Dubai, UAE
On Saturday 14th May, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra returns to the stage of Dubai Opera for a thrilling performance of works by one of history’s most loved composers, Ludwig van Beethoven. This concert features the renowned Turkish pianist and composer, Hüseyin Sermet, with direction from Italian conductor, Gianluca Marciano, and is proudly presented by SAMIT Event Group.
Praised by the Sunday Times "for his unfailingly theatrical and idiomatic conducting", conductor Gianluca Marcianò made his debut in 2006 at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
Originally from Lerici, in the province of La Spezia, he founded the Suoni dal Golfo Festival in his hometown overlooking the Gulf of Poets, renamed Lerici Music Festival in 2020, of which he is artistic director. Marcianò has very strong ties with the Opera Houses of
Oviedo, Minsk, Ljubjana, as well as in the UK (English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North and Longborough Opera Festival). At Grange Park Opera, since 2010, he conducted La Traviata, Tosca, Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto, The
Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan Tutte, Alzira, Nabucco, Don Carlo, Evgenij Onegin, Samson et Dalila and Madama Butterfly. He is Artistic Director of the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and Principal Guest Conductor of Armenian State Symphony Orchestra. From 2011 to 2014 he was Music Director of the Tbilisi State Opera, conducting La Forza del Destino, Cavalleria Rusticana, Nabucco, Attila, Il Trovatore, Mithridates, King of Pontus and Aida.
From 2017 to 2019 Gianluca Marcianò has been Principal Conductor of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Marcianò has worked with many great singers and instrumentalists, such as: Elina Garanča, Sumi Jo, Joseph Calleja, Simon Keenlyside, Sondra Radvanovsky, Olga Peretyatko, Danielle De Niese, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Arabella Steinbacher, Anna Tifu, Francesca Dego, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Steven Isserlis, Boris Andrianov, Maria João Pires, Gloria Campaner, David Geringas, Khatia Buniatshvili, Sergei Krylov, Nina Kotova, Giovanni Sollima, Sergei Nakariakov, Denis Kozhukin and Alexander Buzlov. He conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia, Polish Baltic
Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Georgian Philharmonic, Tokyo New City Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Oviedo Filarmonia, Moscow City Russian Philharmonic, Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Classica de Madeira, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, BBC Concert Orchestra, World Orchestra, Voivodina Symphony Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra and others. He recently recorded the album "Momento Immobile" for Rubicon Classics, with soprano Venera Gimadieva and Hallé Orchestra.
His 2021/22 engagements include Falstaff with Bryn Terfel at Grange Park Opera, Nabucco at Opera de Oviedo, a concert with Joseph Calleja at the Ljubljana Winter Festival, a concert with Carmen Giannattasio at the Inclassica Festival in Malta conducting the
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, two new productions of Tosca and I Capuleti e I Montecchi at the Slovenian National Theatre of Ljubljana, concerts with Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica della Città Metropolitana di Bari, Tokyo 21c Philharmonic.
In 2017 Marcianò receive the Honorary Citizenship of the City of Lerici for his achievements and in 2018 has been awarded of the Pavlova Award.
He is Principal Conductor designated of Orchestra della Magna Grecia in Taranto and Matera.
Turkish pianist and composer Hüseyin Sermet's thirty-five-year career reflects his wide-range musical interests and intensely personal vision encompassing a large eclectic repertoire and pianistic versatility.
Sermet has performed around the world with important orchestras including London Philharmonic and Royal Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker, and NHK, Shanghai, Tokyo and Detroit symphony orchestras; with renowed conductors such as Vladimir Jurowski, Semyon Bychkov, David Robertson, Lawrence Foster, Pablo Heras-Casado, Jonathan Nott, James Gaffigan and Hans Graf, and instrumentalists Maria João Pires, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon.
Sermet has given solo recitals at major series and venues worldwide, including London’s International Piano Series, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Paris' Cité de la Musique, Munich’s Cuvilliés-Theater, Lisbon's Dias da Musica, Copenhagen's Tivoli and the Oxford and Lille Piano festivals. Last season he made his recital debut at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Equally active as a composer, Sermet's first major composition Réminiscènce 1 was premiered at the Empéri Festival in 1997 and broadcast live by France Musique. A commission from Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Dream and Nightmare, was premiered in 2004, and in 2006 there followed Sculptures 1, commissioned by İş Bank. Following these succeseses, Réminiscènces II received its premiere in Istanbul in May 2012.
A devoted mentor of young talent and highly regarded for his many appearances in Japan, Sermet was filmed by NHK TV for a series of 15 televised masterclasses with young pianists broadcast throughout Japan.
Many of Hüseyin Sermet's numerous recordings for Naïve, harmonia mundi and Erato have won major international prizes, including his disc of Ravel's solo piano works, three discs devoted to Alkan (all winning a Diapason d’Or de l'Année), a selection of Schubert’s works for four hands with Maria João Pires and a recording of Liszt's Piano Sonata and late works.
Hüseyin Sermet was born in Istanbul in 1955 and began his education at the Ankara State Conservatoire. He continued his studies at the Paris Conservatoire and later at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot with Thierry de Brunhoff, Nadia Boulanger and Maria Curcio. He also studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and received the Lili Boulanger Award for his early string quartet.
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA was established in 1936 as a small studio ensemble, which grew into the Palestine Broadcasting Service Orchestra. With the foundation of the State of Israel the orchestra became the national radio orchestra, known as the Kol Israel Orchestra. In the 1970s, the orchestra was expanded and became the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Broadcasting Authority. The orchestra was the first to perform in Israel the works of Sofia Gubaidolina, Henri Dutilleux, Alfred Schnittke and others. Through the years some of the greatest musicians have performed with the orchestra, among them Arthur Rubinstein, Igor Markevitch, Otto Klemperer, Henryk Szeryng, Isaac Stern, Radu Lupu and Yefim Bronfman. One of the most notable premières performed by the orchestra was The Seven Gates of Jerusalem by the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, conducted by Lorin Maazel, which was composed for the finale of the Jerusalem 3000 celebrations. This was a joint venture with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra. The orchestra often tours in Europe and the United States, and has played in some of the most prestigious venues. Recently JSO had successful tours to USA, where concerts took place from Florida to Massachusetts and for the first time a tour in Japan, both tours with Dmitry Yablonsky as conductor and soloist.
