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German conductor wields baton at Opera House

Published: Friday, September 07, 2012
HCM CITY — A Western classical music concert by the HCM City Ballet and Symphony Orchestra with guest pianist Hinrich Alpers will take place under the baton of Christian Schumann this Sunday at the HCM City Opera House.

Schumann is a young, upcoming musical star in Germany. He has already worked with many famous orchestras like Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Filharmonia Kodzka Artura Rubinsteina and the Ha Noi Philharmonic Orchestra, not to mention the Ensemble Resonanz and the Austrian Ensemble for contemporary music (OENM).

He is returning to Viet Nam for the third time to work with HBSO in HCM City.

Hinrich Alpers, another young German musician, attended the Hanover Conservatory and studied later at the Juilliard School in New York.

Tickets for the concert, which will begin at eight PM, can be obtained at the HCM City Opera House, 7 Lam Son Plaza, District 1.-VNS

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