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- the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival at the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Artistic Director – Elena Bashkirova
- Live recording at the Glass-Courtyard, May 2014
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The Artists in alphabetical order, from the festival-brochure „intonations“ 2014
Michael Barenboim | Elena Bashkirova | Madeleine Carruzzo | Wolfram Christ | David Robert Coleman | Angela Denoke | Jonathan Gilad | Daishin Kashimoto | Marie-Pierre Langlamet | Zohar Lerner | Burak Marlali | Pascal Moragues | Andreas Ottensamer | Tim Park | Ludwig Quandt | Kathrin Rabus | Gabriel Schwabe | Karola Theill |
Michael Barenboim – Violin
In his short career as concert soloist, the violinist Michael Barenboim has already performed with leading orchestras and conductors, appearing regularly in prestigious concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein and the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 2011 he was soloist in Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Pierre Boulez in the Cologne Philharmonie, and in May 2012 made his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic.
His engagements in the 2013 / 14 season included concerts with the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Freiburg and Baden-Baden under Michael Gielen, the Orquesta de Valencia under Yaron Traub, and the State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Pfalz. As recitalist, Michael Barenboim performed in Bad Kissingen, in the Berlin Konzerthaus, and in Aix-en-Provence with Elena Bashkirova and Alisa Weilerstein.
Michael Barenboim is also a dedicated chamber music performer. He appeared in this role in important festivals in Lucerne, Salzburg, Bonn and Jerusalem, along with the Ruhr Piano-Festival and the Rheingau Music-Festival, working with artists such as Guy Braunstein, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai, Daniel Barenboim, Karl-Heinz Steffens and Nikolai Znaider. In addition, he is the founder and leader of the Erlenbusch Quartet.
Elena Bashkirova – Artistic Director and Piano
Elena Bashkirova studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatorium with her father, the famous pianist and teacher Dmitri Bashkirov. She is a regular guest with renowned orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Sinfonieorchester, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre de Paris and the Chicago Symphony. The conductors with whom she has worked include Sergiu Celibidache, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, David Robertson and Michael Gielen.
Elena Bashkirova is actively engaged with both the classic-romantic repertoire and the music of the 20th century, and has given premiere performances of numerous works. In 1998 she founded the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival in Jerusalem.
Among her appearances in the 2013 / 14 season, she was heard with the Dresdner Philharmonie under Karl-Heinz Steffens, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie under Karel Mark Chichon, the Hamburger Symphoniker under Guy Braunstein, and the
Orchestre Régional de Cannes under Philippe Bender. Solo recitals took her to Cologne and Paris, with chamber music performances in Aix-en-Provence, in the Ankara Festival and
the Ruhr Piano Festival.
Madeleine Carruzzo – Viola
Madeleine Carruzzo was born in Sion in Switzerland. She studied with Tibor Varga at the Detmold Musikhochschule, where she completed her concert diploma with distinction and was immediately appointed to the teaching staff.
In a career beginning at the age of 15, she has appeared both as violinist and violist, in chamber music and as soloist.
From 1978 to 1981 she was Concertmaster of the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra. In the year 1982 she became the first woman appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic (as first violin), at that time under the direction of Herbert von Karajan.
In 2001 she was awarded the Prize of the Rünzi Foundation, and in 2012 the Prize of the City of Sion.
Since 2006 she has been violist of the Erlenbusch Quartet, and is also a member of the Metropolis Ensemble of Berlin, the Venus Ensemble, and the Berlin Philharmonic String Soloists.
Madeleine Carruzzo is a regular guest at chamber music festivals – for example, in Salzburg, Lockenhaus, Schleswig-Holstein, Jerusalem and Berlin. Among the artists with whom she has appeared: pianists Yefim Bronfman and Andràs Schiff, and violinists Guy Braunstein, Renaud Capuçon and Nikolaj Znaider.
Wolfram Christ – Viola
Wolfram Christ was Principal Solo Viola of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for 20 years. Alongside his international activities as solo performer, he has developed a wide reputation as conductor over the last 15 years. His guest engagements included the Royal Danish Orchestra Copenhagen, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra Bologna, the Simón Bolívar Orchestra Caracas, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Madrid and the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.
From 2004 to 2008, Wolfram Christ was Chief Conductor of the Kurpfälzisch Chamber Orchestra of Mannheim. His work there in combination with celebrated international soloists such as Sabine Meyer, Emmanuel Pahud and Renaud Capuçon led to a lively schedule of guest performances in Germany and abroad.
Since 2003, Wolfram Christ has had an intensive on-going relationship as soloist and conductor with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, serving as its Principal Guest Conductor in the years 2009-2013. Highlights of recent years were the appearances in the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Lucerne Festival in 2011, the extended South America tour in 2012, and the collaboration with Hélène Grimaud in 2013.
