Seoul Philharmonic New Year's Concert on the 5th of Next Month... Conducted by Seong Si-yeon, Featuring Soloist Yang In-mo

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra will hold a New Year's concert featuring conductor Sung Si-yeon and violinist Yang In-mo as soloist.

Conductor Seong Si-yeon ⓒ Yongbin Park [Photo by Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra]

On the 18th, the Seoul Philharmonic announced that the "2024 Seoul Philharmonic New Year's Concert" will take place on January 5th next year at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts Grand Theater.

The performance will open with Tchaikovsky's brilliant and grand "Italian Capriccio." The "Italian Capriccio" is a work that Tchaikovsky composed based on impressions from his trip to Italy, woven together with fanfares, dances, and folk songs, featuring orchestration that emphasizes brass and percussion and a distinctive rhythmic feel.

Following this, Sarasate's "Zigeunerweisen" will be performed, a piece popular with the public for its dazzling violin techniques and intense yet melancholic gypsy-style melodies. Ravel's "Tzigane" was inspired by the gypsy music performances of Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Ar?nyi and is notable for its musical variations according to violin techniques.

Violinist Yang In-mo [Photo by Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra]

The concert will conclude with Symphony No. 8 by Dvo??k, a composer representing the Czech Republic. Among his nine symphonies, this piece is the most distinctly nationalistic, deeply infused with Bohemian sentiment throughout, and is also known as "Dvo??k's Pastoral Symphony."

Maestra Sung Si-yeon, who gained attention as the first female assistant conductor appointed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2007, will take the podium. Sung Si-yeon currently serves as the principal guest conductor of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand.

Soloist Yang In-mo will perform "Zigeunerweisen" and "Tzigane." Yang In-mo was the first Korean to win the Premio Paganini Competition in 2015 and also secured first place at the 2022 Sibelius Violin Competition, establishing his name in the classical music world.

Tickets are available for purchase through the Seoul Philharmonic, Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, and Interpark.

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