Ulm (Kornhaus)

  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 10 in B minor
  • Jean-Baptiste Janson: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in D major
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 1 in C major
  • Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C major Hob. I:82 „The Bear“

  • Valentin Radutiu, Cello
  • Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn

Mosbach (Old Malthouse)

  • Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 82 in C major Hob. I:82 „The Bear“
  • Peter Tchaikovsky: Rococo-Variations for Cello and Orchestra
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Symphony No. 4 in A major „Italian“

  • Valentin Radutiu, Cello
  • Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn

Ingolstadt (City Theater)

  • Edward Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet and String Orchestra
  • Leoš Janáček: Suite for String Orchestra
  • Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Chamber Concerto for Clarinet, String Quartet and String Orchestra
  • Béla Bartók: Divertimento for Strings

  • Sebastian Manz, Clarinet
  • casalQuartet
  • Georgian Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt

Zhuji, China (Xishi Grand Theatre)

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade in G major K. 525 „Eine kleine Nachtmusik“
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 1 in C major
  • Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: String Symphony No. 10 in B minor
  • Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for String Orchestra in C major op. 48

  • Zohar Lerner, Violin
  • Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn

The WKO Looking Back at a Successful Chinese Tour (September 2017)

   Before the concert in Wuxi, Poly Grand Theatre

After fifteen days, eleven concerts, and more than 21,000 kilometers traveled, the Württembergisches Kammerorchester (WKO) Heilbronn and its artistic director Ruben Gazarian have returned to Heilbronn.

Playing works by Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky, the WKO was a guest in eleven cultural centers such as Shanghai, Wuxi or Nanjing in the east of China, functioning as an ambassador of the city of Heilbronn, Germany, and Europe. In the course of its tour, the orchestra with its concertmaster Zohar Lerner as a soloist appeared in some of the most impressive newly built concert halls in China, such as the Nanjing Poly Grand Theatre, one of the last building projects of the recently deceased architect Zaha Hadid.

“Such an extended tour through China is something extraordinary. I am truly happy for the fact that the WKO’s general manager, Madeleine Landlinger, successfully sealed the deal for this large foreign tour. It is wonderful to see how enthusiastic the mostly young Chinese audiences are about “European” music. And if one has the privilege of performing Mozart’s “Kleine Nachtmusik,” Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D minor, or Tchaikovsky’s Serenade under such circumstances, then real moments of bliss will occur – both to the audience and to us musicians“, concludes Ruben Gazarian.