It does not happen for the first time that Elisabeth Attl appears as cultural ambassador of Austria at the conductor’s rostrum in one of the former Ottoman countries on the European continent. However, it is taking place for the first time in Albania’s capital Tirana. The maestra conducts the Albanian Radio Symphony Orchestra which bears in the national language the official name Orkestra Simfonike e RTSH Tirana. Announcement of the Orchestra

The concert takes place at the concert hall of the University of Arts on May 22nd 2015 at 7.00 pm. It presents an ambitious program with Austrian contemporary and romantic music as frame for Sergey Prokofjev’s 3rd piano-concert played by the Albanian pianist Amir Xhakoviq. The second part of the concert contains Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony” from 1822, the opening of the concert is Johanna Doderer’s “A waltz” from 2013. Homepage of the female composer Johanna Doderer