Violinist Lidya Dobrevska (left) and oboist Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska from Macedonia will perform at a concert featuring music by Bach at the HCM City Opera House on August 9. (Photo: courtesy of HBSO) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - ViolinistLidya Dobrevska and oboist Gordana Josifova Nedelkovska from Macedonia willperform in a concert featuring famous compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach atthe Ho Chi Minh City Opera House next week.
Dobrevska and Nedelkovska will open the nightwith Bach’s Double Concerto for Violin, Oboe and Strings No 1 in C Minor. The work was composed in 1736 for twoharpsichords, but the version for violin and oboe is a reconstruction of whatwas thought to have been the original, and was first published in 1970.
Both musicians will continue with the Concerto Grosso No 2 forViolin, Oboe and Chamber Orchestra by Vietnamese composer Nguyen Manh Duy Linh, a graduate ofthe Magnitogorsk State Conservatory in Russia.
Linh is the stage manager and head of theperforming arts department of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera(HBSO).
The second part of the concert will featureBach’s famous Toccata and Fugue, which was originally composed for church organ. It was adaptedfor the symphony orchestra by English conductor Leopold Stokowski, who recordedit with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the US in 1927.
Violinist Dobrevska won numerous prizes atcompetitions for young violinists before joining the Academic Music College ofthe Moscow State Conservatory of P.I. Tchaikovsky in Russia.
She has performed as a soloist with manysymphony orchestras and chamber ensembles in Russia, Italy, France, Greece,Germany, Bulgaria and Sweden, among others.
She has been a member of the MacedoniaPhilharmonic Orchestra since 1992, after which she became a member of theChamber Orchestra of Radio-Television. In 1997, she became a leader of theviolin section of both orchestras.
Oboist Nedelkovska studied at prestigious musicschools in Macedonia, Poland and Canada. She has performed as a soloist withmany great orchestras in the world, such as the Symphonic Orchestra of theNational Chapel of Saint Petersburg from Russia, and Kimy Sinfonieta orchestrafrom Finland.
In 2015, Dobrevska became a member of theprestigious French Order of Arts and Letters. She is currently a professor atthe Faculty of Music in Skopje. She teaches oboe, chamber music and themethodology of teaching wind instruments.
Conductor Le Phi Phi, who has returned fromMacedonia, will lead the concert.
Phi, who graduated from the Moscow TchaikovskyConservatory in 1993, was the principal conductor of the MacedonianPhilharmonic Orchestra until 2000.
He was the resident conductor of the SymphonyOrchestra of the city of Nis, Serbia from 2007-2012. He has toured inMacedonia, Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Albania andBulgaria, and is currently teaching at the Macedonian Centre of Opera andBallet.
The concert will begin at 8pm on August 9 at theOpera House at 7 Lam Son Square in District 1. Tickets range from 200,000 VNDto 650,000 VND (80,000 VND for students), and are available at the venue’s boxoffice and www.ticketbox.vn.-VNS/VNA
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