French pianist and conductor Philippe Entremont will be performing at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw Dec. 18 and 19.

Entremont has been a major force since the 1960s when he teamed up with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra to record some groundbreaking performances of piano concertos by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. He has since won wide acclaim as an interpreter of Mozart. Over the course of a career spanning six decades, Entremont has become increasingly disposed towards conducting and has built a highly successful career in this field as well, having conducted such orchestras as the New Orleans Symphony, the Denver Symphony and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra.

Entremont will be conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic in a performance of Webern's Five Works for Orchestra and Richard Strauss's The Bourgeois Gentleman Suite. As a soloist he will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, opus 15.

Dec. 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 19 at 6 p.m.
National Philharmonic Concert Hall, 5 Jasna St., Warsaw
Tickets priced zl.32, zl.37, zl.42, zl.47, zl.52 can be purchased from www.ticketonline.pl
For more information, go to www.filharmonia.pl