I’m jumping in to Festivalta, performing Bridge Piano Quartet, Amy Beach Piano Quintet, Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Bach 1st solo suite, a Haydn Flute Quartet, Lili Boulanger D’un matin de printemps (trio version) and Enescu Octet! Wishing dear Torleif Thedéen a speedy and complete recovery!
Nana Forte (*1981)
Vokalzyklus auf Texte von France Prešeren UA
für Violoncello Solo und Vokalensemble
https://frankfurter-goethe-haus.de/termine/-/veranstaltung-1281/1281/2023-10-14/1408
World premiere
Nana Forte: Povodni mož
Vokalzyklus auf den Text „Der Wassermann“ von France Prešeren
für Violoncello solo und Vokalensemble
Our OCM tour is ending in Wigmore Hall!
Very happy to be back in this special place! Excited to join the autumn tour for the first time:
Sunday 1 October, 3pm St John’s Church, Truro, Cornwall
Monday 2 October, 7.30pm St Swithins Walcot, Bath
Tuesday 3 October, 7.30pm Champs Hill, West Sussex
Wednesday 4 October, 7.30pm West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Schumann: 6 Pieces in Canonic Form, Op.56 for Piano Trio (arr. Kirchner)
Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op.30
with Ulrike-Anima Mathé, Meesun Hong Coleman - violin
Shira Majoni - viola
Noam Greenberg - piano
Concert 5 - Bachplus
Selection of solo works by György Kurtág
The Hilary Jig (German premiere)
Circumdederunt... in memoriam Rita Wagner (German premiere)
In memoriam Sándor Devich (World premiere of the version for cello solo)
In memoriam György Maros (Dedicated to Ildikó Szabó, World premiere)
Schatten / Shadows / Árnyak
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras Nr. 5
István Várdai, Violoncello
Ella van Poucke, Violoncello
Pablo Ferrández, Violoncello
Kian Soltani, Violoncello
LiLa, Violoncello
Gabriel Schwabe, Violoncello
Ildikó Szabó, Violoncello
Erica Piccotti, Violoncello
Katharina Konradi, Sopran
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
„Verklärte Nacht“ d-Moll für Streichsextett op. 4
Itamar Zorman, Violine
Irène Duval, Violine
Peijun Xu, Viola
Sindy Mohamed, Viola
Ildikó Szabó, Violoncello
Harriet Krijgh, Violoncello
Cello ensemble concert at the Kronberg Festival
A privilege to return to Prussia Cove for their 50th anniversary year.
Performing at the Kronberg Academy Festival “Frau macht Musik”
Adriana Hölszky (*1953)
„Wolke und Mond“ for Violoncello and Accordion
with the fantastic Claudia Buder!
Fischer Annie Night 2.2
This concert at Három Holló presents what are mostly the first performances of works – songs, solo pieces and chamber compositions – by six young female composers. The new works will be performed by musicians who were awarded the Fischer Annie Scholarship for 2020.
https://www.cafebudapestfest.hu/chamber-concerts/20201016/fischer-annie-night-8226-22-126638-en
I’m happy to share that this year’s edition did not get cancelled, only postponed! Instead of April, we are going to perform in October, with a few program changes, due to pandemic regulations.
The International Bach Festival was founded in 2015 by friends of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam and their colleagues from the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria.
The second concert of the Bach Bridges Festival showcases brilliance and musical depth in 300 years of music for solo instruments and orchestra.
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The third Bach Bridges Festival at the Budapest Music Center is once again a collaboration between musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and their colleagues of the Royal Concertgebouworkest from Amsterdam with the artistic direction of Michael Gieler and Péter Szabó. Their programs in this edition are dedicated to two of the greatest composers of all times, Bach and Beethoven. We are delighted to introduce a number of very promising young artists in our festival.
We will keep the tradition of starting each concert with the psalms of Csaba Szabó.
After their concerts at the BMC most musicians will continue to make music together at the International Bach Festival of Gran Canaria.
