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Sào Soulez Larivière, viola

Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Sào Soulez Larivière (Viola), Christoph Sietzen (Percussion)

Experience the most exciting young personalities of the classical music world for a whole week – the Rising Stars Festival makes this possible. Chosen from the most famous concert halls in Europe, six excellent young musicians use the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall to give the Hamburg audience sonic samples of their star potential. The festival kicks off with the Franco-Dutch violist Sào Soulez Larivière, whom the Elbphilharmonie itself nominated as its personal Rising Star for the 2024/25 season and who was already a guest in the »Teatime Classics« series. Larivière builds his programme around an equally rare and fascinating combination: the sonorous sound of the viola impacts on the kaleidoscope of sound of the percussion. The violist gets support from drummer and former Rising Star Christoph Sietzen – and this extraordinary line-up naturally does not offer standard repertoire, but a programme selection full of surprises and discoveries, which Larivière presents as a young artist with an open mind and mature personality.

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Tomorrow

Carlos Ferreira, clarinet

Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Carlos Ferreira (Clarinet), Pedro Emanuel Pereira (Piano)

The illustrious circle of »Rising Stars« 2024/25, selected from the great European concert halls, includes clarinettist Carlos Ferreira – although the title of a Rising Star almost seems too small. Solo clarinettist of the Orchestre National de France, prize winner of the famous ARD Music Competition and recipient of the solo artist prize from the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – the Portuguese star is already high in the sky! Ferreira presents a broadly-based programme that he designed together with pianist Pedro Emanuel Pereira. Both of them had already recorded an album together in 2023 and, as a well-functioning duo, carry off the Hamburg audience into the most diverse soundscapes. The spectrum of the evening ranges from the supple elegance of Claude Debussy via the warm melancholy of Johannes Brahms to the charming preposterousness of Francis Poulenc. If that is not enough variety for anyone, they can look forward to brand new music by young Chinese composer Lanqing Ding with the commissioned work for Carlos Ferreira.

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January 24, 2025

Quatuor Agate

Fri, Jan 24, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Adrien Jurkovic (Violin), Thomas Descamps (Violin), Raphaël Pagnon (Viola), Simon Iachemet (Cello)

At the Rising Stars Festival, the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall again becomes the stage for the most exciting musicians of the young generation in January 2025. Amongst these stars of tomorrow is the Quatuor Agate, as the only ensemble. The string quartet formed in Berlin in 2016 and the musicians’ joint career long since assumed an international format. The Guardian enthuses about the Brahms debut album by the four Frenchmen: »Warm, wonderfully refined sound, impeccable intonation and punctilious attention to detail.« Under the heading »Outlaws«, the Quatuor Agate presents a well-thought out concept programme in Hamburg with String Quartet No. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich at its heart. Under the impact of the tyranny of his Russian homeland, Shostakovich created a piece of bloodcurdling intensity in 1960 that he saw as his own musical obituary. Adrien Jurkovic, Thomas Descamps, Raphaël Pagnon and Simon Iachemet surround this confessional music with a broad-based programme combination which ranges from the Renaissance to the present day. Projections accompany the programme and shine a light on the life of the composers. With singing, the musicians rise far above their usual role as instrumentalists in the commissioned composition by Anna Korsun.

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January 27, 2025

Benjamin Kruithof, violoncello

Mon, Jan 27, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Benjamin Kruithof (Cello), Zhora Sargsyan (Piano)

Each year, the European Concert Hall Organisation selects six Rising Stars and sends them on a journey through its member concert halls. The young stars of 2024/25 also include cellist Benjamin Kruithof, who thanks to his »classy, cantabile and lovely tone« (bachtrack.com) emerged as the winner of the George Enescu Cello Competition in 2022. He can wholeheartedly display this beautiful tone at the Elbphilharmonie. After all, the programme culminates in the almost infinite melodies of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata. However, first of all, Kruithof gives the evening a poetic start with the »Trois Pièces« by Nadia Boulanger and then presents his Rising Star commissioned work by British composer Sally Beamish. It continues with music by Benjamin Britten, who always knew how to produce a superb balance of modernity and sensuality in his works. In the five movements of his cello sonata, a real kaleidoscope of moods and textures evolves in which the melodic flair of the cello already appears several times. Rachmaninoff propelled this unrivalled ability to span the broadest arcs in his large-scale sonata to a glittering climax and lets the cello paint sensually over the edge – a fitting end!

