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The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama's 60th anniversary concert:  Beethoven’s 9th, Sir Charles Mackerras  with The RWCMD Symphony Orchestra and Chorus ,St. David’s Hall, 7.30pm 30th March (GPu)


As both an introduction to classical music and for those already converted, this will be an unforgettable evening of music-making. Sir Charles Mackerras, regarded throughout the world as one of the truly great musicians of our time, will be conducting the Royal Welsh College Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, erforming one of the best known musical masterpieces of all time - Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.  The show, only an hour long, promises an entertaining and enthralling night, a highly charged explosion of sound and emotion.

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) - part of the University of Glamorgan Group  -  is the National Conservatoire of Wales, providing specialist practical and performance-based training that enables students to enter and influence the world of music, theatre and related professions.

Ilze Kirsanova, winner of the 2008 Charles Mackerras Orchestral Leader scholarship will be leading the orchestra. Ilze won first prize in the 1997 Latvian Young Musician Competition and was orchestra leader in a range of orchestras and ensembles before studying violin as a graduate and post-graduate in her home-town until 2007. Since graduating from the Jazep Vitols Latvian Academy of Music she has been performing with the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and was deputy concert master from October 2007 to May 2008. Ilze will be at the Royal Welsh College until July 2009, leading a variety of concerts and participating in the College’s orchestral placement schemes with Welsh National Opera and BBC NOW as well as receiving dedicated leader training.

Beethoven brought the symphony to previously unimagined greatness and the 9th is the pinnacle of his achievement, introducing a chorus in a symphony for the first time. The last movement, Ode to Joy, has come to represent one of man’s greatest statements of humanity and the importance of human rights.

Sir Charles Mackerras has received huge critical acclaim for his recent recordings of all the Beethoven symphonies.

Glyn Pursglove


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