Sun, Nov. 30, 2025, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
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Special Chamber Concert
Philippe Hersant: “Usher” for harp and string quartet
Robert Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor op. 41
Aribert Reimann: „Adagio – zum Gedenken an Robert Schumann“ für Streichquartett
André Caplet: Conte Fantastique after “Le Masque de la Mort Rouge” für Harfe und Streichquartett
Harp: Clara Bellegarde
Violin: Hibiki Oshima
Violin: Felix Heckhausen
Viola: Maria Rallo Muguruza
Violoncello: Clara Grünwald
Clara Bellegarde
HarpThe French harpist Clara Bellegarde grew up in a musical environment: Her parents were both musicians, which significantly shaped her early approach to music. She discovered her love of the harp at the age of six in her home town of Lille. This passion led her to an impressive career: in 2015, at the age of just 23, she was appointed principal harpist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Since then, Clara has not only thrilled audiences in Hamburg, but also as a guest musician in renowned orchestras worldwide. She performs regularly with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Concertgebouworkest Amsterdam.
Under the direction of conductors such as Kent Nagano, Charles Dutoit, Tugan Sokhiev, Philippe Jordan, Teodor Currentzis, Antonio Pappano and Paavo Järvi, she has performed in some of the world's most famous concert halls: at the BBC Proms in London, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Vienna Musikverein, the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Sala São Paulo. In January 2017, she played the opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie, one of the most beautiful concert halls in the world, with her orchestra, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Her love of chamber music has taken Clara Bellegarde to international stages and festivals, where she has performed at the Forest Hill Musical Days in San Francisco, the Norsjø Chamber Music Festival in Norway, the Italian festival Tra Luce e Sogno and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, among others. She has performed with outstanding artists such as Mari and Momo Kodama, Nils Mönkemeyer, Veronika Eberle, Edicson Ruiz, Xavier De Maistre, Hartmut Rohde, Luigi Piovano and Matt Haimovitz. She has also performed as a duo with the English horn player Ralph van Daal, with whom she has made several recordings, and with the soprano Maria Chabounia, which also reflects her passion for the operatic repertoire.
Clara Bellegarde received her training at renowned music academies. After preliminary studies with Anne Le Roy, she completed her bachelor's degree with Isabelle Moretti at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris before obtaining her master's degree at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt with Françoise Verherve. She gained her first orchestral experience in the Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, where she received decisive impulses for her career as a young musician. She later returned to this orchestra as a coach to share her knowledge and experience with the next generation.
She appreciates the harp's versatile sound, which is not only heavenly and delicate, but can also be very powerful and express her soul. Both on the concert stage and in the orchestra pit at the opera, she loves the harp's role in adding a very special timbre to the overall sound, thus creating something unique together.
Hibiki Oshima
ViolinHibiki Oshima was born in Yokohama. At the early age of eleven, she had made up her mind to get to know Europe and its culture, and a year later she had the chance to implement this plan on a lengthy journey. These impressions led her to enrol at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts after completing her secondary education. There, her teachers included Rainer Küchl, Johannes Meissl and Avedis Kouyoumdjian. She has performed at numerous music festivals, including Wien Modern, the Pacific Music Festival, the Bienal Musica Hoje and ECMA in Switzerland. She completed her education by taking courses with Gerhard Schulz, Anner Bylsma, Hatto Beyerle and Heime Müller. In 2006/07 Hibiki Oshima was a fellow of the Herbert von Karajan Centre. She won the First Prize at the Chamber Music Competition Pietro Argento as well as the Second Prize and special prize at the Premio Internazionale di Musica “G. Zinetti”. In addition, she received the Eduard Söring Prize of the Foundation for the Support of the Hamburg State Opera in 2011. Her passion for chamber music and contemporary music led her to join ensembles such as the Hibiki Quartet and the Ensemble Platypus, with which she has presented numerous world premieres by young composers. After an engagement as First Concertmaster with the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, she has been section leader of the second violins of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2010. When she is not playing the violin, she likes to cook and dedicates herself to her secret passion, paragliding.
Felix Heckhausen
ViolinFelix Heckhausen was born in Bochum. At the age of 16 he became a junior student at the Munich Academy of Music. After his graduation from secondary school, further violin studies took him to Düsseldorf, where Michael Gaiser was his teacher, and to Freiburg, where he studied with Rainer Kussmaul. Master courses with the Amadeus Quartet and Walter Levin and baroque violin courses, among others, rounded out his education. During this time he was an active member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Since his concert examination in 1995, he has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. An enthusiastic chamber musician, he dedicates his free time to his children and likes to cook. He is also a passionate paraglider.
Maria Rallo Muguruza
ViolaMaria Rallo Muguruza was born in Hondarribia, Spain, in 1996. She studied viola with Pauline Sachse in Dresden. She gained her first orchestral experiences as a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and the academy of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. She has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2017.
Clara Grünwald
VioloncelloClara Grünwald was born in Munich in 1990, receiving her first cello lessons at the age of six. From 2009 to 2015 she studied with Martin Ostertag at the Karlsruhe Music Academy and attended master courses with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Wolfgang Boettcher, Guido Schiefen, Thomas Demenga and Morten Zeuthen. Clara Grünwald held scholarships from the Heinrich Hertz Society (2009) and from Yehudi Menuhin’s “Live Music Now” (2012). She gathered orchestral experience as a substitute of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and as a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’s academy. Since 2015 she has been associate principal cellist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
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.
