The Berliner Wald Concert 2012 will be held on June 24 (Sunday) at the Waldney Waldtheater in Berlin. The performance will be the most famous Russian music master Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikov Ski's work. The conductor of this concert was originally scheduled to be the famous conductor Seiji Ozawa, but it was reported at the beginning of the year that the master had to cancel all performances until February 2013 due to pneumonia. After consultation, the orchestra decided to replace Ozawa with Andris Nelsons, a young Latvian conductor, to conduct this year's New Year's Concert. Andre Nelsons was born in November 1978 in a musical family in Riga, the capital of Latvia. He learned piano, trumpet and other musical instruments at an early age, and later went to St. Petersburg, Russia to join conductors such as Neeme Jarvi. He held a conducting class and became a disciple of the Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons in 2002. Under the careful guidance of Jansons, Nelsons quickly became a new conducting star that attracted worldwide attention - he served as the permanent conductor of the Latvian National Opera from 2003 to 2008. In October 2009, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera to conduct "Turandot". In 2010, Yu conducted Wagner's masterpiece "Rhengorin" at the opening ceremony of the famous Bayreuth Music Festival. In 2008, Nelsons was officially appointed as music director of the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and has been there ever since. Nelsons's conducting style inherited the characteristics of masters such as Jansons, which was flamboyant yet delicate - the majority of music fans also affectionately called him "Little Jansons" because of his resemblance to Jansons in his conducting style.
In addition, the violin soloist of this concert is Daishin Kashimoto, the new principal of the Berlin Philharmonic. Daishin Kashimoto was born in London in 1979 and began studying violin in Tokyo at the age of three. He moved to New York at the age of seven and entered the preparatory school of Juilliard School as the youngest student. He later moved to Germany and studied at the Lübeck Conservatory of Music and the Freiburg State Conservatoire respectively. He has won many international competitions. Champions, including the Cologne International Violin Competition, the Chrysler International Violin Competition and the Jacques Thibault International Violin Competition (the youngest winner). He has collaborated with many well-known orchestras around the world, including the Russian National Orchestra, Berlin, NHK, Boston and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestras, etc. In 2009, Daishin Kashimoto, who was only 30 years old, became the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
2012 Berlin Wood Concert program list:
1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in e minor (Op. 64)
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2. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Sérénade melancolique Melancholic Serenade in B minor (Opus 26)
3. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Valse-Scherzo in C major Scherzo Waltz in C major (Op. 34)
4. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Souvenir d'un lieu cher Memories of Home Place (Op. 42) (reduced due to weather Last Chapter)
5. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture 1812 Celebration Overture (Opus 49)
6. Encore: Berlin Air