Sun, Feb. 04, 2024, 7.30 pm | Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Spiegelsaal
Lecture
Igor Stravinsky: Suite from "The Soldier's Tale"
Aram Khachaturian: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Paul Schoenfeld: Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Violine: Bogdan Dumitraşcu
Klarinette: Christian Seibold
Klavier: Kasia Wieczorek
Bogdan Dumitrașcu received his first violin lessons at the age of 7 from Natalia Epure in his home town of Iași in Romania. He was one of the first prizewinners in national competitions every year and performed in numerous recitals for Romanian radio and television programmes. From 1996, Bogdan Dumitrașcu studied at the Rostock University of Music in the violin class of Professor Petru Munteanu, graduating with honours in 2003. He perfected his studies by attending international masterclasses with Igor Ozim, Ștefan Gheorghiu, Lewis Kaplan, Sherban Lupu and Eduard Grach. He has won prizes at several international competitions, including "Citta di Stresa"/ Italy 1987, "Eugeniu Coca"/ Moldavia 1995, "Kloster Schöntal"/ Germany 1997. Bogdan Dumitrașcu has been a permanent 1st violinist in the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2002 and has been a principal violinist since 2013. Between 2009 and 2017, he was also a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. In addition to his orchestral activities, Bogdan Dumitrașcu is a sought-after chamber musician and regularly performs in various chamber music formations.
Christian Seibold was born in Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, in 1966. He enrolled as a junior student at the Munich Music Academy at the age of 17, studying with Gerd Starke from 1982 to 1989. After an engagement at the Frankfurt Opera, he joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra as an E-flat clarinettist in 1993. His orchestral activities have taken him to internationally renowned orchestras, such as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Gürzenich Orchestra, where he has performed under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Wolfgang Sawallisch. He also makes regular guest appearances at major opera houses, e.g. the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Cologne Opera, Essen Opera and Hanover State Opera. In addition to his orchestral work, he has long been an active piano accompanist. Alongside his love for opera and art song, he also has a passion for jazz. In 2005 he founded the “Philharmonic Clowns” together with Larry Elam (trumpet), and they can be heard regularly with popular jazz standards throughout Hamburg. Another important focus for Seibold is chamber music. He has performed with various ensembles at such events as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, in Hitzacker and the Waldhaus Concerts in Flims, Switzerland. The clarinettist also teaches at the Hamburg Conservatory and serves as a juror for the federal competition “Jugend musiziert”. He has coached the wind section of various youth orchestras, such as the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Hamburg University, and teaches at various summer academies.
Polish pianist Kasia Wieczorek is one of the most sought after collaborative pianists of her generation.
Her musicality and energetic stage presence has captivated audiences on major stages throughout the world, both as a soloist and chamber musician.
This has taken her to renowned concert venues such as the Munich Gasteig, Vienna Konzerthaus and Concertgebouw Amsterdam, as well as numerous international festivals including Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Festival, Mecklenburg - Vorpommern, Beethoven Fest Bonn, Ludwigsburg, Braunschweig, Dresden and Schwarzwald Festivals.
Kasia Wieczorek is a keen chamber musician and has collaborated with artists such as Gidon Kremer, Sol Gabetta, Augustin Hadelich, Antoine Tamestit, Julian Rachlin, Steven Isserlis, Grace Bumbry, Mihaela Martin, Frams Helmerson, Clara Yumi Kang.
As a versatile piano partner Kasia Wieczorek has been invited to soke of the most important music competitions, such as the ARD Competition Munich, Wieniawski Violin Competition in Poznan and the Aeolus Competition.
Aside from giving master classes throughout Europe, Asia and USA, Kasia Wieczorek holds a teaching position at Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main and at the Kronberg Academy, where she lives with her husband and two children.
"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
