TOURING WINTER HIGHLIGHTS 2019/20

3/3/2020

HarrisonParrott Touring takes a look back on a busy winter…

November saw the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and their Principal Guest Conductor Daníel Bjarnason tour Munich, Salzburg and Berlin along with pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and hornist Radovan Vlatković. Highlights of the tour include Bjarnason conducting the powerful Processions, his second piano concerto written for Ólafsson and the final concert in Berlin led the Sounds of Iceland festival to a tremendous finale in the Berlin Konzerthaus.

As the decade came to a close, the Camerata Bern along with Artistic Partner Patricia Kopatchinskaja toured Germany and Holland in December under the title Maria, Mater, Meretrix exploring the figure of Mary Magdalene and how she has been portrayed over the centuries.

Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui led his Eastman dance company to Hong Kong to perform the intricate production of Puz/zle.

What better place to tour at Christmas time than Moscow, where we saw French orchestra Les Siècles debut in Russia with François-Xavier Roth and the dazzling Alice Sara Ott.

January took us across the seas to Colombia for the 14^th Cartagena International Music Festival where the Camerata RCO were resident orchestra. We saw concerts, recitals and masterclasses take place over 9 days in beautiful settings such as the Adolfo Mejia Theatre and the Santa Teresa Chapel.

Meanwhile in Europe the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester travelled to Utrecht to perform with their Chief Conductor James Gaffigan and Camerata RCO later travelled to Bologna for a concert as part of the Fondazione Musica Insieme season.

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Chief Conductor and Music Director Paavo Järvi and clarinettist Martin Fröst delighted audiences in Innsbruck, Vienna, Budapest and Dortmund during January.

HarrisonParrott were delighted to manage the UK choir Tenebrae’s anticipated return tour to Australia since their first tour in 2017. They performed in Melbourne and had two performances at the Sydney Festival conducted by Nigel Short.

One of the most popular brass ensembles Canadian Brass returned to Japan in January for an 8 concert tour across Osaka, Musashino, Okitama, Kanagawa, Hikone, Izumo, Hitachiomiya and Tokyo and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra along with Chief Conductor Elim Chan and soloists Alice Sara Ott and Lukáš Vondráček toured the Baltic States and a sold out concert in St Petersburg in February.

Finally it wouldn’t be a year in touring at HarrisonParrott without the legendary Kodo who brought their One Earth Tour 2020: Legacy project to Europe in February and March. Eleven concerts in Croatia, France, the UK and their debut in Poland saw the Japanese taiko performing arts ensemble take their European tour by storm.