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Osmo Vanska hitting the road
Poster promoting Osmo Vanska's appearance with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony in Tokyo.
The Minnesota Orchestra's Osmo Vanska won't be relaxing much over the holidays. Instead, he will be on the road again, guest conducting the New World Symphony in Miami (Nov. 30-Dec. 6) and then heading to Japan for a series of Beethoven-centric concerts with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony in Tokyo.
In Miami, Vanska will conduct music of Stravinsky ("The Song of the Nightengale"), Haydn (Cello Concerto in D Major, with cellist Alban Gerhardt) and Brahms (Symphony No. 4).
In Tokyo, the Finnish-born conductor will lead the Japanese premiere of "Insect Symphony" by Finnish composer Kalevi Aho. But the big-ticket items there will be Beethoven symphonies numbers 7 and 9. The mighty 9th Symphony has become a Christmastime favorite in Japan. Vanska's Japan stay will run from December 7 to 28. One Twin Cities connnection there is Minnesota Orchestra Conductor Laureate Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who is principal conductor of the Nippon Symphony.
Vanska guests later in 2010 with the London Philharmonic (Jan. 25-Feb. 7), where he will conduct all seven of the Sibelius symphonies, and in Philadelphia and Paris.
Vanska's next appearance at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis is Jan. 7, 2010, in a program of music from the movies.
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