Artscape/CPO Youth Music Festival

Saturday 16 August

Artscape Theatre, 19:30
Artscape/CPO Youth Music Festival

Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

Artscape and the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra host the 37^th annual classical Youth Music Festival during which young singers and solo instrumentalists perform with theCPO conducted by Theodore Kuchar.

             Theodore Kuchar                   

Theodore Kuchar,one of the most prolifically recorded conductors of the past decade, appears on over 100 compact discs for the Naxos, Brilliant Classics, Ondine and Marco Polo labels. For the past fifteen years, he has served as Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of two of Europe's pre-eminent Orchestras, the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra (formerly the Czech Radio Orchestra) and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Since 1991, he has served as Artistic Director of The Australian Festival of Chamber Music and presently also serves as Music Director and Conductor of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Reno Chamber Orchestra in the United States. In addition, he serves as Director of Orchestral Studies at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival, the educational institution established by the late George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra, while also serving as the Artistic Director of the Nevada Chamber Music Festival. During the past several seasons, guest conducting engagements have taken him to major musical centers including Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Prague, Seoul and Sydney. Soloists with whom Kuchar has collaborated include among others James Galway, Jessye Norman, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah Chang, Mstislav Rostropovich and Frederica von Stade. 

Highlights of 2008 have included appearances with the Munich Philharmonich and BBC Symphony Orchestra, on a single-day's notice, conducting Josef Suk's epic Asrael Symphony. With the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, he has conducted tours of Australia, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Switzerland during the 2006-07 season. In January-February, 2009, they will undertake a four week tour of the USA. With the NSO of Ukraine, he has undertaken 11 international tours including to Asia, Australia, Central Europe and the United Kingdom.

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Ticket prices: R60