Jacek Kaspszyk studied conducting, music theory and composition at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, graduating in 1975, that same year making his conducting debut at Warsaw’s Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa. In 1976 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. The following year he won the 3rd prize at the prestigious Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin. In 1978 he made his debut with the Berlin and New York Philharmonic Orchestras and was appointed Principal Conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra – two years later becoming its Music Director.

 

 

Conductor: Jacek Kaspszyk
Violin: Glenn Dicterow
Viola: Karen Dreyfus
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

 

Salieri: Symphony in D major “Veneziana”
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K.364
(Violin: Glenn Dicterow; Viola: Karen Dreyfus)

- Intermission -

Beethoven Symphony No.3 in E-flat major, Op.55 “Eroica”