• January 16th, 2009 / 7.00 p.m. / MACM
• January 17th, 2009 / 4.00 p.m. / MACM

Conductor: Gudni A. Emilsson

Soloist: Ratimir Martinovic, Piano

Program:

• Thai Traditional Music
• Alexander Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, op.20
• Peter I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3 in D major, op.29 “Polish”

Hear the TPO present their first-ever performance of Tchaikovsky’s colorful Third Symphony, the only seven symphonies from the composer in a major key. Also take this opportunity to sample the only concerto written by the Russian composer, Alexander Scriabin, featuring pianist Ratimir Martinovic from Montenegro.

Ratimir Martinovic, Piano

“The ideal combination of intellect, technique and passion, refinement of touch, perfect technique, concentration and control, exceptional dynamic potential, original ideas and unconventional interpretation” give Ratimir Martinović, by the critics’ words, one of the leading places among pianists of the younger generation.

Born in Kotor, where he completed the elementary music school, he continued his education in Novi Sad at the “Isidor Bajic” Music school and at the Academy of Art in the class of the world-renowned pianist Kemal Gekic. He graduated in 1999 playing in one night Bach’s ‘Goldberg Variations’, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier’ Sonata, Chopin’s Four Balllades, and Prokofiev’s Toccata to great critical aclaim.

He has had advanced studies with well-known pedagogues and pianists such as Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Hiroko Nakamura, Jacques Rouvier, Arie Vardi, Sergio Perticaroli, Arbo Valdma, Alexei Nasedkin, Jelena Richter, Victor Liadov ans Marian Ribicky.

He has performed in over 450 recitals, chamber concerts, concertos with orchestra. He played in all major domestic concert halls such as the Sava centar, Kolarac Memorial Hall, the Montenegrin National Theater, the Novi Sad Sinagogue, the Serbian National Theatre, Subotica Town Hall, as well as on podiums in Rome (Sala Baldini), Beijing (Beijing University), Shanghai (Oriental Arts Center), Buenos Aires (Hall of University Maimonides), Guanhzhou (University hall), Florence (Hall of French Cultural Center), Salzburg (Leopold Mozart Hall), Bonn, London (St. James Picadilly, St. John’s Smith Square), Taipei (Small Hall of the National Theater), Miami (FIU Great Hall), Helsinki (Sibelius Academy Hall), Paris (UNESCO hall), Helsingborg (Great hall of Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra), Cologne (Deutche Welle Hall), Zagreb (Lisinski Hall), Luxembourg (Auditoire Banque de Luxembourg), Turku, Warsaw, Hamamatsu and elsewhere.

Martinović plays as soloist with orchestras such as: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Plovdiv State Symphony Orchestra, Ciuddad de Juarez Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Miami Festival Orchestra, Young European Soloists Chamber Orchestra (South-Eastern Europe), Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Televison Serbia Symphony Orchestra, Tapiolla Simfonietta, and many other, colaborating with conductors such as Emil Tabakov, Young Chil Lee, Frank Foncubert, Peter Sundkvist, Carlos Garcia Ruiz, William Noll, Jorge Ulliarte, David Porceline, Andrej Bursac, Aleksandar Ostrovski, Angel Surev, Pavle Medakovic, Petar Ivanovic and others.

Martinović is also an experienced chamber musician performing regularly with violinists Roman Simovic and Yuri Zhislin, the Rubicon, Tippett (Great Britain) and TAJJ (Serbia) string quartets, cellist Bozidar Vukotic, percussionist Benn Toth, soprano Snezana Savicic and others.

He has recorded for Radio Television Montenegro, Radio Television Serbia, POLTEL(Poland), Deutche Welle(Germany), NHK(Japan), SWT(Sweden), Luxembourg Television, HRT (Croatia), Radio Slovenia and Radio Romania.

He received his Masters degree in 2002, playing an all Bach program. At present, Martinovi?ćworks at the Academy of Arts, as the youngest piano professor. During 2008-2009 season he will be playing in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Canada, China, Italy, Cyprus, Slovenia, France, Vatican, Thailand, South Korea, Great Britain, Serbia and Croatia.

