Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra continues its 2023/24 season, which is supported by Season Sponsor Investec and stuffed with symphonic performances throughout the South West and past.
Highlights embody performances beneath the baton of Chief Conductor Kirill Karabits in his last season, which concludes in a three-week celebration of music that each displays on his tenure thus far and the BSO’s ongoing dedication to repertoire from Karabits’s native Ukraine and its surrounding areas.
Kirill Karabits celebrates his 15-year tenure as Chief Conductor following a sensational relationship lasting a decade and a half. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s last season with Kirill Karabits as Chief Conductor started final autumn and sees the BSO rejoice a broad vary of repertoire with Karabits, from the symphonies of Brahms, Bruckner and Borodin to rarities together with a live performance efficiency of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (8 Could).
The Voices from the East collection, which champions music from jap Europe and Karabits’s native Ukraine, continues with highlights equivalent to Vasks’s Violin Concerto Distant Mild (31 Jan). Could sees performances of Ivan Karabits’s Concerto for Orchestra No.3 and Giya Kancheli’s Styx (1 Could).
Karabits has welcomed musical pals throughout the season, together with returns from: pianist Alexander Malofeev (returning 1 Could); violinist Vadim Gluzman (31 Jan – 1 Feb); Valeriy Sokolov (1 Could) acting on viola; and pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk (15 Could). Plus, BSO debuts from pianist Awadagin Pratt (13-14 Mar).
Additional performances throughout the season embody New 12 months’s Viennese gala live shows — in Poole (1 Jan) and Southampton (6 Jan). Karabits may even conduct the Orchestra at The Grange Competition this summer time (8-24 June) and lead two performances, alongside 2021-2023 Artist-in-Residence Felix Klieser on the BBC Proms (2-3 Aug).
On the finish of the 2023/24 season, Karabits will take up a brand new function of Conductor Laureate, Creative Director, Voices from the East.
The BSO’s livestreamed broadcasts have continued all through the 2023/24 season, with 18 important season performances being shared reside and for 30 days.
1 Jan 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
5 Jan 2024 (Weymouth Pavilion, Weymouth)
6 Jan 2024 (Southampton, Mayflower Theatre)
New 12 months Viennese Gala – Kirill Karabits conductor
10 Jan 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Dazzling Liszt – Alpesh Chauhan conductor – Pavel Kolesnikov piano
Elgar — Within the South
Liszt – Piano Concerto No.2
Brahms – Symphony No.2
17 Jan 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
18 Jan (Exeter, College Nice Corridor)
Darkness Into Mild – Sunwook Kim conductor – Clara-Jumi Kang violin
Beethoven – Coriolan Overture
Sibelius – Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.5
24 Jan 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
25 Jan 2025 (Portsmouth, Guildhall)
My Nation – Jac van Steen conductor
Smetana – Má Vlast [200th anniversary of Smetana’s birth]
31 Jan 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
1 Feb 2024 (Basingstoke, The Anvil)
Musical Puzzles – Kirill Karabits conductor – Vadim Gluzman violin
Mozart – Serenade for Winds Ok.388
Vasks – Violin Concerto ‘Distant Mild’
Shostakovich – Symphony No.15
7 Feb 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
8 Feb 2024 (Exeter, College Nice Corridor)
Mendelssohn’s Masterpiece – Thierry Fischer conductor – Veronika Eberle violin
Ina Boyle – A Sea Poem
Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto
Wagner – Das Rheingold, Entry of the Gods
Debussy – La Mer
10 Feb 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Valentine Classics – Tom Fetherstonhaugh conductor
Wed 14 Feb 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Romeo and Juliet – Emilia Hoving conductor – Ning Feng violin
Saariaho – Ciel d’Hiver
Beethoven – Violin Concerto
Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet suite
21 Feb 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
22 Feb 2024 (Portsmouth, Guildhall)
23 Feb 2024 (Exeter, College Nice Corridor)
London City – Karl-Heinz Steffens conductor – Boris Giltburg piano
Brahms – Piano Concerto No.2
Vaughan Williams – Symphony No.2 ‘London’
28 Feb 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Verdi Requiem – David Hill conductor – Bournemouth Symphony Refrain
Verdi – Requiem
29 Feb 2024 (Exeter, College Nice Corridor)
1 Mar 2024 (Bristol Beacon, Bristol)
2 Mar 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
9 Mar 2024 (Southampton, Mayflower Theatre)
The Better of Williams and Zimmer – Pete Harrison conductor
13 Mar 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
14 Mar 2024 (Portsmouth, Guildhall)
Counterpoint Counterparts – Kirill Karabits conductor – Awadagin Pratt piano
Mozart – Piano Concerto No.23, Ok.488
Bruckner – Symphony No.5
16 Mar 2024 (Exeter Cathedral, Exeter)
Verdi Requiem – Exeter Philharmonic Choir – Howard Ionascu, conductor
20 Mar 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
22 Mar 2024 (Truro, Corridor for Cornwall)
Beethoven’s Fifth – Mark Wigglesworth conductor – Ethan Loch piano
Verdi – Overture to The Pressure of Future
Chopin – Piano Concerto No.2
Beethoven – Symphony No.5
10 April 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Let’s Dance – Andrew Litton conductor – Simon Trpčeski piano
Stravinsky – Divertimento ‘Le Baiser de la fée’
Saint-Saëns – Piano Concerto No.5
Ravel – Valses nobles et sentimentales; La Valse
18 Apr 2024 (Portsmouth, Guildhall)
19 Apr 2024 (Exeter, College Nice Corridor)
20 Apr 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Basic FM Corridor of Fame – Tom Fetherstonhaugh conductor – Eric Lu piano
Rossini – Overture to The Thieving Magpie
Grieg – Piano Concerto
Bizet – Carmen suite
Debussy – Clair de lune
Gershwin – An American in Paris
24 Apr 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Elgar’s Enigma – Tom Fetherstonhaugh conductor – István Várdai cello
Sibelius – Symphony No.7
Schumann – Cello Concerto
Ives – The Unanswered Query
Elgar – Enigma Variations
28 April 2024 (Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth)
Carmina Burana – Pete Harrison conductor – BSO Voices
Orff – Carmina Burana
1 Could 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Voices from the East – Kirill Karabits conductor – Alexander Malofeev piano – Valeriy Sokolov viola – Bournemouth Symphony Refrain
Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No.1
Ivan Karabits – Concerto for Orchestra No.3
Kancheli – Styx
Balakirev – Islamey
8 Could 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Iolanta – Kirill Karabits conductor – Olga Kulchynska soprano
Tchaikovsky – Iolanta [concert performance]
10 Could 2024 (Bristol Beacon, Bristol)
Symphonic Pink Floyd – Pete Harrison conductor
15 Could 2024 (Poole, Lighthouse)
Shostakovich 5 – Kirill Karabits conductor – Alexander Gavrylyuk piano
Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No.3
Shostakovich – Symphony No.5
