Toruń | Symphonic Touch of Spring

The Toruń Symphony Orchestra concert on 20 March 2020 at 7.00 at CKK Jordanki Concert Hall is planned as a symphonic greeting of the calendar spring. The programme includes famous works inspired by or referring to this time of year.

The Toruń Symphony Orchestra will play under the baton of Wojciech Pławner, who is a resident conductor of the Toruń Symphony Orchestra in the 2019/2020 season. Wojciech Pławner studied violin at the Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg and Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In 2018 he graduated from symphony and opera conducting in the class of prof. Marek Pijarowski and choir conducting in the class of prof. Bogdan Gola at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music. In 2018, he became an assistant in the choir conducting class of prof. Bogdan Gola. The concert soloists will be flute virtuoso Łukasz Długosz and talented violinist Monika Skruszewicz.

We will listen to the sounds of nature coming to life. The Voices of Spring by Johann Strauss will make you forget about winter nostalgia. We will feel the breeze of two Springs: by Antonio Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolia. The light romantic Symphony No. 1 "Spring" in B flat major by Robert Schuman was written shortly after the composer's wedding with the outstanding pianist Clara Wieck. The composer wanted the "first sounds of trumpet to sound like an awakening signal", which probably symbolized the beginning of a new happy period in his life. The programme will also include Piotr Moss's Concerto for flute and orchestra dedicated to Łukasz Długosz.

The concert is co-organized and co-financed within the framework of the "Conductor-in-resident" programme of the Institute of Music and Dance.

More information at: http://www.tos.art.pl/pl/wydarzenie_838_Symfoniczny_powiew_wiosny.html