Credit Suisse Concert Series
20th March 2010 at 8pm
"Beethoven and Bruckner"

  Programme includes:
   Beethoven- Violin Concerto in D major
   Bruckner- Symphony No. 5 in B flat major

For the first concert of the 2010 Credit Suisse Series, the Guernsey Symphony Orchestra presents "Beethoven and Bruckner".


Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Making her debut with the Guernsey Symphony Orchestra to perform one of the greatest violin concertos ever written, we are delighted to welcome Tamsin Waley-Cohen.
Tamsin was born in London in 1986. She became a Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music where her professor was Itzhak Rashkovsky. At the RCM she won all available awards, including the concerto competition twice, and was their String Player of the Year. Numerous competition successes include winning the 2005 Royal Overseas League String Prize, and the 2007 J & A Beare Bach competition.
Since she was 16, Tamsin has been a regular participant at the International Musicians' Seminar at Prussia Cove where she has worked with distinguished musicians including Lorand Fenyves, Andras Keller, Martin Lovett, Mark Padmore and Gerhard Schulz. She has also participated in master classes given by Ida Haendel, Igor Ozim, and Ruggiero Ricci, the latter describing her as the "most exceptionally gifted young violinist I have ever encountered."
Since early 2007 she has played the 1721 ex-Fenyves Stradivarius violin.

Nicolae Moldoveanu
We are also delighted to welcome back Nicolae Moldoveanu. Nicolae Moldoveanu was born in Romania and studied both violin and piano as a child. He now lives in Zurich as a Swiss citizen. He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher, Horst Stein, Ralf Weikert and Antal Dorati at the Musikhochschule in Zurich, Basel and Bern, also attending master classes with Lothar Zagrosek and Sergiu Celibidache.
At the Royal Academy of Music in London his teachers included Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis. Upon graduating from the Academy, he was awarded the Edwin Samuel Dove Prize for special merit as well as the Ricordi Conducting Prize. In 1997 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.
He has worked with many Swiss orchestras including the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich; in Germany with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Staatskapelle Dresden. In April 1994, at the invitation of Hans-Werner Henze, he conducted performances of contemporary opera at the Munich Biennale. He has also worked with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC Concert, Manchester Camerata, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Stockholm Chamber Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and National Symphony Orchestra Johannesburg, and has returned to his native Romania to work with the Transylvania and George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestras. He has broadcast live for BBC Radio 3, Bavarian Radio and the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1994 Nicolae Moldoveanu was appointed Arts Council Young Conductor to the Bournemouth Orchestras. Following a year's extension of this appointment, he was offered the post of Resident Conductor, which he took up in 1996. In 1998 Nicolae Moldoveanu was appointed Principal Conductor of the English Sinfonia. Nicolae Moldoveanu was Associate Guest Conductor of the London Mozart Players from 2002 until 2008. In September 2008 he took up the position of Chief Conductor of the Transylvanian State Philharmonic Orchestra.
His recent engagements include conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Angela Gheorghiu, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Halle Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Genoa, the Melbourne Symphony, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonie de Lorraine, the Odense Symphony, the Sonderjyllands Symphony, the Prague Radio Symphony, the Danish Radio Sinfonietta and the Bucharest Philharmonic.

Ticket prices : £15, £12.50, £10, Students half price and £6 restricted view