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January 28, 2025

Matilda Lloyd, trumpet

Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Matilda Lloyd (Trumpet), Kunal Lahiry (Piano)

British trumpet player Matilda Lloyd looks self-confidently at her nomination as a »Rising Star«, which she brings to the big European concert halls within one season: »My future self inspires me. I have a very clear idea of where I want to go, what I want to do and who I want to be and that helps me to grow every day.« Inspired by this, she presents a complete audio-visual artwork. The seven movements of the »Framed« cycle by Cecilia McDowall structure the programme: played separately, they weave music by Claude Debussy, Enrique Granados, Amy Beach, Deborah Pritchard and others, complemented by projected images and videos. Matilda Lloyd not only plays the trumpet, but also reads poetry – a kaleidoscope of the most varied sensations!

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January 29, 2025

Lukas Sternath, piano

Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Lukas Sternath (Piano)

In 2025, giving the closing concert of the Rising Stars Festival and thereby bringing a crowning finale to a whole week of concerts by the most exciting young stars of the classical music world is the task of a young Viennese musician at his peak. Since Lukas Sternath discovered his love of music as a member of the Vienna Boys Choir, he soon arrived at the piano and so on the path to success. At the ARD International Music Competition in 2022, he did not just achieve first prize, but was also awarded with seven special prizes – unique in the history of the prestigious competition! He has since studied with Igor Levit and provides his recital with a challenging programme for the piano. Sternath goes all out and opens the programme with the »Chaconne« by Sofia Gubaidulina – a highly concentrated piece which evokes the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach in a modern tonal language. Sternath does not seem to want to indulge in breaks and proceeds with the Handel variations by Johannes Brahms. He made a joke out of taking an artlessly dancing topic as the starting point of an absurdly virtuoso work. PatKop, as star violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja calls herself when she composes, writes the work commissioned for Lukas Sternath’s Rising Star concerts. Her works are consequently just as full of surprises as are her unconventional interpretations of other composers. With Franz Liszt’s legendary Sonata in B minor, the evening finds its brilliant end point with another pinnacle of the piano repertoire.

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February 1, 2025

Alexis Cárdenas / Jorge Glem

Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Alexis Cárdenas (Violin), Jorge Glem (Cuatro), Manuel Sánchez (Double bass)

A breathtaking musical journey that shows in a folkloristic and cheerful way the musical bridges that connect Bach and other classical European icons with the most beautiful Latin American rhythms. The concert begins with Bach and ends with him. In between, the musicians show the full richness of Latin American music.

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February 2, 2025

Julius Asal / Piano Recital

Sun, Feb 2, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Julius Asal (Piano)

Menahem Pressler was deeply impressed by Julius Asal’s piano playing, describing the sound as uniquely sonorous. He wondered how Asal achieved this and felt the instrument shared a secret with him.

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February 6, 2025

Kirill Richter Trio

Thu, Feb 6, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Kirill Richter (Piano), Alena Zinovieva (Violin), August Krepak (Cello)

The versatile award-winning composer and pianist Kirill Richter, who was already enthusiastically celebrated in the ProArte X series in 2019, is not considered one of the most exciting contemporary artists in Europe for nothing, as he succeeds like no other in combining form and emotion, magical sounds and fragility in his music. The young Russian has been working with his trio for many years, which is evident in the perfect harmony with which the three artists interact on stage. A highlight not to be missed!