The Bach Bridges Festival is a joint project between the Music Stages Foundation from the Netherlands, the Csaba Szabó International Society from Hungary and the Budapest Music Center.
The first program of this year's Bach Bridges Festival is dedicated to one of the greatest living Hungarian composer, György Kurtág. It reflects his love of chamber music and his close relationship with composers in the past, such as Bartók and Schumann. The young emerging world-renowned Hungarian cellist Ildikó Szabó will introduce solopieces which will soon be published on her latest CD.
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The third Bach Bridges Festival at the Budapest Music Center is once again a collaboration between musicians of the Budapest Festival Orchestra and their colleagues of the Royal Concertgebouworkest from Amsterdam with the artistic direction of Michael Gieler and Péter Szabó. Their programs in this edition are dedicated to two of the greatest composers of all times, Bach and Beethoven. We are delighted to introduce a number of very promising young artists in our festival.
We will keep the tradition of starting each concert with the psalms of Csaba Szabó.
After their concerts at the BMC most musicians will continue to make music together at the International Bach Festival of Gran Canaria.
The Bach Bridges Festival is a joint project between the Music Stages Foundation from the Netherlands, the Csaba Szabó International Society from Hungary and the Budapest Music Center.
Performing works by Felix and Fanny at the opening concert of the Mendelssohntage in Aarau, Switzerland!
Returning to Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove on the invitation of Steven Isserlis!
Playing Dvorak String Sextet and Dohnányi Serenade.
I’m happy to go back to the “Klassz a Parton” (“Cool on the Beach”) Festival at lake Balaton, in Hungary!
I will join my father and members of his Sinfonietta Pannonica Ensemble for an all-baroque program!
Couperin: Pièces en concert
Händel: C-major double concerto (transcribed by Péter Szabó)
C.P. E. Bach: Concerto in A-major Wq. 172
Vivaldi: Concerto for two cellos in g-minor RV 531
Happy to play a recital with pianist István Lajkó!
Works by Beethoven, Schubert, De Falla, Stravinsky, Csaba Szabó.
Happy to play my debut at Schleswig-Holstein with pianist István Lajkó.
Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
Britten: Sonata in C
Thanks to the invitation of Harriet Krijgh I spent some amazing days in Burg Feistritz (Austria) playing chamber music with incredible colleagues.
18th July:
Brahms G-major Sextet
with
William Hagen, Candida Thompson - violin
Georgy Kovalev, Pauline Sachse - viola
Harriet Krijgh - cello
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19th July:
Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle
with
Britta Schwarz - mezzosopran
Candida Thompson, William Hagen - violin
Pauline Sachse - viola
Daniel Heide - piano
Schubert: Quintet
with
Candida Thompson, William Hagen - violin
Pauline Sachse - viola
Harriet Krijgh - cello
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20th July:
Popper: Requiem
with
Brendan Goh, Harriet Krijgh - cello
Chizu Miyamoto - piano
Dvorak: Sextet
with
Candida Thompson, Emil Grubert - violin
Pauline Sachse, Georgy Kovalev - viola
Harriet Krijgh - cello
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21st July
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet
with
Johannes Fleischmann - violin
Georgy Kovalev - viola
Dominik Wagner - double bass
Daniel Heide - piano
Mendelssohn: Octet
with
Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Candida Thompson, Johannes Fleischmann, William Hagen - violin
Georgy Kovalev, Pauline Sachse - viola
Harriet Krijgh - cello
At the invitation of Steven Isserlis I had the privilege to participate at the Open Chamber Music Festival of the IMS Prussia Cove.
Dreams do come true - it was a fantastic opportunity to work, and perform with Ferenc Rados.
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856) Piano Trio No.3 in G minor Op.110
William Hagen, violin; Ildikó Szabó, cello; Ferenc Rados, piano
Besides Schumann, I got to work with inspiring young colleagues on the Fauré Piano Quartet in c-minor!
Playing CPE Bach A-major concerto at the International Bach Festival! The festival is a collaboration between musicians from Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Auditorio Alfredo Kraus Gran Canaria.
