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This month, Alessandro Crudele will make his debut in Sweden with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. This ensemble is one of the oldest orchestras in the country, founded in 1912. It is renowned for its distinctive, clear, fluid and expressive sound.

The concert will take place on 24 September at the Helsingborgs Konserthus and will feature Johannes Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, one of Alessandro’s favourite works in his repertoire, which he recently recorded with the Philharmonia Orchestra. Alongside this will be Johan Bridger’s ambitious arrangement of Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 4 for marimba and vibraphone – Bridger, a highly talented Swedish percussionist, will be the evening’s soloist. The concert will open with a fine rarity waiting to be rediscovered: Tableaux Parisiens, I. Vie bruyante dans le lointain by the forgotten Swedish female composer Valborg Aulin.

Alessandro Crudele is known for his dedication to youth orchestras and has always been passionately committed to training young musicians and supporting organizations dedicated to this cause.
This year, he was delighted to accept an invitation from the Sinfonia Smith Square in London and, among other things, will perform with them in two concerts at the Anghiari Festival in Tuscany.

On Sunday, 19 July, Alessandro will conduct Nicola Campogrande’s Cinque modi per aprire un concerto and Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor.
On Tuesday, 21 July, he will lead the Sinfonia Smith Square in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in C major K 466 (with pianist Alessio Tonelli) and in Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B flat major.
Both concerts will take place it the picturesque setting of Piazza del Popolo in Anghiari.

Sinfonia Smith Square is a London-based orchestra and training program for early-career musicians. It brings together young professionals and established world-class artists for an intensive fellowship combining high-level performances with real-world musical experience.

Alessandro has had a special relationship with the Thüringen Philharmonie since his first appearance in 2018. Last year, he conducted the orchestra in an acclaimed concert at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Now he returns to conduct them in their main season in Gotha and Eisenach on March 12 and 13.

The programme for the two evenings, entitled “Schicksal und Leidenschaft” (Fate and Passion), begins with Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky, continues with Rachmaninov’s famous Piano Concerto No. 2, which will be performed by renowned German pianist Bernd Glemser, and ends with Tchaikovsky’s celebrated Fifth Symphony.