Prepare yourself for a special evening on Wednesday 7th February, as the 2024 InClassica International Music Festival, organised by SAMIT Event Group. welcomes Canadian violinist James Ehnes, a two-time Grammy Award Winner, Gramophone Award and JUNO Award recipient, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member of the Order of Canada, and awardee of the 2017 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. Taking to the stage alongside the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and UK conductor John Warner, the musicians will open the concert with the Overture to Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, a comic opera in three acts first performed in 1866, with music heavily influenced by Czech folk tunes. Next comes Composer-in-Residence Alexey Shor’s Violin Concerto No. 1 ‘Seascapes’, a four-movement composition that adds to a long line of works inspired by the sublime beauty of the sea, featuring haunting melodic lines as well as complex technical passages that promise to carry audiences on a musical journey of their own. Warner and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra shall then bring the evening to a close with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s resounding Symphony No. 5, an epic composition written in 1888 that has gone on to become one of the composer's most popular works, and is widely regarded as an excellent example of his trademark musical style.

The InClassica International Music Festival is a celebration of the very best that the world of classical music has to offer. Featuring world-class concerts with some of the most renowned soloists, orchestras and conductors of our time, the festival boasts a series of richly diverse programmes ranging from seminal favourites all the way up to contemporary masters, promising a momentous two-week event that is sure to be an unforgettable experience for all!