Young Soloists 2012/13

Outstanding young interpreters engage with the music of our time, appealing to audiences’ sense of discovery.

January 15, 2013 – May 14, 2013
All concerts begin at 5:30 p.m. and last about 45 minutes.

Sophiensaal, Sophienstraße 6, 80333 München (close to the Karlsplatz metro station)

Admission to the concerts is free. Please arrive in good time so as to ensure yourself a seat.

Young performers present their responses to the music of our time. Selected works from the 20th and 21st centuries, performed by outstanding students from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, offer a challenge to inquiring audiences. In each of the five concerts in the season, a new work by a young composer from the classes of Prof. Isabel Mundry, Prof. Jan Müller-Wieland or Prof. Moritz Eggert will be given its first-ever performance. Introductory conversations with the composers and performers give the audience an insight into the underlying factors and sources of inspiration behind the compositions.

A series of concerts presented by the Siemens Stiftung in collaboration with the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Viola, cello, double-bass
Katharina Henke, viola; Johannes König, cello; Noam Massarik, double-bass
Works by Nicolaus A. Huber (*1939), Mauricio Kagel (1931 – 2008)
World premiere by Zhou Xiaoliang (*1988)
Composition class of Prof. Isabel Mundry
Program overview

Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Flute, guitar, vocals, cello
Pantxoa Urtizberea, flute; Kostas Amaxopoulos, guitar; Samuel Penderbayne, baritone; Angela Chang, cello
Works by Peter Sculthorpe (*1929), Michael Smetanin (*1958), Kaija Saariaho (*1952)
World premiere by Samuel Penderbayne (*1989)
Composition class of Prof. Moritz Eggert

Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Violin, saxophone, accordeon
Felicitas Schwab, violin; Claus Hierluksch, saxophone; Kai Wangler, accordeon
Works by Fritz Kreisler (1875 – 1962), Thomas Kessler (*1937), Hugo Bouma (*1991)
World premiere by Sebastian Schwab (*1993)
Composition class of Prof. Jan Müller-Wieland

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Clarinet, violin, cello
Sebastian Schwab, violin; Maximilian Strutynski, clarinet; Simon Eberle, cello
Works by Elliott Carter (*1908), Benjamin Schweitzer (*1973), Geoffrey Gordon (*1968)
World premiere by Han Kyul Yoon (*1994)
Composition class of Prof. Isabel Mundry

Tuesday, 14 May 2013
String quartet
Felix Weber und Anna-Maija Hirvonen, violin; Christa Jardine, Viola, und Anna Khubashvili, cello
Works by Javier Álvarez (*1956), Francisco Cortés Alvarez (*1983), Gabriela Ortiz (*1964)
World premiere by Diana Syrse Valdés (*1984)
Composition class of Prof. Moritz Eggert

 

„Everyone should be given the opportunity of becoming familiar with music as with selfhood and language.“ (Hans Werner Henze)

Harald Lillmeyer, Hochschule für Musik und Theater München 

Jens Cording and Anja Funke, Siemens Stiftung

If you would like to receive regular information concerning this series of concerts, please send an e-mail to: info@siemens-stiftung.org