Mon, Feb. 05, 2024, 7.30 pm | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
Lecture: Christoph Nann (Agentur CarlNann) „Die Kraft des Einfachen“
Antonín Dvorák: Excerpt from Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major op. 23
Bohuslav Martinu: Quartet in C major for clarinet, French horn, violoncello and snare drum
Ernst von Dohnányi: Sextet in C major op. 37
Clarinet: Rupert Wachter
horn: Bernd Künkele
Violin: Daniel Cho
viola: Sangyoon Lee
Violoncello: Christine Hu
Snare drum: Matthias Hupfeld
Piano: Petar Kostov
Rupert Wachter has been principal clarinet of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 1988. He also regularly plays as a guest with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestras of the NDR, MDR, Bavarian and Hessian Radio, the Staatskapelle Dresden and the Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. He has worked with conductors including Nicolaus Harnoncourt, Horst Stein, Christoph Eschenbach, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Christian Thielemann and Zubin Metha. As a chamber musician and solo clarinettist, he has toured large parts of Europe, Japan, China, South Africa and the USA. Since 2016 he has taught at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre.
Bernd Künkele was born in Kiel in 1964 and studied with Erich Penzel at the Cologne Music Academy and with Froydis Ree Wekre at the Oslo Music Academy. After graduating with distinction, he began a master’s degree course as a soloist with Marie-Luise Neunecker at the Frankfurt Academy of Music in 1992, completing this in 1996 with the concert diploma. Bernd Künkele was the winner of the International Competition “Città di Porcia” in 1991, the German Music Academy Competition in 1992 and the International Instrumental Competition in Markneukirchen in 1994, among others. He also received the Eduard Söring Prize in 1994. Since 1992 he has been principal horn of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra; from 1998 to 2001 and 2008 to 2010 he was also a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
Daniel Cho was born in New Jersey (USA) and began playing the violin in South Korea at the age of six. He received his bachelor's degree from The Juilliard School in the class of Hyo Kang and David Chan. He then continued his studies with Kolja Blacher at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. He won numerous international competitions, including the Max Rostal Competition 2019, in which he received the top prize. As a soloist he played with orchestras such as the Hamburger Camerata, the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra and Sejong Soloists. In 2010 he made his New York debut in the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, presented by the Korea Music Foundation, and in 2013 he made his European debut at the Musée du Louvre in Paris as part of the "Concerts du Jeudi". He also appears as a member of Sejong Soloists and has worked closely with artists such as Gil Shaham, Cho-Liang Lin and Vadim Repin. As concertmaster he played with The Juilliard Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. From the 2021/22 season he joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra as first concertmaster.
Sangyoon Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1989 and began playing viola at the age of nine. He has performed as a soloist with the Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra and the Seoul National University String Ensemble in South Korea. He is also a first prize winner of the Hanyang and the Seoul Baroque Ensemble Competitions and won further international awards, for example at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition in France, the Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award in Switzerland and the International Max Rostal Competition in Berlin. Sangyoon Lee studied with Nimrod Guez at the Würzburg Academy of Music. He gained orchestral experience at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra when he held a limited contract there, and as an assistant section leader at the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. He is principal viola at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Christine Hu was born in Vienna in 1985. She studied with Tobias Kühne and Heinrich Schiff in Vienna, with Thomas Demenga and Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quartet) in Basel as well as Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich. She attended master courses with Steven Isserlis and Miklós Perényi, among others. She received scholarships from the Herbert von Karajan Foundation and the Thyll-Dürr Foundation and was supported by Yehudi Menuhin’s foundation “Live Music Now” and Villa Musica. In 2013 she was interim section leader of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. She has performed regularly with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Camerata Bern and was a member of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne before becoming a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 2016. As the cellist of the trio oreade, Christine Hu has explored string trio literature extensively, winning the first prize at the International String Trio Competition in Munich in 2012 and making debuts at the Tonhalle Zurich in 2014 and at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad in 2016, among others. The trio’s debut CD/Blu-Ray was released in 2015 by bmn-medien. The trio oreade has been playing three instruments built by Antonio Stradivari since the autumn of 2017, generously loaned to them by the Stradivari Foundation. Having grown up bilingually and under the influence of two different cultures – her parents are originally from Taiwan – Christine Hu feels that the search for balance and intercession is an essential part of her artistic life.
Matthias Hupfeld received his musical training at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre. This was followed by one-year contracts with the State Orchestra in his hometown of Kassel and the Nürnberg Symphony Orchestra. For three years he was a member of the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin. In 2004 Hupfeld moved to the Hanseatic City of Hamburg and has been a percussionist in the Philharmonic State Orchestra ever since.
Petar Kostov received his education with Konrad Elser at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, as well as in Vienna. He attended master classes with Andrzej Jasiński, Ludmil Angelov, Boris Berman, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexander Jenner and Bozhidar Nojev.
He is a multiple prize winner of national and international piano and chamber music competitions, including the International Chamber Music Festival "Allegro Vivo".
As part of "Wien Modern 2018", Petar Kostov played at the Vienna Konzerthaus for the entire performance of Luciano Berio's Sequenze cycle. In 2016, at the Vienna Radio Culture House, he performed Geirr Tveitt's piano concerto "Aurora Borealis" and Igor Stravinsky's piano concerto under Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada (Yale Symphony Orchestra), and in 2015 he created the piano part in Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon". He made his debut with orchestra in 2013 with the Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra. He is a sought-after chamber music partner and performs with various musicians and ensembles.
Since 2020 Petar Kostov has been working as a pianist for the Hamburg Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet School at the Hamburg State Opera.
"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: Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
Prices: € 28,00 / 20,00 / 14,00 / 10,00
