Cairo Symphony Orchestra
| Cairo Symphony Orchestra | |
|---|---|
| Orchestra | |
| Native name | أوركسترا القاهرة السيمفونى |
| Founded | 1959 |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
| Concert hall | Cairo Opera House |
| Music director | Ahmed El Saedi |
The Cairo Symphony Orchestra, (Arabic: اوركسترا القاهرة السيمفونى; Orkestra el-Qāhera el-Semfōni), is an orchestra based in Cairo, Egypt.[1][2] Founded in 1959 by its first music director and conductor, Franz Litschauer. The symphony's current principal conductor is Ahmed El Saedi.[3][4]
History
The Orchestra was founded in 1959 under its first music director and conductor, Franz Litschauer, and from mid-1959 to 1963 it was conducted by the Yugoslavian Serbs Gika Zdravkovitch (1959–1960) and Dushan Miladinovitch (1960–1963) (Serbian: Живојин Здравковић, Živojin Zdravković; Душан Миладиновић, Dušan Miladinović). Two Egyptian conductors, Ahmed Ebeid and Youssef Elsisi, succeeded Litschauer as conductors of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra.
Guest conductors and soloists
Many international guest conductors such as Charles Munch, Yehudi Menuhin, Alexander Frey, Patrick Fournillier, Carlo Zecchi, Otakar Trhlik, Ole Schmidt, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Janos Kukla, Alain Pâris, Felix Carrasco, and others have led the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. In April 2009, Israeli-Argentinean conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim played Beethoven's piano sonata no. 8 (known as "Sonata Pathétique"), and conducted the Cairo Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.[5]
References
- ^ "Cairo Symphony Orchestra | Onuart Foundation". Retrieved 2025-12-01.
- ^ "Cairo Symphony Orchestra at Cairo Opera House – Cairo 360 Guide to Cairo, Egypt". www.cairo360.com. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
- ^ "Cairo Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor". Archived from the original on 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ "Opera Egypt | Cairo Symphony Orchestra". www.cairoopera.org. Retrieved 2025-12-01.
- ^ "BBC News: Barenboim gets ovation in Cairo". 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2010-04-28.