On Thursday 8th February, Dubai Opera will welcome two esteemed soloists to its stage for a classical music concert organised as part of the 2024 InClassica International Music Festival, organised by SAMIT Event Group. Japanese violinist Daishin Kashimoto, First Prize winner at the 1994 Cologne International Violin Competition, 1996 Fritz Kreisler Competition, and 1996 Long-Thibaud International Competition, and Artistic Director of the Le Pont Music Festival, will be joining forces with Italian pianist Enrico Pace, Grammy Award nominee, and winner of the 1989 Utrecht International Franz Liszt Piano Competition, for a duo recital spanning the full spectrum of classical music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Sonata No. 18 in G Major will be the first piece for the evening, before Kashimoto and Pace present Johannes Brahms’s 1879 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, known as the Regensonate. Next comes a contemporary piece in the form of a joint work emerging as a result of musical collaboration between the renowned pianist, conductor and composer Mikhail Pletnev, and InClassica’s own Composer-in-Residence, Alexey Shor, before the duo bring the concert to a close with Robert Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 2, a celebrated 1851 work that was first premiered in October 1853 in Düsseldorf to resounding acclaim, and has gone on to delight audiences worldwide ever since.

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!