Soloists
Liesbeth Devos, soprano
Peter Gijsbertsen, tenor
James Newby, baritone

Programme
Joseph Haydn, The creation, Hob. XXI:2

During one of his visits to London, Haydn was completely enchanted by Handel’s magnificent oratorios. After returning to Vienna, he joined forces with librettist Gottfried van Swieten and set about composing his first oratorio, which provides a unique description of the creation of the world in seven days. The oratorio, in which the composer also employs fascinating tone painting, such as in the introductory presentation of chaos, has been considered one of the most magnificent works of the entire music repertoire since its first performance.

Ana Dolžan, violin
Tim Jančar, piano  
Ana Dolžan (b. 1992) graduated in violin from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under Prof. Primož Novšak, and obtained her summa cum laude master's degree in June 2018. She is currently pursuing her postgraduate studies in Zurich with Prof. Andreas Janke. Ana Dolžan plays in various chamber ensembles, and is regular member of a string sextet (first violin) and the Trio Ad hoc. As a soloist, she has performed nationally and internationally with the Arseia String Orchestra, the Coastal Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the Academy of Music, the SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra and the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2018, she became member of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra as tutti first violin, and has been the Orchestra’s concertmaster since October 2018. 

Tim Jančar (b.1993) obtained a master's degree (summa cum laude) from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under Prof. Tatjana Ognjanovič in 2018. He is pursuing his postgraduate studies at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. He has won several national and international competitions, and received the Škrjanc Prize (2013) and the Prešeren Student Award (2017). As a soloist, he has performed with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Giuseppe Tartini Chamber Orchestra in the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Tim and Ana embarked on a joint musical career in 2015 with the cellist Izak Hudnik in the Trio Ad hoc. They have been continuing their musical partnership ever since.

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Choral conductor: Jerica Bukovec 
 

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Amy Beach
Theme and Variations, for flute and strings, Op. 80
Joseph Haydn
Divertimento in G Major, Op. 5/2, Hob II: G4, Flute Quartet
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Wolfgang A. Mozart
Flute Quartet in D Major, K 285

Founded in 2012, Quatuor Van Kuijk has been taking the world of music by storm, enchanting critics and audiences alike. The first French ensemble to have won the prestigious 2015 Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition, Van Kuijk were also the BBC New Generation Artists (2015–17) and joined the ECHO Rising Stars roster for the 2017/2018 season.
Having achieved such notable successes early in their career, the Quatuor are an established presence at major international venues and enjoy highly visible musical partnerships with distinguished instrumentalists. This time they have joined forces with passionate flutist Eva-Nina Kozmus, soloist at the Opera de Limoges in France and the only Slovenian laureate of the prestigious Eurovision Young Musician competition (Vienna, 2010). Irish composer Sam Perkin dedicated his composition Eva to the talented instrumentalist, whilst works by Slovenian composers written especially for Eva-Nina have been compiled in the collection Razpoloženja. 
A popular genre in late 18th century, the flute quartet’s mellifluous combination of flute and strings inspired also Amy Beach, a pioneering American female composer of the late nineteenth century and a national symbol of women’s creative power.

 

Conductor: Titus Engel
Soloists: Dietrich Henschel, bariton; Tomaž Sevšek, organ

Program:
Primož Ramovš, Organofonija
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata “Ich habe Genug”, BWV 82
Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Ich wandte mich und sah an alles Unrechte, das geschah unter
der Sonne  – Ecclesiastical Action

Program:
Joseph Haydn, Violin Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIa:1 
Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Concerto in A major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  Serenade No. 7 in D major, K. 250, “Haffner
 

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Echoes of the Silk Road

Programme
L. van Beethoven, Sonata for violin and piano in E-flat Major, Op 12, No 3
Bright Sheng, Three Fantasies for Violin and Piano (2005)
- Dream Song
- Tibetan Air
 - Kazakhstan Love Song
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Franz Schubert, Fantasia in C Major for violin and piano, D 934
Work by a Slovenian composer, TBA

Violinist Dan Zhu possesses great breadth of mind and musical sensibility. His special outlook on life, art, freedom, beauty and love is reflected in his artistic maturity, complemented with technical brilliance and stylistic consistency.

Dalberto plays it with discerning sensitivity, which he complements with splendid rhythmic élan and general vitality of spirit.
Gramophon

A widely acclaimed artist, Michel Dalberto has been hailed as one of the leading French pianists of his generation. He is one of the foremost interpreters of Schubert's and Mozart's music and an acknowledged recording artist. He is the only living pianist to have recorded the complete piano works by Schubert.
With a stylistically diversified programme, the musicians will pay tribute to both the violinist’s native land and his new home and enrich Slovenia’s chamber repertoire by giving the Slovenian premiere of Sheng’s Fantasies.

Four Inspired Musicians

Christian Tetzlaff, Elisabeth Kufferath, violins; Hanna Weinmeister, viola; Tanja Tetzlaff, cello
 

Programme
Arnold Schoenberg, String Quartet No 1 in D minor, Op. 7 
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Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No 13 in B flat Major, Op. 130 with Grande Fugue, Op. 133
 

Tetzlaff Quartett brings together four acclaimed chamber musicians – the Tetzlaff siblings were joined by two musicians who pursue successful individual careers. Their few yet eagerly awaited concerts testify to the ensemble’s sterling music-making. Although uncrowned with an array of awards and prizes, the quartet ranks among some of the world’s finest chamber ensembles – impeccable technique and invigorating expressiveness culminate in sonically balanced, refined and precise performances marked by a unique interpretive freedom.

The Tetzlaff Quartett’s deeply engaged performances faithfully reflect the greatness of Beethoven’s late quartets, which blend the sheer force of music with the insightfulness of Schonberg’s first foray into absolute music; which already heralds the composer’s deviation into the domain of atonality.
 

The Piano Trio

Soo-Jin Hong, violin; Soo-Kyung Hong, cello; Jens Elvekjaer, piano

Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70/ 1, “Ghost”
Per Nørgård, Spell, version for violin, cello and piano (1973)
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Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Trio No 2 in E minor, Op. 67

Trio con Brio Copenhagen is the first chamber ensemble to have received the prestigious P2 Artists Award (2015). The trio, which plays the central role in Scandinavia’s vibrant contemporary music scene, will mark their twentieth anniversary with a series of concerts throughout Europe, USA and Asia in 2019.
 

Born out of an idea of the coming together of ‘musical pairs’ (two sisters – and a marital couple), the trio quickly gained a reputation for their fresh and contemporary approach to the core repertoire and an inquisitively selected programme. The trio scale musical heights with the verve their name suggests, as well as a remarkable sense of coherence, infectious zest and an overwhelming joy of music-making.

They look back on their past achievements with a rich programme: Beethoven and Shostakovich have accompanied them since the very beginning, while Nørgård dedicated some of his new pieces to the trio.