Uppsala Kammarorkester Nordisk final

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About the Performance

Participants

Conductor: Paul Mägi
Soloist: Marianna Shirinyan, piano
Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

Concert introduction at 18:20–18:40

Program

Cecilia Damström (b. 1988): ICE
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907): Piano Concerto in A minor op 16
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Symphony No. 1 in E minor op 39
Uppsala Chamber Orchestra’s honorary conductor Paul Mägi leads the season finale with a Nordic program.

ICE by the Finland-Swedish composer Cecilia Damström opens the concert. Damström depicts global warming, as well as the collapse of an ecosystem with melting ice and increasingly shorter winters. “ICE” translates to ice, but can also be read as an acronym for “In Case of Emergency.”

Tonight’s soloist is Armenian-Danish pianist Marianna Shirinyan, a sought-after soloist and chamber musician who is a frequent guest on many international stages. Here we will hear her play perhaps the most famous work of the Norwegian national romanticist Edvard Grieg, the Piano Concerto from 1868.

The final version of Sibelius’s first symphony premiered in 1900 and contributed to the composer’s international breakthrough. This passionate and powerful work concludes the concert evening and Uppsala Chamber Orchestra’s season.

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

With a stylistic range extending from grand symphonies to intimate chamber music works, Uppsala Chamber Orchestra has performed live music for the county’s residents for over 50 years. The orchestra, considered by many to be one of Sweden’s finest, consists of professional musicians and is known for its warm and full orchestral sound. Since 2007, their home stage has been Uppsala Concert & Congress, where they also present family concerts and welcome school classes for educational visits. In recent years, the orchestra has made acclaimed guest appearances in Estonia, at concert halls in Gothenburg, Vara and Norrköping, as well as at Artipelag on Värmdö.

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra is part of the foundation Music in Uppland, a regional music organization in Uppsala with Region Uppsala as the main sponsor.

The concert is part of Music in Uppland’s subscription series Orchestral Series – Large Subscription and Small Subscription