Shiyeon Sung will conduct a programme in which the orchestra also performs compositions by Chapí and Tchaikovsky

 

The Sinfónica de Tenerife concludes the subscription season with a performance of Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Beforehand, the orchestra will perform the prelude to La Revoltosa by Chapí and the Concerto for violin by Tchaikovsky, featuring the Chinese musician Ning Feng as guest soloist. Shiyeon Sung from South Korea will conduct the orchestra at the event this Friday (14th) at 7.30 p.m. in the Auditorio de Tenerife.

Sung has stated that “she is really excited” to return to the island to conduct the Sinfónica de Tenerife again after doing so in November 2022. The South Korean conductor believes that “the orchestra is very flexible and versatile in terms of sound”, and she is very curious to see “how we will build a rapport together in this romantic and varied programme.”

Friday’s programme begins with the prelude to La Revoltosa, one of the most successful zarzuela scores internationally.  It was written by Ruperto Chapí in 1897 and is set in a traditional neighbourhood courtyard in Madrid.

A performance will follow it in the concert hall of the Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, TH 59 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a work created in 1878 during one of the peaks of the composer’s career.  The piece presents the lyrical passion that is characteristic of his work, and it emerges as a response to his complicated personal life.

The soloist featured in this work will be the Chinese violinist Ning Feng, who recalls that this Concerto was the first he performed with an orchestra and that “although I have performed it many times, I am deeply moved by this great work.”

After the interlude, the symphony orchestra will perform the work that lends its title to the last pass-holder concert of the season: Sheherazade, op. 35 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.  This composition, released in 1888 during the wave of Orientalism that swept over European arts, blends a symphonic poem and an orchestral fantasia.

Shiyeon Sung studied orchestral conducting with Rolf Reuter at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin and continued her education with advanced conducting studies with Jorma Panula at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Sung was the first female conductor of South Korea to leap the podium of internationally renowned orchestras, such as the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra.

Her career has been honoured with numerous prizes and awards, such as the Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition and the Gustav Mahler Conductors' Competition in Bamberg. During her three-year tenure in Boston, she began a close collaboration with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted their season-opening concert in 2007. Two years later, the orchestra established an associate conductor's position which she held until 2013.

Ning Feng studied at the Sichuan Conservatory with Weimin Hu, at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Antje Weithaas and at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Hu Kun. He is currently Professor of Violin at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule and holds the International Chair of Violin at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Ning Feng has performed with the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York and Los Angeles, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also recently performed with the São Paulo Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, and KBS Symphony in Seoul. He regularly gives recitals at London's Wigmore Hall and the most prestigious European festivals.

The Sala Avenida, located in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife, hosts the last lecture of the season by the Tenerife Association for Friends ATADEMon the different formal aspects of the three pieces that will be played in the closing programme. On this occasion, the event will be presented by Lourdes Bonnet at 6:30 p.m.

The tickets for this new concert can be purchased until next Friday on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office and by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. In addition, this Thursday (13th), the sales period opens for the new season members, after the end of the renewal period.