 Autumn Symphony SeasonThursday 22 April
City Hall, 20:00
Conductor: Martin Panteleev
Soloist: Heleen du Plessis (cello)
Rimsky Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Mussorgsky: “Pictures at an Exhibition”
 Bulgarian violinist, conductor and composer MARTIN PANTELEEV has scooped several prizes including the 1995 Second Prize for Composition and the Special prize for his performance of a work by Schubert at the International competition Earth and People in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1999 he became Associate Conductor of the Philharmonia of the Nations founded by Leonard Bernstein and Justus Frantz. With this orchestra he gave many concerts in the United States of America, China, Russia and Germany. As composer he was awarded the Davidoff Prix for his Symphony No.1.  Well-known soloist, chamber musician and teacher HELEEN DU PLESSIS furthered her studies in Performing Arts at the prestigious Conservatory of Music: The Peabody Institute of the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she studied with renowned Israeli cellist, Professor Amit Peled and obtained the Graduate Performance Degree in May 2007 with a full scholarship. Previous qualifications include the post-graduate Performer's Diploma under Daniel Grosgurin at the Conservatoire de Genève in Switzerland. She has been appointed Executant lecturer of cello at the University of Otago in New Zealand from January 2010.BOOKING FOR THE AUTUMN SYMPHONY SEASON: Book at Computicket (Telephonic credit card bookings: 011 340 8000 or 083 915 8000)
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