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20. March 2023.
Czech philharmonic to perform at Lisinski hall with piano star Seong-Jin Choo
Seong‐Jin Cho was brought to the world’s attention in 2015 when he won First Prize at the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw, and his career has rapidly ascended since.
With an innate musicality and overwhelming talent, Seong‐Jin Cho has established himself worldwide as one of the leading pianists of his generation and most distinctive artists on the current music scene. His thoughtful and poetic, assertive and tender, virtuosic and colourful playing can combine panache with purity and is driven by an impressive natural sense of balance.
At the concert at Lisinski hall on April 1st he will be accompanied by The Czech Philharmonic with the chief conductor Semyon Bychkov.
Czech Philharmonic:
"Another great European ensemble, with a heritage that stretches back to 1896 when Antonín Dvořák, no less, conducted the first concert. With some legendary names among its chief conductors, the Czech Philharmonic is now in the excellent care of Semyon Bychkov, a fine conductor and someone who understands the orchestra’s traditional colours and style. Their partnership has given us distinctive Tchaikovsky and just a couple of months ago an impressive Mahler Fourth - inaugurating a symphony cycle for Pentatone - enshrining playing our critic described quite simply as ‘wonderful’.”
Gramophone, Orchestra of the Year 2022 Nomination
Gramophone, Orchestra of the Year 2022 Nomination
The chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, the outstanding Semyon Bychkov, comes from the Leningrad Conducting School of the famous Ilya Musin. Bychkov's rise to stellar heights as a conductor started after winning the famous Sergei Rachmaninoff International Conducting Competition, after which he emigrated from the former Soviet Union to the United States. His rise to the top of the conducting world was rapid: after taking over the position of chief conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, he also became chief conductor of the Dresden Semperopera and the West German Radio Orchestra (WDR Orchester), and the Czech Philharmonic in 2018. To date he has conducted almost all the world’s most important orchestras!