HBSO to hold concert for Poland’s independence day celebration
VOV.VN - A Night of Beethoven, Chopin and Grieg concert is scheduled to take place on November 11 at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House to mark the occasion of the National Independence Day of Poland.
The event is to be jointly organised by the Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), the Mickiewicz Institute, and the Warsaw Music Foundation of Poland.
The concert will bring together an array of international musical talents under the baton of conductor Wojciech Czepiel.
Czepiel is a prominent Polish conductor, composer, and violinist. He has conducted more than 400 compositions with many orchestras, including the Polish National Radio Symphony in Katowice, the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, the National Opera in Warsaw, the Hanoi Philharmonic, and the Vietnam National Symphony and Orchestra.
Most notably, received the "Gloria Artist" medal from the Polish Minister of Culture for his artistic achievements in 2012.
Furthermore, leading Polish pianist Joanna Marcinkowska will perform at the function. She has won prizes at many international piano competitions such as first prize at the International Piano Competition “Artur Rubinstein In Memoriam” in Bydgoszcz in 1996, first prize at the 7th European Chopin Competition in Darmstadt in 2002, as well as second prize and a special award for the best performance of pieces by Szymanowski at the fifth International Karol Szymanowski Competition in Łódź in 2001.
