The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra performs with featured Israeli pianist Yossi Reshef on November 14 at 8:00PM under the baton of PPO music director Olivier Ochanine at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Main Theater. The concert is held in partnership with the Embassy of Israel.
The program includes Don Juan by Richard Strauss, Norfolk Rhapsody by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Schumann’s Manfred Overture and Piano Concerto in A Minor, and Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del Destino.
Reshef holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California, where he was assistant to Prof. Norman Krieger. He previously studied under the legendary Pnina Salzman at the Tel Aviv University, Rubin Academy of Music. He is a faculty member at the Apple Hill Chamber music festival in New Hampshire since 1996, and a professor at the “Upbeat Hvar” International summer school in Croatia since 2001, and has conducted master classes in the U.S. and Europe, focusing on interpretation and practicing methods. He has given master classes in such venues as the Gnessin Conservatory in Moscow, the Lodz Academy in Poland, the Baku Academy in Azerbaijan, and the Zagreb Academy in Croatia. He has collaborated with such renowned artists such as Nino Ruzevic, Nikolaj Znaider, Yuval Gotlibovich and Jonathan Gotlibovich, Dora Schwarzberg, the Serenata of Santa Fe wind players and the Apple Hill chamber players.
Alongside his performing and teaching career, Reshef has also worked in Hollywood as a Film Composer and Musical Director. His recent collaboration as Musical Director with Director Andrew W. Chan on the independent feature “Ivory” will be released next year. Reshef coached the actors, and can be heard playing the main character of Andreas. The actors in this project include Tim Draxl, Martin Landau, Erika Marozsan, Peter Stormare, and Travis Fimmel.
A native of Israel, Reshef has won numerous prizes and awards including the America Israel Cultural Foundation Excellency scholarship award; the Zilbermann first prize award for the best interpretation of Israeli piano music; the second prize in the Rubin Academy Competition; the Apple Hill Playing for Peace Scholarship; the Tel Aviv University Dean’s Excellency Award; the John Tesh Scholar; the Adele Marcus Foundation Music Scholarship; the John Green Endowed Music Scholarship; the David Nowakowsky Music Scholarship; the Alice Ray Catalyne Music scholarship in piano; the Michael Feinstein music scholarship and the Ann and Gordon Getty Music Foundation Scholarship. Yossi Reshef currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Ticket prices are P1,500, P1,200 P800 and P500p with discounts available to students, senior citizens and groups. Subscription packages are also available for eight or four shows.
For inquiries and subscriptions, please call the CCP Marketing Department at (+632) 8321125 loc. 1806, CCP Box Office at (+632) 8323704, or Ticketworld at National Bookstore at (+632) 8919999.
