Jersey Chamber Orchestra
Starring Leonard Elschenbroich (cello)
Tickets: £10-£35
Music in Action presents “Music from the Movies” – an entertaining night of classic music from your favourite movies.
A memorable night for film fans and classical music lovers features music from the Sorcerer’s Apprentice heard in Disney’s Fantasia to that memorable scene in the Witches of Eastwick with the Dvorak cello concerto.
Enjoy the magnificent Ride of the Valkyries featured in Apocalypse Now, Mahler’s love song – the Adagietto from his 5th Symphony – as heard in the great film Death in Venue and Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King which features is countless films from A Night at the Museum to The Social Network
This concert is packed full of favourite tunes which will bring down the house conducted by BBC conductor Justin Doyle and starring the Jersey Chamber Orchestra.
The concert supports the Oscar Maclean Foundation.
Programme includes:
Verdi – La forza del destino overture (Jean de Florette)
Dvorak – Cello Concerto (Witches of Eastwick)
Dukas – Sorcerers Apprentice (Fantasia)
Mahler – Adagietto from 5th Symphony (Death in Venice)
Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King (Social Network/ A Night at the Museum)
Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now)
Biography of Leonard Elschenbroich
“Elschenbroich’s sound had a burnished glow and radiated authority”
The Independent
Leonard Elschenbroich has excited interest as one of the most charismatic cellists of his generation since receiving the Leonard Bernstein award at the opening concert of the 2009 Schleswig Holstein Festival, following his performance of the Brahms Double with Anne Sophie Mutter under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach. Since then, Leonard joined the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist scheme in 2012, a prestigious award offering performances and recordings with all the BBC orchestras and at the BBC Proms.
He has worked with a number of eminent conductors, including Christoph Eschenbach, Charles Dutoit and Vasily Sinasiky. As a soloist he has performed with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra,. He made his debut at the Musikverein in Vienna with the Dresden Staatskapelle on a European tour. Leonard has performed at BBC Proms, most recently in 2014 with BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards, and in 2013 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Charles Dutoit.
His recent CD (Rachmaninov Cello Sonata & Shostakovich Viola Sonata), released on Onyx Classics in 2013, received 5 star reviews from The Telegraph, The Guardian and BBC Music Magazine (Choice of the Month).
Leonard Elschenbroich has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Auditorium du Louvre, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Lucerne Festival, the Gstaad Festival, and the Jersey Liberation International Music Festival.
His many awards include: the Borletti Buitoni Trust Award, Eugene Istomin Prize, Pro Europa prize, Landgraf von Hessen price at the Kronberg Academy, Nordmetall Prize at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival, Firmenich Prize at the Verbier Festival.