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Programme & Artists:

You heard:

John Adams
"The Chairman Dances" from "Nixon in China"

George Gershwin
Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra

William Walton
Symphony No. 1 in B minor

Encore:

Alexander Skrjabin
Etude in E Major

Sergei Prokofjew
Four Pieces: IV. Suggestion diabolique

presented by:

Vasily Petrenko, Boris Giltburg and the Dresdner Philharmonie

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Further information:

Vasily Petrenko ©Svetlana Tarvlova

Vasily Petrenko

After completing his training and initial engagements in St Petersburg, Vasily Petrenko embarked on a successful career as an internationally renowned conductor. He has been Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021, having previously served as Chief Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra for many years. His charismatic manner and versatility on the concert and opera stage make him a highly sought-after artist. In 2024, he founded a new academy for conductors in Armenia.

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Boris Giltburg ©Sasha Gusov

Boris Giltburg

Moscow-born Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg is praised worldwide as an extremely sensitive, empathetic and captivating performer, and he appears each season with a wide variety of repertoire. He demonstrates this again in the 2025/26 season, when he – as Artist in Residence of the Dresden Philharmonic – performs a solo recital at the Kulturpalast, as well as four concerts with the orchestra in Dresden and two concerts on tour with works by Beethoven, Mozart, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel and Gershwin.

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©Simon Pauly

Dresdner Philharmonie

Top class! That is the claim of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra stands for concerts at the highest artistic level, musical education for all ages and looking beyond the musical horizon. Guest performances on almost every continent and collaborations with guests from all over the world have established the reputation of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in the international classical music world.  

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