Mapo Cultural Foundation New Year Concert on 29th... Violinist Choi Songha Collaboration

KBS Symphony Orchestra and Mapo Art Center Art Hall Mac Present
Mozart Violin Concerto and Dvo??k Symphony

On the 13th, Mapo Cultural Foundation announced that it will hold the '2024 New Year Concert' with the KBS Symphony Orchestra at Mapo Art Center Art Hall Mac on the 29th.

In the first part, they will perform Johann Strauss II's "Voices of Spring" Waltz and Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4, and in the second part, Dvo??k's Symphony No. 8 will be played.

Violinist Choi Song-ha [Photo by Mapo Cultural Foundation]

Violinist Choi Songha, who won 2nd place in the violin category at the 2023 Montreal International Music Competition, as well as the highest Sonata Award in the semifinals, the Best Performance Award for Canadian works, and the Audience Award, will perform Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4. Also known as the "Salzburg Concerto," this piece was composed by Mozart at the age of 19 for his own performance, characterized by dynamic and brilliant melodies.

Violinist Choi Songha is currently studying under Professor Kolja Blacher, concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Berlin University of the Arts Hans Eisler.

Dvo??k's Symphony No. 8 is the most nationally colored among the nine symphonies composed by Dvo??k, who represents the Czech Republic. It is deeply imbued with Bohemian sentiment and is also called "Dvo??k's Pastoral Symphony."

Conductor Ji Jungbae, who has collaborated with leading domestic symphony orchestras such as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra, will lead the performance. Conductor Ji Jungbae graduated from Seoul National University and Mannheim University of Music in Germany and has been actively working between Korea and Germany. In 2012, he became the first Asian to win the German Operetta Award for conductors and has conducted various European orchestras including the WDR Symphony Orchestra and Bochum Symphony Orchestra.

For more details about the 2024 New Year Concert, please visit the Mapo Cultural Foundation website.

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