On 4, 5 and 25 March at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre the Mariinsky Orchestra will be presenting the series Three Last Symphonies by Mozart with guest conductors. Conducting will be Darrell Ang (Singapore) and Nikolai Khodzinskiy (Russia).
On 4 March the series opens with Symphony No 39 in E flat major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The programme also includes Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and the overture from Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. 5 march will see a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No 40 in G Minor and Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No 4 in A major (Italian). The conductor will be prize-winner at international competitions, graduate of Yale University and the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, Darrell Ang. Darrell Ang's international career has included work with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and the Wiener Kammerorchester. Engagements for the current and the future season include repeat appearances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia, a debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and a recording of works by Chinese and French composers together with the companies Naxos Records and ARS Produktion.
On 25 March the programme of the final concert in the series includes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No 41 in C major (Jupiter), Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin and Oboe Concerto in D minor and the Suite from the ballet Pulcinella by Igor Stravinsky. The Mariinsky Orchestra will be conducted by Nikolai Khodzinskiy, prize-winner at international Bach festivals and graduate of the Moscow Conservatoire. The soloist will be Pavel Kundyanok (oboe).
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