STAR-STUDDED KOREAN ORCHESTRA / FESTIVAL ŠPILBERK

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Carnival, concert overture Op. 92
MAX BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43

Bomsori Kim violin
KBS Symphony Orchestra
conductor Pietari Inkinen

South Korean violinist Bomsori Kim is one of the world’s contemporary leaders in her field. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she has won a huge number of awards from the most demanding international competitions. She has collaborated with many of the world’s leading orchestras and has performed on stages around the world, including the Musikverein in Vienna, the renowned Rheingau Musik Festival in Germany and the famous Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2021, she signed a contract with Deutsche Grammophon and released her first solo album Violin on Stage, recorded with the Wroclaw Philharmonic and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero. In the 2023/2024 season she made her debut at the BBC Proms Classical Music Festival with the BBC Philharmonic, at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, at the Concertgebouw in the Netherlands with the Residentie Orkest and at the Konzerthaus in Austria with the Vienna Symphony, with whom she also toured Asia.

More at www.bomsorikim.com.

The KBS Symphony Orchestra is a leading ensemble in the classical music scene in Korea. Since its founding in 1956, it has been led by many world-class conductors such as Lim Won-sik, Hong Yeon-taek, Won Kyung-su, Othmar Maga, Chung Myung-whun, Dmitri Kitaenko and Yoel Levi. The orchestra attracted worldwide attention in 2018 when the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label released its album of live performances of Mahler’s 9th Symphony. In the same year, the orchestra performed at the centenary of the founding of Czechoslovakia. It also performed on European stages in 2019, at the celebration of 30 years of diplomatic relations between Korea and Poland and at a special concert at the Musikverein in Vienna. Through its Digital K-Hall archive, the orchestra provides free public access to classical music. Its extraordinary performance during the coronavirus pandemic, broadcast on four online channels simultaneously, was watched by more than 23,000 viewers.

For more, visit www.kbssymphony.org.

From 2022, the music director of the KBS Symphony Orchestra is the distinguished Finnish conductor and violinist Pietari Inkinen, current chief conductor of the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and former chief conductor of the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele Orchestra and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. The core of his repertoire is the music of R. Wagner. In 2023 he conducted a production of Wagner’s cycle of 4 operas The Ring of the Nibelung at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. For his successful performance of the tetralogy in collaboration with Opera Australia, he received the Helpmann Awards for Best Music Direction (2014) and the Green Room Award (2016) for Best Opera Conductor. He was awarded the Franco Abbiati Award for Best Performance for his staging of Das Rheingold. He has recorded the complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He recorded another Sibelius cycle live with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra at Suntory Hall. He is working with the German Radio Philharmonic on complete studio recordings of symphonies by S. Prokofiev and A. Dvořák.

More at https://pietariinkinen.com/.