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Polish Chamber Orchestra embarks on US tour

22.02.2025 12:00
The Polish Chamber Orchestra is set to begin its American tour on Sunday with a concert in Vero Beach, Florida.
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The tour itinerary includes performances in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday; Atlanta, Georgia, on February 28; and Beaver Creek, Colorado, on March 2.

The soloist for violin concertos by Haydn and Mozart is Daniel Hope, who will also lead the orchestra from the front desk.

The programme features Haydn’s symphony La Passione, Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Dance of the Furies, and Orawa by Polish composer Wojciech Kilar.

An internationally acclaimed violinist, Hope serves as the music director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland.

In October 2025, he will take up the post of artistic director at the Yehudi Menuhin Festival in Gstaad.

He plays a 1742 Guarneri del Gesù violin, once owned by 19th-century Polish violinist and composer Karol Lipiński.

Hope’s collaboration with Polish musicians goes back to 1999, when he performed as a soloist during the Sinfonia Varsovia orchestra's European tour under Yehudi Menuhin.

Sinfonia Varsovia was founded in 1984, following an enlargement of the Polish Chamber Orchestra to 40 musicians

Menuhin served as its principal guest conductor.

(mk/gs)