Hagner premieres Matthus violin concerto
Virtuoso violinist and champion of new music, Viviane Hagner this weekend continues her advocacy of contemporary music performing the world premiere of Siegfried Matthus’s Violin Concerto with the MDR-Sinfonieorchester and Gilbert Varga at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. Shortly afterwards, Hagner appears at the Edinburgh Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen with Unsuk Chin’s Violin Concerto, of which she also gave the world premiere in 2002 with the Deutsche Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin and Kent Nagano.