Capt. Prateep Suphanrojn, MA BA LRSM / Conductor
Jaeng Klaysrithong / Vocal; Thai Music National Artist

• 19 December 2008 / 7.00 p.m. / MACM
• 20 December 2008 / 4.00 p.m. / MACM

TPO presents the music of His Majesty the King of Thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej

Dr. Christopher Hughes Conductor

Bakhtiyor Allaberganov / Piano

Pattaraporn Saengsamang / Singer
Fueanglada Prawang / Singer
Sassaya

Conductor: Gudni A. Emilsson

Soloist: Peter Langgartner, Viola

Program:

• Thai Traditional Music
• B?la Bart?k: Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Sz.120, BB128
• Aram Khachaturian: Gayane Suite

Get intense and bored with the Classical Symphony music? Join the TPO while they present the ever famous Gayane Suite by the Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. At the same time, let the TPO introduce the music of the Hungarian composer B?la Bart?k, featuring the Austria born violist Peter Langgartner.

Concert:

Conductor: Claude Villaret

Program:

“The Story of Long-Gone Animals” is a newly composed opera in Thai Language. It is about a teenager who is sick of taking medicine. She has no hope to live until one day, her life has been changed forever by a visit of a Dodo bird who comes to bring her to the land of the extinct animals. The opera will be perform in Thai by the Thai opera singers with English subtitle. Continue with Korsakov’s Scheherazade, full with imagination and colorful theme, based on the Book of One Thousand and One nights.

Concerts:

• November 7th, 2008 / 7.00 p.m. / MACM
• November 8th, 2008 / 4.00 p.m. / MACM

Conductor: Gudni A. Emilsson

Soloist: Dimitri Ashkenazy, Clarinet

Program:

• Narong Prangcharoen: Tri-Sattawat
• Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, op.26
• Jean Francaix: Clarinet Concerto
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.7 in A major, op.92

Celebrating the GALA opening of the 4th season, the TPO presents the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius symphonic poem, Finlandia. Following his great acclaimed appearance as the soloist in the past season, Dimitri Ashkenazy is back again to perform the French composer Jean Francaix’s Concerto for Clarinet, and also to hear the TPO presents the Beethoven’s Symphony No.7, composed while Beethoven staying in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice in the hope of improving his health.

Dimitri Ashkenazy, Clarinet

Born in 1969 in New York, Dimitri Ashkenazy began playing the piano at the age of six and then switched to the clarinet under the tuition of Giambattista Sisini, with whom he continued studying when he entered the Conservatory of Lucerne in 1989. Since completing his studies, he has gone on to perform widely, both as soloist and chamber musician. On tour, he has appeared at the Royal Festival Hall in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Hollywood Bowl with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, at the Sydney Opera House with the SBS Youth Orchestra, at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and in Japan with the Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Mito Chamber Orchestras.

In addition to the major concertos for the clarinet, his repertoire extends to include contemporary works such as Peter Maxwell Davies’ Strathclyde Concerto No.4, which he has performed with the composer himself conducting both in London and Santiago de Compostela, and Krzysztof Penderecki’s own transcription of his Viola Concerto with the composer himself conducting both in Poland and on tour in Spain. He also gave the world premiere performances of concertos by Marco Tutino (with the Filarmonici della Scala, Milan) and Filippo del Corno (with the orchestra “I Pomeriggi Musicali”), and of Peter Maxwell Davies’ Clarinet Quintet “Hymn to Artemis Locheia” (with the Brodsky Quartet at the Lucerne Festival). An active chamber musician, he has performed with the Kod?ly and Faust Quartets and with partners such as Edita Gruberova, Barbara Bonney, Helmut Deutsch, Cristina Ortiz, David Golub, Ariane Haering, Maria Jo?o Pires, and of course his brother Vovka and his father Vladimir Ashkenazy.

In addition to his concert activity, Dimitri Ashkenazy has made numerous CD (Pan Classics, Decca, Ondine), radio (Radio Nacional de Espa?a, France Musiques, Radio della Svizzera Italiana, DeutschlandRadio) and television recordings, and been invited to give master classes in Australia, Spain, Iceland, Switzerland and the U.S.