The touring musicians of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and their Music Director Pinchas Zukerman are looking ahead to a concert to remember: a dazzling evening concert will be performed at Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts on October 17, 2013.

A significant moment with the Orchestra is always the moment that their conductor - the virtuosic Zukerman - puts down the baton and picks up his violin to perform as a soloist. There is a special connection at that moment, observable between the Orchestra members and Zukerman, when he transfers his focus from the Orchestra as a whole to his violin. There is a camaraderie onstage that is palpable, as the musicians listen to and watch their fellow artist create his magic. In Beijing the audience will have the pleasure of hearing Zukerman perform Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 – a work for which he received a rave review from the New York Times music critic earlier this year. The Times' critic praised "...Mr. Zukerman’s excellent playing. Sweet, soulful and vibrantly responsive, he was always present but never overpowering. His tone as the music turned to the central Adagio was soft yet glowing; later in that movement, the violin’s tiny bit of interplay with the cello section was like finding a chamber performance hidden inside a concerto."

Pure magic. This is a concert to savour forever – hearing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No.1 by Pinchas and the Orchestra, Canadian composer John Estacio’s Brio, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2. Enjoy!