Rarely heard concert music for tuba will be played by the internationally acclaimed virtuoso Øystein Baadsvik in Bakersfield Symphony May 10, 8 pm.
What: Øystein Baadsvik in concert
Where: Bakersfield Symphony California
When: May 10, 2008, 8 pm.
Info: Bakersfield Symphony / Øystein Baadsvik Homepage
Øystein Baadsvik is the only tuba virtuoso to have carved out a career exclusively as a soloist, rather than becoming a member of an orchestra or accepting a teaching post. His multi-faceted musical career as a soloist, chamber musician and recording artist has taken him all over the world. The unique virtuosity and musicality Mr. Baadsvik’s brings to the tuba has established him as the exemplar of the instrument.
He began playing the tuba at the age of fifteen and won first prize at eighteen in a Norwegian national competition for soloists. Within two years he had created programs for Norwegian Radio and had been a soloist with most of Norway’s professional symphony orchestras.
The concert includes a lavish selection of music evoking moods and scenes. Beginning with Rossini’s witty overture to his farcical opera Il Signor Bruschino, the orchestra will move to exquisite atmospheric selections by Delius, Elgar, and Barber. Rarely heard concert music for tuba will be played by the internationally acclaimed virtuoso Øystein Baadsvik, and the orchestra will conclude a brilliant season with Respighi’s reverberant Pines of Rome.
Highlights include:
Barber Intermezzo from Vanessa
Vaughn Williams Concerto for Tuba, and
Arban Carnival of Venice with soloist Øystein Baadvik
Respeghi The Pines of Rome