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In the subscription concerts on 20-22 June, the Czech Philharmonic will be led by Dalia Stasevska, Chief Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Jean Sibelius International Festival and Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She will take the place of conductor Franz Welser-Möst, who will be absent due to illness. The programme remains unchanged.
After attending the conservatoire in Tampere, Finland, Dalia Stasevska studied violin, viola, and conducting at the Sibelius Academy. She is now famous not only in the Nordic countries (she was born in the Ukraine, but she has been living in Finland since the age of five), but also all over Europe and the USA.
She collaborates regularly with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra, she toured Japan in the autumn of 2022, and she has already appeared twice at the opening concert of the BBC Proms. They also recently released their joint debut album titled Dalia’s Mixtape, which reveals the conductor’s fascination with contemporary music.
In the last subscription concerts of the C series Stasevska will appear before the audience together with the Czech Philharmonic and pianist Emanuel Ax. On the programme is Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, followed by Jean Sibelius' symphonic poem Finlandia. Sibelius' Symphony No. 5 will close the evening.
“I grew up with Sibelius’s music. I couldn’t tell you when I heard his works for the first time. His music was always around me, so it is fully a part of me. When I conduct it, I feel very natural.”
– Dalia Stasevska
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