Season Opening Concert

For the opening of its 2023-2024 artistic season, the Athens State Orchestra welcomes an old friend to the podium: the outstanding Matthias Foremny, the German conductor who has been a leading light on the classical music scene for many years and regularly conducts top European orchestras. Two symphonic suites, one from Kurt Weill's famous Mahagonny, the other from Maurice Ravel's exciting impressionist ballet Daphnis and Chloe, reveal the unmatched musical riches of the first half of the 20th century. The two demanding piano concertos to be performed by Andrei Gavrilov, one of the most eminent representatives of the Russian piano school, belong to precisely the same period.