Aris Quartet - String Quartet
Expressive, dynamic, spectacular – the Aris Quartet has been at home on international stages for more than a decade. With its unmistakable sound, it has long been known as one of the world’s top-rank chamber music ensembles. The ensemble’s success is no coincidence: having earned numerous first prizes at prestigious competitions, the Aris Quartet quickly achieved its international breakthrough. The musicians have also been honored as ECHO Rising Stars by the European Concert Hall Organisation, are among the BBC's New Generation Artists, and have won five awards at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.
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Armida Quartet - String Quartet
After intensely engaging in Mozart‘s string quartet œvre, the Armida Quartet completed the recording of all string quartets by W.A. Mozart in 2022. The CD box set has been be released in February 2023 on the CAvi-music label and is the crowning conclusion to a productive cooperation with the G.Henle Verlag and the quartet-owned concert series Mozart Exploded. In May 2022 the Armida Quartet has been appointed the first ambassador of the "Orchestras of Change" initiative (Orchester des Wandels e.V.).
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Saleem Ashkar - CD-Project "Beethoven"
Berlin-based Israeli-Palestinian pianist Saleem Ashkar was born and raised in Nazareth. He studied in Europe and at the age of 22 played his debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under Daniel Barenboim - since then he has been considered one of the most interesting pianists of his generation. Saleem Ashkar has just released the complete Beethoven sonatas on Universal/Decca.
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Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra dates back to 1765 and is thus one of the world’s oldest orchestras. Chief Conductor is Edward Gardner. The Orchestra played six concerts in Germany in February 2023.
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Vera-Lotte Boecker - Soprano
Since her successes at the Vienna State Opera and Bavarian State Opera, soprano Vera-Lotte Boecker has become one of the most exciting emerging singer-performers of our time. Her varied repertoire ranges from operetta to grand opera to contemporary music. In 2022, Cologne-born Vera-Lotte Boecker was named "Singer of the Year" by the magazine "Opernwelt" - one of the most important awards in the German opera business.
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe
The Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) was founded in 1981 by a group of young musicians who became acquainted as part of the European Community Youth Orchestra (now EUYO). There are now about 60 members of the COE (including a dozen founding members), who pursue parallel careers as principals or section leaders of nationally-based orchestras, as eminent chamber musicians, and as tutors of music.
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DLW – Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard
In search of new music, the trio Dell-Lillinger-Westergaard works at the intersction of contemporary music, experimental and avant-garde jazz. The ensemble consists of Christopher Dell (vibraphone), Christian Lillinger (drums, percussion) and Jonas Westergaard (double bass), who act as composers and performers alike.
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Titus Engel - Conductor
The search for new concert forms and the dramaturgically meaningful fusion of old and new music are central to Titus Engel's career. Besides symphonic repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, he has a deep passion for baroque music performances on historical as well as modern instruments.
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Holger Falk - Baritone
"Holger Falk is anyway one of the intellectually and vocally most flexible singers on German stages" the Magazine Opernwelt wrote. Colourfulness, flexiblity and authenticity in his expression are the artistical sources of his international carreer as an operasinger as well as an interpreter of art song.
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G.A.P. Ensemble
The letters G.A.P. not only reveal the initials of the baroque violinist and composer Giovanni Antonio Piani, whose violin sonatas were a part of the group’s first CD in a world premiere recording back in 2012. They also point out the Ensemble’s intention to close the existing GAPs between the different musical eras and their stylistics and the audience. The Ensemble performs on both period and modern instruments, giving the listener an exceptional experience of colours. In Spring 2023 a recording of works by Johann Wilhelm Wilms will be released.
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HERBSTGOLD 2023 – Festival in Eisenstadt
From 9 to 24 September 2023, internationally renowned artists from a wide range of genres will be performing at the seventh edition of the HERBSTGOLD Festival in Eisenstadt, the capital of Burgenland, Austria. A place of special sounds, artistic performances and a unique setting. The festival motto for 2023 is "Longing".
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HIDALGO – Festival for Young Classics
HIDALGO is Munich's most innovative start-up for classical music. Since 2016 the multi-skilled team passionately ties seemingly contradicting worlds together, creating intense, intoxicating experiences. They produce unique concert events and the yearly HIDALGO Festival for young classical music, which first took place in 2018. It features young, successful artists from all over Europe. It is named after the Lied "Der Hidalgo" by Robert Schumann. According to the magazine "Crescendo," the Festival for young classical musicis one of the "most exciting young and innovative classical music festivals with a focus on Lied in the world." The patron is star baritone Christian Gerhaher.
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Äneas Humm - baritone
The young Swiss baritone made his debut at the Stadttheater Bremerhaven at the age of 18. In the summer of 2019, he completed his vocal studies with Edith Wiens at the renowned Juilliard School in New York. Previously, studies led him to the Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
His first solo CD "Awakening" with pianist Judit Polgar was released by the label Rondeau in October 2017 and was followed in the autumn 2021 by the second solo album "Embrace" with the Hawaiian pianist Renate Rohlfing.
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Simon Höfele - Trumpet
Simon Höfele is one of the most exciting trumpeters of the up-and-coming generation. He was BBC Radio3 new generation artist, Rising Star of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) 2019-20, nominated by Philharmonie Cologne, Konzerthaus Dortmund and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and “Junger Wilder” at Konzerthaus Dortmund.
