Dubai, UAE
Join us on Monday 9th May for the second concert of the InClassica International Music Festival. This concert features the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra conducted by the renowned cellist and conductor, Dmitry Yablonsky, and presents works by Bizet, Suppé, Offenbach, Rossini and Strauss. The performance begins with the Overture to Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, a well-known and rousing work popular for its now-famous melodies and energetic orchestration. Franz von Suppé’s pastoral Poet and Peasant Overture follows, a rich and evocative work featuring a haunting cello solo, before the first half is concluded by a performance of Jacques Offenbach’s now famous Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld, his comic opera in two parts first premiered in 1858. The work features, amongst others, the hugely popular motif now synonymous with the can- can cabaret dance. Following a short intermission, the orchestra returns with the inspiring and ever-popular Overture to Gioachino Rossini’s opera William Tell, before presenting a number of works by Richard Strauss, beginning with his Wiener Blut (“Viennese Blood”), Op. 354, a work first premiered in 1873 to celebrate the marriage of Archduchess Gisela Louise Maria and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. The Champagner-Polka, Op. 211 follows, a piece written for the composer’s tour of Russia that same year, before continuing with the Fredrica Polca, Op. 239. Next, the orchestra presents the composer’s Trish-Tratch Polka, Op. 214, before following with the Overture to Strauss’ Die Fledermaus (“The Flittermouse’’ or “The Bat”) operetta, a work first premiered in 1874 and featuring one of classical music’s most famous waltzes. The popular Pizzicato Polka follows, with the work’s extensive use of pizzicato string technique (created by plucking the strings) creating a texture unique to this piece, before the Auf der Jagd Polka, Op.211. Next, the orchestra presents the Unter Donner und Blitz Polka, a work now seen as one of the most popular of Strauss’ pieces, before the evening is concluded by one of the composer’s most enduring works, the much-loved Radetzky March. This concert is proudly presented by SAMIT Event Group.
Grammy nominated conductor, cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonksy was born in Moscow into a musical family. He began playing the cello when he was 5 years old and was accepted to the Central Music School for gifted children. At the age of 9 he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn’s cello concerto. Since then, his career had taken him to the most important stages in the world, such as the Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Moscow Great Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Taiwan National Hall, Theatre Champs Elysees, Tokyo Opera City Hall among others. He has collaborated with many world renown artists as Monserrat Caballe, Roberto Alagna, Olga Borodina and many more. Dmitry started to conduct at age 26 and has conducted more then 50 orchestras all over the world including The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he made 4 cd’s.Dmitry Yablonsky has studied cello with Isaak Buravsky, Lorne Monroe, David Soyer, Aldo Parisot and Zara Nelsova. He also took master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker, Andre Navarra, Maurice Gendron, , Misha Schneider among others. His conducting teachers have been Otto Werner Muller, Yuri Simonov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. He has participated in many festivals all over the world including Marlboro Festival. He has recorded more then 90 CD’s as cellist and conductor to great critical acclaim. He is an Artistic Director of Gabala Music Festival, Puigcerda Music Festival and Wandering Music Stars Festival. Dmitry Yablonsky is Music Director of Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra. Since fall 2016, he is teaching cello and chamber music at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University and has been recently named Head of International Relations of the same University.Dmitry plays two cellos: a Joseph Filius Andrea Guarneri and a Matteo Goffriller.
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.
