Gregory Rose to conduct SOSL in Mendelssohn and Brahms
Thushani Jayawardena Violin Soloist:
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Gregory Rose |
The 51st Season of the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka will open with
two very great works of the Romantic era - Mendelssohn ‘s Violin
Concerto and Brahms 1st Symphony.
The concert will be on Saturday 15th March at Ladies’College Hall (7
pm) with Thushani Jayewardena as the violin soloist and Gregory Rose as
Guest Conductor. The concert will begin with Balakirev’s Overture on
Three Russian Themes.
Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, first performed in 1844, is an elegant
and impassioned work notable for its raptly lyrical and noble melodies,
and richly deserving its enduring popularity. At times it is serene and
meditative, and at others a great show piece for the soloist with
virtuoso flourishes and glittering passage work.
Brahms 1st Symphony was completed in 1876, half a century after
Beethoven’s 9th to which it has deliberate resemblances - especially in
the monumental last movement - to point up the entirely different
orientation of Brahms’s finale.
It combines majesty and grandeur with a warm lyricism and a
passionate, striving sound typical of Brahms’s music.
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Thushani Jayawardena |
Thushani Jayawardena started her musical career at the age of six
under the guidance of Ananda Dabare. In 2002 she studied in UK with
Professor Howard Davis, a violin professor at the Royal Academy of Music
London.
That same year she was a winner at the North London Music and Drama
festival and at the Enfield England music and drama festival. She has
been a regular winner in Sri Lanka at the prize givings of the Associate
Board of Royal Schools of Music, and of Trinity College of Music,
London.
She is a Licentiate of the Trinity College of Music, London and has
also studied piano and singing with Mrs. Menaka Sahabandu. Thushani
joined the Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka as a first violinist when she
was twelve.
Gregory Rose is a frequent visitor to Sri Lanka and has conducted
SOSL several times over the past six years.
He has over 100 concert premieres to his credit, and has conducted
many leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic, the St.
Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the
Netherlands Wind Ensemble. He has composed many works for different
media, and is a professor of conducting at Trinity College of Music,
London. |
