Maxim Vengerov announces new festival in Israel

The Russian-born violinist picks his time for a solidarity act.

press release:

In the next month in Israel’s leading concert hall the Charles Brofman (Heichal Ha’Tarbut) Masim Vengerov will inaugurate the festival playing chamber works with Israeli pianist Shira Shaked, conducting and playing with the Swiss Menuhin Academy Chamber Orchestra, playing as a soloist of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with his teacher and friend conductor Vag Papian at the helm and Vengerov doubling as violinist and conductor in Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite Sheherazade. The last two works with the Israeli Opera Orchestra the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon Lezion.