OCT 07, 2015 - MAY 10, 2016EMIRATE WIDE, ABU DHABI
The new season of Abu Dhabi Classics brings an eight-month-long series of classical concerts and performances by some of the world’s leading musicians and orchestras in Western and Eastern classical music.
With a new and expanded programme of 26 performances in the UAE capital, Saadiyat Island, Liwa desert and historic sites in the emirate’s heritage heartland of Al Ain, the new season will run until May 2016.
Brought to you by Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) the music programme also includes the Emirati Music Series, Bait Al Oud Concert Series, the World Intangible Heritage through Music Series and, under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Shamsa bint Hamdan Al Nahyan, the Umsiyat events in Mushrif Park.
Opening its doors to orchestras from Asia, the 2015/16 Classics programme will start with the Symphony Orchestra of India performing in October followed by the celebrated China Philharmonic Orchestra in May.
Among the highlights of the season will be Jordi Savall’s tour of the emirate with his creation ‘Ibn Battuta Traveller of Islam’and the return of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from the UK.
In January, Abu Dhabi will host the rising ensemble of the Iberian Peninsula, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, with two concerts, including Gustav Mahler’s impressive 6th Symphony and Manuel de Falla’s symphonic homage to his country’s Hispano-Arabic past, ‘The Nights in the Gardens of Spain’.
One of classical music’s greatest stars, the Argentinian/Swiss pianist Martha Argerich, together with violin virtuoso Gidon Kremer and his Baltic string ensemble, Kremerata Baltica will debut their first appearance in the Gulf region in February 2016 while the world-leading Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra will play three concerts dedicated to Beethoven’s Symphonic work and to contemporary music in March 2016.
Given this year’s theme and the link between music and poetry, the prestigious poets, Adonis and Gulzar, as well as major musicians such as Oud master Naseer Shamma and German baritone Matthias Goerne will also make appearances during the Classics season.
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