Sun, Nov. 02, 2025, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
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2nd Chamber Concert
Herbert Howells: Rhapsodic Quintet for saxophone and string quartet op. 31
Kurt Weill: Suite from the opera “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” - arrangement for saxophone, piano and string quartet by Wijnand van Klaveren
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor op. 57
Saxophon: Hiroaki Taewook Ahn
Violin: Yuri Katsumata-Monegatto
Violin: Kostas Malamis
Viola: Iris Icellioglu
Violoncello: Markus Tollmann
Piano: Petar Kostov
Yuri Katsumata-Monegatto
ViolinYuri Katsumata-Monegatto was born in Yokohama in 1992 and began playing the violin at the age of seven. She studied with Sonoko Numata at the Tokyo University of the Arts and with Nora Chastain and Marlene Ito at the Berlin University of the Arts, which she attended as a DAAD fellow. She received further musical impulses from the Artemis Quartet, among others. She gained orchestral experience in the Academy of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and at the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and at numerous international festivals such as the Verbier Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival. Yuri Katsumata is the winner of several competitions. As a soloist, she has performed numerous concerts, including Krzysztof Penderecki’s Double Concerto conducted by the composer himself. Since 2020 she has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Iris Icellioglu
ViolaBorn in Izmir, violist Iris Icellioglu discovered her passion for the viola at the age of nine. She began her studies at the Dokuz Eylül College of Music in Izmir with Pinar Dinçer and continued with Prof. Dr. Çetin Aydar and Prof. Hartmut Lindemann. She completed her bachelor's degree with distinction in 2016. She began her master's degree with Prof. Roland Glassl and later continued it with Prof. Pauline Sachse at the Lübeck University of Music, where she successfully graduated. She has had the opportunity to take part in chamber music masterclasses with eminent musicians such as Emile Cantor, Ruşen Güneş, Ron Ephrat, Máté Szücs and Eberhard Feltz. During her studies in Germany, she was awarded the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Scholarship with three different chamber music groups.
Between 2015 and 2017, she was a permanent member of the Karsiyaka Chamber Orchestra. She was later part of the Orchestra Academy of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra and performed as a guest artist with orchestras such as the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
She has performed as a soloist with the Dokuz Eylül Academic Orchestra and the Karsiyaka Chamber Orchestra. As part of the 45th Istanbul Festival, she won the “Festival seeks its young soloist” competition and performed as a soloist with the DESO under the direction of Hakan Şensoy.
Icellioglu has been a permanent member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2022. She has worked with conductors such as Jonathan Nott, Vasily Petrenko, Alan Gilbert, Kent Nagano, Vladimir Jurowsky and Ádám Fischer and has performed as an orchestral and chamber musician in world-famous concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall and Sala São Paulo.
Markus Tollmann
VioloncelloMarkus Tollmann received his first cello lessons at the age of seven. In 1984 he became a junior student at the Detmold Music Academy, studying with Irene Güdel, and continued as a regular student there from 1988 onwards. From 1991 to 1992 he was a student of William Pleeth in London, moving on to the class of Klaus Stoppel at the Lübeck Music Academy, where he received his artistic diploma in 1994. His education was rounded out by participation in international master and chamber music courses, including those given by Zara Nelsova, Bernard Greenhouse, Gerhard Mantel, members of the Amadeus Quartet and the Euler Quartet in Basel. He has been playing with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since the end of 1993 and was appointed assistant section leader of its cello group in 1994.
Petar Kostov
PianoPetar 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.
The soundscapes of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra's chamber concerts are as diverse as the characters of the musicians who perform in them. The demands in the orchestra pit are often characterized by the size and diversity of the voices. Chamber music, on the other hand, reduces this dimension to smaller ensembles and allows for intimate musical interaction. As in a dialog, different opinions come together, new ideas emerge and develop during the performance, opening up a creative space for spontaneous development.
