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February 1, 2025

»Expedition Mozart«

Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 19:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Noah Bendix-Balgley (Violin), Amihai Grosz (Viola), Maria Ehmer (Violin), Anna Knopp (Violin), Milan Milojicic (Viola), Leonhard Roczek (Cello), Omar Bouchez (Violin), Elise Liu (Violin), Yung-Hsin Lou Chang (Viola), Yan Levionnois (Cello), Erik Schumann (Violin), Ken Schumann (Violin), Veit Hertenstein (Viola), Mark Schumann (Cello), Jasmine Choi (Flute), Ramón Ortega Quero (Oboe), Sebastian Manz (Clarinet), Milena Viotti (French horn), Kit Armstrong (Piano), Kit Armstrong (Director), u. a.

Mozart, Mozart, Mozart! Pianist and passionate chamber musician Kit Armstrong has invited an illustrious group of musical friends, such as the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Noah Bendix-Balgley and three renowned string quartets, to take part in the Elbphilharmonie Mozart Festival. On their »Expedition Mozart« they revel in the composer’s classics, but also explore rarely performed chamber music. Kit Armstrong himself is represented with two piano concertos, one of which is chamber music through and through, while the other is a large-scale symphonic work. In the Sinfonia Concertante, Noah Bendix-Balgley and Amihai Grosz vie with one another. The composer himself would certainly have appreciated a musical evening of this kind with friends! If you still haven’t had enough of the great Viennese composer after an entire evening of him, why not stay for the late-night concert to round off the evening? You can hear »Eine kleine Nachtmusik« (what else?!), framing rare chamber music gems.

Info & Ticket (www.elbphilharmonie.de)

February 11, 2025

Philharmonic chamber music Piano quartets by Mozart and Beethoven with Kit Armstrong

Tue, Feb 11, 2025, 20:00

Philharmonie Berlin, Chamber Music Hall (Berlin)

Jelka Weber (Flute), Dominik Wollenweber (Oboe), Andraž Golob (Clarinet), Stefan Schweigert (Bassoon), Johannes Lamotke (French horn), Kit Armstrong (Piano)

“It is the best thing I have written in my life”, declared Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1784 of his piano quintet. Many of his most famous works had not yet been written, but the quintet remains a Mozartian jewel, with its melodic beauty and charming dialogues between the instruments. It is no wonder that the young Ludwig van Beethoven was inspired by Mozart’s example to write an equally enchanting quintet. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker play both works with pianist Kit Armstrong. Contemporary counterpoints are provided in the form of wind quintets by Hans Werner Henze and Wolfgang Rihm.

Info & Ticket (www.berliner-philharmoniker.de)

February 15, 2025

Bertrand de Billy, Kit Armstrong

Sat, Feb 15, 2025, 20:00

Konzerthalle Bamberg, Joseph-Keilberth-Saal (Bamberg)

Bertrand de Billy (Conductor), Kit Armstrong (Piano)

How is the house built? When are the roof, walls and floors added? And will the structure be able to support itself? These are the questions of an architect – but they can also be the questions of conductors when they approach musical structures with their very own style and passion. It is therefore hardly surprising that Bertrand de Billy, who was already fantasising about becoming a conductor at the age of four, once said: »If it hadn’t worked out with music, I would probably have been an architect.« From an early age, he carefully observed the movements of conductors – whether from the choirboy's perspective or as an orchestral musician. Today, he conducts numerous renowned orchestras himself. His specialities include classics and key works of the 20th century and, as a native of Paris, time and again declarations of love for French music. With us, he combines Gershwin and Ravel, two composers who knew each other well and both absorbed the other’s idiom. Ravel’s dazzling piece »Daphnis et Chloé« is a fairytale story about two foundlings, which premiered in the French metropolis in 1912. Gershwin’s pulsating piano concerto also has something to do with the city of love: although it was composed in 1925 in the jazzy melting pot that is New York, large parts of it were later woven into the film »An American in Paris«. As a congenial sound designer, Bertrand de Billy will work with us and the pianist Kit Armstrong to delicately emphasise the different currents and similarities of the compositions like a musical architect: Because he never wants to be an overbearing chef d'orchestre, but simply to be an artist among artists: »The fulfilment of creating something together is indescribably beautiful.«

Info & Ticket (www.bamberger-symphoniker.de)

February 16, 2025

Guest in Erlangen

Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 19:30

Heinrich-Lades-Halle (Erlangen)

Bertrand de Billy (Conductor), Kit Armstrong (Piano)

How is the house built? When are the roof, walls and floors added? And will the structure be able to support itself? These are the questions of an architect – but they can also be the questions of conductors when they approach musical structures with their very own style and passion. It is therefore hardly surprising that Bertrand de Billy, who was already fantasising about becoming a conductor at the age of four, once said: »If it hadn’t worked out with music, I would probably have been an architect.« From an early age, he carefully observed the movements of conductors – whether from the choirboy's perspective or as an orchestral musician. Today, he conducts numerous renowned orchestras himself. His specialities include classics and key works of the 20th century and, as a native of Paris, time and again declarations of love for French music. With us, he combines Gershwin and Ravel, two composers who knew each other well and both absorbed the other’s idiom. Ravel’s dazzling piece »Daphnis et Chloé« is a fairytale story about two foundlings, which premiered in the French metropolis in 1912. Gershwin’s pulsating piano concerto also has something to do with the city of love: although it was composed in 1925 in the jazzy melting pot that is New York, large parts of it were later woven into the film »An American in Paris«. As a congenial sound designer, Bertrand de Billy will work with us and the pianist Kit Armstrong to delicately emphasise the different currents and similarities of the compositions like a musical architect: Because he never wants to be an overbearing chef d'orchestre, but simply to be an artist among artists: »The fulfilment of creating something together is indescribably beautiful.«

Info & Ticket (www.bamberger-symphoniker.de)

March 8, 2025

Le Concert Olympique / Kit Armstrong / Jan Caeyers

Sat, Mar 8, 2025, 20:00

Elbphilharmonie, Großer Saal (Hamburg)

Le Concert Olympique, Ilya Gringolts (Violin), Christian Poltéra (Cello), Kit Armstrong (Piano), Jan Caeyers (Conductor)

After the opening tour of their »Beethoven 27« project in November 2024, Jan Caeyers and the orchestra he founded, Le Concert Olympique, will return to the Elbphilharmonie together with Kit Armstrong. Jan Caeyers, a recognised Beethoven specialist, has set himself a special goal with the »Beethoven 27« project, which will run for several years: With 27 works from the pen of the great composer, he wants to build bridges to the 27 member states of the European Union. In the second concert programme of this European Beethoven road trip, which will lead through the composer’s entire oeuvre in stages until the 200th anniversary of his death in 2027, three works written almost simultaneously will be performed. With the Third Symphony, known as the »Eroica«, and the Triple Concerto, Beethoven broke new ground in many respects during his so-called »heroic phase« – the final movement of the Eroica alone is ground-breaking with its combination of sonata form, variations and fugue techniques.