Sat, Feb. 03, 2024, 7.30 pm | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Spiegelsaal
Lecture
Niels Wilhelm Gade: Excerpt from String Sextet in E flat major op. 44
Hanns Eisler: Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H op. 46 for String Trio
Antonín Dvorák: String Sextet in A major op. 48
Violine: Solveigh Rose
Violine: Kathrin Wipfler
Viola: Yitong Guo
Viola: Tomohiro Arita
Violoncello: Tobias Bloos
Violoncello: Saskia Hirschinger
Born in Lübeck, Solveigh Rose went to the UdK Berlin after a young study at the Lübeck Music Academy and studied with Thomas Brandis, the gifted violin teacher and former 1st concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Scholarships from the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" and the "Jürgen Ponto Stiftung" supported her studies until she won the audition as 1st violinist of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg in 1990.
From 2000-2009 she gave guest performances with the Trio Kairos throughout Germany and in several European countries, as well as at the International Music Festival Puebla, Mexico, where she also gave a master class. She has recorded several CDs as a chamber musician for the Musicaphon label. Recently she has been playing in a new piano trio formation, the Brahms Trio Hamburg, together with Clemens Malich and Wolf Harden.
In her solo appearances she has been accompanied, among others, by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra under Gerd Albrecht with Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under Kent Nagano with the world premiere of "The Seasons of Life" by Régis Campo. Productions at SFB, as well as the former Rias Berlin and NDR complemented these.
In addition to her commitment as an orchestral and chamber musician, Solveigh Rose devotes herself intensively to promoting young talent as a violin pedagogue and consultant at The Young ClassX and as a lecturer at the Initiative Jugend-Kammermusik Hamburg.
Since 2023, she has been playing a violin made especially for her by Hamburg master violin maker Klaus C. Grumpelt.
Kathrin Wipfler was born near Stuttgart in 1992. She was a junior student of Emily Körner in Stuttgart, then studying with Elisabeth Kufferath in Hanover and, as an exchange student, with Nora Chastain in Zurich for one year. During her studies, she was supported for five years by the String Instrument Collection of the State of Baden-Württemberg. She also attended numerous master courses given by Nora Chastain, Mi-Kyung Lee, Donald Weilerstein, Mauricio Fuks and András Keller, among others. A passionate chamber musician, in 2016 she received a scholarship to attend the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, USA, where she had the opportunity to work and perform with members of the Cleveland, Juilliard and Brentano String Quartets. She has also performed chamber music with Elisabeth Kufferath and Donald Weilerstein. Kathrin Wipfler gained orchestral experience as an intern and regular substitute at the NDR Radio Philharmonic in Hanover, at the NRD Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Stuttgart State Orchestra. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Yitong Guo was born in Lanzhou, China and raised in Beijing. He studied at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music in New York, at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He currently continues his concert degree studies at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre. His teachers and mentors include Thomas Riebl, Pinchas Zukerman, Hartmut Rohde, Anna Kreetta, Patinka Kopec, Samuel Rhodes. Yitong Guo has won the first prize at the International Clara Schumann Competition, the second prize at the Hudson Valley String Competition, the fifth place at the International Max Rostal Competition and the Young Artist Award from Canada’s National Arts Centre. He has appeared at the Ravinia Festival and the Yellow Barn Festival and participated in the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove and the Seiji Ozawa International Academy. Since 2020 he has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tomohiro Arita is from Osaka, Japan. He learned to play the violin as a young child and discovered the viola for himself when he was 15 years old. He completed his bachelor studies with Toshihiko Ichitsubo at University of the Arts Tokio, followed by his master studies with Simone von Rahden at Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin. Already during his studies, he gained orchestral experience with the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra as a member of the Orchestra Academy, as well as international festivals, such as the Verbier Festival and the Lucerne Festival. As violist with the Japan National Orchestra, he performs in Japan regularly. Tomohiro Arita has been playing with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since August 2021.
Tobias Bloos received his first cello lessons from Martin Löher, subsequently studying with Wolfgang Mehlhorn at the Hamburg Music Academy from 1994 onwards. He took up studies with Wolfgang Boettcher at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2002. A native of Hamburg, Tobias Bloos is the winner of various competitions such as “Jugend musiziert”, the Domenico Gabrielli Cello Competition, the International Charles Hennen Chamber Music Competition in Heerlen, Netherlands, and the International Chamber Music Competition in Caltanissetta, Italy. He also received the Eduard Söring Prize of the Foundation for the Support of the Hamburg State Opera. Tobias Bloos has appeared at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, among others. He has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2008.
Saskia Hirschinger was born in Halle an der Saale in 1995 and took cello lessons with Tamara Steger from the age of five. In 2014 she began studying with Wen-Sinn Yang at the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre. She received important musical impulses at master courses with Wolfgang Boettcher, Frans Helmerson, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Jens Peter Maintz and Troels Svane. During the 2018/19 season Saskia Hirschinger was a member of the Academy of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. She subsequently continued her master’s degree studies with Martin Ostertag at the Karlsruhe Music Academy. She also won several competitions and the award of the New Liszt Foundation in Weimar. Saskia Hirschinger was a fellow of “Live Music Now” in Munich and also won a “Deutschlandstipendium” scholarship. She gained orchestral experience as a cellist at the Stuttgart State Orchestra and as a substitute in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. In March 2020 Saskia Hirschinger became a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
"Language" is our theme for the three-part series of events "Music and Science". We know that there are innumerable languages among people, depending on the affiliation of people to family groups, to extended family groups and finally to associations and societies. We speak of natural languages. They serve the understanding among humans, the communication, and mean at the same time demarcation in their respective peculiarity. These demarcations are, of course, overcome by the acquisition, the learning of the other language.
We know that language is part of our everyday life. It functions as an essential means of communication. But it is more! It is an expression of personality, and it sounds different each time it speaks of suffering or joy, of loving or hating. Language is in the change, changes in the sign of the real circumstances and conditions - and this constantly, continuously!
A concert event today, based on various works from the classical, romantic and modern periods, makes it immediately clear and understandable to the listener that messages, moods, experiences of distress and joy are expressed in different musical languages, different work formats.
Likewise, after a few bars of a composition we hear not only which epoch it comes from, but also which individual linguistic elements of musicality underlie it. Whether it is music by an Igor Stravinsky, an Antonín Dvořák or a Bohuslav Martinů or whether it originates from Hanns Eisler. Nevertheless, all these compositions and creations reveal not only different things, but above all something common to all, namely their ties to a higher order in material and structure, in tonality and formal essences. It is precisely these all-round ties that form the basis for our speaking of music as a "universal language".
Venue: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Spiegelsaal, Steintorplatz 20099 Hamburg