Post by anastasia on Oct 1, 2014 7:57:06 GMT 7
Rhapsody & Symphony ft Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra @ Dewan Filharmonik Petronas, KLCC, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur (3 & 4/10/14)
When: 8.30pm, Friday & Saturday, 3rd & 4th October, 2014
About Yu Kosuge
With her superlative technique, sensitivity of touch (her pianissimo has been likened to ‘the moment when the tip of an angel’s wing touches one’s cheek’) and profound understanding of the music she plays, Yu Kosuge has become one of the most noted young pianists in the world and is one of very few artists to establish a highly successful international career without winning a major competition. Her Carnegie Hall debut recital in November 2005 met with outstanding success with critics praising her ‘acutely poetic sensibility’ and ‘wit, drama, and effulgent lyricism,’ Culturecatch, U.S.A.
Highlights of recent seasons have included her debut recital at the Salzburg Festival, performances in La Roque d’Anthéron with Jacek Kaspszyk/Sinfonia Varsovia, directing Mozart from the keyboard with Orchestre d’Auvergne at the Folle journées in Tokyo and Nantes, the Japanese premiere of Tan Dun’s Piano Concerto ‘Fire’ with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer in Japan and a tour with the NDR Hannover Radio SO under Eiji Oue. She recently stood in for a pianist, indisposed at the last moment, to perform Mozart’s Concerto No. 9 KV 271 with the Orquesta Metropolitana de Lisboa under Augustin Dumay and chamber music with Antoine Tamestit.
Yu Kosuge works with many of the leading European orchestras including the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Berliner Sinfonie Orchester, Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, St. Petersburg Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Radio Symphony Orchestra Finland, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel with conductors of the stature of Seiji Ozawa, Rudolf Barschai, Alexander Dmitriev, Sir Roger Norrington, Gerd Albrecht, Lawrence Foster, Sakari Oramo, Christian Arming, Yutaka Sado, Osmo Vänskä and Dennis Russell Davies and Georg Fritzsch. She is invited to festivals in Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Passau, Braunschweig, Kissingen, at the Salzburger Festspiele, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Holland Music Festival, Piano Festival Lille, La Roque d’Anthéron piano festival and La Folle Journée in Nantes, France.
In addition to her busy concert schedule in Europe, Yu performs regularly in Japan and Asia, where her tours with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo, Seiji Ozawa/New Japan Philharmonic and Sir Roger Norrington/ Radio Symphonie Orchester Stuttgart inspire rave reviews and great public acclaim. Her popularity is now such that tickets for her recital in Kioi Hall sold out so quickly that a second recital was immediately arranged for the same week.
In the 2009/10 season she will appear with State Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kaspszyk, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Michael Hofstetter, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symohony Orchestra/Eliahu Inbal, and returns to perform with the NDR Hannover Orchestra/Eiji Oue and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra/Tatsuya Shimono. She will perform solo recitals throughout Japan and Europe, including her debut at the famed Suntory Hall in Tokyo, as well as chamber music with Jacques Zoon, Radek Baborak, and Daishin Kashimoto.
Her new CD, Mendelssohn's first piano concerto with Mito Chamber Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa and selections from Songs Without Words will be released by SONY in September. This will be her 10th CD, since her first disc featuring the Chopin Études (made when she was 16) which was accorded a five-star rating by the leading German music criticism magazine. Fono Forum. Since 2003, Yu Kosuge has recorded exclusively on the SONY label. The results of this collaboration are, to date, a recording Liszt’s 12 Études d´exécution transcendante (2003), Chopin’s Préludes and Nocturne (2005), Mozart’s Piano Concertos (2006), Live at Carnegie Hall (2007), and Fantasy (2007).
Born in Tokyo in 1983, Yu has been giving recitals and performing with orchestras since the age of nine. In 1993, she moved to Europe to pursue studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover and Salzburg and in recent years has received great support and inspiration from András Schiff.
Amongst numerous awards, she has received the 13th Nippon Steel Music Award 2002, the Washington Award 2004 in the USA, the New Generation Prize of the German Radio, and the 17th Idemitsu Music Award 2007.
www.yu-kosuge.com
www.youtube.com/yukosuge
twitter.com/yu_kosuge
www.facebook.com/yu.kosuge/timeline
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Eiji Oue: Conductor
Yu Kosuge: Piano
BERNSTEIN Candide Suite
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
This programme features the amazing young Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, after which we hear Shostakovich’ s best-known symphony, the Fifth, a powerful work that has been one of the foundation stones of the orchestral repertoire ever since its premiere in 1937. The concert opens with a suite drawn from Bernstein’ s snazzy score for his Broadway show Candide.
