PPO features guest violinist in season finale
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) will take its last “Switch” for its 39th concert season April 19, 7:30 p.m., at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater in Circuit Makati.
For its finale concert, the resident orchestra of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) will feature violinist Diomedes Saraza Jr. as its guest soloist.
Saraza is an active concert violinist, chamber musician and avid educator. The former Manila Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster, he is a well-established musical artist who has taken part in many international solo performances with different orchestras abroad. He has had extensive solo and chamber performances in prestigious venues from the CCP to New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and Russia’s Tchaikovsky’s Concert Hall, among others.
For the PPO’s final concert, music director and principal conductor Grzegorz Nowak will take the baton, leading the national orchestra in a night of “Fete Française.” The concert program includes National Artist for Music Lucrecia Kasilag’s “Violin Concerto No. 1,” Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28” and Franz Schubert’s “Symphony No. 5.”
Tickets to the PPO’s “Concert VIII: Fete Francaise” are priced at P3,000 (Orchestra Center), P2,000 (Orchestra Side), P2,500 (Loge Center), P1,500 (Loge Side) and P800 (Balcony 1). Visit culturalcenter.gov.ph.
