The English Chamber Orchestra Music Cruise
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TRAVELFOR THE ARTS ECO The English Chamber Orchestra Music Cruise Rome – Siracuse – Valletta – Kalamata – Hydra – Athens 3 – 10 September 2011 Programme Welcome Overview Dear friends, Sat 3 Sep Rome, Italy Once more, a very warm welcome Embarkation from 2pm: to our Music Cruise on board Wind Port of Civitavecchia, Civitavecchia, Italy Spirit! Dare I say it, with the incredible line-up of world famous artists which All aboard by 4pm. Departure 5pm we have on board, I think that we will really have a Opening concert on board musical feast par excellence. It goes without saying that the other type of feast, organised by our friends and Sun 4 Sep At Sea colleagues from Travel for the Arts, will be of equal merit. Rehearsals and talks about music Afternoon and evening concerts on board We have made so many enduring friendships through our Music Cruises that Wind Spirit really does feel like a Mon 5 Sep Siracuse (Sicily), Italy “home from home”. I am sure that new passengers will Sightseeing and concert ashore soon experience the sense of relaxed companionship and Evening concert on board shared love of music which pervades our music cruises. Travel for the Arts continues to do us proud with excellent itineraries and shore sites, and we are sure that you will Tue 6 Sep Valletta, Malta enjoy our varied diet of music spanning three centuries. Sightseeing and concert ashore Evening concert on board I will of course be with you throughout the week, and as always I am delighted to chat to anyone who has any Wed 7 Sep At Sea queries about music or life in general! Rehearsals and talks about music Afternoon and evening concerts on board Quintin Ballardie, OBE FRAM Thu 8 Sep Kalamata, Greece Founder and Director, English Chamber Orchestra Concert ashore Evening concert on board English Chamber Orchestra Keith Saunders All of us at Travel for the Arts are Fri 9 Sep Hydra, Greece delighted to see our 3rd ECO Music Concert ashore Cruise come to fruition, carrying Evening concert on board forward this fine marriage of world English Chamber Orchestra class music and relaxed luxury cruising. Sat 10 Sep Piraeus (for Athens), Greece Each year we enjoy getting to know Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales more of the many regular “aficionados” of the venture and Arrival and disembarkation from 8am: Leader: Stephanie Gonley as a variety of UK festival concerts the ECO continued its summer talking to enthusiastic newcomers. Music lovers travel to this Cruise Passenger Terminal, Akti Xaveriou, Conductor Emeritus: Sir Colin Davis residency at Grange Park Opera this year, giving 23 performances unique event from every part of the world, bound together Piraeus, Greece Principal Conductor: Paul Watkins of Rusalka, Rigoletto and Tristan and Isolde. Plans for 2011/12 by the delight of seeing and hearing so much wonderful Principal Guest Conductor: Roy Goodman include the Orchestra’s first visits to Egypt and Qatar (directed by music-making in intimate surroundings. Stephanie Gonley); tours to Bulgaria, Turkey, France and Azerbaijan The English Chamber Orchestra is the most recorded chamber (with soloists including Plamena Mangova, Sergej Krylov and Sergei Quin and Pauline have used their enormous wisdom Rome orchestra in the world, its discography containing 860 recordings of Nakariakov); Spain (with Paul Watkins and Elisabeth Leonskaja), Italy and experience to great effect yet again to assemble a ITALY over 1,500 works by more than 400 composers. and South America. Future tours are planned with Anne-Sophie Mutter, stellar roster of soloists with very cleverly structured and Yuri Bashmet and Anna Netrebko. contrasting repertoire chosen for each recital and concert. The ECO has also performed in more countries than any other orchestra, and played with many of the world’s greatest musicians. The ECO has been chosen to record many successful film soundtracks Regular ECO cruise-goers will not need to be reminded The American radio network CPRN has selected ECO as one of and has taken part in a variety of film and television projects. Recent of the immense ongoing contribution of Marianne and the world’s greatest ‘living’ orchestras. The illustrious history of the CD recordings have included Bach’s Violin Concertos with Anne Andre, hosts of the event for many years and who, in orchestra features many major musical figures. Benjamin Britten was Akiko-Meyers, and the ECO also features on Milos Karadaglic’s addition to their effortless and stylish hosting during the orchestra’s first Patron and a significant musical influence. The newly-released debut CD. the cruise itself, personally research and plan all the GREECE ECO’s long relationship with Daniel Barenboim led to an acclaimed excursions and shore concerts. complete cycle of Mozart piano concertos as live performances and The ECO is proud of its outreach programme, Close Encounters, recordings, followed later by two further recordings of the complete which takes music into communities and schools around the UK and We hope you will all have a thrilling and memorable cycle, with Murray Perahia and Mitsuko Uchida. overseas. Further details of this and all ECO activities can be found at Athens week. Welcome