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KZN Philharmonic's 2024 Winter Season

KZN Philharmonic's 2024 Winter Season

Date: 2024-06-01

The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra's 2024 Winter Season, featuring a spectacular roster of classical music luminaries takes place in The Playhouse Opera every Thursday from 6 to 27 June, each World Symphony Series concert starting at 19h00.

'We are delighted to invite our special community of music lovers to join us our four-concert Winter Symphony Season of 2024 - and pick up on the grand traditions of our long-running World Symphony Series, in which celebrated guest stars join our dedicated orchestral musicians in creating many hours of musical enchantment,' ' says Bongani Tembe, KZN Philharmonic's Chief Executive and Artistic Director. 'The season dovetails with our continued commitment to community engagement and skills transfer among new-generation artists and learners.'

Cape Town conductor Brandon Phillips returns to the KZNPO podium, to open the season on 6 June. His 'curtain-raiser', Haydn's high-energy Symphony No. 59, dubbed the 'Fire Symphony', is sure to delight concert goers.

Japanese maestro Yasuo Shinozaki, a longstanding favourite with KZN Philharmonic audiences, takes the podium for the second concert of the season on 13 June. SA based Israeli American conductor Daniel Boico appears for the third concert of the season, on 20 June with a programme that opens with Sir Edward Elgar's much-loved Serenade for Strings. The celebrated American oboist James Austin Smith appears as soloist in Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto, and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, regarded by many critics as among the greatest symphonies in classical music, brings the evening to a close.

The Russian born maestro Daniel Raiskin will be on the podium for the closing concert of the season on 27 June, with an eclectic programme that opens with the rarely heard Concert Overture by the Swedish composer Elfrieda Andre (1841 - 1929). South African pianist Ben Schoeman appears a soloist in Beethoven's richly nuanced Piano Concerto No 4.

Best known for his Peer Gynt and Holberg Suites, and his iconic A minor piano concerto, Edvard Grieg's rarely performed Symphony in C minor, which closes the programme, is a work considerable mystique and vast sonic contrasts. It may well prove to be the revelation of the season.

There are buses from Caister Lodge (R60 ret / dep 18.20); Westville Senior (R80 ret / dep 18.10; St Agnes Kloof (R100 ret / dep 17.50); Grace Church Umhlanga (R100 / dep 18.10). Book through Quicket / subscribers book through KZNPO offices.

Public are welcome to sit in on the final rehearsal every Thursday morning at 10h00 in the Playhouse Opera. Tickets R50 adults throughout. Unreserved seating.

KZN Philharmonic Season tickets, and bookings for individual concerts, are available at Quicket outlets. For more information call 031-369 9438, email bookings@kznphil.org.za or visit https://www.kznphil.org.za.