Premiere of Forgotten Eugène Ysaÿe Violin Concerto Coming to Carnegie Hall

VC Artist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky will perform the concerto, which until recently was held in a library at The Juilliard School

Russian violinist and VC Artist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky is set to give the world premiere performance of a long-forgotten violin concerto by the Belgian composer Eugène Ysaÿe. Boriso-Glebsky will perform the work alongside The Orchestra Now (TON) and conductor Leon Botstein on May 8, 2024 at Carnegie Hall.

Ysaÿe's Violin Concerto in D minor has been brought out of obscurity by the French musicologist Xavier Falques, who knew that the piece was held in a library at The Juilliard School, but also knew that it had never been published in a proper edition with orchestral parts, or performed.

Now, the piece will receive its world premiere on May 4 at Bard College, and this will be closely followed by the New York City premiere.

The soloist, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, has won both the Jean Sibelius and the Fritz Kreisler Violin Competitions. In this concert he makes his Carnegie Hall debut, and on the same program he will also perform Joseph Joachim's Variations for Violin and Orchestra in E minor.

The two violin works are paired with Grażyna Bacewicz's Partita for Orchestra George Enescu's Symphony No. 2 in A Major.

Conductor Leon Botstein founded TON in 2015 as a graduate program at Bard College, where he was president. The ensemble comprises 59 vibrant young musicians from 13 different countries across the globe: Austria, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States. The players are hand-picked from leading conservatories, and complete either a two- or three-year graduate qualification.

You can purchase tickets for the concert here.