Chamber Music Projects Season 2023- 2024

Programme 1

DANAE & KIVELI DÖRKEN (PIANO)
Programme for four hands

To the current album on Berlin Classics
"Apollo & Dionysus"
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor
Manuel de Falla: Dos Danzas
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without words op. 38 No. 6 "Duetto" A flat major (arr. Czerny)
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without words op. 67 No. 2 F sharp minor (arr. Czerny)
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances No. 1-10
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Programme 2

ANNIVERSARY TOUR

The Molyvos International Music Festival turns 10!

DANAE & KIVELI DÖRKEN (PIANO)
SEBASTIAN MANZ (CLARINET)
MAXIMILIAN HORNUNG (VIOLONCELLO)
SARAH CHRISTIAN (VIOLIN)
AND OTHER GUESTS

Period: 29.7. - 4.8.2024

Greece's chamber music beacon of hope since 2015!

Greece, the proud birthplace of the European spirit and Western culture, is currently going through difficult times as a result of its economic-political state crisis as well as the still unresolved refugee problem in Europe, which has found its symbolic culmination on the island of Lesbos: Barely ten kilometres from the Turkish mainland, it has become the destination of thousands of refugees - and everyday life on the island now has all the elements of an ancient Greek tragedy, which has been further accelerated by the global Corona pandemic.

The Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) has meanwhile established itself as a beacon of hope. Almost ten years ago, the German-Greek sisters Danae and Kiveli Dörken founded MIMF on their home island of Lesbos: "It has always been a symbol of hope and perseverance in difficult times. Already in the past, the festival has been keen to represent a positive counterforce in challenging times."

For the first time, there will now be a tour with the festival's regular cast - Danae and Kiveli Dörken will lead through a typical festival evening with moderation.

Programme 1

"Christmas with Felix Klieser"

Felix Klieser takes the audience into his very personal Christmas world. Great winter and snow fan himself, he has put together a beautiful programme of childhood memories, well-known classics and exciting excavations, setting the mood for the Advent and Christmas season with new arrangements.

Period: November and December 2023

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Programme 2

FELIX KLIESER (HORN)
ZEMLINSKY QUARTET

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 in F major op. 18.1
Joseph Haydn: Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major arranged for horn and string quartet
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat major KV 407 w

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Programme 3

SEBASTIAN MANZ (CLARINET)
DAG JENSEN (BASSOON)
FELIX KLIESER (HORN)
FRANZISKA HÖLSCHER (VIOLIN)
WEN-XIAO ZHENG (VIOLA)
TANJA TETZLAFF (VIOLONCELLO)
DOMINIK WAGNER (DOUBLE BASS)

Carl Nielsen: Serenata in vano CNW 69 for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violoncello and double bass
Jean Francaix: Trio for violin, viola and violoncello
Ludwig v. Beethoven: Septet in E flat major op. 20 for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello and double bass

Periods:
6 - 16 November 2023
24 - 30 April 2024

FRATRES TRIO

FEDOR RUDIN (VIOLIN)
HAYRAPET ARAKELYAN (SAXOPHONE)
FLORIAN NOACK (PIANO)

"American Tempo"

Darius Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Fantaisie Op. 58
Igor Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat, Suite (1919)
Fats Waller: Dinah
Duke Ellington: Jubilee Stomp
Maurice Ravel: Blues from the Sonata for Violin and Piano
Duke Ellington: In a sentimental mood
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess Suite

"Cello Summit"

CLAUDIO BOHORQUEZ
JENS PETER MAINTZ
CHRISTIAN POLTERA
WOLFGANG EMANUEL SCHMIDT
NIKOLAUS TRIEB
WEN-SINN YANG

Highlights, hits & classics by Manuel de Falla, Francois Couperin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Fazil Say, Sergei Prokofiev, Niccolo Paganini, Camille Saint-Saëns, Ennio Morricone and more.

After last season's great success, the six brilliant cellists join forces once again to form an ensemble and bring deep rapture and powerful sound to the stage: this is the cello summit!

