Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

Tibor Bogányi

In 2017/2018, he is spending his seventh season as chief conductor of the Pannon Philharmonic.

Tibor Bogányi is of Hungarian descent and is regarded as the most interesting and talented member of the generation of Finnish conductors. At the age of 28 he was appointed Chief Conductor of… More

Soloist

Jan-Erik Gustafsson

cello

The Finnish Cellist Jan-Erik Gustafsson is one of the most outstanding and sought after soloist and chamber musician in the international music world today. He began his studies with Markku Luolajan-Mikkola at the West Helsinki Music Institute. He studied further… More

About the Programme

Richard Strauss composed his symphonic poem by following Cervantes' novel, Don Quixote. The cello part, impersonating the title character was originally written to the first cellists of the orchestra, but it soon became a part of the solo literature. In fact, about some soloists who kept it on their repertoire and often played it , such as Hugo Becker and Paul Tortelier, their peers just talked jokingly as Don Quixote. This time, the clumsy knight would live by the cello playing of Jan-Erik Gustafsson, who will be the soloist of Dohnányi’s rarely heard late-Romantic Konzertstück, too. The orchestra is going to be conducted by Tibor Bogányi.