Korean conductor Lim Jun-o andviolinist Paik Jae-jin will perform with the HCM City Ballet SymphonyOrchestra and Opera in a concert at HCM City’s Opera House on March 9.

The concert will feature music by Italian, German and Russian composers.

The orchestra will open the show by playing the overture to “the Barberof Seville”, a popular 18 th century opera by Italian composerGioachino Rossini.

Highlights include a performance by violinist Paik Jae-jin, who is amusic professor at the Dong-Eui University in Busan, the Republic ofKorea (RoK).

Paik will play a violin concerto by German composer and conductor Max Bruch.

The concert will continue with Russian music, including Shostakovich’s well-known Symphony No 5.

Paik, one of the talented violinists from the RoK, graduated from SeoulNational University. In 1989, he continued his studies at the WienMusik Hochschule in Australia.

He has taken part in many concerts at home and abroad, and worked withnumerous orchestras, including the Seoul Chamber Orchestra, Seoul YoungOrchestra, and Vienna Academy Chamber Orchestra before moving to residein Busan. He now works as a music teacher for the Dong-Eui University.

After studying music at Dong-Eui University, Lim continued conducting at the Magnitogorsk music Conservatory in Russia.

He has performed in many concerts and festivals in the RoK, Russia andVietnam, and now leads the New Prime Symphony Orchestra.

Last year, he visited HCM City to conduct a classical music concert staged by the HBSO.
The concert will begin at 8pm on March 9 at the Opera House at 7 LamSon Square, District 1. Tickets, on sale at the theatre’s box office,cost between 150,000VND and 200,000 VND (8-12USD)./.