HCM CITY — Korean conductor Lim Jun-o and violinist Paik Jae-jin will perform with the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera in a concert at HCM City's Opera House tomorrow.
The concert will feature music by Italian, German and Russian composers.
The orchestra will open the show by playing the overture to The Barber of Seville, a popular 18th century opera by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.
Highlights include a performance by violinist Paik Jae-jin, who is a music professor at the Dong-Eui University in Busan, South Korea.
Paik will play a violin concerto by German composer and conductor Max Bruch.
The concert will continue with Russian music, including Shostakovich's well-known Symphony No 5.
Paik, one of South Korea's talented violinists, graduated from Seoul National University. In 1989, he continued his studies at the Wien Musik Hochschule in Austria.
He has taken part in many concerts at home and abroad, and worked with numerous orchestras, including the Seoul Chamber Orchestra, Seoul Young Orchestra, Ulsan City Orchestra and Vienna Academy Chamber Orchestra, before moving to reside in Busan. He now works as a music teacher for the Dong-Eui University.
After studying music at Korea's Dong-Eui University, Lim continued conducting at the Magnitogorsk Music Conservatory in Russia.
He has performed in many concerts and festivals in South Korea, Russia and Viet Nam, and now leads the New Prime Symphony Orchestra.
Last year, he visited HCM City to conduct a classical music concert staged by the HBSO.
The concert will begin at 8pm tomorrow at the Opera House at 7 Lam Son Square, District 1. Tickets, on sale at the theatre's box office, cost between VND150,000 and 200,000 (US$8-12). — VNS