• Tue. 17.12.
  • 7.30 p.m.
  • South Korea
    ·Incheon
    ·Arts Center Incheon

Works by Schubert, Chopin and Mozart

Programme

    • Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
    • Overture for orchestra in C major D 591
    • Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
    • Piano concerto No. 2 in F minor op. 21
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
    • Symphony No. 41 in C major K 551 ›Jupiter‹

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.

Piano

Yunchan Lim

Born in Siheung, Korea, Yunchan Lim began piano lessons at the age of seven. At 13, he was accepted at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts. He is currently studying at the New England Conservatory of Music in the USA with his teacher Minsoo Sohn. In 2022, Yunchan Lim became the youngest participant to win the gold medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of just 18. Since then, this young pianist has experienced a meteoric international rise with successful orchestral debuts, for example with the New York, Los Angeles and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras, the Münchner Philharmoniker and the Chicago, Lucerne, BBC, Boston and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras. He has already performed at Carnegie Hall, the Verbier Festival, Wigmore Hall, Het Concertgebouw and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, among others.

In addition to his debut with the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, other highlights of the 2024/25 season include orchestral debuts with the Washington National Symphony, London Symphony, The Royal Philharmonic, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and WDR Sinfonieorchester. He also returns to the New York Philharmonic, the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and the Orchestre de Paris. In addition, Yunchan Lim is an exclusive Decca Classics artist. His acclaimed debut album ›Chopin: Études Op.10 & 25‹ went double platinum in South Korea and reached the top of the classical music charts worldwide.

Conductor

Paavo Järvi

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.