PHILIPPINE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 38th Concert Season – Series VI

PRESENTED BY:

The Cultural Center of the Philippines

DATE/ TIME/ VENUE:

February 24, 2023 | 8:00 PM | Metropolitan Theater

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s (PPO) 38^th concert season, “Metamorphosis,” continues the search for its new Music Director. The sixth series concert features award-winning young conductor Maestro Haoran Li, one of the conductors shortlisted for the Music Director position.  Joining him on the Met concert stage is our very own Diomedes Saraza on violin, who will be the soloist in Jean Sibelius’ D minor Violin Concerto. The programme also includes Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” and Filipino composer Antonino Buenaventura’s “By the Hillside.”

HAORAN LI, conductor

Maestro Haoran Li – PPO 30th Season Series VI

Award-winning young conductor Haoran Li steps on the dais for PPO’s 6th series concert as one of the conductors shortlisted for the Music Director position.  Li was Assistant Conductor  of China Philharmonic Orchestra from 2019 -2020 and the  National Center for the Performing Arts Beijing,China in 2018. For the 2022-2023 season, he led concerts with La Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Romanian Radio National Orchestra, Lasi Philharmonic Orchestra, Banatul Philharmonie Orchestra of Timișoara, Beijing SymphonyOrchestra, and Sichuan Symphony Orchestra.

DIOMEDES SARAZA, violin

Diomedes B. Saraza, Jr (violin) – PPO 30th Season Series VI

Diomedes Saraza started playing the violin at the age of three. He gained attention and became a prominent violinist in the Philippines after winning first place at the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA) in 2002. He became the youngest member of the Manila Symphony Orchestra at age 13. Saraza received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School in 2015. One of his notable concert engagements the performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in the historic concert of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra in New York’s Carnegie Hall, under the baton of Olivier Ochanine. Today, he is the concertmaster of the Manila Symphony Orchestra.

*Diomedes Saraza plays on a 1972 French violin made by Eugene Guinot and Rene Morel given by Standard Insurance Company

PROGRAM:

Antonino Buenaventura                      By the Hillside

Jean Sibelius                                       Violin Concerto Op. 47, D minor

Diomedes Saraza Jr., violin

Modest Mussorgsky                            Pictures at an Exhibition

Haoran Li, conductor

Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra

TICKET INFORMATION:

Ticket Prices

[OC] Orchestra Center                       1,500

[OS] Orchestra Side                           1,200

[BC] Balcony Center                           800

[BS] Balcony Side                              500

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50% for Students

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