Sep 14 & 15
(Fri & Sat, 8.15pm Victoria Concert Hall)
Lan Shui ~ conductor; Natalia Lomeiko ~ violin

“ ..one of the most brilliant of our younger violinists.” Lord Menuhin

Prodigious 22-year-old Natalia Lomeiko takes centrestage in the popular romantic First Violin Concerto of Max Bruch. Natalia started her musical training at five at the Specialist Music School for gifted children in Novosibirsk. At the mere age of seven Natalia appeared with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, performing Vivaldi's Violin Concerto. First Prize Winner of the 2000 Paganini International Violin Competition, Natalia has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician.

The programme closes with a 19 year old Dmitri Shostakovich's First Symphony, one of the most stunningly original first symphonies by any composer. Fingerprints of his future greatness and characteristic wry humour may be found in its impressive pages.

A much-performed concerto within the Romantic period, the First Violin Concerto is virtuosic and lyrical and constituted one of three works contributing to Bruch's reputation as a composer. The SSO also plays the suite from Nobilissima Visione, a ballet by Paul Hindemith based on the life and good works of St. Francis of Assisi. The concert closes with the cheerful Third Symphony of Tchaikovsky, a work written in the tradition of his much-loved ballets. It is nicknamed the Polish Symphony because of the rousing polonaise that closes the work.

SSO Conductor Emeritus Choo Hoey returns to conduct for the evening.

Tickets: $12/$17/$22 (stalls), $28/$38 (circle)
Concession tickets: $9/$13/$17 (stalls)
Available at SISTIC hotline 348 5555 or www.sistic.com.sg

PROGRAMME
HINDEMITH        Suite from Nobilissima Visione
BRUCH              Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
TCHAIKOVSKY    Symphony No. 3 in D Major, Op. 29 “Polish”