Dates on request

Programme 1

"Fairy tales and legends"

JURI VALLENTIN, OBOE
SINDY MOHAMMED, VIOLA
AARON PILSAN, PIANO

August Klughardt: Schilflieder - Five Fantasy Pieces after Poems by Lenau op. 28 (oboe, viola and piano)
Robert Schumann: Three Romances op. 94 (oboe and piano) & Fairy Tale Pictures op. 113 (viola and piano)
Charles Martin Loeffler: Deux Rhapsodies - L'Étang & La Cornemuse after poems by Rollinat (oboe, viola and piano)
César Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue (piano solo)
Robert Kahn: Serenade op. 73 (oboe, viola and piano)
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Programme 2

JURI VALLENTIN, OBOE
ELINA ALBACH, HARPSICHORD

Kinan Azmeh: Prelude for solo oboe
Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata in G minor
Juri Vallentin *1990: Breath. Respiro
Henry Eccles: Sonata in G minor
Luciano Berio: Sequenza VII
Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata G major
Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata in C minor
Heinz Holliger: Cardiophonie
C.P.E. Bach: Sonata G minor

Malte and Mezzo: "Mussorgsky and the spooky Pictures at an Exhibition".

MALTE ARKONA (NARRATOR)
BORIS KUZNETSOV (PIANO)
MEZZO (ANIMATED CHARACTER)

Mussorgsky and the spooky Pictures at an Exhibition

Under no circumstances does Mezzo want to go to a museum with Malte. What's the point of looking at pictures by some painters who haven't been alive for a long time? It's bound to be boring as hell. But then Malte tells him the story of Lea and Finn, who discover a red button under a bench, with the help of which they are suddenly drawn into the paintings themselves.

ECKART RUNGE, VIOLONCELLO
ANDREJ BIELOW, VIOLIN
MARTINA FILJAK, PIANO

Joseph Haydn: G major  Hob. XV/25
Nikolaj Kapustin: Divertimento for piano trio op. 126
Antonin Dvorak: Dumky Trio in E minor, op 90 or Schubert Piano Trio in B flat major, op 99

The long-time cellist of the Artemis Quartet, Eckart Runge, since 2019 on his artistic path, dedicates himself together with the great Croatian pianist Martina Filjak and the Ukrainian violinist Andrej Bielow, himself for many years string quartet primarius (Szymanovsky Quartet)  to a piano trio programme that illuminates the interfaces of Eastern European folklore with the great classical k u.k. tradition. The focus is on the Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin, who died in 2020 and whose jazzy musical language is increasingly moving from an insider tip to the repertoire of major stages.

JORDAN VICTORIA (VIOLIN)
ALEXANDRE VU (VIOLIN)
TANGUY PARISOT (VIOLA)
JÉRÉMY GARBARG (VIOLONCELLO)

Programme 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in G major, KV 387
Benjamin Attahir: Al'Asr (commissioned by Quatuor Arod in 2018)
Claude Debussy: String quartet in G minor

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Programme 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in G major, KV 387
Benjamin Attahir: Al'Asr (commissioned work for the Quatuor Arod in 2018)
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor op. 131

DANIEL CHONG (VIOLIN)
KEN HAMAO (VIOLIN)
JESSICA BODNER (VIOLA)
KEE-HYUN KIM (CELLO)

Programme 1

"Formations"

Oscar Bettison: all keens and slow airs...
Benjamin Britten: String quartet no. 3
Misato Mochizuki: Boids
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String quartet in C major, KV 465 "Dissonance quartet".
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Programme 2

"Counterpoints"

Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of Fugue (excerpts)
Mieczyłlaw Weinberg: String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 27

or

Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4
Vijay Iyer: Dig the Say
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91

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Programme 3

"Homeland"

Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 6 in D major, Op. 33
Valentin Silvestrov: String Quartet No. 3
Donnacha Dennehy: Wig
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op .135

RETO BIERI (KLARINETTE)
META 4 STREICHQUARTETT

“Terra Memoria”
Kinan Azmeh: RIMA for clarinet and violin
Giya Kancheli: Ninna Nanna per Anna for clarinet and string quartet
Kaija Saariaho: Terra memoria for string quartett
Osvaldo Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for clarinet and string quartet