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February 9, 2025

Philharmonic Chamber Music Recital

Sun, Feb 9, 2025, 11:00

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Kady Evanyshyn (Mezzo-Soprano), Daniel Cho (Violin), Yuri Katsumata-Monegatto (Violin), Sangyoon Lee (Viola), Christine Hu (Cello), Petar Kostov (Piano)

The works in this chamber music concert are all about love and connection, in words and through sound: when Johannes Brahms set about composing »Zwei Gesänge«, he had his close friendship with his long-time companion in mind, the violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms wanted to create a musical memorial to his love and composed the »Geistliches Wiegenlied« for his wedding, based on a text by Emanuel Geibel, but he withdrew the composition and revised it. Together with »Gestillte Sehnsucht« based on a text by Friedrich Rückert, the composer later published both songs on the occasion of another happy event: the christening of Joseph Joachim’s son – and Brahm’s godson.

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Discover Talent: Roman Fediurko / Piano Recital

Sun, Feb 9, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Roman Fediurko (Piano)

The name Roman Fediurko is one to remember: at the beginning of 2023, the then 18-year-old won first prize and the audience prize at the Düsseldorf Robert Schumann Competition – by no means his first victory at a prestigious competition. His nuanced playing and interpretative maturity, which is far ahead of his age, were particularly impressive. The young Ukrainian has been studying with Milana Chernyavska in Graz since 2021 – as has his younger brother Oleksandr, with whom he presents captivating four-hand arrangements of works that are not typical for the piano, such as Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango, on a CD and in concert. This stylistic diversity and chamber music flair also characterise Roman Fediurko’s performance in »Discover Talent«: alongside piano classics such as works by Mozart, Rachmaninov, Chopin and Beethoven, he presents preludes by his compatriot Lewko Rewutzkyi – a tribute to the rich culture of his war-torn homeland.

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February 10, 2025

Elena Bashkirova & Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival Ensemble

Mon, Feb 10, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Elena Bashkirova (Piano), Pablo Barragán (Clarinet), Clara-Jumi Kang (Violin), Mohamed Hiber (Violin), Adrien La Marca (Viola), Astrig Siranossian (Cello)

Elena Bashkirova piano

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February 11, 2025

Igor Levit / Piano Recital

Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 20:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Igor Levit (Piano)

He has become something of a travel guide through the often rocky and impassable terrain of Beethoven’s music. With his recording of all 32 Beethoven sonatas and the accompanying podcast, Igor Levit has developed into one of the best Beethoven interpreters and mediators of our time. It is absolutely logical that he is now venturing out of the carefully scrutinised cosmos of works originally written for piano and into more unexplored territory: Beethoven’s symphonies in the versions by piano virtuoso Franz Liszt – which were actually considered unplayable – are the common thread running through Levit’s current season. And who could be better suited to scaling these symphonic mountains than the exceptional pianist? After Brahms’ four ballads , his fingers should definitely be warm...

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February 14, 2025

Xuefei Yang, guitar

Fri, Feb 14, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Xuefei Yang (Guitar)

»Fervent virtuosity, impeccable technique, sensitive musicality« – so enthuses the New York Times about the Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang. This musician is a real pioneer of the guitar world: she was one of the first to start a global career as a classical guitarist from Peking after China’s cultural revolution (a period in which Western instruments and music were banned in China). When she performed in Madrid for the first time aged 14, at the epicentre of the guitar world, composer Joaquín Rodrigo came to hear her in person. She has now played concerts in over 50 countries, is not only a noteworthy virtuoso, but also constantly expands the guitar repertoire with new arrangements and commissioned works – as also in her new project that she presents at the Elbphilharmonie: »X Culture«. »X Culture is a homage to the variety and a sign of the creativity that arises if you open up to other cultures,« Yang says. Different cultures always blend in the works that she collated on her 2023 album of the same name: for instance, the Italian composer Carlo Domeniconi is evocative of a mysterious Turkish soundscape in »Koyunbaba«, there are European composers, inspired by the Far East (Steve Goss: »Chinese Garden« and Mark Houghton: »Dance of the Orient«), conversely Tan Dun’s »Seven Desires« draws from the soundscape of Spanish flamenco. »The album reflects my own intercultural journey,« says Yang. It has also always been a concern of hers to enhance the western ideas of »classical« music with Chinese traditions and sounds. She consequently also opens her Elbphilharmonie concert with arrangements of Chinese folk songs.

