29. 9. 2014
Harmonia Moraviae 2014
The Harmonia Moraviae international music festival gets under way for the 12th time on 25th September 2014. The event, organised by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra, runs until 23rd October with performances taking place in the Zlín Congress Centre and other attractive venues in the region.
The highlight will undoubtedly be the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón and the South African soprano Pumeza Matshikiza who will be singing French and Italian operatic arias and zarzuelas from Spain. This is the first concert in their autumn European tour which will take them on to Vienna, Paris, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Munich and Hanover, accompanied on each occasion by the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic.
Another world-class artist gracing our festival this year is the pianist Eugen Indjić, who will be playing compositions by Chopin, Schumann, Beethoven and Liszt. For this performance the audience will be seated around the piano, which will be positioned in the centre of the Main Auditiorium. The festival's opening concert features Igor Ardašev, one of our country's best pianists who has also made a well deserved name for himself abroad, playing Tchaikovsky's celebrated B Flat Minor piano concerto followed by Mussorgsky's equally appealing Pictures at an Exhibition.
The festival has also invited two guest orchestras: Ostrava's Janáček Chamber Orchestra can be heard with the young organist Lukáš Hurtík at the Church of Panna Marie Pomocnice Křesťanů in Zlín's Jižní Svahy, and Radek Baborák and his Orquestrina have also invited the Epoque Quartet to join them in their spellbinding arrangements and crossover renditions of pieces by Ravel (Bolero), Piazzolla, Rota and many more.
Complementing these symphonic and chamber music performances is a concert version of Verdi's La Traviata with the Philharmonic Orchestra on this occasion under the baton of the Italian conductor Walter Attanasi. Also guesting at this event are a number of opera singers from abroad, and the Brno National Theatre's outstanding Janáček Opera Choir