Bangkok, Thailand, August 5, 2025 / TRAVELINDEX / To mark the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother, on August 12, 2025, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, with the support of the Department of Cultural Promotion of the Ministry of Culture and B. Grimm, presents the concert “Royal Elegance.” The concert will take place on Thursday, August 14, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Hall of the Thailand Cultural Centre. The RBSO wishes to express its deep gratitude and unwavering loyalty to Her Majesty. With immeasurable compassion and extraordinary wisdom, Her Majesty has dedicated herself to numerous royal duties for the benefit and well-being of the Thai people throughout the country.

This concert is conducted by Valentin Egel, the acclaimed General Music Director of the Croatian National Theatre and the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Egel previously conducted the RBSO in the impressive 2024 production of "Madam Butterfly." The concert opens with Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, performed by guest soloist Sueye Park, winner of first prize at the 13th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. South Korean-born Park is an internationally celebrated soloist and chamber musician. She began playing the violin at the age of four and studied with Ulf Wallin in Berlin and Clive Brown in Vienna. Park has performed with leading orchestras such as the Seoul Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Helsinki Philharmonic, and has collaborated with renowned artists including Osmo Vänskä, Gary Hoffman, and Pietari Inkinen. She currently plays a violin by GB Guadagnini from 1753, which is provided to her by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.

The second part of the concert features Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major. Sibelius composed his Fifth Symphony between 1914 and 1917, in the years leading up to Finland's declaration of independence. It begins with the vastness and grandeur of an unfolding Nordic landscape. A mystical horn call rises and fades in a wide arc, opening the door to everything that follows. Taken up by the woodwinds, the motif begins to fragment, twist, and develop with a sense of self-organizing inevitability. The Fifth Symphony evokes the divine logic of nature. This music is influenced by the stark, remote landscapes of the northern latitudes, where the perception of time can be altered by the cycles of the seasons with their long periods of darkness and light. His personal experiences of nature inspired the iconic "swan theme," which forms the triumphant climax of the final movement. The Fifth Symphony ends with six piercing musical thunderclaps, surrounded by haunting silence.

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