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February 15, 2025

Elsa Grether / Mathias Weber

Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Elsa Grether (Violin), Mathias Weber (Piano)

Three great works of chamber music that refer to the same basic note »A«. But what different worlds they come from in terms of character and form: Schumann's Sonata in A minor, Franck's in A major and Beethoven's monumental Opus 47 – the »Kreutzer Sonata« in A minor and A major. The sensational duo of internationally acclaimed artists, French violinist Elsa Grether and Hamburg Érard pianist Mathias Weber, captivates with its spirited, gripping, sensual and sensitive playing, in which both voices display equal flights of virtuosity as well as delicately merging magical passages. The Érard concert grand piano by César Franck from 1863, on which a breathtaking clarity and transparency of sound can be produced thanks to its parallel sides, lends the interpretation of these magnificent works a historical dimension.

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February 16, 2025

Sachiko Furuhata / Piano Recital

Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 18:00

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Sachiko Furuhata (Piano)

Yokohama-born Sachiko Furuhata made her debut in 2017 at Carnegie Hall New York to standing ovations. Since then, she has made guest appearances at various major concert halls such as the San Francisco Herbst Theatre, the Edinburgh Usher Hall, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Berlin Philharmonie and the Hamburg Laeiszhalle. As a soloist she has played with orchestras such as the Russian State Philharmonic Orchestra or the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.

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February 18, 2025

Yoav Levanon, piano

Tue, Feb 18, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Yoav Levanon (Piano)

Yoav Levanon is an extremely young specialist in the entire virtuoso piano repertoire: in the 2023/24 season, he debuted at the Elbphilharmonie with no lesser work than the monumental Sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt. The 20-year-old Israeli now builds on this great success with a technically challenging programme, at whose heart is again a magnum opus by Liszt. The »Études d’exécution transcendante« can logically be translated as »cross-border studies« and thereby Franz Liszt chose an eminently suitable name for these twelve short pieces. They are not strictly speaking studies, which practise a particular playing technique, but in fact character pieces, which in each case circle around a poetic idea. Be it a wild death ride in »Mazeppa« or whirring wills o’ the wisp in »Feux follets« – Franz Liszt, known as the piano equivalent of the devil’s violinist Paganini, composed this music for himself using a lot of finger-breaking refinements on the body. Yoav Levanon, whom Warner Classics contracted as an exclusive artist at just 17 years old, begins the first half of this concert with two romantically dreamy Bach arrangements for grand piano. The following studies by Frédéric Chopin are also far more than mere technical exercises, Robert Schumann even described the first of them as »more a poem than a study« – no wonder when you consider that Chopin dedicated this cycle with twelve pieces to his mistress Marie d’Agoult.

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February 22, 2025

Boulanger Trio & Omar Massa

Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Karla Haltenwanger (Piano), Birgit Erz (Violin), Ilona Kindt (Cello), Omar Massa (Bandoneon)

Astor Piazzolla revolutionised the tango. His music is no longer dance music, but concert music. He himself said: »I am a tango man. But my music makes people think – those who love tango and those who listen to good music.« The famous French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, with whom he studied in Paris in the 1950s, gave him the self-confidence and courage to tread this new path and develop tango nuevo. The Argentinian bandoneonist Omar Massa and the Boulanger Trio met a few years ago in Berlin. Right from their first meeting, a strong synergy developed between them. Their music fuses the European chamber music tradition with the authentic sound of Buenos Aires. Just like Astor Piazzolla under the influence of Nadia Boulanger, they bring Tango Nuevo into the 21st century with Omar Massa’s own compositions. A spectacular encounter full of passion and energy!

