Jakub Hrůša, recently appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, inaugurates the Symphonic Season by conducting the Academy's Orchestra and Choir in the Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection by Gustav Mahler.
Defined by the music magazine Gramophone as one of the best conductors in the international music scene, Jakub Hrůša was born in the Czech Republic and, in addition to conducting the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic, collaborates with the main orchestras in the world.
After his debut on the podium of the Academy Orchestra in 2016 with the symphonic poem by Smetana Ma Vlast (My homeland), and other highly successful concerts in 2018, 2019 and 2021, he engages in the first of four symphonies of Mahler for which the composer has set the presence of the voices, as well as being the first of the three Wunderhorn Symphonien, that is the symphonies in which texts from the collection of German medieval songs entitled Des Knaben Wunderhorn (“The magic horn of the child”).
On stage the American soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen and the German alto Wiebke Lehmkuhl.
Photo credits: Courtesy of Auditorium official site
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