1990 DIMITRIS SGOUROS FESTIVAL SINGAPORE

Concert Programme

Singapore skyline

 
Music festivals honouring Dimitris Sgouros have been instituted in Singapore, Hamburg (Germany), and Ljubljana (Slovenia).  At the 1990 Dimitris Sgouros Festival in Singapore, Sgouros was soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Choo Hoey, performing twelve different piano concertos across six evenings - a feat unthinkable for any other pianist!  He played the following daunting programme:

 

13 February 1990
Dimitris Sgouros Festival

Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
Mozart Piano Concerto No.20
Mozart Piano Concerto No.21

Choo Hoey, conductor
Dimitris Sgouros, piano


15 February 1990
Dimitris Sgouros Festival

Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.4
Beethoven Piano Concerto No.5 "Emperor"

Choo Hoey, conductor
Dimitris Sgouros, piano


17 February 1990
Dimitris Sgouros Festival

Weber Oberon Overture
Chopin Piano Concerto No.1
Chopin Piano Concerto No.2

Choo Hoey, conductor
Dimitris Sgouros, piano


20 February 1990
Dimitris Sgouros Festival

Mendelssohn Ruy Blas Overture
Grieg Piano Concerto
Liszt Piano Concerto No.2

Choo Hoey, conductor
Dimitris Sgouros, piano


22 February 1990
Dimitris Sgouros Festival

Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No.3
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1

Choo Hoey, conductor
Dimitris Sgouros, piano


24 February 1990
Dimitris Sgouros Festival

Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.3

Choo Hoey, conductor
Dimitris Sgouros, piano
 

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The Dimitris Sgouros Festival in Singapore recalled the triumphal success of an earlier Sgouros Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia

" ...musical Ljubljana will solemnize Sgouros at the parade of five piano concertos in March 1988 when he performs two Mozart Concertos, two Beethoven Concertos, and the first Brahms Concerto on three evenings in one week.  A most eloquent compliment a performer was ever given in our midst."

Dimitris Sgouros at the 12,000-capacity Singapore Indoor Stadium with the USSR Festival Orchestra conducted by Vahtang Matchavariani - concert promoted in Malaysia - New Straits Times, October 17, 1990

The USSR Festival Orchestra comprises the principals of the Leningrad Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Lithuanian Philharmonic, Latvian Philharmonic, Bolshoi and Kirov Orchestras.  This orchestra represents the cream of the Soviet Union's musicians and is considered by critics and audiences as the orchestra of orchestras.

 

Dimitris Sgouros signs autograph for a Malaysian fan who travelled especially to Singapore for his concert

[Source - http://mychng.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/when-i-met-d-s/ ]

 

 Sgouros' Art: Sweetness, Intensity and Virtuosity

 

1990 Dimitris Sgouros Festival - Sheer excitement marks Sgouros' performances, Rostropovich on home stage at last  - Business Times, February, 1990

 

VIP cocktail reception in Singapore - Maestro Choo Hoey and Dimitris Sgouros with the cream of Singapore society

 

 

 

Musical nirvana - Maestro Choo Hoey and Sgouros bask in the sweet strains of Grieg's Piano Concerto

 

Dimitris Sgouros on a recent trip to Singapore as an honoured guest of the Lion City - renewing old friendships and admiring the new cityscape, scarcely recognisable from a decade before!

[photos courtesy of Marianthi Sgouros]

 

Dimitris Sgouros Interview on Australian SBS TV

 

Sgouros chats with Pria Viswalingam of SBS TV

Pria Viswalingam with a copy of The Straits Times

 

Read The Straits Times comprehensive coverage of the 1990 Dimitris Sgouros Festival

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