COMING SOON: Boris Berezovski will be performing Tchaikovsky pieces on September 5.

By Anand Holla


While the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) will resume its shows much after Ramadan, their programme starting September is a testament to their continued efforts of putting together an enriching programme for Western Classical music lovers.
With the tickets for their upcoming concerts having gone on sale, we give you a quick run through the shows.
First up is Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto at 7:30pm on September 5. Conductor Dmitrij Kitajenko and pianist Boris Berezovsky will present Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, Op. 23, and, Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64.
On September 10 at 7:30pm, there’s Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Variations at the Katara Opera House. Conductor Dmitrij Kitajenko and pianist Lilya Zilberstein will put together a show featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 (Classical); Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36.
Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony will enthral Doha on October 17 at 7:30pm at the Katara Opera House. The conductor of the show will be Tung-Chieh Chuang, who is the winner of the 2015 Malko Conducting Competition, and Peter Davida will be on the horn.
The pieces that will be performed are Rahbani Brothers’ Jibal As-Sawan Suite (The Sylex Mountains); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Concerto No. 4 in E Flat Major for horn and orchestra, K. 495; and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 (Jupiter).
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is scheduled for October 24 at 7:30pm. Conducted by Dmitrij Kitajenko and featuring Sergei Krylov on the violin, you will get to experience pieces such as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D Major for violin and orchestra, Op. 35; and Maurice Ravel’s La Valse, Poème Chorégraphique.
Tickets for all concerts are priced at QR75-200, and will be held at the Katara Opera House.
With the Ramadan break, the QPO’s free-for-all chamber music concerts on the first Thursday of every month in the Museum of Islamic Art will return now only in the first week of November. Their last instalment, held on May 7, titled Music from the Movies stirred some melodic drama at the Atrium of the museum.
Featuring special guest Luiza Bold on the pan flute, the show had Lorena Manescu on violin, Nina Heidenreich on violin, Islam Nour El-Hefnawy on violin, Raluca Stancel on violin, Merve Kenet-Bulun on viola, Ines Wein on viola, Hassan Moataz El Molla on cello, Radu L. Mihaescu on double bass, and Ferdinand Schäfer on percussion, as the group dove into the choicest of pieces chosen from the most iconic movie soundtracks so as to satiate all kinds of movie and music aficionados.