The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes back pianist Albert Tiu in the fifth concert of its 38th season on January 27, 2023, 8:00 PM at the Metropolitan Theater.
The concert also sees Japanese-American conductor Shizuo Kuwahara leading the orchestra. He is the fourth of the five conductors shortlisted gunning for the position of the PPO Music Director/Principal Conductor. Kuwahara is the First Prize winner of the Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition in Frankfurt, Germany and principal guest conductor of The Mariinsky Theatre, Russia.
Tiu, recently promoted to Head of Piano Studies at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, last performed with the PPO back in the the orchestra's opening concert of its 32nd season back in 2014.
The evening's program will include Antonino Buenaventura's Mindanao Sketches, Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat major, Op. 10, Alexander Borodin's Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, and Igor Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1919).
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