Dutch conductor to lead concert at HCM City Opera House
Conductor Leon Bosch from the Netherlands will lead a concert featuring masterpieces by European composers at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House on October 8.
The concert titled “A Night of European Dances” will highlight the premiere of Spanish composer Oscar Navarro’s second Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - Conductor Leon Bosch from the Netherlands will leada concert featuring masterpieces by European composers at the Ho Chi Minh CityOpera House on October 8.
The concert titled “A Night of European Dances” will highlight the premiere ofSpanish composer Oscar Navarro’s second Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in Vietnam.
The concerto, which was commissioned by the Valencia Music Institute in 2012,has one long movement divided into three sections.
Navarro has numerous national and international composition awards, and hismusic is performed in large concert halls around the world. He also has writtenmusic for feature films, short films and documentaries. He is currently workingin Spain and the US.
The concerto will be performed by Vietnamese clarinetist Hoang Ngoc Anh Quan,along with the HCM City Ballet, Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) orchestra.
The orchestra will also present Selections from Carmen Suites by Frenchcomposer Georges Bizet.
The second half of the programme will feature Symphony No 8 in G major by Czechcomposer Dvorak.
Dvorak wrote it in two and a half months in 1889 to mark his elevation tomembership of the Bohemian Academy of Science, Literature and Arts. Thefour-movement symphony has a cheerful and optimistic melody. Dvorak conductedits premier in Prague in 1890.
Conductor Leon Bosch is one of the Netherlands’ leading clarinetists.
He is also a senior teacher at the Zuyd University of Applied Sciences inMaastricht, the Netherlands.
He has given masterclasses, both in the Netherlands and abroad, and frequentlyadvises and coaches various orchestras including the Dutch National YouthOrchestra.
In 2021, he was invited to conduct the HBSO orchestra in HCM City./.
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The concert titled “A Night of European Dances” will highlight the premiere of Spanish composer Oscar Navarro’s second Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) 
