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Ravel's Mother Goose Suite
Friday, February 6, 2009 at 10:30am
Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 8:00pm
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Eldar Nebolsin, piano
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Program Information
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Dohnányi - Variations on a Nursery Tune
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
Conducted by JoAnn Falletta, the BPO will begin with Ravel's quaint and beguiling Mother Goose Suite - fairy tales in florid tones and cryptic rhythms. The concert continues the concert continues with pianist Eldar Nebolsin performing Dohnányi's ever-amusing and virtuosic Variations on a Nursery Tune, based on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. After intermission the Orchestra will offer Bartók's lusty and riveting Concerto for Orchestra – with a thrilling orchestration of deep-amber strings, sparkling winds, Olympic brass and delectable percussion.
Artist Profile
Eldar Nebolsin began piano studies at the age of five with Natalia Wasinkina. He went on to win the Young Russian Pianists Competition in Tbilisi, aged 12, and the Radio Concertino Praga at the age of 14.
Nebolsin's international career was launched with his triumph at the Eleventh Santander International Piano Competition in 1992 where he got, besides the Grand Prix, the Prize for the best performance of the Mozart concerto. In June 2005 Eldar Nebolsin hast been awarded the First Prize at the 1st edition of the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition.
Nebolsin was engaged by over 130 orchestras, like New york Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Minnesota, Baltimore, San Luis, Montreal, Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Symphonic Orchestra of Stuttgart, Estonian National Orchestra, Deutsche Oper Orchester Berlin, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Gulbenkian Foundationn Orchestra, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia y Tenerife, Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, RealFilharmonía de Galicia, etc. with conductors like Ricardo Chailly, Yuri Temirkanov, Leonard Slatkin, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Hans Vonk, Yakov Kreizberg, Lawrence Foster, Vasili Petrenko, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Pedro Halffter , Ros Marbà, Víctor Pablo, among others.
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