In May 2021 the Amaryllis Quartet played David Philip Hefti’s String Quartet No. 4 “con fuoco” at the Putbus Festival in the Putbus Theater. More information about the work can be found here: hefti.net/de/werke/
AMARYLLIS QUARTETT
Gustav Frielinghaus – violin, Lena Sandoz – violin, Mareike Hefti – viola, Yves Sandoz – cello
This coming Sunday, 20 March, Kent Nagano will present his book “10 lessons of my Life – Was wirklich zählt” (Berlin Verlag, 2021) at the lit.COLOGNE.
In conversation with Claudia Dichter, Nagano will discuss important events in his life that influenced him beyond his artistic path, including encounters with Leonard Bernstein and the pop musician Björk.
Please find more information about the event here and about the book here.
On 9 March 2022, Kent Nagano will conduct the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place at the Opéra national de Paris in the Palais Garnier in a new production by Krzysztof Warlikowski. This marks Nagano’s return to the Opéra national de Paris, where he has previously conducted Wozzeck, Elektra, Dialogues des carmélites, Cardillac and Werther.
9 March Paris, Palais Garnier
Bernstein: A Quiet Place Premiere
Other performances: 10, 13, 16, 18, 21, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30 March
Krzysztof Warlikowski – staging
In 2018, a recording of A Quiet Place with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal conducted by Nagano was previously released on the Decca Classics label. Please find more information here.
Jacques Offenbach Les Contes d’Hoffmann
EuroArts, 25. February 2022
More information can be found here.
More information about the concerts with Omer Meir Wellber can be found here.
The BBC celebrates its centenary in 2022 and Omer Meir Wellber will join the BBC Philharmonic and pianist Giulia Contaldo for this weekend’s festivities. More information about the concert can be found here.
🗓 Saturday 12th Feb, 7.30pm @BridgewaterHall
BBC Philharmonic/ Omer Meir Wellber / Giulia Contaldo
Hindemith : Kammermusik No. 1
Aziza Sadikova : Marionnettes
Schumann : Piano Concerto in A minor
Tippett : The Midsummer Marriage – Ritual Dances🎟 https://t.co/UYpBR9EY2S pic.twitter.com/bn83qXsyyy
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12 February Manchester, Bridgewater Hall
BBC Philharmonic
Hindemith: Kammermusik 1
Sadikova: Marionettes
Schumann: Klavierkonzert
Tippett: Ritual Dances
Giulia Contaldo – piano
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This week Midori performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major with the NDR Radiophilharmonie under Andrew Manze in Hannover and Wolfsburg, making her debut in Hannover. Please find more information about the concerts as well as tickets here.
Thursday, 3 February 2022 – Hanover
Friday, 4 February 2022 – Wolfsburg
NDR Radiophilharmonie, Andrew Manze
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major op. 61
Following after the concert, Midori will give the Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. In the online lecture, she will talk about nonprofit organizing and volunteerism. The lecture will be streamed online via Zoom, registration is available here.
Thursday, 3 February 2022 – Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Time: 10:00 p.m. CET / 4 p.m. ET
In April 2022 David Philip Hefti’s Fünf Szenen für Gustav – String Quartet No. 6 and his arrangement of the Rückert Lieder by Gustav Mahler (soprano: Juliane Banse) will be heard with the Amaryllis Quartet in Bremen, Lübeck and Hamburg. In the Kölner Philharmonie, Neues Werk for viola and string orchestra, a composition commissioned by Camerata Zürich and Kölner Philharmonie, will be premiered with Lawrence Power.
In 2021, Patricia Kopatchinskaja invited composer David Philip Hefti to be CAMERATA BERN’s Composer-in-Residence and conducted as well as performed the world premiere of his work Sechs Klanginseln – for violin, clarinet and string orchestra in Bern. The concert program combines Hefti’s music with works by Schubert, Bartok and Schönberg, among others, and can be listened to here.
Manfred Honeck has been Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 2008; last year, at the orchestra’s request, his contract was extended through the 2027/28 season.
After seven successful European tours, Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony will tour together again in the summer of 2022. Info to follow.
The orchestra’s recording of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Reference Recordings) has been nominated for the 2022 Grammy Awards in the categories of Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Album.