Ticketing Information:
Ticket Prices:
RM 130.00, RM 100.00, RM 70.00 & RM 50.00
Ticketing Hotline: +603 20517007 / +603 20517077
Online Booking: www.mpo.com.my / www.dfp.com.my
When: 8.30pm, Friday & Saturday, 3rd & 4th October, 2014
About Yu Kosuge
With her superlative technique, sensitivity of touch (her pianissimo has been likened to ‘the moment when the tip of an angel’s wing touches one’s cheek’) and profound understanding of the music she plays, Yu Kosuge has become one of the most noted young pianists in the world and is one of very few artists to establish a highly successful international career without winning a major competition. Her Carnegie Hall debut recital in November 2005 met with outstanding success with critics praising her ‘acutely poetic sensibility’ and ‘wit, drama, and effulgent lyricism,’ Culturecatch, U.S.A.
Highlights of recent seasons have included her debut recital at the Salzburg Festival, performances in La Roque d’Anthéron with Jacek Kaspszyk/Sinfonia Varsovia, directing Mozart from the keyboard with Orchestre d’Auvergne at the Folle journées in Tokyo and Nantes, the Japanese premiere of Tan Dun’s Piano Concerto ‘Fire’ with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the composer in Japan and a tour with the NDR Hannover Radio SO under Eiji Oue. She recently stood in for a pianist, indisposed at the last moment, to perform Mozart’s Concerto No. 9 KV 271 with the Orquesta Metropolitana de Lisboa under Augustin Dumay and chamber music with Antoine Tamestit.
Yu Kosuge works with many of the leading European orchestras including the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Berliner Sinfonie Orchester, Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Frankfurt, St. Petersburg Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Radio Symphony Orchestra Finland, Philharmonisches Orchester Kiel with conductors of the stature of Seiji Ozawa, Rudolf Barschai, Alexander Dmitriev, Sir Roger Norrington, Gerd Albrecht, Lawrence Foster, Sakari Oramo, Christian Arming, Yutaka Sado, Osmo Vänskä and Dennis Russell Davies and Georg Fritzsch. She is invited to festivals in Rheingau, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Passau, Braunschweig, Kissingen, at the Salzburger Festspiele, Mozartwoche Salzburg, Holland Music Festival, Piano Festival Lille, La Roque d’Anthéron piano festival and La Folle Journée in Nantes, France.
In addition to her busy concert schedule in Europe, Yu performs regularly in Japan and Asia, where her tours with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo, Seiji Ozawa/New Japan Philharmonic and Sir Roger Norrington/ Radio Symphonie Orchester Stuttgart inspire rave reviews and great public acclaim. Her popularity is now such that tickets for her recital in Kioi Hall sold out so quickly that a second recital was immediately arranged for the same week.
In the 2009/10 season she will appear with State Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Sanderling, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kaspszyk, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester/Michael Hofstetter, and Tokyo Metropolitan Symohony Orchestra/Eliahu Inbal, and returns to perform with the NDR Hannover Orchestra/Eiji Oue and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra/Tatsuya Shimono. She will perform solo recitals throughout Japan and Europe, including her debut at the famed Suntory Hall in Tokyo, as well as chamber music with Jacques Zoon, Radek Baborak, and Daishin Kashimoto.
Her new CD, Mendelssohn's first piano concerto with Mito Chamber Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa and selections from Songs Without Words will be released by SONY in September. This will be her 10th CD, since her first disc featuring the Chopin Études (made when she was 16) which was accorded a five-star rating by the leading German music criticism magazine. Fono Forum. Since 2003, Yu Kosuge has recorded exclusively on the SONY label. The results of this collaboration are, to date, a recording Liszt’s 12 Études d´exécution transcendante (2003), Chopin’s Préludes and Nocturne (2005), Mozart’s Piano Concertos (2006), Live at Carnegie Hall (2007), and Fantasy (2007).
Born in Tokyo in 1983, Yu has been giving recitals and performing with orchestras since the age of nine. In 1993, she moved to Europe to pursue studies with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling in Hannover and Salzburg and in recent years has received great support and inspiration from András Schiff.
Amongst numerous awards, she has received the 13th Nippon Steel Music Award 2002, the Washington Award 2004 in the USA, the New Generation Prize of the German Radio, and the 17th Idemitsu Music Award 2007.
www.yu-kosuge.com
www.youtube.com/yukosuge
twitter.com/yu_kosuge
www.facebook.com/yu.kosuge/timeline
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
Eiji Oue: Conductor
Yu Kosuge: Piano
BERNSTEIN Candide Suite
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
This programme features the amazing young Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, after which we hear Shostakovich’ s best-known symphony, the Fifth, a powerful work that has been one of the foundation stones of the orchestral repertoire ever since its premiere in 1937. The concert opens with a suite drawn from Bernstein’ s snazzy score for his Broadway show Candide.
Ticketing Information:
Ticket Prices:
RM 130.00, RM 100.00, RM 70.00 & RM 50.00
Ticketing Hotline: +603 20517007 / +603 20517077
Online Booking: www.mpo.com.my / www.dfp.com.my