2023 Tour of the Kyiv Virtuosi in Korea

In July 2023, the Kyiv Virtuosi Orchestra shall be embarking on a 4-concert tour of South Korea, organised by CMDI Group, and held as part of the acclaimed Pyeongchang Festival in the nation’s Gangwon Province. 

Starting off on the 27th of the month, the orchestra will be led by their Music Director, the renowned cellist and conductor Dmitry Yablonksy, for the entirety of the tour. For their first concert, the ensemble will be teaming up with Guillaume Sutre, Ji-Yoon Park, and Jiyoon Lee, among other soloists, to present a programme including Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and Béla Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra.

The next day the orchestra will return once again, this time in collaboration with Janna Gandelman and Hyo Joo Lee respectively, to interpret Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in E minor and contemporary composer Alexey Shor’s From my Bookshelf for Piano and String Orchestra. This will be followed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, with Jiyoung Lim and Hayang Park as soloists for this piece. 

For their penultimate stop of this tour on the 29th of July, the orchestra will open with Felix Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 10 in B minor, before continuing with Alban Berg’s ‘Sieben frühe Lieder’, and Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, performed alongside the illustrious soprano Yeree Suh. Yablonksy himself shall then take on the soloist’s role for the evening’s concluding piece – Baruch Berliner's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra “Jacob's Dream”.

Finally, to close off their stay in Korea and at the Pyeongchang Festival, the Kyiv Virtuosi and Yablonsky shall perform for a last time on the 30th of the month, with a programme featuring Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 10 in B minor; Shor’s Musical Pilgrimage for Cello, with Jungran Lee as soloist; and Edvard Grieg’s famed Holberg Suite.