PROGRAM

* Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore overture No. 3 op. 72b
* Joseph Haydn Concerto for Cello and Orchestra D major Hob. VIIb:2
* Richard Strauss Romanze for Cello und Orchestra
* Kurt Weill Symphony No. 2

Classical Music Winning the Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival 2017 was Kerem Hasan’s springboard to an international career. Born in London in 1992, Hasan balances his worldwide engagements with his job as chief conductor of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck. For his debut with the Tonkunstler Orchestra he’s chosen concertante cello joys from Joseph Haydn and Richard Strauss as well as Ludwig van Beethoven’s dramatic third Leonore overture. And he makes a case for the composer of the Threepenny Opera as a symphonist: in Kurt Weill’s Second of 1934 with its dancing, ironic, restless music, the “City Lights glitter”.

Harriet Krijgh cello, Kerem Hasan conductor, Tonkunstler Orchestra