Umberto Clerici Conducts the ORT in an Evening of Mendelssohn and Beethoven

The Orchestra della Toscana (ORT) returns on stage at Teatro Verdi (via Ghibellina 99) Wednesday, April 10 at 9 pm with a program dedicated to Mendelssohn and Beethoven.

The evening’s guest conductor will be Umberto Clerici, currently the principal conductor of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Australia.  The last time he shared the stage with the musicians of ORT, he was a cello soloist, for which he received international recognition, including the Tchaikovsky award.  He was also the principal cellist at the Turin’s Teatro Regio, and from 2014 to 2021, for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

He will lead the ORT in an interpretation of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, featuring soloist Marc Bouchkov, a Belgian violinist of Russian-Ukrainian origin singled out by Gramophone magazine as a young talent of promise. The performance will be followed by a rendition of Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony (1812).  The work signals a return to the composer’s inspiration by Mozart and Haydn.