 3rd Cape Town International Summer Music Festival Concert 17Thursday 11 December
Symphony concert: City Hall 20:00 Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes Rossini - “William Tell” Overture
Owain Arwel Huges Christopher Cowie Sharon Bezaly
In a career spanning 40 years, OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES has conducted and recorded many of the world's leading orchestras. As Principal Associate Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra he has made many recordings and performed regularly throughout the UK and Europe. In November 2007, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra. He recorded the world première of Schnittke's monumental choral work, Nagasaki, and the same composer’s Symphony No Zero with the CPO during the first Cape Town International Summer Music Festival. Described by The Times as “God’s Gift to the flute”, SHARON BEZALY was chosen as ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ by the prestigious Klassik Echo in Germany in 2002 and ‘Young Artist of the Year’ at the Cannes Classical Awards in 2003. Classics Today have hailed her as “a flutist virtually without peer in the world today“ and International Record Review wrote; “Her recordings and concert appearances are typically more than simply triumphs: they are defining artistic events“. Having started to play the flute at the age of 11, Sharon Bezaly gave her début concert as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta when she was 14. CHRISTOPHER COWIE is the principal oboe of both the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-fields chamber orchestra. As a soloist, Christopher has performed at all the major venues in London and around the UK. Solo recordings include The Mozart Concerto and Sinfonia Concertante under Sir Neville Marriner with The Orquestra de Cadaques in Spain and a second recording of The Sinfonia Concertante with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. When not performing, Christopher enjoys teaching and is professor of oboe at the Royal College of Music in London.
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