Following the Sergei Prokofiev Music Festival which took place in Rome from 10 to 15 December, Valery Gergiev departed for The Netherlands, where once again he will be conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
On 17 December there will be a concert in Utrecht at the TivoliVredenburg music venue, followed on 18 and 19 December by concerts at the famous De Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam, the home of the Dutch orchestra. Over all three evenings, the acclaimed Dutch violinist Janine Jansen will be appearing with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and maestro Gergiev. The programmes feature Johannes Brahms’ Violin Concerto and suites from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Christmas Eve and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker.
Valery Gergiev has had a longstanding creative partnership with this Dutch orchestra. From 1995 to 2008 maestro Gergiev was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, while in 1996 together with the ensemble he founded the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival. From 2008 to the present Valery Gergiev has been an honorary conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Over the years of his collaboration with the orchestra he has conducted over four hundred concerts in The Netherlands and abroad. In September 2014 maestro Gergiev conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic at the XIX Gergiev Festival marking one century since the start of the First World War.
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