The KZNPO'S World Symphony Series Spring Season is running every week in the Durban City Hall until November 25. The line-up for October is as follows:

On October 7, the orchestra’s conductor laureate David Tidboald conducts the Youth Concerto Festival.

Titled One for All, the concert on October 14 again features conductor David Tidboald. Highlight of the evening will be a performance of the Ibarra Cello Concerto by internationally acclaimed cellist Carlos Prieto who appears thanks to sponsorship from the Mexican Embassy. Other works in the programme include Reznicek’s Donna Diana Overture, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, Les Préludes by Liszt and La Valse by Ravel.

Conductor Bernhard Gueller takes over the podium for the concert on October 21 which is titled The Great Romantic - a Tribute to Chopin. Prize-winning South African pianist Mark Nixon now living in London performs Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (E minor). Also on the programme will be Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5.

Unrequited Love is the title of the concert on October 28, also conducted by Bernhard Gueller. Described by Britain’s Daily Telegraph as :the most remarkable pianist of the day”, Russian keyboard virtuoso Dmitri Alexeev is the soloist in Schumann’s ever-green Piano Concerto in A minor. The programme is completed by Charles Ives Unanswered Questions and the Brahms Symphony No. 4.

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