David Robert Coleman – Composer and Piano
The composer and conductor David Robert Coleman was born in London. He studied piano, conducting and composition at the Royal College of Music, London, and musicology at Cambridge University. Further studies in composition followed with George Benjamin and Wolfgang Rihm.
Coleman’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by international orchestras and ensembles, including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, the SWR-Sinfonieorchester, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. For the opening of the Opera Festival of Munich in 2007 he wrote a chamber arrangement of Bloch’s »Shelomo«. In March 2012 he conducted the premiere of his piece »Ibergang« for clarinet and orchestra with the Orchestra of the Hessischer Rundfunk.
From 2006 to 2009 David Robert Coleman was conductor and assistant to the General Musical Director at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. Since 2010 he has been working at the Berlin State Opera. In March 2012 his new orchestration of the third Act of Berg’s »Lulu« was premiered as part of the new production of the State Opera at the Schiller Theatre, under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. A CD with works by David Robert Coleman has recently been released on the Naxos label.
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Angela Denoke – Soprano
Angela Denoke was born in Stade and studied in Hamburg. She has close working ties with a number of opera houses: the Vienna State Opera. (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, Arabella, Salome, Die tote Stadt, Parsifal, Jenufa, Der Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Pique Dame); the Opéra National de Paris (Salome, Katja Kabanova, Cardillac, Der Rosenkavalier, Wozzeck, Parsifa, Fidelio, The Makropulos Affair); the Berlin State Opera (Tannhäuser, Fidelio, Pique Dame and Erwartung under Daniel Barenboim, Der Rosenkavalier and Tannhäuser under Philippe Jordan); and the Bavarian State Opera (Salome, Der Rosenkavalier, Parsifal, Jenufa and Wozzeck). In Salzburg she appeared in Katja Kabanowa, Die tote Stadt, Wozzeck, Fidelio and The Makropulos Affair.
Angela Denoke has been guest artist with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio, the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. She makes regular concert appearances at the Royal Opera House London, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Netherlands Opera, the Dresden Semperoper, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, the Zürich Opera House and the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet.
Her further engagements include concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Philippe Jordan and the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons.
Jonathan Gilad – Piano
Jonathan Gilad studied with Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid. He was recipient of awards at the Mozart Competition in Paris, the international »Prémio Mozart« in Geneva, and at the Mozarteum, Salzburg.
His concerts have taken him to important festivals, such as Verbier, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwetzingen, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Lucerne, La Roque d’Anthéron, Santander, and the Ravinia Festival. Solo recitals were given in London, Paris, Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan, Geneva, Lucerne, St. Petersburg and New York. Jonathan Gilad appeared as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim and Pinchas Zukerman, the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa, the Orchestre de Paris and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin under Osmo Vänskä.
In the recent past Jonathan Gilad has appeared with the Russian National Orchestra in Munich and Nürnberg, played in the Frankfurt Alte Oper, was guest artist at the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris with the Orchestre National de France, and gave further performances at the Cologne Philharmonie, in Verbier, Stavanger and Jerusalem. His chamber music partners include Daniel Müller-Schott, Viviane Hagner, Julia Fischer, Nikolaj Znaider, Renaud and Gautier Capuçon and Daniel Hope.
Daishin Kashimoto – Violin
The violinist Daishin Kashimoto has held the post of First Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009. He grew up in Japan, Germany, and the USA, and received his first violin instruction at the age of three from Kumiko Etoh in Tokyo. In 1986 he was accepted as a pre-College student at the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York. Four year later he moved to Germany, where he studied first at the Lübeck Musikhochschule. From 1999 to 2004 he was a student of Rainer Kussmaul, the one-time Concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg.
He has played as soloist with numerous important orchestras throughout the world, among them the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Czech Philharmonie and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Further appearances have been with the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Berlin Symphonic and the Vienna Symphonic. In the course of his worldwide concert activities he has worked with renowned conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Michel Plasson, Yehudi Menuhin, Seiji Ozawa and Lorin Mazel.
Daishin Kashimoto also appears frequently in chamber music, where his performance activities include membership of the Philharmonic Octet of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Marie-Pierre Langlamet – Harp
She first encountered the harp through the Piccolo Saxo children’s album and was spellbound. Since Marie-Pierre Langlamet’s absolute wish was to learn a polyphonic instrument, but the piano class was already full, she decided for this other instrument. She received her first musical training with Elizabeth Fontan-Binoche at the Conservatorium in Nice, later participating in master-classes of Jacqueline Borot and Lily Laskine.
At just 17 years of age she became Principal Harp in the orchestra of the Nice Opera. One year later she relinquished this position to continue her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. From 1988 until her appointment to the Berlin Philharmonic in 1993, she was Deputy Principal Harp of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York.
