Change of the programm

The young American pianist Claire Huangci will perform in P. I. Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto. He has won prestigious international competitions and is a guest on the most important stages. 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in G major, Op. 44

Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte

Igor Stravisky
Le baiser de la fée: Divertimento

Béla Bartók
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta BB 114 (Sz 106)

Claire Huangci – piano
Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava
Vassily Sinaisky – Chief Conductor of the JFO

The evening will open with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto. Although this work has never achieved the same popularity as the First Piano Concerto, it is equal to it in terms of its scope, compositional treatment and the power of its musical ideas. Dedicated to the piano virtuoso Nikolai Rubinstein, the concerto was initially met with considerable criticism and only today is its musical impact and beauty beginning to be fully appreciated. This piece will be presented to the Ostrava audience by the American pianist Claire Huangci. She drew attention to herself in 2011, when she became the youngest laureate of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, and seven years later she won the prestigious Géza Andy Piano Competition in Zurich, Switzerland. Today, this young performer is a regular guest in the most important concert halls around the world.