This concert at St George’s Hanover Square sees the return of the sensational violinist and composer Yury Revich | Olario who brings two beautiful works of his own alongside some wonderful music featuring his dazzling virtuosic talents as soloist with the Firebird Orchestra. The concert concludes with the magnificent Second Symphony by Jean Sibelius. Composed at the beginning of the 20th century, he said of this work that ‘My second symphony is a confession of the soul.’
Yury Revich | Olario Prelude
Gershwin/Frolov Fantasy on themes from Porgy and Bess
Yury Revich | Olario Choriner Wald (the Forest of Chorin)
Massenet Méditation from Thais
Bizet/Sarasate Carmen Fantasy
Sibelius Symphony no. 2
Yury Revich | Olario violin
Michael Thrift conductor
For more information & tickets, please click here.
Yury Revich is a multidisciplinary and innovative Austrian avantgarde musician and artist, passionate for both classical and electronic music. He is ECHO Classic and International Music Awardwinner, making him one of the most virtuous violinists of his generation. In 2021, he was listed in the TOP 100 US Billboard Classic Ranking, parts of his CD Chevallier de Saint Georges can be heard on soundtracks of Bridgerton/Netflix series, and he is performed during Cannes Film Festivals and Art Basel. CD recordings with Sony and Naxos. Compositions range from neo-classics to electronics. UNICEF Austria Honorary Representative.
He has made his debut in the world's most famous concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall with Daniil Trifonov, La Scala Milano, the Vienna Musikverein, the Metropolitan Hall in Tokyo, Salle Pleyel Paris, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Leipzig Gewandhaus, BOZAR Brussels, Salle Pleyel Paris, Tonhalle Zürich - and many more. Renowned orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin and Munich Symphony Orchestras, the RSO Vienna, La Verdi Milano, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Reinlandpfalz, Tonkünstlerorchester NÖ, Kammerphilharmonie Potsdam, etc. or most recently the National Symphonic Orchestra of Chile invited him as a soloist. He has also performed with many of the most famous personalities of the music world, such as recently with Martha Argerich and Steven Isserlis on his tour in China in 2023 or Andrea Bocelli in Italy.
The Strad described his impressive interpretation, intuition and expressiveness as well as extraordinary dexterity and precision as follows: "Full-blooded authority, fleet-fingered dexterity, innate musicality, and substantive accuracy"
