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Viva Violin! – Hobart
Dmitry Sitkovetsky performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Conductor
- PÄRT Fratres
- MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
- MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3, Scottish
About the Program
He’s a conductor! He’s a soloist! The gifted and versatile Dmitry Sitkovetsky appears as both conductor and soloist in Mendelssohn’s spirited Violin Concerto. Enjoy this perennial favourite along with Mendelssohn’s expressive and romantic Scottish Symphony and Arvo Pärt’s fantastically brilliant Fratres.
Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm with Dr Anne-Marie Forbes FREE to ticket holders.
Click here to listen to Dmitry Sitkovetsky talk with ABC Radio’s Leon Compton. Among other things, Dmitry discusses how he feigned illness in order to escape the Soviet Union as a young man.
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18 May
Friday
7 : 30 pm
The Program
- PÄRT Fratres
- MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
- MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3, Scottish
Playing at
Federation Concert Hall

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