Germany's Clemens Schuldt will conduct the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera at a concert at the HCM City Opera House tomorrow, October 9.

The event will also feature violinist Byol Kang, a graduate of the Music and Theatre Institute at Dusseldorf's Rostock and Rebert Schumann Music Institute.

The show will open with the overture from Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, a three-act opera by Mozart, whose libretto is written by another German, Christoph Fiedrich Bretzer. It tells the story of hero Belmonte rescuing his beloved Konstanze from the seraglio of the Pasha Selim with assistance from his servant Pedrillo.

Under Schuldt's baton, Kang and the orchestra will perform Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major and Dvorak's Symphony No.8 in G Major.

Violin Concerto in D Major is one of Beethoven's most popular works for violin and orchestra.

In this piece, no strings are heard in the beginning. The woodwind instruments have the task of playing the lyrical sounds of concertos in a blend of sounds peculiarly Beethovenish. The tympanist, in the first and fifth bars, opens the way to a masterpiece recognised by music lovers as "one of the most spacious concertos ever written".

Dvorak's Symphony No.8 in G Major was composed and orchestrated in a mere two months in 1889.

It evokes a wide range of human emotions and is profoundly optimistic, reflecting Dvorak's emotions associated with his three children who did not survive to adulthood.

Schuldt, born in Bremen in 1983, started his conducting studies under famous Professors Rudiger Bohn and Mark Stringer at music conservatories in Dusseldorf and Vienna. He now improves his music with Nicolas Pasquet in Weimar.

A German Conductor's Forum scholarship winner, he has conducted several famous orchestras such as the Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, Mravinsky Theatre Orchestra St Petersburg, WDR Rundfunkorchester Cologne, and Gulbelkian Orchestra Lisbon.

He has been invited to work with the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, RTV Orchestra Madrid, and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Schuldt says he enjoys working with youth orchestras.

Kang was born in Salzburg in 1985 and began her career when she was just eight. She has won prizes in several national and international music competitions like the Schmolz and Bickenbach Competition, Premio Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition, and German Music Competition.

In her mid-twenies, Kang has also performed as a soloist with the prestigious Hofer Symphoniker, Berliner Symphoniker, and Rundfunk-Sinfoni-eorchester Berlin orchestras.

The show begins at 8pm at the Opera House, 7 Lam Son Square, District 1. Tickets costing VND150,000 to VND250,000 are available at the venue.

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