TIRANA, May 18/ATA/ – The RTSH Symphony Orchestra directed by conductor Noorman Widjaja will continue Friday evening with the concert season.
In a participation that should not be lost come to the Albanian capital audience a personality of Albanian violin, Sihana Badivuku from Pristina. Along with Badivuku comes to perform in Tirana, Derek Han a pianist known primarly for the audience who follows the music activity in Kosovo.
Another soloist of this evening will be cellist Aristidh Prosi, The concert starts at 19:00 and will be held in the great hall of the Arts University.
This is the program :
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Tripel Concert for violin, cello and piano in Do maxhor, Op. 562;
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony Nr. 5 in Do Minor, Op. 67.
Noorman Widjaja
Noorman Widjaja was born in a musical family. His talent as a conductor struck when he had to direct the choral concert to honour of the president Sukarno at that time in Djakarta (Indonesia) at the age of eleven years for his suddenly ill father.
In 1969 he began his piano study in the college of music Berlin with Prof. Gerhard Puchelt, composition with Prof. I Song Jun, and directing with Prof. Hans Martin Rabenstein.
In 1982 he came to Nuremberg and was promoted as a conductor by the general chief conductor Hans Gierster. Thus he got around to directing Nuremberg more than 400 images in the time in the opera-house from 1982 to 1990.
His activity as a conductor led him to Shanghai where he was from 1990 to 1995 an honour-guest’s conductor and acting chief conductor. He directs till this day over and over again in Shanghai numerous concerts. for example, the symphonies from: Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Korsakov, Brahms, Richard Strauss, Bruckner, etc.
In 1993 he directed the world premiere of the opera ” The Great Wall” in Taipei and, besides, still till 2004 the Taipei Music festival together with the Taipei symphony orchestra.
From 1993 to 1995 he became a principal conductor Japan Metropolitan opuses and directed, among the rest, Otello, Turandot, Rigoletto, Tosca and Trovatore.
With the Russian Philharmonic of orchestras he led Asien-Konzert-Tourneen and did several CD admissions in Moscow.
He gave his Italy debut in 1994 in the philharmonic concert hall of Verona with the opera Tutti in Maschera of Carlo Pedrotti.
It was so successful that he was invited in 1997 Verdi requiem with the orchestra to direct choir and soloist of the arena di Verona in Coccaglio. During the following years he often appeared as a concert pianist and conductor in Italy.
In addition, Noorman Widjaja directed different international song-contests and contests for piano and violin, e.g., in Guang Zhou and Peking.
Also in Europe he has already directed many important philharmonic orchestras, among the rest, in Berlin, Dresden, Hannover, Wiesbaden, Oldenburg, Bremen, Nuremberg, Moscow and Verona.
In Asia he was active in: Peking, Shanghai, Yokohama, Tokyo, Takamatzu, Hayama, Nihama, Guang Zhou, Taipei, Hong Kong.
Since 2002 he is active principal conductor of the Seto Philharmonic Orchestra and as a concert pianist in Asia and Europe. High-carat conductors and soloists as for example Hirujuki Iwaki, Andre Pisarev, Anastasia Ceborateva count to his guests, etc.
Since 2008 he conducts with the Opera Classica Europe and conducts the Opera Gala with the Frankfurt Symphonics and the Opera performances Tosca, Carmen and Aida.
By his application for the peace, needy children and physical disasters he became in Soave, Monteforte, and Racconigi the freeman of Italy appointed.
He co-operates for many years with the actor Karlheinz Böhm and his organisation ” people for people ”
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