Sunday, March 24, 2013

Update March 2013

Dear Friends,

Following a fantastic tour in Australia which included performances in Sydney and Melbourne as well as two charity concerts, Alexander is very much looking forward to joining the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra with Maestro Jurowski this week. They will be performing Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto.

Please find below upcoming concerts for your calendar:

April 13: Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory with Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Liss conducting (Rachmaninov 3). This concert is in memory of one of Alexnader's mentors Nikolay Petrov who passed away recently.

April 17: Recital at the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory

April 18: Recital at the Kremlin (dedicated to Nikolay Petrov)

May 13 until June 4: A concert tour with Neeme Jarvi and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. They will perform the complete Rachmaninov Piano Concerti and Paganini Rhapsody. All together there will be 8 concerts (15, 16 , 17 May and 27, 29, 30, 31 May and June 3).

May 23 and 24: two concerts with Rotterdam Philharmonic playing Stravinsky Capriccio for Stravinsky festival. Conductor Pietari Inkinen.

June 16: Recital at the Master Piano Series in Concertgebouw.

July 1 and 2: Spread over two days, the complete Rachmaninov Concerti and the Rachmaninov Rhapsody in Taipei with Taipei Symphony Orchestra.

July 17: Recital at the Chautauqua Institution in NY (this will be Alexander's 8th consecutive visit there)

July 20: Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto with Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra

November 10: Brussels National Orchestra playing Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto and the Rachmaninov Rhapsody with Andrey Boreyko conducting.

November 16: Recital in Gdansk, Poland

November 22: Christchurch Symphony Orchestra in NZ playing Gershwin Blue Rhapsody with Tom Woods conducting

November 28: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra playing Rachmaninov Rhapsody with Carlo Rizzi in Pool

December 26: Rachmaninov Rhapsody in Moscow Tchaikovsky Hall with Kazan Orchestra



2014


January 18 and 19: South Netherlands Orchestra and Mark Wigglesworth, Rachmaninov 2

January 30: Lutoslawski Quartet in Poland

February 6 and 7: Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House, playing Bach f minor and Mozart Concerto

February 10 - 16: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninov Rhapsody

February 20: Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, Sascha Goetzel and Prokofiev 3rd piano concerto

February 27: Auckland Philharmonia, repertoire is being discussed. Eckehard Stier conducting.

March 3 - 9: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Rachmaninov 3rd piano concerto

March 10th: Recital at City Recital Hall, Sydney

March 26 to April 7: Rachmaninov project in Vancouver with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Bramwell Tovey. Playing all of the Rachmaninov Concerti + Rhapsody

April 10 and 12: Prokofiev Concerto no.4 for left hand with Milano Orchestra dei Pomeriffi Musicali and Antonello Manacorda conducting

May 23- 28: Oldenburgischen Staatsorchesters, three concerts playing Tchaikovsky 1 or one of the Rachmaninov Concerti. Eckehard Stier conducting

June 6: Shanghai Concert hall recital

October 7: Recital in Nijmegen


Best wishes,

Zorica