Violist Nokuthula Ngwenyama, President of the American Viola Society, is featured at AfriClassical.com and Ngwenyama.com. She performs Bartok's Viola Concerto with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Nov. 8 in Phoenix; Friday, Nov. 9 in Scottsdale; and Saturday, Nov. 10 in Phoenix:
Thursday, November 8, 2012 7:30PM
Symphony Hall
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, conductor
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
Bartók: Viola Concerto
Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 version)
Join The Phoenix Symphony in welcoming the exciting conducting of Ignat
Solzhenitsyn. Continuing a season where the greatest conductors of our
next symphonic generation come to Arizona, experience the former music
director of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and principal guest
conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra as he conducts the music from
Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka. Son of Nobel Prize-winning author
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a pianist as well as
conductor, brings a lyrical and poignant interpretative style that has
won him critical acclaim throughout the world. Experience Maestro
Solzhenitsyn as he guides The Phoenix Symphony and mesmerizing hometown
native violist and winner at age 17 of the Primrose International Viola
Competition, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, a “Face To Watch” as featured in the
Los Angeles Times, in Bartók’s last work, his Viola Concerto.
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