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Kebyart - Saxophone Quartet
Founded in Barcelona, Kebyart is one of the most promising ensembles of the current music scene. These four talented musicians share an endless passion for chamber music and wish to bring fresh air in the way classical music is communicated. Their endeavour to transform their performances into a unique experience results in an explosive and vibrant staging, which has been praised by audiences and specialized critics. The distinctive signature of Kebyart is revealed in a creative and open approach to the repertoire, which goes in three directions: the original literature, the commitment with nowadays music and their own arrangements of wide variety styles.
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Linos Festival - Chamber Music Festival in Cologne
Winner of the chamber music prize of the German Record Critics’ Award 2021, the Linos Piano Trio returns this year to Cologne to Linos Festival 2022 — “Time”. In three concerts, Linos Festival explores the sense of the past and present in music (Time Machine), music’s healing powers in times of crisis (End of Time), and musical nostalgia (Memories). Two family concerts welcome children to experience a journey into the timeline of chamber music from Hildegard to Messiaen.
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Luzerner Sinfonieorchester
The 2021/22 season of the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester with its new principal conductor Michael Sanderling is focussed on the large, late Romantic repertoire, top-class soloists and (un)expected programmes.
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Molyvos International Music Festival
The Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) is a unique project in the North Aegean region that brings together the greatest international young talents for a four-day celebration of world- class classical music. The motto of the 2019 edition was "Dia-logos".
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James Newby - Baritone
James Newby is a former BBC New Generation Artist and Rising Star for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He was nominated by the Barbican Hall for the European Concert Hall Organisation Rising Star scheme and will be presented by them in recitals throughout Europe in the 2022-23 season. In Spring 2023 the new album Fallen to Dust with works by Britten, Dove and Finzi among others will be released on BIS.
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OPERA IN THE QUARRY 2023 - "Carmen" by Georges Bizet
n the 2023 season, one of the world's most popular operas will once again transform the St. Margarethen Quarry into a meeting place for music lovers from all over the world: between Hollywood's dream factory and the Spanish Civil War, French director Arnaud Bernard will stage Georges Bizet's Carmen from 12 July - 20 August 2023 under the artistic direction of Daniel Serafin. Star soprano Kristīne Opolais makes an excursion into mezzo with her role debut.
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Quatuor Tchalik - CD Project "Tishchenko"
On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Quatuor Tchalik presents a private album of maximum repertoire value in several respects: the recording of the two string quartets No. 1 and No. 5 as well as the piano quartet op. 93 by Shostakovich student Boris Tishchenko (1939-2010), with whose work the four have been intensively engaged since 2000.
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Fedor Rudin - Violin
As an international award-winning violinist, graduated conductor, chamber musician and former concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, he persuades audiences today both as a soloist and on the conductor’s podium with his affinity for various genres and repertoires and is therefore considered one of the most versatile artists of his generation. In 2021 Fedor Rudin released his album "Heritage" with the pianist Boris Kusnezow on Orchid Classics. The program includes works written by composers of different generations in the middle of the last century - Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich and his known grandfather Edison Denisov. The listener will find well-known, regularly performed works, among previously unperformed and even unpublished works.
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Schumann Quartet - String Quartet
The three brothers Mark, Erik and Ken Schumann have been playing together since their earliest childhood – meanwhile violist Veit Hertenstein completes the quartet. Those who experience the quartet in performance often remark on the strong connection between its members. The four musicians enjoy the way they communicate without words: how a single look suffices to convey how a particular member wants to play a particular passage. Although the individual personalities clearly manifest themselves, a common space arises in every musical work in a process of spiritual metamorphosis.
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Miroslav Srnka - Composer
Miroslav Srnka's international breakthrough came in 2016 when his opera "South Pole" was premiered at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich under Kirill Petrenko, in a production by Hans Neuenfels that featured Rolando Villazón and Thomas Hampson in the title roles. Several of Srnka's works will be premiered in the season 2022/23: The Berliner Philharmoniker will perform the orchestral work "Superorganisms" for the first time conducted by Kirill Petrenko in February 2023, before it has its Asian premiere in Tokyo with the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Ryan Wigglesworth in June 2023.
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Markus Stenz - Conductor
Intelligent clarity and an in-depth and always curious musicality characterize Markus Stenz' work. Worldwide much valued, he has held a number of high-profile positions with international orchestras and opera houses including Principal Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (2012-2019), Principal Guest of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2015-2019), Conductor-In-Residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (2016-2019). He was General Music Director of the City of Cologne and Gürzenich-Kapellmeister for 11 years.
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Sarah Wegener - Soprano
Sarah Wegener approaches every role with captivating intensity. She has enthralled listeners with the warmth and richness of her voice in performances such as Strauss’ Orchestral songs under Mariss Jansons and Vladimir Jurowski in Munich, London, and Hamburg, Mahler’s 8th Symphony under Kirill Petrenko in Bregenz, Eliahu Inbal in Hamburg, and Kent Nagano in Montreal, as well as in her War and Peace programme shaped around works by Handel and Purcell, which she also presented at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival. Her “marvellously radiant voice, as powerful as it is rich in colour” (FAZ) distinguishes her as a lieder singer of the highest order, as illustrated on her highly praised CDs "Into the Deepest Sea" and "Zueignung". A recording of songs arranged by B.A. Zimmermann with the WDR Symphony Orchestra is due to be released at WERGO in October 2022.
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Antje Weithaas - Violin
Brimful of energy, Antje Weithaas’ brings her compelling musical intelligence and technical mastery to every detail of the music. Her charisma and stage presence are captivating, but never overshadow the works themselves.
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