From Wurttemburg Germany by way of Madrid, Spain – a concert featuring the Wurttemburg Chamber Orchestra, led by Ruben Gazarian and featuring Sharon Kam in music of Weber, Copland and Mozart. The Concert was recorded on May 23, 2011 by SWRF and relayed to RNE Radio Clasica.
The concert starts with Weber’s First Symphony, followed by Copland’s Clarinet concerto and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto K.622 and ending the program with a performance of Mozart’s Symphony Number 41 (Jupiter).
Sharon Kam: As a passionate chamber musician, Sharon Kam regularly works with artists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Enrico Pace, Julian Steckel, Leif Ove Andsnes, Antje Weithaas, Liza Ferschtman, Christian Poltera and the Jerusalem Quartet. She is a frequent guest at festivals in Schleswig-Holstein, Heimbach, Rheingau, Risør, Cork, Verbier, and Delft, as well as the Schubertiade festival.
An active performer of contemporary music, she has premiered many works, including Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concerto and Quartet and concertos by Herbert Willi (at the Salzburg Festival), Iván Erőd and Peter Ruzicka (at Donaueschingen).
As guest conductor Ruben Gazarian has directed such renowned orchestras as Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, WDR-Sinfonieorchester Köln, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Kassel State Theater Orchestra, Deutsches-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Museum Orchestra (Frankfurt Opera Orchestra), Hessian State Orchestra Wiesbaden, Northwest German Philharmonic Herford, Orchestre National de Lyon, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Tel Aviv Opera Orchestra (Rishon LeZion Orchestra), Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and many others.
All German radio stations as well as Radio Svizzera Italiana, Radio France Musique, Radio Denmark (DR, Danmarks Radio) and several other European stations have recorded numerous of his concerts with various orchestras.
Gazarian works successfully with acclaimed musicians such as Khatia Buniatishvili, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Hilary Hahn, Katia & Marielle Labèque, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Sabine Meyer, Viktoria Mullova, Sergey Nakariakov, Gerhard Oppitz, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Julian Rachlin, Frank Peter Zimmermann, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Gewandhaus-Quartet and several others.The vast discography documents the extent of Gazarians repertoire and the quality of his interpretations, born of meticulous rehearsal work, profound emotional understanding and firm mastery over a broad range of periods and styles.
Enjoy the concert.
