The Orchestra Cameristi della Scala from Milan was placed under the direction of the talented young conductor Ben Glassberg, 24, winner of the 2017 Besançon International Young Conductors’ Competition.
A rising star of the international violin world, Yesong Sophie Lee, 15, winner of the Menuhin Competition 2016, filled the audience with enthusiasm through her youth and virtuosity.
After the traditionel mulled wine of the intermission, the Cameristi and the soloist Davide Formisano on flute took the audience on a musical journey accross Europe.
On the programme:
Rossini – Overture from Barbiere di Siviglia
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto (soloist: Yesong Sophie Lee)
Intermission with mulled wine
Mozart – Overture Le Nozze di Figaro
Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy (soloist: Davide Formisano, flute)
Puccini – Interlude from Madame Butterfly
Prokofiev – Troika
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