In their first concert of the 2024-25 season, Cambridge University Orchestra presents a programme under the baton of Natalia Luis-Bassa, Professor of Conducting at the Royal College of Music and Principal Guest Conductor of the Oxford University Orchestra.
The concert will open with a performance of Jessica Wells’ Butterfly Waltz, a short piece written for the film Butterfly Man (2004), which tells the story of Don Herbison-Evans, ‘a man who studies butterflies then experiences a human metamorphosis on the dance floor’.
To perform Bruch’s much-loved Violin Concerto No.1, the orchestra will be joined by Imaan Kashim, joint winner of the 2024 University of Cambridge Concerto Competition. Imaan’s performance of the first movement of this concerto impressed both judges and audience at the competition final and this full performance of the work is sure to be just as thrilling.
To conclude the concert, the orchestra will perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Written in 1811-1812, this symphony uses the same modest instrumentation of his first symphony to produce a grand journey of dancing themes, solemn processions and the emotional intensity that makes audiences and orchestras return to Beethoven’s work again and again.
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