Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach

Juris Teichmanis, Violoncello

Programme

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti and Modest Petrowitsch Mussorski

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.

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.

Music by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Johann Cruger, Guillaume Dufay, Hans-Leo Hassler, Johannes Sebastian Bach, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Louis Claude Daquin, Dietrich Buxtehude und Georg Friedrich Händel.

Maja Blomenkamp, soprano
Edda Güntert, alto
Simon Dreher, tenor
Johannes Güntert, bass
At the late Baroque Stein organ of Betberg Church: Zsófia Csákány.