The Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic
Full involvement of body and mind, spontaneity with stylistic awareness and immediacy of expression are the essential characteristics of the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic.
History
Since its foundation in 1992, the orchestra has presented highly varied concerts in Salzburg, its home town, and toured extensively with its artistic director Yoon K. Lee across the globe, from Istanbul to New York, winning critical acclaim from the critics everywhere and earning exuberant applause in such major concert halls as:
Musikverein, Golden Hall
Vienna Konzerthaus
Theater an der Wien
Munich Gasteig Philharmonie
Herkules Hall Munich
Prinzregent Theater (Munich)
Brunnenhof (Munich)
Tonhalle Zurich
National Philharmonic Auditorium of Madrid
Istanbul Opera
Rudolfinum Dvorak Hall (Prague)
Queen Elisabeth Hall (Antwerp)
Great Festival Hall (Salzburg)
Luxembourg Conservatory
Metropolitan Museum (New York)
Nibelungen Hall (Passau)
Hall Supérieur (Essen)
Casino Hall of Wiesbaden
City Casino (Basel)
Mozarteum Great Hall (Salzburg)
University Great Hall Salzburg
Salzburg Arena
Palais Neptune (Toulon)
Lisinski Hall (Zagreb)
Kurion Ancient Theater (Cyprus)
Teatro Arriaga (Bilbao)
to mention a few.
In addition, the orchestra has also participated in renowned festivals such as the
Salzburg Festival
Carinthian Summer
Prague Autumn Festival
International Festival of Echternach (Luxembourg)
Festival dè la Vezere
Le Nuits musicales du Suquet (Cannes)
Festival Internationale du Musique Cognac
Festival de Comminges Primavera Concertistica Lugano
Festival Carcasson
Zürich Mozart Festival
Festival de Musique à Saint-Victor (Marseille)
Kypria Festival (Cyprus)
The orchestra has also been heard and seen on several live radio and television broadcasts of Austrian National Network (ORF), the Greek radio station, E-3, and MBC TV of Korea.
Recordings
The CD with the symphonies of C.P.E.Bach received among other things five stars in the critique of the ”Classic CD” magazine as well as being the “Editor’s Choice” in the magazine “Gramophone” which praised it as one of the 10 best new CD releases of the year. It also received high recognition from the WQXR FM New York radio station.
Beginning in the 1996/97 season, the complete works for piano and orchestra by W.A. Mozart were performed and recorded with the pianist Cyprien Katsaris in Salzburg (Mozarteum Great Hall), in Vienna (in the Musikverein, where the orchestra was received with great triumph seven times by an audience of 2000 each time) and in Munich (Herkulessaal). This cycle includes 15 CDs, five of which have already been released by the Label Piano 21 amidst great recognition by critics in France and Japan. The recordings will also be available beginning in 2008 as a complete boxed collection.
Salzburg Festival and New York
In the summer of 2000, the orchestra participated in the opera production of “Le Troyens” by Berlioz within the context of the Salzburger Festival, under Maestro Sylvain Cambreling, performing side by side with L´Orchestre de Paris. In the summer of 2001, the orchestra performed again at the Salzburg Festival - this time in the production of “Lady Macbeth of Mzensk” by Shostakovich with the Vienna Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev.
In the spring of 2005, the orchestra gave its triumphant American debut concert as part of the internationally famous concert series of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in New York.
Mozart Year 2006
In the course of the Mozart Year 2006, the orchestra not only took part in various projects in Salzburg but was invited to various large festivals worldwide in France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Greece, Luxembourg and Germany.
Guest Artists
The internationally renowned soloists and conductors such as
Mischa Maisky
Valery Gergiev
Grace Bumbry
Cyprien Katsaris
Edith Mathis
Irena Grafenauer
Kai Röhrig
Sylvain Cambreling
Pascal Roge
Saulis Sondeckis
Milan Turkovic'
Jörg Demus
Ingrid Haebler
Pierre Amoyal
Karl Leister
Ruth Ziesak
Guy Touvron
Sergei Nakariakov
Michel Dalberto
Hakan Hardenberger
Gerard Poulet
Radovan Vlatkovic'
Clemens Hagen
Wolfgang Schulz
Paul Badura-Skoda
Gabriel Tacchino
Benjamin Schmid
Katherine Goeldner
Ernst Ottensamer
appeared with the orchestra to grant many fruitful musical experiences.
Irena Grafenauer
She has not only featured as an outstanding soloist with the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic but has remained committed to the orchestra in faithful friendship for more than a decade.
Because she suffers now from a fateful disease, the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic
She suffers now from a fateful disease. Therfore the Salzburg Chamber Philharmonic would like to request all those who are willing to donate bone marrow for CML leukaemia to contact the following address:
Fr.Dr.Anneliese Mühlbacher
Institute für Transfusionsmedizin
Landes Krankenanstalt Salzburg
Tel: +43 662 4482 -57339
e-mail:a.muehlbacher@salk.at
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