The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra will present a classical period concert of considerable charm featuring two German maestros at the Main Hall of the Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, tomorrow at 7.30pm.
Conductor Christian Kunert and trumpeter André Schoch will collaborate for a performance of Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Trumpet Concerto, in a programme that also includes Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro Overture and Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C Minor.
Schoch has been a member of the Berliner Philharmoniker trumpet section since 2017 and has held a substitute professorship at Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts since 2021.
From 2014 to 2017 he was principal trumpet at the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Before that, engagements as principal trumpet took him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.
As a soloist, he has performed with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg conducted by Kent Nagano, the Polish Kammer-Philharmonie as part of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Berliner Barock Solisten. Kunert began his musical career as a bassoonist and initially won several international competitions. In China, he will take the position of chief conductor of the Anhui Provincial Symphony Orchestra from 2022 and also the position of chief conductor of the Hainan Symphony Orchestra from 2023.
Tickets cost 400, 800, 1,200, 1,600 and 2,000 baht and can be purchased from Thai Ticket Major outlets (visit thaiticketmajor.com or call 02-262-3456).
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