The Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga will star in the New Year’s Concert at the Felipe VI Auditorium

The performance, for the benefit of the Asociación Cultural Unicornio, will be musically directed by the German maestro Florian Csizmadia. It will take place on Thursday, January 4, at 8 p.m.

The City Council of Estepona informs that the Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga (OFM) will be the protagonist of the traditional New Year’s Concert, to be held on January 4, at 20.00 hours, in the Felipe VI Auditorium.

The program foreseen for this performance will include a selection of waltzes and polkas, among other pieces, essential in the programs of the New Year’s concerts. Strauss, Léhar, Sibelius or Korngold are some of the composers that will be interpreted by the Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, which will be conducted by the German maestro Florian Csizmadia.

The tickets are priced at 10 euros and are on sale at www.tafestepona.com. They can also be purchased at the box office of the Felipe VI Auditorium from two hours before the start of the show, until full capacity is reached. The proceeds will benefit the Asociación Cultural Unicornio.

Program

I

JOHANN STRAUSS

Overture to ‘The Bat’.

Long live the Magyar, fast polka, op.332

In the forest of Krapfen, French polka, op.336

Under thunder and lightning, fast polka, op.324

Waltz of the Emperor, op.437

II

FRANZ LÉHAR

Gold and silver, waltz, op.79

JEAN SIBELIUS

Sad waltz, op. 44

Chevaleresque Waltz, op. 96c

ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD

Straussiana

Conductor, Florian Csizmadia

Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga

Florian Csizmadia (Mannheim, 1976). The German conductor Florian Csizmadia belongs to the select group of conductors who combine their art with academic research. The artist holds the position of music director of the Vorpommern Theater and the West Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra, both located in the cities of Stralsund and Greifswald.

The researcher is the author of important works on music history and performance practice. Each season he conducts new opera productions and is responsible, as artistic director, for the planning and programming of concerts as well as the orchestra’s outreach projects. He publishes regularly in musicology magazines and books.

Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga, Malaga City Council / Andalusian Government

The Philharmonic Orchestra of Malaga gave its inaugural concert on February 14, 1991. It was born then as the Orquesta Ciudad de Málaga, a consortium between the City Council of Málaga and the Junta de Andalucía, and which responded to the conviction that a city like Málaga should have a great symphony orchestra.

At the head of the Orchestra and its project, six chief conductors have stamped their own personality: Octav Calleya, Odón Alonso, Alexander Rahbari, Aldo Ceccato, Edmon Colomer and Manuel Hernández Silva.

Currently, the principal conductor and artistic director is Maestro José María Moreno.

The Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga has believed it essential not to limit its activity to the subscription program and has deployed enthusiastic parallel proposals. Along with CD recordings of repertoires of a very diverse nature, and with different maestros, we must add two Cycles of Chamber Music, parallel to its subscription symphonic program, its cycle La Filarmónica frente al mar, specially designed for new audiences and young people of special artistic projection, and the Joven Orquesta Barroca de Andalucía (JOBA) born in 2010 as a pedagogical project.

The Malaga City Council awarded it the “Malaga Prize” for the best musical work in 2001 and Empresa M Capital its Culture Prize, among other distinctions from various entities associated with culture at provincial and national level.

The SGAE awarded the Orchestra a special prize in 2007, in recognition of its work in favor of contemporary Spanish music.

The OFM has been awarded by the Ateneo de Málaga, the Asociación Cultural Zegrí, the Asociación Malagueña de Escritores ‘Amigos de Málaga’ and the Asociación Amigos de la OFM in recognition of its XXV Anniversary. In 2017, the Diputación de Málaga awarded the OFM the Distinction of Honor of the Province for cultural and social development in the province.

The Junta de Andalucía has awarded it the Bandera de Andalucía de las Artes 2021.