Abstract
The 2nd Philharmonic Concert features an exceptional artist of the younger generation on the podium of our orchestra: conductor Tarmo Peltokoski is from Finland and, at the age of 24, already a guest on the world's great concert stages. As artistic director of the Latvian National Orchestra, he is conducting Wagner's Götterdämmerung in Riga this season, he is currently making his debut on the concert platform at the BBC Proms in London and at La Scala in Milan, and his first recordings have been released by Deutsche Grammophon. The promising young Finn can now be heard at Opernhaus Zürich conducting Sibelius' Violin Concerto and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5. Instead of Daniel Lozakovich, who was originally planned as the soloist for this concert, we have been able to secure the violinist Anna Pogostkina as the soloist, who has won the International Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, among others.