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Fischer and Kang spotlight the Americas for the League of Orchestras in Salt Lake City
Thierry Fischer and Clara Jumi Kang will perform with the Utah Symphony on Thursday 12 June to an audience full of orchestra leaders from across North America, all visiting Salt Lake City to attend the League of American Orchestras’ annual conference. In a programme celebrating the Americas Clara Jumi Kang performs Korngold’s violin concerto, composed...
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Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León announces 2025–2026 Season
The Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León has unveiled its program for the 2025–2026 season, marking the fourth season of Thierry Fischer as Chief Conductor. Under his leadership, the orchestra will embark on a tour to the Netherlands, including a return performance at the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The season also includes concerts in A...
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Frank Martin and Igor Stravinsky with the OCL in Lausanne and Amsterdam
Thierry Fischer conducts the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in a program featuring Frank Martin’s Die Blaue Blume in an orchestration by Bart Visman and Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella. Thierry Fischer is joined by soprano Hélène Walter, tenor Luca Bernard, and bass Stephen MacLeod. Performances take place in Lausanne and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. 30 April & 1 May 2025 Salle Métropole, Lausanne, Switzerland Tickets 3...
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Mahler 5 with São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra
Folha de S.Paulo, 14. March 2025: [Thierry Fischer’s] work in this repertoire deserves full consideration. He never seeks easy effects: he maintains elegance amid chaos and rejects all excessive violence. He never loses control of phrasing — no matter how complex the interactions between the sections may be — and sound balance is his obsession.
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Mahler 5 with Utah Symphony
Utah Arts Review, 22. February 2025: The Adagietto, scored for just strings and harp, is undoubtedly the Fifth’s most famous movement, and one of Mahler’s most sublime creations. Fischer coaxed lyrical, expressive playing and delicately crafted phrasing from the string section that underscored the movement’s transcendent beauty (and offered a much needed moment of repose...
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Thierry Fischer Returns to Utah Symphony
Thierry Fischer, Music Director Emeritus of the Utah Symphony, returns to the orchestra for the first time after ending his music directorship of 14 years in 2023. The two concert runs will each feature a Mahler symphony. “Performing Mahler with the Utah Symphony is special because it was the first American orchestra to perform and...