RNS @ Tongyeong International Music Festival
Royal Northern Sinfonia are delighted to be undertaking their first international tour since 2019 and travelling to South Korea for Tongyeong International Music Festival. The orchestra will perform four concerts during the festival, three as part of the Tongyeong Festival Orchestra with conductor David Robertson and artists in residence Leonidas Kavakos (violin) and Sunwook Kim (piano). Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa will lead a solo concert, featuring music by Thomas Ades, Haydn and Mendelssohn.
Tongyeong International Music Festival is an annual music festival held in Tongyeong, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Founded in 2002, the festival is dedicated to the Korean composer Isang Yun (1917 – 1995). The festival’s current artistic director is award-winning composer Unsuk Chin.
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Friday 31 March
David Robertson conductor
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (including RNS)
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Maurice Ravel (arr. Boulez) Frontispiece
Luciano Berio Sinfonia for 8 Solo voices and orchestra (Korean premiere)
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto
Saturday 1 April
David Robertson conductor
Sunwook Kim piano
Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (including RNS)
Isang Yun Symphonische Szene für Orchester (Asian premiere)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2
Rachmaninov Symphony No.1
Tuesday 4 April
Dinis Sousa conductor
Sergey Malov violoncello da spalla
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Thomas Adès Three Mouvements from Couperin (Korean premiere)
Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No.1 in C major (with Violoncello da spalla)
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’
Sunday 9 April
David Robertson conductor
Leonidas Kavakos violin
Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (including RNS)
Unsuk Chin Violin Concerto No.2 “Scherben der Stille” (Asian premiere)
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.1