Dennis Russell Davies and his Brno Philharmonic Orchestra will conclude the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 with Philip Glass’s Mishima Concerto, featuring soloist Maki Namekawa in the Train Hall of POSTCITY.
Admission: € 53,- or FESTIVALPASS(+)*
(€ 37,- reduced)
Please note: Tickets are available online and are limited.
* FESTIVALPASS(+) holders have access to the concert and require separate registration! Further information will follow.
Guest performance by Brno Philharmonic with their principal conductor Dennis Russell Davies, who has long been closely associated with Ars Electronica.
Twenty years ago, in 2004, under his musical direction, the now-legendary 3D live visualization of a concert performance of Richard Wagner’s Rheingold took place. This was realized by the Ars Electronica Futurelab using 25 projectors and a screen that encompassed the entire audience area. That same year, Dennis Russell Davies initiated the ongoing and successful collaboration with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in the form of the Big Concert Night of Ars Electronica Festival. This established a central program line for the festival, bridging traditional concert music with experimental and digital sounds and music.
On the occasion of Dennis Russell Davies’ 80th birthday, Ars Electronica presents one of his recent productions: Philip Glass’ Mishima Concerto, which was premiered at the Piano Festival Ruhr with the MDR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Davies.
The Mishima Concerto is based on the soundtrack of the movie Mishima, composed by Philip Glass in 1985. Michael Riesman has arranged a version for solo piano with orchestra for Maki Namekawa.
The concert at Ars Electronica Festival will feature the Austrian premiere of Mishima Concerto, complemented by three rarely performed pieces from the second part of Bedřich Smetana’s Ma Vlast (From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields, Tábor, Blaník)—a unique opportunity for direct comparison with Smetana’s own version for piano for four hands. This will be performed by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa the day before.