Music Director Emeritus/Conductor | Yip Wing-sie |
Trumpet | Sergei Nakariakov |
Gábor Boldoczki |
Programme
Mozart | Symphony No 29 in A, K201 |
Fazıl Say | Concerto for 2 Trumpets & Orchestra, Op 104 (2022) (Asian première) |
Stravinsky | Symphony in Three Movements |
Sergei Nakariakov (Trumpet)
“Sergei Nakariakov plays the trumpet the way the rest of us breathe – if we are lucky.” San Francisco Chronicle
“Sergei Nakariakov must be a fish, who breathes with his gills!” Münchner Merkur
- A prodigy dubbed “the Paganini of the trumpet” (after a performance at only 13) and “Caruso of the trumpet” (Musik & Theater), he made his débuts at Salzburg Festival and Ivo Pogorelich Festival at age 14 and received the Prix Davidoff the following year at Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
- His remarkable discography of not only the trumpet repertoire but also transcriptions of violin, piano and cello masterpieces has garnered the highest praises including “R10 – Coup de foudre” (Classica-Répertoire), RTL d’Or
- A regular guest at the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals, and has collaborated with the top orchestras and conductors such as Ashkenazy, Bělohlávek, Eschenbach, Gergiev, Marriner, Temirkanov, etc
Gábor Boldoczki (Trumpet)
“He is a wonderful trumpet soloist with an unprecedented suppleness and a uniquely fluid legato, soft as butter.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
“Boldoczki is the most brilliant figure of the trumpet renaissance.” Tagesspiegel
“Svelte tone, lively flexibility, technically charming – Ultimately Gabor Boldoczki performed jumps, scales, trills and melodic lines one after another with virtuose agility.” Nordkurier
- Recipient of the“Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris”, Third International Maurice André Competition
- Has performed with well-known orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, Konzerthausorchestra Berlin, Czech Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Fazıl Say (Composer)
- A brilliant pianist and prolific composer who regularly receives commissions from the world’s most prestigious festivals and groups including the Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals, Konzerthaus Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, Radio France, BBC, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, City of Bayreuth, etc.
- His compositions and their recordings have received critical acclaims and awards such as the ECHO Klassik special prize
Featured artists:

Yip Wing-sie
(Music Director Emeritus)

Sergei Nakariakov
(Trumpet)

Gábor Boldoczki
(Trumpet)

Fazıl SAY
(Composer)