Christian Vásquez directs works by Tchaikovsky and Llácer Pla at the Palau de les Arts
08.03.2012
Valencia (8-3-2012).- Christian Vásquez (Caracas, 1984) will conduct the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and its concertmaster Sergei Ostrovsky on March 10 at the Auditori del Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.
On the lectern, Violin Concerto in D major and Symphony No. 5 by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Rondo Mirmidon by the Valencian Francisco Llácer Pla, a work with which the operatic center commemorates the tenth anniversary of the composer's death.
Christian Vásquez is one of the rising stars of Venezuela's National System of Youth and Children's Orchestras. The project, sponsored by musician and economist José Antonio Abreu, aims to foster the integration and personal development of Venezuelan children and young people through orchestra and choir. Gustavo Dudamel is the leading figure of "El Sistema," which received the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2008.
Since his debut in 2008 with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Christian Vásquez has developed a promising career. He is the principal conductor of the Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, an ensemble with which he has performed at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
The Venezuelan maestro is also principal guest conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra in Sweden. In 2013, he will become the new music director of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra in Norway.
Among his most important performances are The Firebird with the Radio France Philharmonic, subscription concerts at the Salle Pleyel with violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann, Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 with the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, and six concerts with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, at the invitation of Zubin Mehta. He has also conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa (with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist), the Orchestre National du Capitole in Toulouse, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Residentie Orkest in The Hague, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (within its program for young artists).
Future engagements include performances with the Israel, Monte Carlo and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Residentie, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the UK's Northern Sinfonia, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata and the Toulouse Orchestra.
OCV's second performance at the ADDA
Christian Vásquez conducts the main orchestra of the Palau de les Arts and its concertmaster, Sergei Ostrovsky, today, Thursday, March 8, at the Alicante Provincial Council Auditorium (ADDA) with this same program.
After the performance of the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana with Andrea Battistoni on the podium, the OCV offers its second performance of the year in Alicante, within the International Orchestras Concert Series.
