10.1.2024
Inmo Yang has won several competitions eg. the Paganini Competition in 2015 and the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition in 2022. Sakari Oramo, the chair of the jury in the Sibelius Violin Competition commented Yang’s playing in following words: “The winner was overwhelming. There is so much great about Inmo’s playing, both musically and violinistically. There is nothing extra involved in the bow changings, which produces singing and ease.”
Yang has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras around the world. His debut album of 24 Caprices by N. Paganini was released in 2019 and in 2021 he released his second Deutsche Grammophon album.
Yang has studied with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. At the moment he is studying with Antje Weithaas at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin.
A romance of three
4.6.
The programme for the opening concert consists of compositions by Clara and Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, inspired by passion and love.
From Osvaldo Golijov to Béla Bartók’s virtuosic Violin Sonata and Georges Enescu’s dazzling Romanian Rhapsody, the concert is a journey through works inspired by the folk music of different cultures. On top of all this, the multi-talented South African Gareth Lubbe amazes listeners as the overtone singing viola soloist.
Violinists Inmo Yang and Elina Vähälä will perform one of Arvo Pärt’s most beloved works, Tabula Rasa, a concerto for two violins, as soloists of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor Olari Elts will also conduct Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, also known as the Romantic Symphony.
Emotive Paganini
8.6.
The Naantali Music Festival’s international ensemble will perform a collection of the best works by Italian composer Niccolò Paganini.
Turning points
10.6.
The concert features compositions by Beethoven, Debussy and Schoenberg that changed the course of musical history.
