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KZN Philharmonic's 2023 Winter Season. The Playhouse Opera: Thursdays from 08 to 19 June
KZN Philharmonic's 2023 Winter Season. The Playhouse Opera: Thursdays from 08 to 19 June
The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra's 2023 World Winter Symphony Season, featuring a superb line-up of international and local talent, runs in The Playhouse Opera every Thursday from 08 to 19 June, each World Symphony Series concert starting at 19h00.
"We are delighted to link up once again with our loyal community of music lovers for our four-concert Winter Symphony Season," says Bongani Tembe, KZN Philharmonic's Chief Executive and Artistic Director. "As ever, we have honored the longstanding traditions of our World Symphony Series, by assembling a guest roster of A-list artists, who join our dedicated orchestral musicians to bring our audience hours of musical enrichment. The season goes hand-in-glove with our commitment to community engagement and skills transfer among new-generation artists and learners."
Anna Su'kowska-Migo', the brilliant young Polish conductor who won last year's prestigious La Maestra competition in Paris, opens the season with with Gustav Mahler's Blumine, which first appeared as the second movement of his first symphony. After three performances the composer removed it. Originally written as part of incidental music for a play by von Scheffel, it evokes lovers exchanging their tender feelings in the stillness of night.
The renowned Japanese maestro Yasuo Shinozaki makes a welcome return to the podium for the second concert on 15 June. He opens his programme with one of the world's concert warhorses, Vltava from Smetana's Má vlast (My Fatherland).
Daniel Boico takes the podium for the third concert on 22 June. Boico opens with Liszt's First Mephisto Waltz known for its passion, sensuality, and powerful emotional impact. Liszt's ferociously taxing Piano Concerto No I is the evening centrepiece, showcasing the virtuosic prowess of North Korea's keyboard wizard, Yeon-Min. The evening closes in an uplifting mood with Dvo'ák joyous Symphony No. 8, cheery and lyrical ethos draws its inspiration from the Bohemian folk music the composer loved.
Conductor Lykele Temmingh brings the curtain down on the KZN Philharmonic's Winter Season with a programme that is bookended by two concert favourites, while offering listeners a rare encounter a major composition by his brother, the renowned South African composer, Roelof Temmingh. Beethoven's rugged Egmont Overture needs no introduction as the evening's curtain raiser.
For more information call 031-369 9438, email bookings@kznphil.org.za or visit https://www.kznphil.org.za.

