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For immediate release — GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell joins BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year 2023, conductor Dalia Stasevska, and the acclaimed INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra to present a benefit concert for Ukraine on January 10th, 7:30PM at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall.
The program of all-Ukrainian composers will feature Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, along with Myroslav Skoryk’s Melody (in its symphonic arrangement), Valentin Silvestrov’s Hymne, and Yevhen Stankovych’s Sinfonietta. Bell, Stasveska and the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra will also record the de Hartmann Concerto for its world premiere release, with more details to follow.
Said Bell of the event: “I am honored to be part of the ongoing effort to bring Thomas de Hartmann’s works to life. When I first encountered his violin concerto, a work inspired by the toils of war, I was deeply struck by its soulful beauty - and shocked that such a work had received such little recognition. The concerto is both heart-wrenching and uplifting, and is as gripping and relevant today as it was when it was composed in 1943.
I am especially grateful to be recording and performing this work with such talented and dedicated artistic partners as Dalia Stasevska and the Inso-Lviv Orchestra. Thanks to this project, Thomas de Hartmann's music may touch the hearts of many more people, both in his homeland of Ukraine and around the world."
Stasevska, who is Finnish-Ukrainian and has both raised money and delivered supplies to the front lines of Ukraine, said: “When a country is fighting for its freedom, preserving and protecting the arts and culture that have defined its identity becomes vital. On January 10, I look forward to celebrating some of Ukraine’s greatest composers with the incredible musicians of the Inso-Lviv Orchestra and the unmatched artistry of Joshua Bell. It will be a great honor to produce the world-premiere recording of Thomas de Hartmann’s rich and empowering Violin Concerto to be shared with audiences across the globe. As the war rages on, we continue to keep Ukraine in our hearts.”
The concert will be produced by Park Avenue Artists, with support from the Thomas de Hartmann Project and Chopivsky Family Foundation. Proceeds from the concert will benefit both humanitarian aid in Ukraine and talented Ukrainian youth artists.
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With a career spanning almost four decades, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era. Bell has performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, and continues to maintain engagements as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and as the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
Bell’s highlights in the 2023-24 season include an international tour of his newly-commissioned project, The Elements, featuring works by renowned living composers. The work will receive its premiere performances with the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hong Kong Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Bell released his new album on Sony Classical, Butterfly Lovers, in summer 2023. Bell will also lead the Academy of St Martin in the Fields on tour in Australia and throughout the United States. He will appear as artist-in-residence this season with the NDR Elbphilharmonie, and as guest artist with the New Jersey Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philadelphia Orchestra, and more.
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Bell began playing the violin at age 4, and at age 12, began studies with his mentor, Josef Gingold. At age 14, Bell debuted with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17 with the St. Louis Symphony. At age 18, Bell signed with his first label, London Decca, and received the Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the following decades, Bell has been nominated for six GRAMMY® awards, named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, a “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, and has received the Avery Fisher Prize. He also received the 2003 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award and in 2000 was named an “Indiana Living Legend.”
Bell has performed for three American presidents and the justices of the Supreme Court. Bell also participated in President Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ mission to Cuba, performing on an Emmy-nominated PBS Live from Lincoln Center special; Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating renewed diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.
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Dalia Stasevska’s charismatic and dynamic musicianship has established her as a conductor of exceptional versatility. Chief Conductor of Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director to the International Sibelius Festival; Dalia also holds the post of Principal Guest Conductor to the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She has made several appearances at the BBC Proms and conducts the Last Night of the Proms in 2022. Together with BBC Symphony they opened the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival.
2022/23 season sees Dalia conducting orchestras such as Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco and Toronto symphonies, Philadelphia, Minnesota, and the National Symphony Orchestra Washington. She will returnsto the New York Philharmonic, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and to the Los Angeles Philharmonic following her successful Hollywood Bowl debut in summer 2022. She also appears with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic at the Concertgebouw Hall, Amsterdam, and Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg.
In summer 2022 she toured to Germany with the BBC Symphony Orchestra making her debut at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festival and in autumn 2022 they embark on a six-concert tour to Japan with soloists Sol Gabetta, Nicola Benedetti and Roderick Williams. In spring 2023 Dalia and the BBC Symphony Orchestra collaborate in a project with Grégoire Pont at the Barbican Centre entitled ‘Our Precious Planet’. Performing works of living composers is a core part of Dalia’s programming and with Lahti Symphony they present works by Missy Mazzoli, Andrew Norman, Thomas Adès, Helen Grime, Kaija Saariaho and Outi Tarkianen to name a few. Recent highlights include Baltimore and Seattle Symphonies, Orchestre National de France, returns to the Oslo Philharmonic, NAC Orchestra, and the opening of the Tongyeong Festival.
A passionate opera conductor, Dalia debuts at the Glyndebourne Opera festival this season with a revival of the iconic Peter Halls production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In previous seasons she returned to the Finnish National Opera and Ballet to conduct a double bill of Poulenc’s La voix humane and Weill’s Songs with Karita Mattila, and to Norske Opera to conduct Madama Butterfly and Lucia di Lammermoor. Other productions include Don Giovanni with Kungliga Opera Stockholm, directed by Ole Anders Tandberg, Eugene Onegin at the Opéra de Toulon, Cunning Little Vixen with Finnish National Opera and Sebastian Fagerlund’s Höstsonaten at the 2018 Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, featuring Anne-Sofie von Otter.
Dalia originally studied as a violinist and composer at the Tampere Conservatoire and violin, viola and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. As a conductor her teachers include Jorma Panula and Leif Segerstam. She was bestowed the Order of Princess Olga of the III degree by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in October 2020 for her significant personal contribution to the development of international cooperation, strengthening the prestige of Ukraine internationally and popularization of its historical and cultural heritage. In December 2018, she had the honour of conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm. Dalia was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor Award in 2020.
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