Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) has announced that it is presenting a concert, ‘Kitajenko Conducts Shostakovich 10’, at Katara – the Cultural Village’s Opera House tomorrow. The concert will be held from 7.30pm, QPO has said in a press statement. Dmitrij Kitajenko is the conductor of honour at the event with Daniel Muller-Schott on the cello. 
The programme will feature Antonín Dvorak: Concerto in B Minor for violoncello and orchestra, Op 104, B 191, and Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 in E Minor, Op 93, according to the statement.
Seating begins 20 minutes before performances, QPO has said, and children aged six years and above are welcome at Philharmonic concerts.  
Widely regarded as the most distinguished of Czech composers, Dvorak produced “attractive, vigorous, well-demarcated music, and his melodies are spontaneous-sounding yet memorable and his music colourful, abundant and varied”. His nine symphonies are among his most widely appreciated works.
A patriotic composer and among the most decorated of Soviet citizens, Shostakovich spent his life constructing his oeuvre between obedience and contestation. 
He was one of Russian culture’s most acclaimed intellectuals and an internationally recognised composer whose music was in over 100 films, but his success fluctuated between honours and censorship.
Kitajenko is described as “one of the great conductors of our time”. “Equally esteemed in eastern and western Europe, he regularly conducts prestigious orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,” the statement notes.His complete recording of Shostakovich’s symphonies with the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra (2005) received, among others, the Echo Klassik Prize, one of the most sought-after awards in the classical field. 
In September 2015, Kitajenko was named conductor of honour of QPO. In addition to performances of the great cello concertos, Müller-Schott has a special interest in discovering unknown works and extending the cello repertoire, for example with his own adaptations and through co-operation with contemporary composers. 
The new CD released in autumn 2017 with ORFEO “fully reflects this passion”. In collaboration with l’arte del mondo, Müller-Schott processed works for cello by Haydn, CPE, JS Bach and Mozart for this recording.  
Müller-Schott plays the Ex Shapiro Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727. Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra is a member of Qatar Foundation.Daniel Muller-Schott