The Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko won the Van Cliburn Competition in 2014, and has sustained a career as an outstanding performer of powerhouse repertoire. He’s also become a popular RPO soloist, and the vehicle for his return is Maurice Ravel’s scintillating Concerto in G Major – a jazz-inflected work that requires a virtuoso technique and an elegant touch. This RPO concert introduces the New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New to Rochester, leading Debussy’s sultry, sunlit “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s popular symphonic suite “Scheherazade.”
Vadym Kholodenko performs with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Thursday, January 17, 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, January 19, 8 p.m. at Eastman Theatre’s Kodak Hall, 26 Gibbs Street. $24-$106. 454-2100. rpo.org; vadymkholodenko.com.
This article appears in Jan 16-22, 2019.
He’s not russian, he’s Ukrainian!!!
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. The correction has been made to the online article. –Daniel J. Kushner, CITY Music Editor
Thank you, but now can you fix the spelling to UKRAINIAN. You’re missing the first i,