Piano concerto

Greece and Thailand will be celebrating 65 years of diplomatic relations on May 31 with a performance of one Thai and two Greek classical compositions at the Athens Concert Hall.

In the concluding performance of the two-day celebration of the piano at the Athens Concert Hall (megaron.gr), renowned Greek-German conductor Yorgos Ziavras will present the transcendental compositions of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt.

Greek conductor Miltos Logiadis leads the Wiener Concert-Verein Orchestra, an ensemble formed in 1987 by members of the Vienna Symphony, in a program at the Athens Concert Hall centered on two great Viennese classics, Haydn's dramatic Symphony No 39, known as "Tempesta di Mare," and Mozart's all-time favorite Symphony No 40.

The Russian National Orchestra comes to Greece with a special autumnal program on Sunday, November 18, when the distinguished ensemble will be performing Camille Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor, the prelude to Alexander Glazunov's "From the Middle Ages," and Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite.

The Warsaw Philharmonic and acclaimed Russian piano soloist Boris Berezovsky will appear at the Herod Atticus Theater for a single show on Tuesday, September 4.

The Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra and acclaimed pianist Vassilis Varvaresos join forces at the open-air Herod Atticus Theater on Saturday, June 17, to perform Yiannis Konstantinidis's Dodecanese Suite No 1, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor, Op 18, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64. The concert begins at 9 p.m.

In the final concert of its annual series at New York?s Carnegie Hall this season, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Turkish pianist and composer Faz?l Say for the New York premiere of his new Chamber Symphony, Op. 62, commissioned by Orpheus as part of its American Notes initiative.