ARUTUNIAN | ELGAR | MAHLER
Katarzyna Jackowska
Szczecin Philharmonic
In 2021, Selina Ott received the Opus Klassik award for her debut album "Concerts for trumpet", recorded with ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and conductor Robert Paternostro. In 2018, at the age of just 20, Selina Ott was the first woman in the 70-year history of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich to receive the 1st prize in the Trumpet category.
At that time, as a soloist, she already had concerts with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev, Czech Philharmonic conducted by Semyon Bychkov, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Hamburger Symphoniker, Haydn Philharmonie, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Collegium Musicum Basel, Philharmonische Philharmonie, Philharmonie Orchester Hagen, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Wien, Rudolfinum Prag, Musical Theater Basel and Philharmonie Luxemburg.
Despite her young age, the artist has already been awarded the first prize of the Austrian competition Prima la Musica eight times in the Trumpet Solo category at the regional and national level and received the first Lions Music Prize 2017. In June 2021, her album was recorded together with the pianist En- Chia Lin.
On the stage of the Philharmonic in Szczecin, she will be accompanied by Kensho Watanabe, who is considered one of the most versatile young American conductors. He is equally good at symphonic and operatic repertoire. Watanabe has hosted many operas with the Curtis Opera Theatre, most recently Puccini's La Rondine in 2017 and La Bohemia in 2015, and a new production of Strauss's Electra at the Opéra de Montreal. Together with the Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, they will perform Alexander Arutiunian's Concerto in A flat major for trumpet and orchestra. The evening program will also be filled with two symphonies by Sergei Prokofiev – the First ("Classical") and the Fifth.
The Fifth Symphony is the most significant musical event in years. Greater than compositions by Brahms and Tchaikovsky! It is terrific yesterday, today and tomorrow, argued the conductor Sergey Kusewicki right after the American premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's piece.
