Friday, 12 December at 8:00 p.m. – in the Zubin Mehta Hall – marks Bar Avni’s debut at the helm of the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

The programme features a rich selection of works by Unsuk Chin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Antonín Dvořák.

The soloists for the evening are Anna Tifu on violin, Erica Piccotti on cello, and Leonora Armellini on piano.

The concert will be broadcast at a later date on Rai Radio 3.

Florence, 10 December 2025 – On Friday, 12 December at 8:00 p.m., in the Zubin Mehta Hall of the Teatro del Maggio, conductor Bar Avni will take the podium for the first time, leading the Orchestra del Maggio.

The programme comprises a distinguished selection of works: the evening opens with Subito con forza, an orchestral composition written in 2020 by the South Korean composer Unsuk Chin. This is followed by the Triple Concerto in C major, Op. 56 for violin, cello, piano, and orchestra by Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring Anna Tifu on violin, Erica Piccotti on cello, and Leonora Armellini on piano. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88.

Bar Avni, making her Florentine debut, has served since 2021 as the first Principal Conductor of the Bayer Philharmoniker. She collaborates with numerous orchestras and recently received First Prize at the “La Maestra” competition in Paris, awarded by an international jury chaired by Nathalie Stutzmann. She also won four special prizes: the “Orchestral Prize of the Mozart Orchestra of Paris,” the “Arte Prize,” the “Echo Prize,” and the “Prize of French Concert Halls and Orchestras.” In 2021 she was also the youngest recipient of an award and scholarship from the Kurt Masur International Institute. In 2024 she made her debut with the WDR Funkhaus Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra as assistant to Barbara Hannigan. Since her conducting debut in 2016 at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl, Avni has collaborated with several orchestras and ensembles of various stylistic orientations, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Symphoniker Hamburg, the Bergische Symphoniker, Bridges Chamber Orchestra, and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. A classically trained percussionist, Bar Avni also studied conducting with Yoav Talmi in Tel Aviv, later becoming Assistant Conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra.

She subsequently continued her studies with Martin Sieghart in Graz and Ulrich Windfuhr in Hamburg. During the 2017/18 season she served as Assistant to General Music Director Peter Kuhn at the Bergische Symphoniker.