Season 2015/16
Concert
Zubin Mehta / Nicola Benedetti
Program
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore overture III
Concert for violin and orchestra in D major, op. 61
Symphony n. 3 in E-flat major, op. 55 Eroica
Artists
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Born in Bonn December 16, 1770 to a family with a long musical tradition, but his first important teacher was Christian Gottlob Neefe. It is in 1787 in Vienna where he has a fleeting encounter with Mozart and where he returned five years later to study with Haydn. On April 2, 1800 are executed with great success his Primo Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra and Prima Sinfonia. In 1802 commencing work on Terza Sinfonia, Eroica the style of Beethoven acquires grandeur. The first version of Fidelio, his only opera, was staged in 1805 but was a failure. Becoming virtually deaf however he continued to compose, creating the outstanding masterpieces Missa Solemnis (1819-1823) and the Ninth Symphony (1822-1824). He died in Vienna March 26, 1827 and at least twenty thousand people attended his funeral.
NICOLA BENEDETTI
Born in 1987 in West Kilbride by an Italian father and a Scottish mother, she started learning to play the violin at four. Leader of the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain at eight, she won the 2002 edition of the United Kingdom's Brilliant Prodigy Competition talent show. Since 2003 she has performed several times with the London Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, and also with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio, Danish Radio, MDR Leipzig, Singapore Symphony and Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. She plays with the Stradivari "Gariel" of 1717 lend by Jonathan Moulds.
