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

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.