Duo Noé Inui and Susanna Kadzhoyan in Sulzburg-Laufen
The concert series ‘musica pura’ invites you to a masterful dialogue between piano and violin in Sulzburg-Laufen:
Noé Inui, a Greek-Japanese violinist of international standing, combines the highest technical brilliance with intellectual depth and musical curiosity. Trained in Paris and Karlsruhe, awarded prizes at renowned competitions and in demand worldwide as a soloist, he performs chamber music with personalities such as Martha Argerich and teaches at the music academies in Düsseldorf and Mannheim. In the ‘musica pura’ concert series, he will perform at the Gutshof Güntert in Sulzburg-Laufen together with pianist Susanna Kadzhoyan, one of the most distinguished pianists of her generation, who is in demand throughout Europe as a soloist and chamber musician and teaches at the University of Music in Bremen. The programme will feature works by Schubert, Brahms and Prokofiev.
Every voice counts in the Ensemble Berthilo: two female singers and two male singers, all classically trained and members of various semi-professional choirs and ensembles in the Freiburg area. Performances in sacred and secular settings define the repertoire of the ensemble, which, under the direction of Zsófia Csákány, is enthusiastically dedicated to vocal music from the 16th century to the present day. In a transparent quartet formation, the ensemble’s Advent concert explores the rich sounds of Christmas music from Spain to Hungary to Norway, from Schütz, Buxtehude and Kodály to Gjeilo. Advent sounds that put the heart and spirit in the mood for Christmas.
Maja Blomenkamp, soprano
Edda Güntert, alto
Simon Dreher, tenor
Johannes Güntert, bass
At the late Baroque Stein organ of Betberg Church: Zsófia Csákány.
Programme
J.S. Bach/Siloti: Prelude h-moll
S.Rachmaninov: Prelude h-moll op.32 n.10
R. Schumann: Concert sans Orchestre op.14
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J. Cage: In a landscape
C. Debussy: La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune; Bruyérès; La puerta del viño;
Christophe Guyard (1966): Fantasia, world premiere – dedicated to Daniela Manusardi
Daniela Manusardi – Pianist & Composer
Born in Milan, pianist and composer Daniela Manusardi received her first lessons from her father, the internationally acclaimed pianist Guido Manusardi, and from Prof. Carlo Balzaretti. At the age of ten, she began studying piano at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Milan, adding composition at thirteen – she graduated with honours in both subjects.
She furthered her artistic training in Germany with Prof. Tomislav N. Baynov and Prof. Ákos Hernádi, as well as in masterclasses with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Rudolf Kehrer, among others. She has won several international competitions and was honoured as a ‘sound virtuoso’ by the Otmar Alt Foundation in 2006.
Daniela Manusardi performs regularly at renowned festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia, including Prima Diffusa at La Scala in Milan, the Valtidone Festival, the International Festival of Cervo, Swiss Radio Lugano, the Bechstein Centre in Düsseldorf and the Yamaha Festival in Bangkok. She has been a member of the Baynov Piano Ensemble since 2003.
Radio and television recordings as well as CD recordings for Lira Classic and Limen music & arts document her wide-ranging work. As a teacher, she has taught at international master classes, including in Hammelburg, Marktoberdorf and at Assumption University Bangkok.
Since 2016, Daniela Manusardi has been Professor of Piano and Head of the Piano Department at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Como.
Programme
Music by Manuel De Falla, Modest Mussorgsky, W.A. Mozart and Domenico Scarlatti in versions for one and two guitars
The evocative, ghostly world in Manuel de Falla’s ballet ‘The Magic of Love’ could not sound more Spanish than in the version for two guitars, harpsichord sonatas by Scarlatti could not be more nuanced and colourful than in the artistic versions for solo guitar by Prof. Michael Hampel, and Phileas Baun shows with movements from Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ how virtuoso, spectacular and above all expressive a solo guitar can sound. Rarely does an audience experience the guitar in so many facets within a single concert.
Michael Hampel and Phileas Baun both teach at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg. Both are successful soloists and chamber musicians and have made a name for themselves with unusual and award-winning concert formats. Michael Hampel and Phileas Baun teach guitar at the University of Music in Freiburg. Both are successful soloists and experienced chamber musicians in a wide variety of constellations, often with unusual, award-winning concert formats.
Michael Hampel is Professor of Guitar at the Freiburg/Breisgau University of Music. Prior to this, he taught at the Trossingen University of Music from 1994 and most recently worked as head of the university. After his studies in Frankfurt/M, Trossingen and Salzburg, he began an international concert career. Tours have taken him regularly to Asia and South America, among other places, with many recordings and live broadcasts.
From 2017 to 2019, he was a visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. In addition to teaching at the Freiburg University of Applied Sciences, his artistic work in recent years has focussed on developing new concert formats incorporating digital and scenic concepts.
Phileas Baun studied guitar, conducting and early music in The Hague, Trossingen and Basel and is at home with his own projects and world premieres in contemporary and experimental music as well as on the classical concert stage. He has won numerous competitions and has been teaching ‘Guitar Extended Competence Spectrum’ at the University of Music in Freiburg since 2021.
Previous projects include co-productions with IRCAM Paris, world premieres at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2018 and world premieres at the Crossroads Festival Salzburg 2019. In 2024, he won the most important Swiss live event prize ‘Xaver’ for his performance at the opening show of the national hockey final in the stadium in Fribourg/CH, broadcast live on Swiss television SRF.