aboard! Siracuse www.englishchamberorchestra.co.uk Recent highlights have included two highly-acclaimed tours to the Far East (with Hilary Hahn, Stephanie Gonley and Dong-Suk Kang) You can also now become a fan of ECO on Facebook and Twitter Richard Savage Kalamata Hydra and several European tours, including Finland with Ralf Gothoni, (@ECOrchestra) in order to keep up to date with the Orchestra’s Chief Executive, Travel for the Arts Austria with Howard Shelley and France with Vadim Repin, As well movements on tour in the UK and overseas. Valletta Guest Artists Sergej Krylov Violin Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, His friendship and musical partnership with Mstislav Rostropovich marked Pinchas Zukerman Violin Sergej Krylov started studying the violin a milestone in Krylov’s artistic life, and he has also appeared with at the age of five and made his debut such eminent conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Yuri Pinchas Zukerman has remained a A devoted and innovative pedagogue, Mr. Zukerman chairs the with orchestra at ten, performing in Temirkanov, Mikhail Pletnev, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Zoltan Kocsis phenomenon in the world of music for Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program at the Manhattan School Russia, China, Finland and Germany. and Yuri Bashmet. Krylov’s chamber music partners have included Maxim four decades, and is equally respected as of Music, where he has pioneered the use of distance-learning After studying with Salvatore Accardo he Vengerov, Misha Maisky, Yefim Bronfman, Itamar Golan, Aleksandar violinist, violist, conductor, pedagogue, technology in the arts. was awarded First Prize at both the “A. Madzar, Stefania Mormone, Mikhail Rudy, Nobuko Imai, Lilya and chamber musician. During the Stradivari” Competition in Cremona and Zilberstein, the Belcea Quartet and Elina Garanca. 2010/11 season he performed in over Born in Tel Aviv, Pinchas Zukerman came to America in 1962, the prestigious “Fritz Kreisler” in Vienna. 100 venues worldwide. where he studied at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian. He has Since then he has developed a highly In 2009 Krylov was appointed Music Director of the Lithuanian Chamber been awarded a Medal of Arts, the Isaac Stern Award for Artistic successful career, performing at many of the world’s greatest concert halls. Orchestra. His discography, in addition to the recent publication of the In his second season as Principal Guest Excellence, was appointed as the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Sergej Krylov has appeared with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, English Paganini 24 Caprices, includes recordings for EMI, Melodya and Agorà. Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Initiative’s first instrumentalist mentor in the music discipline. Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Camerata Academica Orchestra in London, he leads the ensemble on an extensive tour Salzburg, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Czech Sergej Krylov plays the Stradivari “Scotland University” (1734) from of China, as well as in Italy, England, Israel and Switzerland. Pinchas Zukerman has a long history of collaborating with the English Philharmonie, Orchestra “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, Filarmonica Toscanini, the Sau-Wing Lam Collection, Courtesy of “Fondazione A. Stradivari” Orchestral appearances include the New York and Israel Chamber Orchestra dating back to the 1960s, and including his Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg and Copenhagen Philharmonic. in Cremona. Philharmonic Orchestras, Gulbenkian Orchestra Lisbon, Moscow Carnegie Hall debut and his 50th birthday tour of Europe and the Virtuosi, Duisburg Philharmonic and the Boston, Seattle, Pacific and USA. Recent performances with the ECO include acclaimed concerts Vancouver Symphony Orchestras. in Germany and Azerbaijan. Plamena Mangova Piano Plamena Mangova was a winner of the Plamena Mangova has performed with major orchestras including UBS Amanda Forsyth Cello Queen Elisabeth Competition 2007 before Verbier Festival Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, embarking upon an impressive international English Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Luxemburg Philharmonic, Acclaimed as both soloist and chamber founding member of the Zukerman Chamber Players with whom she career, performing in some of the world’s National Orchestra of Belgium, St-Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, musician, Juno Award-winning cellist has performed in North America, South America, Europe, Russia, The greatest halls in the Far East, the Soviet European Union Chamber Orchestra, MDR-Orchester Leipzig, Amanda Forsyth has earned praise from Balkans and New Zealand. Republic and Europe. She was granted the the Spanish RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Holland Radio Chamber audiences and critics alike. prestigious French critics’ award Diapason Philharmonic. A keen chamber music player, she has performed with Amanda Forsyth’s career has included collaborations with many eminent d’Or of the Year 2007 for her first solo many international soloists including Maria João Pirеs, Boris Berezovsky, Ms.