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February 24, 2025

Mikhail Pletnev / Piano Recital

Mon, Feb 24, 2025, 20:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Mikhail Pletnev (Piano)

A pure Chopin evening with one of the world’s most famous pianists: Mikhail Pletnev, the former winner of the renowned Tchaikovsky Competition at the age of 21, makes his an appearance at the Elbphilharmonie’s Grand Hall. With polonaises and nocturnes, the programme is both dance-like and lyrical and tailored to Pletnev’s wide range of expression and phenomenal virtuosity.

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February 25, 2025

NDR Chamber Music Concert

Tue, Feb 25, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Rodrigo Reichel (Violin), Ho-Hsuan Feng (Violin), Jan Larsen (Viola), Christoph Rocholl (Cello), Paul Rivinius (Piano)

It is appealing to juxtapose two of the central pieces of Dvořák’s chamber music, of which the Piano Quintet op. 81 is probably the best known, in a concert – this was the idea behind the composition of the programme. Composed during Dvořák’s »Slavic period« in the 1870s, the quartet impressively combines suggestions from the stricter compositional style of Brahms – Dvořák’s declared role model – with the typical Czech folk style and deliberately simple, folk-like music-making. There is an obvious tendency to sing the melodies out widely, especially in the night piece of the second movement.

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February 27, 2025

Quatuor Ébène

Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Pierre Colombet (Violin), Gabriel Le Magadure (Violin), Marie Chilemme (Viola), Yuya Okamoto (Cello)

This concert will not only make the hearts of string quartet fans beat faster, but also delight newcomers to chamber music: with technical brilliance and incredible versatility, the Quatuor Ébène has been among the crème de la crème of the music world for over twenty years – »a string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band,« gushed the New York Times. For their next visit to Hamburg, the musicians have packed repertoire gems as well as brand new pieces into their luggage. A particular highlight is the performance of a new work by Raphaël Merlin. He was cellist in the Quatuor Ébène until spring 2024 and is now focusing on his international career as a composer and conductor. You may be very curious about what the Frenchman will place onto the stands of his long-standing ensemble. The award-winning foursome also presents Beethoven’s first-ever string quartet before the work commissioned by the Elbphilharmonie. With this adventurous piece, Beethoven opened a new chapter in music history after Haydn and Mozart. Just 70 years later, Tchaikovsky composed his expressive Third String Quartet, which he dedicated to a deceased friend, the violinist Ferdinand Laub – a highly emotional work that expresses a profoundly touching obituary in sounds especially in its slow movement.

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March 1, 2025

Anna Geniushene / Piano Recital

Sat, Mar 1, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Anna Geniushene (Piano)

The NDR describes her as the »new star in the pianist sky« and in fact Anna Geniushene has already been attracting attention for several years. The long-standing American magazine »Musical America« selected her as the Young Artist of the Month in July 2022 and was particularly impressed by her »powerful sound« and her »musical personality«. Also, the young Russian landed in first place in major competitions, such as the Leeds Piano Competition, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition and the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition. The pianist is now a guest in the »Pianomania« series for the first time – with a varied programme fully in line with the theme of »Transcriptions«, which ranges from early Handel right up to the 20th century. In addition to two opera adaptations by Franz Liszt, you can also look forward to Fritz Kreisler’s bittersweet melodies »Liebesleid« and »Liebesfreud«, which none other than Sergei Rachmaninoff transposed from the violin to the piano. The six extremely solemn choral preludes from the quill of Johannes Brahms, which the Italian Ferruccio Busoni – perhaps the most ingenious arranger of the early modern period – arranged for the piano are in a completely different mood. Igor Stravinsky’s ballet fairy tale »The Firebird«, for which Italian pianist Guido Agosti created an extremely virtuoso piano arrangement from its flamboyant orchestral setting, is ultimately the brilliant conclusion.

