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SZSO presents Prokofiev and Mahler
    2022-06-01  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Conducted by maestro Zhang Guoyong, the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra (SZSO) will perform Prokofiev’s “Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63” and Mahler’s beloved “Symphony No. 5.” Ukraine violinist Lesya Kot, principal second violin of SZSO, will perform as soloist in the Prokofiev violin concerto.

Born in Kiev, Kot started to play the violin at 3 and was admitted into the Mykola Lysenko music school at 7. At only 16, she was enrolled at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater (HfMT) and studied violin with Professor Christoph Schickedanz. She graduated with top honors with a master’s degree in violin performance at 23. She won many awards at competitions including the Moscow International David Oistrakh Violin Competition and the Kocian Violin Competition. She joined the SZSO in 2019.

Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The Chinese audiences are most familiar with his “Romeo and Juliet” and fairytale-themed “Peter and the Wolf.” Written in 1935 before the composer was to return to his homeland, the concerto is filled with a bright spirit, national flavor and romantic lyricism that was later echoed in “Romeo and Juliet.” This piece was a favorite of violinist Heifetz, who compared it to the masterpieces of Beethoven, Sibelius and Elgar.

Completed in 1902, Mahler’s “Symphony No. 5” is the most performed piece by the composer. Reflecting a difficult time when Mahler struggled through serious health problems and artistic quarrels with his orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the work is highly dramatic with ultimately optimistic colors influenced by the composer’s marriage in 1902 to the artistically gifted Alma Schindler. Love and death become the two themes of this grand, highly emotional and complicated symphony that lasts more than an hour. Its gentle fourth movement, often performed separately from the rest of the symphony, is Mahler’s most familiar music, used often to accompany romantic scenes in films and on television. Its opening fanfare is routinely required as audition material for orchestral trumpeters.

Zhang studied conducting at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the direction of Professor Huang Xiaotong. In 1993 he was sponsored by the Chinese Government to undertake four years’ study at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where he studied under Gennady Rozhdestvensky. He is the dean of the Conducting Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, principal conductor of the Shanghai Opera House and the music director of the Qingdao Symphony Orchestra. His repertory styles encompasses symphony, opera, ballet and symphonic chorus, and he is an expert on Russian works.

Time: 8 p.m., June 6

Tickets: 50-880 yuan

Booking: WeChat account “szyyt_piao”

Venue: Shenzhen Concert Hall, Futian District (福田区深圳音乐厅)

Metro: Line 3 or 4 to Children’s Palace Station (少年宫站), Exit D(Li Dan)

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