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Our 2024 season opens with the DSO debut of renowned Swiss conductor Matthias Bamert, directing a programme of music by three of Germany's greatest composers: Beethoven, Brahms and Richard Strauss
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The Star article 'Horn player steps into limelight'
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Otago Daily Times article 'Moving to the music'
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Samuel Jacobs, French Horn soloist for the 'Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss' concert
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Matthias Bamert, the conductor for the 'Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss' concert
News - 19 Apr 2024
The Star article 'Horn player steps into limelight'
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra principal French horn Samuel Jacobs is accustomed to playing from the back of the "band" during concerts, so it will be a treat for him to step into the limelight this Saturday in his first outing with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra.
Read articleNews - 18 Apr 2024
Otago Daily Times article 'Moving to the music'
At 81 years old, world-renowned conductor Matthias Bamert has become a freelancer. He tells Rebecca Fox about travelling the world for his work.
Read articleNews - 02 Apr 2024
Samuel Jacobs, French Horn soloist for the 'Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss' concert
Ask any horn player who their favourite composer is and it is likely Richard Strauss’s name would come up more often than not. The beautiful, dramatic and lyrical lines Strauss writes for the horn are an absolute joy to play (and a devil to master), and he undoubtedly sits alongside other great composers such as Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner as someone who really understands what the horn can do. And luckily for us, Strauss went above and beyond those other three greats and wrote not one but two concertos for the horn.
Read articleNews - 02 Apr 2024
Matthias Bamert, the conductor for the 'Beethoven, Brahms and Strauss' concert
I am very much looking forward to returning to Dunedin. During my five years as Principal Guest Conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, I visited Dunedin regularly and I have fond memories of a very attractive town in a beautiful surrounding.
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News - 19 Apr 2024
The Star article 'Horn player steps into limelight'
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra principal French horn Samuel Jacobs is accustomed to playing from the back of the "band" during concerts, so it will be a treat for him to step into the limelight this Saturday in his first outing with the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra.
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Dunedin 9016
New Zealand
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