Maestro Series 8: Simone Young at Concert Hall, QPAC

Will it be two hammer blows, meaning hope, or three, foretelling doom, at the end of Mahler’s epic Sixth Symphony?

He leaves the choice to the performers, in a visceral musical drama played out with raw human emotion.

Two Australian powerhouses join QSO in an evening of musical magic. Internationally acclaimed conductor Simone Young continues her profound Mahler odyssey in Brisbane while Lisa Gasteen returns with a song cycle perfectly suited to her incomparable dramatic soprano.

Simone Young is internationally recognised as one of the leading conductors of her generation. In 2005 she took up the post of General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburgische Staatsoper and Music Director of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg.

Lisa Gasteen has sung at most of the world’s major opera houses, including the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bastille in Paris, the Metropolitan Opera New York and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She is a Professor of Opera at Queensland Conservatorium, and Director of the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School.

Mahler Rückert Lieder
Mahler Symphony No.6