CCP President Kaye Tinga said the PPO UK tour was a high point in international exposure for Filipino musicians. “Because the orchestra performed to an international audience and given the rousing response, we were able to prove that Filipino musicians are truly world class and amongst the best in the world. The CCP will continue its mission of promoting the very best in Filipino talents.”
After a well-received 40th concert season at the Samsung Theater, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) under music director Maestro Grzegorz Nowak has embarked on a nine-city tour of the United Kingdom.
Friday night (Nov. 22) at the Samsung Theater in Circuit Makati, violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr. wore many hats in the ecstatically received Music Movies Magic concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Gerard Salonga.
After a successful season opening concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, the national orchestra goes breezy and light in an evening of film music with Gerard Salonga on November 22, 2024, 7:30 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts.
One could safely conclude the PPO has risen to high expectations with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, which elicited a screaming standing ovation.
Cecile Licad makes her second appearance at the Manila Metropolitan Theater on Tuesday, March 19, 7 p.m. with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Grzegorz Nowak
Roustem Saitkoulov, winner of the Rome Piano Competition and Grand Prix of the Montecarlo World Piano-Masters, replaces Krystian Zimerman in the Feb. 9, season concert of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO).
When Polish music director Grzegorz Nowak leads the PPO on Friday, Oct. 13 at the Samsung Theater in Circuit Makati, he will surely re-live working with his legendary soloists among them pianist Martha Argerich and cello icon Mstislav Rostropovich.
From the way the Polish conductor projected the essence of the music, one could see musical genius at work.
Friday night (May 12) at the Manila Metropolitan Theater, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) observed its 50th year with a commemorative concert partly recreating the 1973 inaugural concert.
