Issue 1: September – October - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Issue 1: September – October - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Issue 1: September – October - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
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MASTERWORKS<br />
All Shostakovich<br />
OCTOBER 28-29<br />
Maxim Shostakovich<br />
Son of composer<br />
Dmitri Shostakovich,<br />
Maxim Shostakovich<br />
has conducted the<br />
major orchestras<br />
throughout the world<br />
including the Hong<br />
Kong Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic,<br />
London <strong>Symphony</strong>, New York<br />
Philharmonic and the symphony<br />
orchestras of New Zealand and<br />
Jerusalem, among others. Born in 1938 in<br />
Leningrad, he studied piano at the<br />
Moscow Conservatoire with Yakov Flier<br />
and conducting with Gennady<br />
Rozhdestvensky and Igor Markevich. In<br />
1971, he was appointed principal<br />
conductor and artistic director of the<br />
USSR Radio and Television <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> with whom he premiered many<br />
works including his father’s <strong>Symphony</strong><br />
No. 15 at the Moscow Conservatoire in<br />
January 1972. Between 1986-1991, he<br />
was the music director of the New<br />
Orleans <strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>. Mr.<br />
Shostakovich is a doctor of Arts of the<br />
Marryland University.<br />
Korbinian Altenberger<br />
Second prize winner of<br />
the eminent 2010<br />
Montréal International<br />
Musical Competition,<br />
Munich’s Korbinian<br />
Altenberger also<br />
received first prize and<br />
the audience choice award at the Jacob<br />
Stainer Violin Competition as well as first<br />
prize at Italy’s Andrea Postacchini<br />
International Violin Competition. He has<br />
appeared widely as soloist with major<br />
orchestras across the globe, including the<br />
Auckland Philharmonia, Munich<br />
Philharmonic and the Chamber<br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> of Philadelphia, among numerous<br />
others. Mr. Altenberger holds graduate<br />
degrees from the New England<br />
Conservatory and completed studies at the<br />
Thornton School of Music at the University<br />
of Southern California, where he studied<br />
with famed violinist and teacher Midori<br />
Goto. He was recently appointed principal<br />
second violin of the Bavarian Radio<br />
<strong>Symphony</strong> <strong>Orchestra</strong>.<br />
CONCERTS FOR KIDS<br />
The Phantom of the Music Hall<br />
OCTOBER 30<br />
Madcap Productions<br />
Madcap Productions has<br />
been creating unique<br />
performances for over 25<br />
years combining actors,<br />
giant puppets, live music<br />
and original scripts.<br />
Madcap performs over<br />
600 shows each season in schools,<br />
community arts centres and on concert<br />
stages throughout the U.S and Canada.<br />
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Madcap<br />
presents the Hats Off Young Audience<br />
Series at the Cincinnati Art Museum and<br />
Xavier University where, each season, new<br />
works are presented to the regional public.<br />
Madcap has performed with symphony<br />
orchestras across the nation including: the<br />
Dayton Philharmonic, Lincoln <strong>Symphony</strong>,<br />
Cincinnati <strong>Symphony</strong>, Lebanon <strong>Orchestra</strong><br />
and many others. In 2009, Madcap<br />
received the Scripps Corbett Award for<br />
Artistic Excellence and is recognized as one<br />
of the most innovative and exciting puppet<br />
theaters in the USA.<br />
<strong>September</strong> <strong>–</strong> <strong>October</strong> 2011 I OVERTURE 25