Wednesday May 17th at 6:30 pm
Rolex Learning Center Forum
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Joseph Pons, direction
Fifty musicians of the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (OCL) move the the Rolex Forum to play, exclusively at EPFL, its « Grand Concert 9 ». They accompany the soloist from Russian origins Alina Ibragimova and are directed by Josep Pons.
Born in 1985 in Russia, Alina Ibragimova studies at the Moscow Gnesin School before moving to Great Britain with her family in 1995 where she joins the Yehudi Menuhin School then the Royal College of Music.
Josep Pons is a Spanish conductor. He is the current director of the Orquestra Sinfónica del Gran Teatro del Liceo (ES). He is also honorary director of the Spanish National Orchestra (Orquesta Nacional de España).
Concert programme :
- JOHANNES BRAMS : Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
- RICHARD STRAUSS : Der Bürger als Edelmann (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme), suite, Op. 60
Germanic music has known great composers who have always professed a hedonistic conception of their art, without seeking to turn upside down the canons inherited from the past. Brahms is one of them, who wrote a famous violin concerto rich of gypsy rhythms; so is Richard Strauss, whose rich orchestra slips with delicacy into a music for the theater wrote for Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme.