The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra will perform with special guest Italian fortepiano virtuoso Francesco Corti in his Australian debut for Mozart’s Jupiter.
Corti joins the Orchestra for a program traversing a trilogy of Mozart’s most iconic works, culminating in a performance of the monumental Jupiter symphony, for what will be their largest orchestral lineup of the year. The concerts will take place at the Melbourne Recital Centre from October 24-27.
As a soloist and conductor, Francesco Corti is one of Europe’s most in-demand musicians, and has appeared in recitals and concerts across the USA, Canada, South America, Asia and New Zealand.
Since 2023, Corti has been music director at the Drottningholm Court Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden, and is also a member of the esteemed Les Musiciens du Louvre, a French period instrument ensemble at the forefront of the revival of Baroque music. The artist’s solo album Händel: Winged Hands was awarded a prestigious Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2022.
For his Australian debut, Corti will showcase his incredible mastery of the fortepiano in a program of some of Mozart’s most beloved compositions.
Intimately acquainted with the composer’s sound world, in 2015 he performed on a fortepiano once owned by Mozart himself, in the Great Hall of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation during the Foundation’s annual Mozart Week.
The repertoire for Mozart’s Jupiter begins with an all-in overture of Mozart’s most famous opera Le nozze di Figaro, before soloist Corti brings his skills to the iconic Piano Concerto No.23.
He is set to perform on a replica of Mozart’s original fortepiano, commissioned for the Brandenburg by influential early supporters Dr John and Mary Holt.