Programme Joaquín Turina - Part 1 from the cycle for voice and orchestra "Songs of Seville", Op. 37 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 ("Scottish")
The Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra invites you to join us on a musical journey accompanied by beautiful melodies. In the concert programme, soprano Raminta Vaicekauskaitė will join the orchestra to perform an excerpt from the spectacularly beautiful cycle for voice and orchestra "Songs of Seville" by the Spanish classical composer J. Turina. The concert will also feature Symphony No.3 by German composer F. Bartholdy, also known as the "Scottish Symphony".
The soloist of the evening will be the laureate of two Golden Crosses of the Stage, two Fortuny awards, lecturer at the Academy of Music of the Vytautas Magnus University, laureate of many international singing competitions, and soloist of the Kaunas State Musical Theatre, Raminta Vaicekauskaitė.
The orchestra and the soloist will be conducted by the famous German conductor Markus Huber, who is already well known to the Lithuanian public.
Markus Huber, as a soloist of the Tölzer Knabenchor Boys Choir, has worked from an early age with such musical personalities as Herbert von Karajan, James Levine, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Nicolaus Harnoncourt and Dennis Russell Davies. He studied music at the Universities of Munich and Vienna, and his teachers have included Leopold Hager (conducting) and Karl-Hermann Mrongovius (piano).
Mr. Huber began his conducting career in 1996 as manager and conductor of the Landestheater Detmold. A year later he became the second choirmaster of the Opernhaus Chemnitz. In 1999 he was appointed principal conductor of the Collegium Instrumentale Chemnitz. From 2002 to 2007 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra and in 2003 Principal Conductor of the Westsächsisches Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig. From 2008 to 2019 Markus was Music Director of Opera Pforzheim. Since 2019, Mr. Huber has been Artistic Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Thuringen.
A musical journey: from Scotland to Seville Sessions
