Summer Symphonies season at the City Hall

The City Hall’s Summer Symphonies season, which features five concerts, two gala events, and performances by two conductors, two pianists, and two violinists, opens at Artscape in November. 

The season opens on Thursday, November 6, with Arjan Tien conducting, featuring pianist Jan Hugo in Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto no. 5, The Egyptian and Rachmaninov’s Symphony no. 2 in e minor.

Tien returns on Thursday, November 13, with violinist Jack Liebeck performing Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, alongside Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony.

Bernhard Gueller, the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) principal conductor since 2016, will lead a special gala concert on Saturday, November 22, marking his debut as Conductor Laureate for Life. He will conduct Brahms’ Symphony no. 1 with Austrian pianist Philipp Scheucher in Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto the following Wednesday, November 26.

The season concludes on Thursday, December 4, with “Louis’ Legacy”, a tribute to CPO founder Louis Heyneman, highlighting an all-Tchaikovsky programme, featuring American violinist Miclen LaiPang and performances by Cape Philharmonic Youth Orchestra musicians.

Tickets cost from R175 to R400 and are available from Webtickets and Artscape Dial-A-Seat 021 421 7695 from October 1.

For more information, visit www.cpo.org.za

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