Callum Smart photo by Benjamin Harte |
Smart won the string category of the 2010 BBC Young Musician Competition performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. Smart was 13 at the time! Also in 2010 he was the top European prize winner in the Menuhin Competition in Oslo. Smart plays on a 1698 Antonio Stradivari violin loaned by J & A Beare Ltd. His first recital disc is being released on the Orchid Classics label in early 2014.
The concert also includes Mendelssohn's String Symphony no. 1 and Haydn's Symphony no. 49 La Passione. The programme is very much about youth, Mozart was only 18 when he composed his violin concerto and Mendelssohn only 12 when he wrote the string symphony. Further information from the Northern Chamber Orchestra website.
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