Marie-Pierre Langlamet performs worldwide as soloist with renowned orchestras and chamber ensembles, and also gives numerous solo recitals. For her contribution to French music she received the French Order for Art and Literature in June 2009. Since 1995 she has taught in the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Zohar Lerner – Violin
Zohar Lerner has been First Concertmaster of the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn since 2009. The Israeli-born violinist studied first at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv. Among his teachers in Israel were Haim Taub, Irena Svetlova and Yair Kless. He later continued his education at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he worked with, among others, Christoph Poppen, Stephan Picard and Isabelle Faust. His training was supplemented by master classes from artists including Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Ida Haendel, Miriam Fried, Rainer Kussmaul and Guy Braunstein, as well as the Melos, Guarnieri, Juilliard and Emerson string quartets.
At the age of 17 Zohar Lerner already made his debut as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta. Other solo appearances with orchestras included the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Mendelssohn Players, the Staatskapelle Halle, the Berlin Symphonic and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn.
As an orchestral musician, Zohar Lerner’s activities included several years playing with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. He also has a regular working relationship with the Berlin Philharmonic.
Burak Marlali – Double-Bass
Burak Marlali was born in 1980 in Ankara. During his first years of training he was a member of the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra and of the Schleswig-Holstein Orchestral Academy. Beginning in 1999 he studied at the Northern College of Music in Manchester and the State Musikhochschule in Freiburg. In 1999 he won the competition for the British Council’s Young Musician of the Year, and the Neerpelt European Music Festival Competition in Belgium (for chamber music).
His experience as a soloist ranges from the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota to Vanhal’s Double-Bass Concerto with The Presidential Symphony and Bottesini’s Concerto for Double-Bass in B-minor with the Borusan Chamber Orchestra. He performs
as Guest Principal in many orchestras, such as the WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He has also been a guest with the Berlin Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Concerto Köln and the Hallé Orchestra. He was an Academy member with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio. Since 2009 Burak Marlali has been Principal Double-Bass in the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Pascal Moragues – Clarinet
Pascal Moragues has been Principal Clarinet at the Orchestre de Paris since 1981. The conductors with whom he has worked include Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Carlo-Maria Giulini, Zubin Mehta, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach, John Axelrod, Frans Bruggen and Louis Langrée.
Pascal Moragues is a member of the Quintette Moragues, the Viktoria Mullova Ensemble and the Katia and Marielle Labèque Ensemble, and performs regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In the chamber music domain he has worked with Sviatoslav Richter, Christian Zacharias, Daniel Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Christoph Eschenbach, Schlomo Mintz, Joshua Bell, Yuri Bashmet, Gary Hoffman, Nathalia Gutmann and Dame Felicity Lott, and in ensemble with the Wanderer Trio, the Guarneri Quartet, the Borodin Quartet, the Jerusalem Quartet, the Leipziger String Quartet and the Fine-Arts String Quartet.
Pascal Moragues’ concerts take him frequently to the great concert stages, such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Berlin Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall New York, Lincoln Center Washington, Théâtre des Champs Élysées and Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and the festivals of Lucerne, Montreux, Jerusalem, La Roque d’Antheron and elsewhere. He is regularly invited to tours and master-classes in Asia, the USA, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.
Andreas Ottensamer – Clarinet
Born in Vienna in 1989, Andreas Ottensamer comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians. He received his first piano lessons at the age of four, and in 1999 began studies in cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, changing to clarinet under Johann Hindler in 2003.
Andreas Ottensamer gained his first orchestral experience as a substitute player in the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic, and as a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. He interrupted liberal arts studies at Harvard University in 2009 to take up a scholarship of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic.
From July 2010 to February 2011 he served as Principal Clarinet with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and since March 2011 he has been Principal Clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic.
He performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout the world, joining in artistic partnerships with Murray Perahia, Leif Ove Andsnes, José Gallardo, Leonidas Kavakos, Janine Jansen, Yo-Yo Ma and others. In 2005 Andreas Ottensamer founded the clarinet trio »The Clarinotts« with his father Ernst and his brother Daniel, both of them Principal Clarinets, in the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic. The ensemble has had several works dedicated to it.
Tim Park – Cello
The New York cellist Timothy Park, born in Korea, entered the Juilliard School at age eleven, for studies with Jerome Carrington and Fred Sherry. He continued his education at Yale University with Aldo Parisot, completing it at the Lübeck Musikhochschule and the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule, Berlin with David Geringas. He participated in master classes with Boris Pergamenschikow, Janos Starker and Steven Isserlis.
Tim Park has been the award-winner in numerous national (USA) and international competitions, prizes and scholarships.
He has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Symphoniker, the Lithuanian National Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the New York Chamber Orchestra and the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Venezuela. Solo recitals and chamber concerts with his participation were given in Europa, Japan and the USA.