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March 2, 2025

Camille Thomas / Boris Kusnezow / Gropius Quartett

Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 15:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Camille Thomas (Cello), Boris Kusnezow (Piano), Indira Koch (Violin), Friedemann Eichhorn (Violin), Alexia Eichhorn (Viola), Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (Cello)

The Gropius Quartett invites you to a chamber music festival with the world-famous cellist Camille Thomas and Boris Kuznetsov. At the beginning, the Gropius Quartet will perform a quartet by Joseph Haydn, which is not nicknamed »the joke« for nothing. Before the interval, Camille Thomas then plays works by composing cellists, a firework display of romantic melodies and virtuoso music that culminates in Boccherini’s quintet. In this quintet, the artists transport the audience to Madrid at night, while the concert concludes with Dvořák’s Piano Quintet, one of the great masterpieces of chamber music literature.

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Camille Thomas / Günther Groissböck / Boris Kusnezow / Klangrausch

Sun, Mar 2, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Günther Groissböck (Bass), Camille Thomas (Cello), Boris Kusnezow (Piano), Indira Koch (Violin), Sophia Reuter (Viola), Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (Cello)

In the second part of the chamber music festival by and with the musicians of the Gropius Quartet and the string trio Klangrausch, the latter will perform chamber music highlights together with illustrious guests. From Dvořák’s famous Terzetto to Schubert’s Erlkönig with vocal star Günther Groissböck, Gustav Mahler’s marvellous piano quartet and Arensky’s quartet with two cellos with Camille Thomas. An evening that is certainly unique in this mix.

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March 6, 2025

Chamber Music Recital of the Orchestra Academy

Thu, Mar 6, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

The Orchestra Academy run by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra is intended to prepare highly talented young instrumentalists for a career as a professional musician in a major international orchestra. The 15 academy members become a part of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra for two years. Their annual chamber music concert gives them the stage alone for the evening. They present their skills in the Recital Hall of the Elbphilharmonie, sometimes in classical formations and sometimes in more unusual groupings.

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March 7, 2025

Golden Ear Challenge

Fri, Mar 7, 2025, 19:00

Elbphilharmonie, Kaistudio 1 (Hamburg)

Orchester im Treppenhaus, Iris Mencke (Talk), Kai Siedenburg (Talk), Anne Kussmaul (Moderator)

This special evening combines an enjoyable concert, a listening challenge and music psychology research: as part of a research programme by the University of Oldenburg, the Orchester im Treppenhaus, which is known for unusual concert formats, plays a surprise programme. Via smartphone, the audience can subsequently rate their listening experience and, at the end, compete in the »Golden Ear Awards« competition. With anyone, not only are our personal musical tastes quite different, but also our listening skills. So, music psychology research also concerns itself with and explores causes of these differences – to improve concert experiences for people with hearing impairments as well. After the concert, smartphone rating and challenge, the musicians involved and academics from the University of Oldenburg illustrate the results of their experiment. Please note: this event takes place in German. If you enjoy listening attentively, you are also in the right place for the concert with the Goldmund Quartet on 19 March in the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall: two string quartet classics by Joseph Haydn and Robert Schumann encounter insider tips from the Romantic period and the present. Award-winning and highly praised, the four musicians are amongst the stars of the young string quartet generation.

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March 8, 2025

Jan Vogler

Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 11:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Jan Vogler (Cello)

The name of the German cellist Jan Vogler is associated with his legendary interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous six solo cello suites. The audience will have the opportunity to hear all six works in one concert and thus follow the fascinating dialogue between Jan Vogler’s Stradivarius cello and Bach’s sonorous universe.

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March 9, 2025

Philharmonic Chamber Music Recital

Sun, Mar 9, 2025, 11:00

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Lena-Maria Buchberger (Harp), Mitsuru Shiogai (Violin), Hedda Steinhardt (Violin), Minako Uno (Viola), Markus Tollmann (Cello)

Giacomo Puccini is the embodiment of grand opera and powerful emotions. A little known fact about the composer is that he devoted great efforts alongside his rich operatic oeuvre to chamber music and even experimented with the »great« form in the genre. Most of his works were written during his student days in Milan, and serve as a testament to his love of experimentation – including his »Tre minuetti«.

