Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Claude Debussy, born on August 22nd 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, was first a glowing admirer of Richard Wagner, but soon turned away from the German musical tradition to develop a French national musical idiom. The style he arrived at was called…
Not until I heard "L'Après-midi d’un Faune" for the first time did I know what music really is. No less an authority than Maurice Ravel was the one who used these words to express his boundless admiration for the work of his friend and colleague…
With his symphonies, operas, concerti and chamber music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg) is today the most-performed composer of all times. While still a child, he was already an international celebrity: trotted out by…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major K. 575
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major K. 575
Come, darling May, and color the leaves green again. The precursor of this song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, entitled Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling (Longing for Spring), and written in 1791, the year of the composer´s death, was the theme of the…
Arnold Schönberg was one of the most important musical personalities of the previous century. Starting out with a final surge of the late romantic music, he took a radical step away from what was then regarded as the crisis of tonality with his move…
»Pelleas und Melisande«, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Opus 5
»Pelleas und Melisande«, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Opus 5
In quest of an operatic subject Arnold Schönberg was advised to have a look at Maurice Maeterlinck´s drama "Pelléas et Mélisande". Schönberg was thrilled, but the subject did not inspire him to an opera but rather to a symphonic poem. "Completely…
Since 2018, Lahav Shani has been the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. From the 20/21 season he started his position as Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, taking over from Zubin Mehta who held the position for…
Claude Debussy, born on August 22nd 1862 in St.-Germain-en-Laye, was first a glowing admirer of Richard Wagner, but soon turned away from the German musical tradition to develop a French national musical idiom. The style he arrived at was called…
Not until I heard "L'Après-midi d’un Faune" for the first time did I know what music really is. No less an authority than Maurice Ravel was the one who used these words to express his boundless admiration for the work of his friend and colleague…
With his symphonies, operas, concerti and chamber music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg) is today the most-performed composer of all times. While still a child, he was already an international celebrity: trotted out by…
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B-flat major K. 575
Come, darling May, and color the leaves green again. The precursor of this song by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, entitled Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling (Longing for Spring), and written in 1791, the year of the composer´s death, was the theme of the…
Arnold Schönberg was one of the most important musical personalities of the previous century. Starting out with a final surge of the late romantic music, he took a radical step away from what was then regarded as the crisis of tonality with his move…
»Pelleas und Melisande«, Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, Opus 5
In quest of an operatic subject Arnold Schönberg was advised to have a look at Maurice Maeterlinck´s drama "Pelléas et Mélisande". Schönberg was thrilled, but the subject did not inspire him to an opera but rather to a symphonic poem. "Completely…
Victoria Margasyuk wurde in Moskau geboren. Ihren ersten Violinunterricht erhielt sie im Alter von vier Jahren bei G. Turchaninova an der Zentralen Musikschule am Moskauer Staatskonservatorium. Danach studierte Victoria Margasyuk bei Prof. K. Wegrzyn…
Josef Hundsbichler studierte er an der Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien und sammelte Orchestererfahrung als Solo-Bratscher im Gustav-Mahler-Jugendorchester, im Wiener Jeunesse Orchester und im European Union Youth Orchestra.…
Friederike Luise Arnholdt erhielt ihren ersten Cellounterricht bei dem georgischen Cellopädagogen Prof. Eldar Issakadze. Als Jungstudentin wurde sie an der Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar in die Klasse von Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt…
Michael Neumann wurde in Leipzig geboren und begann seine musikalische Laufbahn bereits in früher Kindheit zunächst als Chorknabe und am Klavier. Im Alter von 13 Jahren entschied er sich für das Instrument Kontrabass und begann seinen Unterricht bei…
Der Pianist Paul Rivinius erhielt seinen ersten Klavierunterricht im Alter von fünf Jahren. Seine Lehrer waren zunächst Gustaf Grosch in München, später dann Alexander Sellier, Walter Blankenheim und Nerine Barrett an der Musikhochschule in…
Jakub Hrůša wurde 1981 im tschechischen Brno geboren und erhielt seine Ausbildung an der Prager Akademie der musischen Künste. Er ist Ständiger Gastdirigent der Tschechischen Philharmonie, Erster Gastdirigent des Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra…
Acclaimed by The New York Times as “an outstanding actress, as well as a singer of extraordinary grace and finesse,” American soprano Corinne Winters has performed over thirty leading roles at major opera houses around the world.
He studied singing at the Prague Conservatory under the guidance of Jiří Kotouč and then continued his studies at the Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague under Roman Janál from 2008. He is the winner of the junior…
Der Philharmonische Chor München ist einer der führenden Konzertchöre Deutschlands und Partnerchor der Münchner Philharmoniker. Er wurde 1895 von Franz Kaim, dem Gründer der Münchner Philharmoniker, ins Leben gerufen. Seit 1996 wird er von…
Zubin Mehta wurde 1936 in Bombay/Indien geboren und wuchs in einer musikalischen Familie auf. Nach zwei Semestern Medizinstudium konzentrierte er sich ganz auf die Musik und erhielt bei Hans Swarowsky an der Wiener Musikakademie Dirigierunterricht;…
Alexandra Gruber wurde in Freudenstadt/Schwarzwald geboren, begann bereits fünfjährig mit dem Klavierspiel, mit neun Jahren folgte dann die Klarinette. Ihr Studium im Hauptfach Klarinette absolvierte sie an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in…
