Prom 13

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Shepherd, Sean (b. 1979)	Magiya (BBC co-commission with Carnegie Hall, European première)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (1840-1893)	Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Symphony no. 10 in E minor, Op.93

Performers

Joshua Bell	Violin
National Youth Orchestra of the USA
Valery Gergiev	Conductor

The UK debut of the newly
formed National Youth
Orchestra of the United
States of America opens
with the European
premiere of a work by
American rising star Sean
Shepherd. Joshua Bell joins
Valery Gergiev and the
orchestra for Tchaikovsky’s
Violin Concerto in a bravura
programme that concludes with Shostakovich’s
monumental 10th Symphony.

Tickets £7.50 - £36.

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Josef Kotek and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Danny Riley, 11th January

A look at Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and the musician who inspired it.

Prom 13: National Youth Orchestra of the USA with Joshua Bell and Valery Gergiev

Katherine Dixson, 21st July

As Proms debuts go, this would be difficult to beat. The newly formed National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) were fresh – literally, certainly no sign of fatigue – from an intensive two-week training residency followed by a tour which included the tall order of taking Tchaikovsky to Russia.

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