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March 13, 2025

Trio E. T. A.

Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Elene Meipariani (Violin), Nadja Reich (Cello), Till Hoffmann (Piano)

Trio E.T.A. is an Estonian instrumental music group formed in 2010 by Aet Maatee, Taavo Remmel, and Erki Pärtelpoeg. They released their debut album "Eesti Transatlantilised Akordid" in 2012.

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March 19, 2025

Goldmund Quartett

Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Florian Schötz (Violin), Pinchas Adt (Violin), Christoph Vandory (Viola), Raphael Paratore (Cello)

Off to a flying start: in the 2019/2020 season, the European Concert Hall Organisation sent them through the great concert halls of the continent as »Rising Stars«. Now, the musicians of the Goldmund Quartet return to the Elbphilharmonie as a globally successful ensemble. In a varied programme, they combine repertoire classics with special insider tips. The musicians, whose shared history started as early as their school days, take a look into the musical present with a composition by Sophia Jani. On behalf of the quartet, the young composer has created a lyrical and meditative work, which also appeared on the highly acclaimed »Prisma« record in April 2023. The romance of the British late romanticist Gerald Finzi might also be new to many – a melodious movement, which also loses none of its very English and soulful expression in its adaptation for string quartet. Joseph Haydn is fondly described as the »father of the string quartet«. In just under 70 compositions, he established this supreme discipline of chamber music. The Goldmund Quartet devotes itself to his final completed string quartet, which puts forward a great urge to experiment, untamed energy and sophisticated thematic work. Even if there are still individual movements of a later quartet, this spirited F major quartet can certainly be selected as the grand finale of Haydn’s decades-long engagement with the genre. The musicians have also brought along Schumann’s final string quartet – admittedly, the Romantic composer only put a bit of it on paper. His unique cycle with three quartets is evidence of his great fascination and in-depth study of the works of his predecessors. Disguised as a scherzo, the second movement of the usually more lively A major quartet is one of the most beautiful slow movements that Schumann wrote.

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Goldmund Quartett

Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 19:30

Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal (Hamburg)

Florian Schötz (Violin), Pinchas Adt (Violin), Christoph Vandory (Viola), Raphael Paratore (Cello)

Off to a flying start: in the 2019/2020 season, the European Concert Hall Organisation sent them through the great concert halls of the continent as »Rising Stars«. Now, the musicians of the Goldmund Quartet return to the Elbphilharmonie as a globally successful ensemble. In a varied programme, they combine repertoire classics with special insider tips. The musicians, whose shared history started as early as their school days, take a look into the musical present with a composition by Sophia Jani. On behalf of the quartet, the young composer has created a lyrical and meditative work, which also appeared on the highly acclaimed »Prisma« record in April 2023. The romance of the British late romanticist Gerald Finzi might also be new to many – a melodious movement, which also loses none of its very English and soulful expression in its adaptation for string quartet. Joseph Haydn is fondly described as the »father of the string quartet«. In just under 70 compositions, he established this supreme discipline of chamber music. The Goldmund Quartet devotes itself to his final completed string quartet, which puts forward a great urge to experiment, untamed energy and sophisticated thematic work. Even if there are still individual movements of a later quartet, this spirited F major quartet can certainly be selected as the grand finale of Haydn’s decades-long engagement with the genre. The musicians have also brought along Schumann’s final string quartet – admittedly, the Romantic composer only put a bit of it on paper. His unique cycle with three quartets is evidence of his great fascination and in-depth study of the works of his predecessors. Disguised as a scherzo, the second movement of the usually more lively A major quartet is one of the most beautiful slow movements that Schumann wrote.

Info & Ticket (www.elbphilharmonie.de)