Tabea Zimmermann / Lilya Zilberstein

Vimbayi Kaziboni & Tabea Zimmermann

TABEA ZIMMERMANN

“There are very few artists in the Champions League of performers who are as passionate about new works as she is,” says composer Enno Poppe about his collaboration with Tabea Zimmermann, the dedicatee of his viola concerto Filz, which she premiered in 2015. At the Pierre Boulez Saal, she performs the work’s solo version, alongside music by Bach, Hoffmeister, and Reger as well as contemporary compositions by Georges Lentz and Garth Knox. Joining Zimmermann are students from her studio at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule, where she returned to teach as a professor in 2023.

Tabea Zimmermann

Tabea Zimmermann

Iván Fischer & Tabea Zimmermann

This season Tabea Zimmermann, the BRSO’s artist-in-residence, will present an entire series of special concertos for her instrument, the viola. One is William Walton’s Viola Concerto, composed for Lionel Tertis in 1928-29 at the suggestion of the English conductor Thomas Beecham. Tertis, however, felt unequal to its severe demands, and the première was entrusted to Paul Hindemith, a violist who had already written several pieces for his own use. This rarely heard composition will now be played by one of the supreme violists of our time, forming an exciting foil to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra of 1943. The conductor is the seasoned Bartók specialist Iván Fischer.

Iván Fischer & Tabea Zimmermann

This season Tabea Zimmermann, the BRSO’s artist-in-residence, will present an entire series of special concertos for her instrument, the viola. One is William Walton’s Viola Concerto, composed for Lionel Tertis in 1928-29 at the suggestion of the English conductor Thomas Beecham. Tertis, however, felt unequal to its severe demands, and the première was entrusted to Paul Hindemith, a violist who had already written several pieces for his own use. This rarely heard composition will now be played by one of the supreme violists of our time, forming an exciting foil to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra of 1943. The conductor is the seasoned Bartók specialist Iván Fischer.

Watch This Space: Tabea Zimmermann & friends

Isabelle Faust / Tabea Zimmermann / Jean-Guihen Queyras

After the piano trio of the previous day, a string trio takes the spotlight with Mozart’s Divertimento K 563, in counterpoint to which the musicians, Isabelle Faust, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras, offer a selection of solo pieces.

Tabea Zimmermann & Javier Perianes: from Schumann to Piazzolla

For lovers of chamber music the Recital Hall is the venue of choice. You can hear the musicians breathe and you can practically touch them. This hall is also cherished by musicians for its beautiful acoustics and direct contact with the audience. In the Recital Hall you can hear the best musicians of our time. Buy your tickets now and experience the magic of the Recital Hall for yourself!

Rakhi Singh

Rakhi Singh is one of the leading figures on Great Britain’s contemporary instrumental scene. Composer, ensemble founder, violinist – there seems to be nothing that the English musician with Welsh-Indian roots cannot tackle. She fills each of her roles with a passion that casts a spell on the audience without fail, and her violin recitals, where she makes no bones about crossing genre boundaries, are usually sold out. For tonight’s solo recital, Singh has made new arrangements of Baroque works for solo violin, which she juxtaposes with music by contemporary New York composers like Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe as well as with two leading lights of today’s British music scene, Alex Groves and Edmund Finnis. Discount for all under 30: Exclusively for this concert, anyone under 30 can book the REDticket. This means that even the best available seats only cost € 12. Proof of age must be shown when attending the concert, otherwise the difference to the original price will have to be paid.