Tue, February 24th, 2026
Vivi Vassileva & Stephanie Childress
Concert title
Vivi Vassileva & Stephanie Childress
Date
Tue 24.02.2026
Start of the concert
19:30
Contributors
Name of the ensemble
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Line
Stephanie Childress (Director)
Soloists
Vivi Vassileva (percussion)
program
A percussive firework display at the Tonhalle Zurich:
She is a bundle of energy on the drums, igniting a veritable firework display of musicality on stage. As a central figure in the lineage of Martin Grubinger, Vivi Vassileva occupies a special spotlight. She uses this position to expand the repertoire for solo percussion, as well as in combination with other instruments. When the sonic enchantress Vassileva weaves her countless instruments, including marimba, tubular bells, timpani, and bongos, with the sounds of the orchestra, the audience can look forward to magical moments. Together with the London-based conductor Stephanie Childress and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, she presents Conjurer, a concerto for percussion by the leading American composer of our time, John Corigliano.
Nadia Boulanger described Igor Stravinsky as a harbinger of musical modernism, as can be read in numerous letters from their 48-year friendship. Rightly so, as his work Apollon musagète, inspired by antiquity, proves.
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Conjurer. Concerto for Percussion and String Orchestra
JEAN FRANÇAIX
Ode on «La Naissance de Vénus»
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Apollon musagète, K048
Ticket prices: CHF 115 / 105 / 90 / 65 / 40
Photo: Vivi Vassileva © Adriana Yankulova
She is a bundle of energy on the drums, igniting a veritable firework display of musicality on stage. As a central figure in the lineage of Martin Grubinger, Vivi Vassileva occupies a special spotlight. She uses this position to expand the repertoire for solo percussion, as well as in combination with other instruments. When the sonic enchantress Vassileva weaves her countless instruments, including marimba, tubular bells, timpani, and bongos, with the sounds of the orchestra, the audience can look forward to magical moments. Together with the London-based conductor Stephanie Childress and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, she presents Conjurer, a concerto for percussion by the leading American composer of our time, John Corigliano.
Nadia Boulanger described Igor Stravinsky as a harbinger of musical modernism, as can be read in numerous letters from their 48-year friendship. Rightly so, as his work Apollon musagète, inspired by antiquity, proves.
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Conjurer. Concerto for Percussion and String Orchestra
JEAN FRANÇAIX
Ode on «La Naissance de Vénus»
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Apollon musagète, K048
Ticket prices: CHF 115 / 105 / 90 / 65 / 40
Photo: Vivi Vassileva © Adriana Yankulova
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