This July, the music world bade farewell to Sir Charles Mackerras. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker mourn the loss of this great conductor who from 2004 was one of the orchestra's most esteemed guests.
Sir Charles was also to conduct the Philharmoniker in the coming season with concerts on September 30 and October 1 and 2, 2010 of works by Bohuslav Martinů und Antonín Dvořák. These concerts will now be conducted by Tomáš Netopil who will be making his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Netopil, who studied violin and conducting in his native Czech Republic and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in Stockholm, won the International Conductors' Competition Sir George Solti in Frankfurt in 2002. His artistic breakthrough came in the 2007/8 season, following notable concerts with the Staatskapelle Dresden and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Since then, Tomáš Netopil has worked together with such renowned orchestras as the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Geneve, the Orchestre National du Capitole Toulouse and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Berlin opera fans may already know the young Czech: in January 2007 he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper with performances of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
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