TSO to perform Beethoven and Mozart concert in Hobart and Launceston this week

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra to perform Beethoven and Mozart concert in Hobart and Launceston this week.

The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra nears the end of its 2017 season with a stellar concert of Beethoven and Mozart, to be performed in Launceston at the Princess Theatre, November 2 and at Hobart’s Federation Concert Hall, November 4. The concert will be conducted by Giordano Bellincampi and feature acclaimed concert pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk. ‘Beethoven’s Seventh’ will be the TSO’s final performance in Launceston in 2017, with three concerts remaining in Hobart.

The most energetic of Beethoven’s nine symphonies, the Seventh was described by Wagner as “the apotheosis of the dance”. From its assertive and compelling opening to the revelries of the final movement, the Seventh bubbles with vitality and passion. Even the “slow movement” is not particularly slow. Immensely popular in Beethoven’s day, it was used to tremendous effect more recently in the wartime speech scene in the award-winning film The King’s Speech.

Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 is also renowned for its slow movement, which became hugely popular as the soundtrack to the 1960s Swedish film Elvira Madigan. The concert opens with Baroque Song, a work by contemporary French organist and composer, Thierry Escaich. Maestro Giordano Bellincampi, no stranger to the TSO and Tasmanian audiences, conducts this exhilarating concert.

The TSO’s 2017 season has included no less than five Beethoven themed concerts. The orchestra’s 2018 subscription season is now on sale.

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Alexander Gavrylyuk

Born in 1984, Alexander Gavrylyuk began his piano studies at the age of seven and gave his first concerto performance when he was nine years old. He went on to win First prize and Gold Medal at the 1999 Horowitz International Piano Competition, First Prize at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan in 2000 where the Japanese press lauded him as the “most talented 16-year old pianist of the second half of the 20th Century”. In 2005, he took both the coveted Gold Medal as well as the award for Best Performance of a Classical Concerto at the internationally renowned Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition.

At the age of 13, Alexander moved to Sydney where he lived until 2006. He has performed with all the main Australian orchestras including Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies, returning each year for concerts and recitals. In 2009 he made an acclaimed recording of the complete Prokofiev Concerti with Vladimir Ashkenazy and the Sydney Symphony which was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House.

He is now increasingly in demand by orchestras and conductors for his noble and compelling interpretations.

‘Beethoven’s Seventh’
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Giordano Bellincampi conductor
Alexander Gavrylyuk piano

Program
Escaich: Baroque Song
Mozart: Piano Concerto No 21, K467
Beethoven: Symphony No 7

Thursday 2 October, 7.30pm
Princess Theatre, Launceston

Saturday 4 October, 7.30pm
Federation Concert Hall, Hobart

Tickets from $32 at www.tso.com.au or 1800 001 190
Samuel Cairnduff Director Marketing and Communications TSO