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

Kristóf Baráti

violin More

István Várdai

cello More

About the Programme

At the Gala Concert on the Day of the City of last year, Johannes Brahms’s Academic Festival Overture gave the tuning tone to the anniversary year of the University of Pécs. The composer wrote the work compiled from student songs for the commission of the University of Wroclaw that granted him an honorary doctorate in 1880. This year, the overture is going to be heard together with another work of the composer, the Double Concerto. The concerto written for cello, violin, and orchestra in 1887 is a special document about the artist friendship between Brahms and József Joachim, as well as the last orchestral composition of the German composer.
The interesting fact about the work that it was originally meant to be a symphony, is perhaps explaining why the soloists are accompanied by an unusually large ensemble in the composition.

The concert is a co-production of the University of Pécs and the Pannon Philharmonic.