Saturday, December 4, 2021

Sergio A. Mims: Chineke! Junior Orchestra to open 2022 Lucerne Summer Music Festival


Gerald Aimontche

Sergio A. Mims writes:

W,

The Lucerne Summer Festival which runs from August though September 2022 has announced that the opening concert for the festival on August 9 will be a performance by the Chineke! Junior Orchestra.

The concert which will be conducted by the rising young Afro-Venezuelan conductor Glass Marcano  will feature: 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912)
Othello Suite, Op. 79
Stewart Goodyear (*1978)
Callaloo. Caribbean Suite for piano and orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Pianist Gerald Aimontche will be the featured soloist on the Goodyear work. 

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