Free post-concert discussion
with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ryu Goto, and moderator C. Ulrich Bader.
More on Vladimir Ashkenazy: It is almost four decades since Vladimir Ashkenazy first came to prominence on the world stage in the 1955 Chopin Competition in Warsaw. In the years which have followed, he has built an extraordinary career not only as one of the most renowned and revered pianists of our times, but as an artist whose creative life encompasses a vast range of activities and continues to offer inspiration to music-loves across the world. Conducting has formed a large part of his activities for the past 20 years, and following on from his period as Chief Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic from 1998-2003, he took up the position of music director of NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo in September 2004. Alongside this position, Ashkenazy continues to have a warm and rewarding relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra as their Conductor Laureate. He also holds the positions of Music Director of the European Union Youth Orchestra and Conductor Laureate of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. He maintains strong links with a number of other major orchestras with whom he has built special relationships over the years, including the Cleveland Orchestra (of whom he is a former Principal Guest Conductor), San Francisco Symphony, and Deutches Symphonie Orchester Berlin (Chief Conductor and Music Director 1988-1996).
