Frank Peter Zimmermann & Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

The Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2016, is by now a household name which has gone from strength to strength. Founded by Claudio Abbado, you might say its success was preordained, yet it is special also because its members hail from all over Europe. Besides the legendary Italian, Mariss Jansons, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Franz Welser-Möst and Herbert Blomstedt have conducted it, and naturally the orchestra features in Europe’s greatest festivals. In this concert the conductor’s podium is taken by the German-born David Afkham (b. 1983), the orchestra’s assistant conductor since 2010, and one-time assistant of both Valery Gergiev and Bernard Haitink. Frank Peter Zimmermann, who plays on a Stradivarius once owned by Fritz Kreisler, is soloist in Bartók’s classically beautiful Violin Concerto. It is characteristic of the German artist that his repertoire features works rarely performed due to their level of complexity, and he has strong ties to Hungarian music: in 2002 he recorded György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto.