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to see a huge panoply of young talent given major stages. 2021 Cardiff Singer of the
World Song Prize winner Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha will appear at London’s

Wigmore Hall, while organist-of-the-moment Anna Lapwood will debut with
Manchester’s Hallé in a performance of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony. Overseas,

the Orchestre nationale du Capitole de Toulouse will host many sub-thirty-year-olds,
including violinist Chad Hoopes and pianist Tom Borrow.

As many ensembles and venues come to host their first full live season in years, this
is a chance to look to the future. Let’s do just that, with my top ten season

highlights…

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

With a Ukrainian-born Chief Conductor in Kirill Karabits, there will be poignant
tributes to his homeland with ‘Voices From The East’, a showcase of Eastern

European composers past and present. There’s a world premiere of a Ukrainian
Cello Concerto… that’s already one hundred years old. Feodor Akimenko is the

composer in question, a man who studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and was
Stravinsky’s first composition teacher; many of his compositions feature Ukrainian
themes and draw on that nation’s folksong. Sample his 3 Morceaux for a taste of his

distinct brand of lyrical melancholia…

Theodore Akimenko – 3 Morceaux, op.31 no.1, Cantabile

Tatiana Chulochnikova vln / Anastasia Dedik pno

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Elena Dubinets is at the helm as Artistic Director, as the LPO celebrates its 90th

birthday. Interviewing her for my Scala Radio show, Dubinets was frank about her
own experiences travelling the world and trying to find a sense of home, having left

her native Russia; ‘A Place To Call Home’ is a running strand through the new
season, exploring exile, displacement and identity. Expect music from the Ukrainian
Victoria Vita Poleva, Austrian Erich Korngold and Cuban Tania León, among many

others.

One name jumps out at me though, having stumbled across his work earlier this
year. Syrian composer and clarinettist Kinan Azmeh studied at Juilliard and has

shared a stage with Daniel Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma, formed his own Arab-Jazz