Great music events in Tivoli - from Daniel Barenboim to k.d. lang
The coming summer season offers a select programme of world-class music and dance in Tivoli.
From Daniel Barenboim to k.d. lang, from Maxim Vengerov to Nancy Wilson; the Concert Hall is the place to be if you want to see some of the greatest and most celebrated stars of classical music, jazz and rock. The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra is a co-contributor to many of the great events of the season, and it is also featured at two concerts on the Tivoli Open Air Stage as well as at the Roskilde Festival.
Tivoli offers something for music lovers of all ages, and the Tivoli Season Pass gives free admission to a number of the concerts. Read more about the summer programme below, in the season programme for 2008 and at www.koncertsalen.tivoli.dk
The season opens in style when star pianist Maurizio Pollini (26 April) visits Denmark for the first time in 25 years. Pollini starts the Pianoforte! concert series, which also offers concerts with Marc-André Hamelin (11 June), Boris Berman (25 July), Krystian Zimerman (5 August), and András Schiff (25 August). Five evenings featuring some of the most interesting pianists in the world.
Tivoli has succeeded in getting the charismatic, high-profile pianist of world-fame Daniel Barenboim (18 August) to come by the Concert Hall with his West Eastern Divan Orchestra. This is the first time Daniel Barenboim visits the Tivoli Concert Hall.
The Concert Hall offers another giant star performance in the world of baroque music with the voice phenomenon Andreas Scholl (9 June) and The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
The series of international piano trios offers several major artists: The Florestan Trio (3 June), Midori/Moser/Biss (4 August) and Beaux Arts Trio (28 August), and the concert featuring Leif Ove Andsnes as soloist and conductor with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (21 July). All absolute world-class must-see concerts.
”The Concert Hall summer season 2008 offers more than four months of music. Every week presents interesting names and programmes, including top international performers. In the light of the steadily upward trend in audience numbers in the past two seasons we are now presenting a larger number of major events while also promoting up and coming musicians.” Nikolaj Koppel, Tivoli Music Director
In the course of the season the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra will get the chance to work with some of the finest musicians and conductors in the world. The highlights include the concerts with world tenor Rolando Villazón (29 August), up and coming star Nicole Cabell (17 May), star pianist Emanuel Ax (4 May), and violinist Maxim Vengerov (15 August).
The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra also presents music for a younger audience. For example, Simon Kvamm can be seen in an unaccustomed role as the narrator of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev (21 June). And for the slightly older audience there will be an untraditional classical music introduction with Alexander Shelley and Daniel Müller-Schott (4 July) – a concert that will be repeated the next day at the Roskilde Festival.
The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra will also play two outdoor concerts on the Tivoli Open Air Stage: The Four Seasons by Vivaldi (14 June) with the Orchestra’s four concertmasters as soloists, and a presentation of the winner of the Tivoli International Piano Competition 2008 (3 August).
In addition to the great classical concerts, Canadian chanteuse k.d. lang (16 July) and elusive cult figure Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy (8 July) will visit the Concert Hall. And then there will be the international ballet guest performance by the New York City Ballet ( 1–6 September).
Tickets for the concerts will be on sale from Thursday, 13 March.
They will be available from the Tivoli Ticket Centre, Vesterbrogade 3, or at www.koncertsalen.tivoli.dk or www.Billetnet.dk.
Meet the artists – what’s on the artists’ minds
Meet the artists is an offer for curious visitors to the Concert Hall. It is a bit like the extra material on a DVD, only live! The idea is simple: After selected concerts, Music Director Nikolaj Koppel will interview the evening’s artist(s) on stage. The audience have the opportunity to write down their questions and place them in boxes in the foyer during the interval.
Meet the artists: Lawrence Foster and Emanuel Ax (4 May), Sir Andrew Davis and Nicole Cabell (17 May), Lan Shui and Augustin Dumay (23 May), Marc-André Hamelin (11 June) and András Schiff (25 August).
The interviews take place on stage right after the concerts.
Introductions
– get some extra information before the concert If you want to know more about the background of the music you are about to hear, this will be possible during a number of introductions to be held in the course of the summer. Danish radio host Esben Tange will introduce four concerts and briefly describe the composers and their works as well as the age in which they lived. The introductions concern the following concerts: Cristian Mandeal and Amalie Malling (30 May), Richard Hickox, Vilde Frang and Andreas Brantelid (6 June), Lan Shui and the four concert masters (13 June) and Carlos Kalmar and Inger Dam-Jensen (6 August).
The introductions take place in the Concert Hall 30 minutes before the concerts start.
U35
– selected events for young people under 35 The Concert Hall continues its successful campaign to get young people to ‘go classical’. For DKK 80 (excluding booking fee) including admission to Tivoli young people under 35 can experience a number of selected concerts featuring both Danish and international stars. 200 U35 tickets are reserved for each of the concerts comprised by the discount scheme. The tickets are sold on a first come first served basis.
The selected concerts are: the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster featuring Emanuel Ax as soloist (4 May), the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui featuring Augustin Dumay as soloist (23 May), the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra conducted by Cristian Mandeal featuring Amalie Malling as soloist (30 May), the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox featuring Vilde Frang and Andreas Brantelid as soloists (6 June), Pianoforte! featuring Marc-André Hamelin at the piano (11 June), the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lan Shui with the Orchestra’s four concertmasters as soloists (13 June), the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Leif Ove Andsnes (21 July), International Piano Trios featuring Midori, Johannes Moser and Jonathan Biss (4 August) and Arcanto Quartett (19 August).
Season Pass concerts
– free admission to 21 classical concerts with a Season Pass Guests with a Season Pass have free admission to a number of classical concerts and series and get a 15% discount on many of the season’s other concerts at the Concert Hall. There is free admission to the following concerts with a Season Pass: The Danish Suzuki Institute (11 May), final concert of the Berlingske Tidende Music Competition for children and young adults (19 May), Sonata Evening 2 x Øland (21 May), Steinway Festival Cavalcade (24 May), The Royal Danish Academy of Music (26 May), Sjællands String Quartet (30 June), Beethoven Tour de Force with Trio Ondine (9, 15 and 20 July), Beethoven Tour de Force with Trio Aristos (10 and 13 July), DR Youth Ensemble (11 July), PIANOFORTE! III with Boris Berman (25 July), 2008 Tivoli International Piano Competition (26, 27, 29 and 30 July), H.C. Lumbye Awards with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra (9 August), Sonata Evening with Serguei Azizian and Elena Semishina (11 August), Musikanmelderringens Kunstnerpriser (Music Critics Artist Awards) with the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra (22 August) and the Tivoli Boys Guard’s 164th Anniversary Concert (11 September).
See more at www.koncertsalen.tivoli.dk
The Concert Hall website gives access to updated concert information. Here you can also download the season programme, participate in weekly competitions and buy concert tickets – quickly and easily.
Subscription – enjoy more concerts at lower prices
If you are a frequent concert goer it will pay to take out a subscription. A subscription for three different concerts saves you 20%. With a subscription for six different concerts the saving amounts to 30%.
For more information about the subscription rules, see the season programme, or click www.koncertsalen.tivoli.dk.
Ticket info
Tickets will be available from the Tivoli Ticket Centre, Vesterbrogade 3, tel. +45 33 15 10 12, or at www.koncertsalen.tivoli.dk or www.billetnet.dk. Ticket sales start on 13 March 2008.
Press photos
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For further information, please contact
Tatjana Vang
Coordinator, the Concert Hall
Tel.: +45 33 75 07 11
E-mail: tv@tivoli.dk