Tim Park is a regular invited guest at festivals such as the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the International Salon-de-Provence Music Festival »Musique à l‘Emperi«, and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
He has performed with such musicians as Michael Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Alessio Bax, Lang Lang, Daishin Kashimoto and Emmanuel Pahud and is a member of the Erlenbusch Quartet.
Tim Park plays on a cello by Gennaro Gagliano, made in Naples in 1740.
Ludwig Quandt – Cello
Ludwig Quandt was born in 1961 in Ulm. His parents were professional musicians, and there was much music-making at home as well. Thus the six-year old Ludwig Quandt became familiar with Schubert’s Trout Quintet and thereby with the double-bass, which he liked so much that he began on the next-largest instrument, the cello – and remained with it. Ludwig Quandt studied at the Lübeck Musikhochschule with Arthur Troester, who had been Principal Cello in the Berlin Philharmonic in Furtwängler’s time. In 1985 he graduated with his diploma in Lübeck, followed in 1987 by the concert diploma with distinction. During his studies and thereafter he attended master-classes with Boris Pergamenschikow, Zara Nelsova, Maurice Gendron, Wolfgang Boettcher and Siegfried Palm. He twice attained national selection in the »Concerts of Young Artists«, and won several international competitions. Among these, he was prize-winner at the ARD-Contest in 1990 and First Prize of the »Premio Stradivari« in the Roberto Caruana International Cello Competition in Cremona.
Ludwig Quandt played with the Berlin Philharmonic for two years before becoming Principal Cello in 1993. He performs across the world both as soloist and as chamber musician, and is a member of various philharmonic ensembles.
Kathrin Rabus – Violin
Kathrin Rabus studied in Basel and Tel Aviv, and in New York with the famous violin teacher Dorothy DeLay. Master-classes with Nathan Milstein, Henryk Szeryng and Gidon Kremer rounded off her artistic training. A decisive milestone in her international career was the award of first prize in the German Young Soloists’ Podium in 1979, which was followed by her win in the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in 1987.
Since 1988 Kathrin Rabus has been Concertmaster of the North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, being the first woman to hold this position in a German radio symphony orchestra. She is an appreciated guest performer in international festivals such as those in Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Lockenhaus and Kuhmo, and in the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival. She has recorded an array of CDs, including some as chamber music partner with Gidon Kremer, and was honoured in 1999 with the renowned ECHO-Klassik Prize in the chamber music category.
Kathrin Rabus is artistic director of the Arte Ensembles, a chamber music formation of solo principal players from the NDR Radio Philharmonic, which has given performances with, among others, Dominique Horwitz and Herbert Feuerstein.
The advancement of succeeding generations of young musicians is also close to her heart, along with her teaching and lecturing activity in orchestras and tertiary institutions.
Gabriel Schwabe – Cello
Gabriel Schwabe was born in Berlin in 1988. From 2000 to 2008 he studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin. From 2008 he became a student of Frans Helmerson at the Kronberg Academy. He participated in master-classes of Heinrich Schiff, Janos Starker, David Geringas, Tabea Zimmermann and Gidon Kremer.
Gabriel Schwabe is a prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, among them the 2006 Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann.
In Germany he has made recent solo appearances with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Berlin under Marek Janowski and the Kammerakademie Potsdam under Albrecht Mayer. He has worked with conductors such as Michael Sanderling, Cornelius Meister and Dennis Russell Davies.
Engagements of the 2013 / 14 season included performances in the Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, the Davos Festival, the Festival de Strasbourg, the festival of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Richard Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the German Mozart Festival in Augsburg, and the Music Week in Hitzacker. He made further guest appearances in the Wiesbaden Kurhaus and the Dresden Frauenkirche. In the chamber music domain, his activities include duo recitals with Christian Tetzlaff and Jonathan Gilad.
Karola Theill – Piano
As one of the few female pianists specializing in Lieder interpretation, Karola Theill has made a name as performer and lecturer. She appears in concerts across Germany (including the Berlin Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Wiesbaden International May Festival, the Mosel Festival), in other European countries (including the Vienna Musikverein and the Paris Opéra de Bastille), and further abroad, in Israel and the USA.
She has been the accompanist of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Bruns, Matthias Goerne, Bettina Jensen, Carola Höhn, Klaus Häger, Thomas Mohr and Silvia Weiss among others, and is also an ensemble member of »flautopiano berlin« and »liedtrio«.
Born in Cologne, Karola Theill was trained as a pianist at the Musikhochschulen in Hamburg and Berlin. She attended Lieder courses of Aribert Reimann, and for several years was the accompanist for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s classes. A year’s scholarship in 1987 took her to the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, USA. Of special influence for her was the intensive working relationship from 1985 with the pianist Shoshana Cohen in Jerusalem.
Karola Theill teaches at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and conducts a Lieder class at the Rostock Hochschule für Musik und Theater. She regularly gives master-classes.