Conducting the two purely symphonic pieces - Weber's enchantingly atmospheric overture to Der Freischütz and Schumann's passionate Second Symphony, with its unleashing of stormy emotions, will be Gergely Dubóczky. After earning his degree, the conductor worked as assistant to Zoltán Kocsis at the Hungarian National Philharmonic, taking part in master classes with Péter Eötvös, Erwin Ortner, Sir Simon Rattle, Bertrand de Billy, Daniel Harding and other artists. He has his own ensemble, the Budapest Sound Collective, and has served since 2009 as the artistic director and conductor of the Medical Orchestra of Semmelweis University. Starting in September 2014, he spent five years at the helm of the Béla Bartók Conservatory Orchestra, and he also worked as the artistic director of the Alba Regia Symphony Orchestra between 2018 and 2020. Taking the stage to perform the Brahms violin concerto, with its world of grand gestures and wide horizons of sound, will be the Jamaican-born soloist Ellinor D'Melon. The young musician took her first violin lessons at the age of four, and by eight had been accepted to the Yehudi Menuhin School of Music in London. Later on, she honed her skills at Madrid's Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia under the guidance of renowned professor Zakhar Bron.

Supported by the European Union's Classical Futures Europe and Creative Europe programmes.

Presented by: Müpa Budapest