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PIANIST JOINS VSO

44 - Sunday, December 8, 1985 - North Shore News

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Music featured from three centuries

HUNGARIAN pianist Janos
Solyom joins the Vancouver
Symphony under the direc-
tion of Rudolf Barshai in the
fitth concerts of the CP Air
Musically Speaking series,
December 7 and 9 in the Or-
pheum.

These concerts, present
music from three centuries,
music ranges from Mozart's
Masonic Funeral Music,
composed in the 18th cen-
tury, through 19th century’s
Night on Bald Mountain by
Moussorgsky to Prokofiev's
penetrating Third Symphony
and Bartok’s Third Piano
Concerto.

Janos Solyom’s ap-
pearances in Sweden
routinely creates headlines
like the time he played all
five Beethoven concertos
with the Stockholm
Philharmonic on two con-
secutive nights.

Born in 1938 in Budapest,
Hungary, the young Solyom
began his piano studies at
the age of eight. Two years
Jater he was awarded first
prize in three nation-wide
competitions, one of them
for improvisation.

In 1956 Solyom left
Hungary and settled in
Sweden and he has been giv-
ing concerts ever since his
official debut there in 1959.
In addition to Scandinavia
and the European countries,
he has also performed in

Canada, South America,
Israch, aad the United States.

Host Peter McCoppin is
one of Canada’s leading
young conductars. Versatile
and at ease with any au-
dience, his repertoire extends
the entire range from
classical literature to pops
standards.

This season he was ap-
pointed principal guest con-
ductor of the Kitchener
Waterloo Symphony and is
also conductor of the entire
Musically Speaking series for
Orchestra London in On-
tario.

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Muestro) MeCoppin has
hosted a number of concerts
for the VSO {in addition to
conducting engagements)
and is popular with sym-
phony audiences.

The VSO's new music
director and principal con-

ductor, Rudolf Barshai has
made a positive impact on
Vancouver Symphony au.
diences in the brief time he
has conducted this season.
He has recently returned
from engagements with
England's Bournemouth

Symphony, where he is prin-
cipal conductor and artistic
advisor.

Barshai is scheduled (o
conduct the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra for a
mininum of 12 weeks in
each of his first three

seasons with the VSO. In
addition he will continue to
guest conduct orchestras
throughout Europe and
North America.

Concert times are 8:30
p.m., Sat., Dec. 7, and 7:30
p.m. Mon., Dee. 9.

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