Maryvonne Le Dizes, who waves the baton for the France-based Ensemble
InterContemporain Symphony, will conduct a concert at the HCM City Opera
House on March 9.
She will conduct the HCM City
Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO), and the event will feature
works by composers such as Francesco Geminiani, Benjamin Britten, Astor
Piazzolla, and Guillaume Lekeu.
It will also feature
Mozart’s Symphony No 25 in G Minor, K183, one of the master’s most
popular works for chamber orchestras.
The orchestra
will perform Simple Symphony, Op.4 by Britten, a composer, pianist, and
conductor, and one of the outstanding figures of 20th century British
classical music.
Le Dizes won the first prize for violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris in 1958.
She became the first woman to win the First Gold Paganini Prize in Genoa in 1962.
In 1983 she won the first prize at the International Competition of American Music in New York , the US .
She has performed in Europe, Japan , and the US.-VNA