For a week every year, the world celebrates the Classical Music Festival, by highlighting the world’s most talented musicians, who devote most of their time to playing classics within the annual “In Classica” International Music Festival. At the level of the Middle East, the Dubai Opera Theater receives this year a group of attractive names from all over the world, who previously participated in international music festivals, and were famous for the beauty and uniqueness of playing in front of very special audiences who love spiritual pleasure, so that these genius talents convey their love for classical music with perfection and passion, By playing stringed instruments such as the guitar, violin, piano, and other stringed instruments that are devoid of electric musical sounds.
7 days
Over the course of the seven days, international players were chosen for each instrument, most of them from contemporary, while giving the opportunity to these young people who are the geniuses of playing in the current era, and they are all on the list of classical players, that is, the list that bears the names of the most important players since 1685 AD, and specifically since The Baroque era to this day such as the musicians Johann Bach and Vivaldi, and from the classical era such as Mozart, Hopper, Haydn and Clement, to the romantic era that starts from the nineteenth century, such as August Wilhelm, Schubert, Joachim and Strauss, to the last two centuries such as Boskovsky and Chomsky, up to this era of Young musicians born in the eighties, nineties and the third millennium.
folk music
This annual festival is joined by a group of specialists in solo playing, so that Dubai Opera will receive, starting from March 4, this weekly classic festival of playing, the famous British violinist Chloe Hanslip, born in 1987 AD and winner of several and important awards, including the “Echo Classic” award in Germany, as well as the award « Classic Brit »popular in Britain, and here we mean popular music as one of the classics and within the ancient heritage, and these awards are granted only to amazing young talents in playing, so that Chloe Hanslip presents her evening on the violin, and it is not her first evening in the Emirates, but it is the first in Dubai Opera, and she looks forward Hanslip continued to present her famous songs following her songs became her own trademark, with a unique, warm and tasteful imprint.
As for the follower of Chloe’s biography, he finds that this is not strange to her, as she has been playing since the age of two, which is a very early age, while at the age of four she performed solo, to start singing and playing together at the age of five. This early talent qualified her to study in a specialized music school, and to practice for hours on end. Daily, and in the lobby of this soft memory of melodies, Chloe enters international competitions until she becomes qualified to play in major concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall in Manhattan in New York City, which is the most famous hall in the world and specializes in presenting classics, and the Royal Albert Hall in London. And tours around the world, glowing with the elegance of music from the age of thirteen until today, and yet Chloe did not stop to take her advanced music lessons and with the most important musicians, professors, academics and maestro «Maxim Vengrov» and all those who have a repertoire of recordings in Russian and French music and others, especially Concerto Russian violin for its aesthetics, as Chloe practiced under the hands of teachers who are in-depth and who believe in her talent.
Most famous talent
And the festival’s activities schedule continues, in which the city of Dubai invests in the most wonderful repertoires to attract a group of attendees and string lovers, by hosting violinist Clara Jumi Kang from South Korea on Sunday, March 5, to play her most beautiful repertoire, that amazing talent and winner of international competitions such as the Seoul Violin Competition in 2009. And the “Indianapolis” International Violin Competition for the year 2010 AD, all of which are awards that qualified Clara to become today one of the most famous talents of her generation, through her artistic abilities and her deep emotional performance. And participating in that charming musical night in playing the piano, her son, the talented musician Sun Wook Kim, who was once the youngest pianist, and won an international award in a prestigious competition, attracting a special audience with a taste for that classical instrument and the instrumentals that he used to play some of the most difficult ones that date back to the early European musicians, to win the award unanimously, and since that time, in recognition of his talent, invitations have poured in on him to participate as a performer, starting with the London Symphony Orchestra, to the “Dresden” and “Chicago Symphony” orchestras, Los Angeles and Berlin, he has become a participant even in piano festivals and in most capitals of the world, and he By recording Beethoven’s most important compositions, such as the “Moonlight Sonata” for the audience’s enjoyment, as he is today one of the best performers of the great symphonies. In Dubai and at the Opera Theater, he will play with fellow musician Clara Jumi Kang classic pieces of the greatest composers of all time.
Maestro
On March 7, within the “In Classica International Music Festival” for the year 2023, one of the most famous pianists, the Polish musician Peter Andrzewski, who received the title (maestro), is a title of honor, respect and trust for any musician who obtains it, as he was and still uses this term. In the context of Western classical music and opera houses, it is a track in its basic Italian meaning meaning: teacher or master, and Peter Andrezewski is an exclusive artist since 2000 AD, as there was no music award in the world that he did not win, especially following recording Bach’s instrumentals on CDs. Dee, but most of all his appearance in a recorded acting documentary in which Peter Anderszewski plays a speaker and explains the differences that appeared in the “Diabelli Variations” according to the music researcher Anton Diabelli, which are the differences he obtained regarding Beethoven’s work on the waltz, and the extent of the differences between the keys The sound through the keyboard, between Beethoven and Bach, and although Bach was born regarding a century before Beethoven, their variations became a book and an advanced study of their style of expression, and Peter appears in the film to describe an accurate description regarding the greatest variety of musical groups at all. Pole Peter Anderszewski will be the maestro and prince of the piano at the Dubai Opera, promising his audience an enchanting evening of piano playing.
fiddle legend
On March 8, the festival goes on to bring the legend of playing the Russian violin instrument, Maxim Wengerov, who was born in 1974 AD and lives in Monaco, and is described as one of the most important live string players in the world, mastering solo playing since the age of five, and recording his albums when he was only ten, to win at that early age. In the International Violinists Competition in 1984 AD, he also won, at the age of twenty, the most prominent “Grammy and Gramophone” award for classical music, passing through other international music awards, in addition to honors and decorations from the Royal Academies. He also won the title of Knight in Monaco in 2019 as a cultural merit. And here he is today in a special concert at Dubai Opera within the “In Classica” festival, joined by the famous Russian-French pianist Rustam Setkulov, Rustam, winner of international competitions such as the Rome Piano Competition for this year, and the Monte Carlo Piano Competition, but we have to know that he has been trained on an instrument. The piano at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, until he obtained a solo playing diploma at an early age, and this is an important part of his musical history. Like other talented musicians from his childhood, he won various music competitions throughout Europe, and participated in its music festivals. and giving a series of concerts with his wife, cellist Claire Aubert, and their daughter, violinist Clara Setkoloff, as a famous trio.
musical genius
In the penultimate concert of this festival, on Thursday, March 9, the Chinese-American violinist Nancy Chu, winner of the Shanghai competition, will appear before the audience, in participation with the veteran Italian maestro, pianist and composer Giuseppe Bruno, winner of the international piano competition in 1991, and today he is the director of the conservatory. In “La Spezia”.
As for Nancy Chiu, she is famous, as is usually the case for talented musicians, by playing since early childhood, training in music, and participating in international competitions since her early teens. This musical genius did not make her neglect her university studies, as she is a Harvard University graduate, and yet today she is considered one of the most distinguished young musicians. In this era, to take the listeners during her performance to a captivating emotional depth, and her audience has always watched her, and they will enjoy her playing in an evening that will undoubtedly be dazzling and will inevitably remain in memory.
The “In Classica” festival of classical music concludes its session for this year in Dubai Opera with the most famous pianists of our time in terms of influence with the British Ashley Wass, who studied in a private music school and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, and won the London International Piano Competition in 1997 AD, to become the party Catch the conclusion with his solos.
