Yo-Yo Ma to open 2016-17 season at HKPhil
Ma is only one of the delights of the Philharmonic’s upcoming season, which will also see Jaap van Zweden begin to conduct a two-year Mahler cycle, plus major works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and Haydn
There is much buzz around the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra’s 2016-17 season – the first season after its music director, Jaap van Zweden, was named the next head of the New York Philharmonic.
In the words of Raff Wilson, the troupe’s director of artistic planning, the appointment “has a huge impact on all sorts of levels. This announcement puts him as a successor to Bernstein, Mahler, Maazel – it puts him in the very top tier of conductors in the world, and here he is, with our orchestra.”
HKPhil music director named head of New York Philharmonic
Van Zweden is expected to work with the Hong Kong Philharmonic until at least 2019.
For the upcoming season, he will be in Hong Kong for 10 weeks, and his Mittel-European sensibilities anchor theprogramming, which includes the first year of a two-year Mahler symphony cycle.
He will also conduct major works of Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms and Haydn.
The Wagner Ring Cycle will complete its third instalment with the monumental opera Siegfried. Star singers include Simon O’Neill as Siegfried, Heidi Melton as Brünnhilde and Matthias Goerne as the Wanderer.
