Cairo Symphony Orchestra

The resident band of the Cairo Opera Home, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra has dominated the classical music of Egypt for a lot more than four decades. While their repertoire includes compositions by Mahler, Ravel, Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky, the group offers increasingly centered on the original music of their homeland. The to begin some recordings of Egyptian music premiered in 2001. Created in 1959 beneath the musical path of Franz Litschauer, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra originally provided music for Egyptian radio and tv. Associated with the Ministry of Tradition, the group proceeds to perform every week symphonic concerts independently and have followed such worldwide ensembles as the Bolshoi Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, as well as the London Town Ballet. They been employed by with an extended list of visitor conductors, including Charles Münch, Carlo Zecchi, Ottokar Truhlik, Ole Schmidt, and Yehudi Menuhin. Furthermore to performing in every from the opera productions on the Cairo Opera Home since 1990, they possess brought their music to Lebanon, Tunisia, Germany, France, and Austria. The main conductor since 1996, Ahmed Elsaedi is certainly a teacher and mind of structure and conducting on the Academy of Arts in Cairo.