Congratulations! Max Volbers is awarded with the OPUS KLASSIK in the category “Young Artist of the Year” for his debut CD “Whispers of Tradition”.
Premieres, new productions, awards and special concert programs – below you will find an overview of what our artists will be featuring on international concert stages in the coming months.
The young recorder player and allround musician Max Volbers will be playing in a wide variety of constellations in the coming weeks. This Sunday he will play a program entitled “Comprovisations” in Kleve as recorder player together with the lutenist David Bergmüller and in early April as harpsichordist at the Festival de Paques in Aix-en-Provence together with the recorder player Lucie Horsch.
26 March – Kleve, Museum Kurhaus
Max Volbers – recorder
David Bergmüller – lute
“Comprovisations”
3 April – Aix-en-Provence, Festival de Pâques
Max Volbers – harpsichord
Lucie Horsch – recorder
“Conversations”
Works by John Baldwin, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Luigi Nono and others with Elisabeth Wirth and Max Volbers on recorder. Please find more information here.
With his debut CD Whispers of Tradition on GENUIN, recorder player Max Volbers presents “a stylistically varied program with two concertos, a world premiere, music with variable continuo instruments, and consort music. These are either paraphrases, series of variations, arrangements, pasticcios, etc. of my own – or, as in the case of the Dieupart suite, they are arranged by the composer himself for the recorder. Thanos Sakellaridis wrote the piece “Please enter the Underground” for Elisabeth and myself. What unites all the pieces is the joy of discovery and the desire to create new repertoire for the recorder.”
Along with 11 musicians and with a total of 26 different instruments, including various recorders, archlute, harpsichord, violin, viola da gamba, the winner of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2021 Max Volbers, who studied with Dorothee Oberlinger among others, explores the wide range of the recorder repertoire and shows “in how many different types of ensembles the recorder can be used, and also the roles that it plays in them“.