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, 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.
Among the soloists who have performed with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra are Rudolf Buchbinder, Joerg Demus, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Frey, Viktoria Postnikova, Abdel Rahman El-Basha, Ramzy Yassa, André Navarra, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Stefan Vladar and Christian Altenburger. During the past several years the Cairo Symphony Orchestra has regularly toured many European countries and China with great success.
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