Conductor：Raphael Schluesselberg Symphonia Vienna

Time: 2013-12-30 19:30

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Performance Information

Symphonia Vienna When Arts & Entertainment Vienna founded the Symphonia Vienna in 1995 they conceived its future to be in its uniqueness - a youthful international ensemble where every musician has experience in the Viennese tradition of music making. Today Symphonia Wien comprises exceptional musicians from all over the world. Whether principally soloists, chamber musicians or leading orchestral musicians, all share the passion and joy of making music together. The ensemble is equally comfortable performing the most intimate chamber music as the large symphonic orchestral repertoire.

'The performance of classical music is in danger of becoming an obsolete art form if it only appeals to a limited and specialised audience. The Symphonia Vienna aims to perform repertoire both traditional and new as well as exploring music from other cultures. Performing in less traditional venues also enables the communication of their musical legacy to a wider audience.'

The orchestra focuses the attention especially on the expansion of the repertoire and the genres (jazz, avant-garde, film scores, ballet, opera), on an international positioning through tours and CD,DVD productions as well as on a close relationship of the audience and the acquisition of new categories of listeners. Tradition and innovation are the two pillars of the Symphonia Vienna, on the one hand the cultivation of the classical repertoire from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven via Schubert, Brahms and Bruckner to the 20th century, on the other hand contemporary music of all styles, new ways of making music and creative concepts.

The Symphonia Vienna relishes challenges and has the reputation of being an ambitious ensemble. The ensemble has its own distinctive sound, which is clear, vivacious and expressive. This is not just because the Orchestra is in Vienna, but rather the result of the musicians’ ability and commitment and a carefully cultivated playing style that has developed over the years . The orchestra has the ability to combine precision with musical zeal, to be both dedicated and disciplined.

The orchestra has succeeded in finding its own profile amidst the rich musical landscape of Vienna. In the programs, apart from the well-known highlights of the concert literature you will always find less familiar and unjustly forgetten compositions. Soloists of international reputation as well as young talents are always welcome to perform together with the orchestra.

Raphael Schluesselberg

Raphael Schluesselberg currently holds the post of music director of the Vienna Academic Philharmonic and is Choir Master of the Parish Church St. Michael in Heiligenstadt.

2011 saw his debut with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO) at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein as well as his debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Minoritenkirche. Upcoming highlights in 2012 include concerts in the Grand Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus and a return to the Regional Festival in Lower Austria with Mozart's La finta giardiniera. He will also make his debut at the Wiener Festwochen co-conducting La Traviata at the Theater an der Wien, where had previously assisted Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Die Zauberfl?te.?Forthcoming opera productions include Don Giovanni at the Opéra national de Montpellier and at Opéra Royal du Chateau de Versailles in June 2013.

Born 1984 in Graz, Austria, Raphael Schluesselberg gave his conducting debut at the age of 15. Two years later he entered the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna where he studied conducting with Leopold Hager, Mark Stringer, Yuji Yuasa, Konrad Leitner as well as choral conducting with Erwin Ortner. He has worked with the world's foremost conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Heinz Holliger, Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle and Franz Welser-M?st.

Raphael Schluesselberg has conducted major orchestras including the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO) as well as the Wiener Akademie on period instruments. ?He has conducted numerous first performances of music by Florian C. Reithner, Margareta Ferek-Petric and Hannes Dufek.

Invitations from abroad and concert tours have led him to the Theatre Basel (Switzerland), Oradea (Romania), Nijmwegen (Netherlands) as well as to numerous cities in China and Indonesia.

Program

Franz von Suppé : Leichte Kavallerie.

Johann Strauss : Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald

Johann Strauss : Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Johann Strauss II.: Wiener Blut op. 354

Georges Bizet / Eduard Strauss : Carmen Quadrille op.134

Joseph Lanner : "Die Werber" Waltz, Op. 103

Chinese Werk/ Arr.Shi Li : Ballet Miniatur

Intermission

Carl Maria von Weber / Arr. Hector Berlioz : Aufforderung zum Tanz Op.65

W.A. Mozart /Arr. Raphael Schluesselberg : Türkischer Marsch

Franz Lehar: Waltz "Gold und Silber"

Johann Strauss : Seufzer-Galopp, Op. 9

Johann Strauss : Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Johann Strauss II: An der schonen blauen Donau Op. 314