The Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid celebrated the 30th anniversary of the renowned institution with a European tour. The Freixenet Symphony Orchestra performed, with violinist Arabella Steinbacher and under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada, at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest on October 10. The concert now available online!
Since its foundation in 1993, the ensemble sponsored by Freixenet has worked with great conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Rudolf Barshai, Luciano Berio, Péter Csaba, Sir Colin Davis, Péter Eötvös, Leon Fleisher, Zoltán Kocsis, Lorin Maazel, Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Tamás Vásáry, among others.
The mission of the orchestra is twofold; besides providing orchestral experience for the students of the institution, it also aims to bring classical music closer to the public. At present, they perform in both symphony and chamber orchestra formations, directed by principal conductors Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and András Schiff.
In addition to a piece by Albéniz, the programme of the Budapest concert on October 10 includes Violin concerto No. 1 in D major by Prokofiev and Symphony No. 8 by Dvořák. The soloist of the evening will be two-time ECHO Klassik Award winner violinist Arabella Steinbacher, who regularly performs, among others, with the New York, the Boston, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestras, the Symphonic Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Elbphilharmonie Orchestra from Hamburg.
