Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto

“But most important of all, he was present in his playing, so that one sat almost hypnotised in the great cadenza in the transition from the 3rd to the 4th movement. He will be exciting to follow in the years ahead”. That is what Nordjyske’s reviewer wrote when the then 23-year-old Danish violinist Michael Germer was the soloist in Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto in March 2025. In February 2026 he took second place at the Singapore International Violin Competition, one of Asia’s most respected competitions. Germer also won the special prize for the best performer of the competition’s commissioned work. So there is something to look forward to when Michael Germer now returns as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto - a popular but very demanding work. The evening’s symphony is composed by the Swede Wilhelm Stenhammar, whose work Excelsior was on the programme in the previous season. This time it is his First Symphony, which shows him in an exciting artistic search.

• Dirigent: Tobias Ringborg
• Michael Germerviolin

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