Angelika Kirchschlager
OPENING GALA OF THE
AMADEUS FESTIVAL VIENNA
SATURDAY 3 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Classic on a summer night!
The celebrated mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager opens the inaugural AMADEUS Festival Vienna Gala. The programme includes great opera literature highlights from Mozart to Bizet as well as concert arias and songs.
Artists
KS Angelika Kirchschlager, Mezzosopran
Yury Revich, Violin
Brendan Goh, Violoncello
Donka Angatscheva, Piano
PROGRAMME
1. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Pezzo Capriccioso.
Brendan Goh / Donka Angatscheva.
2. Johannes Brahms.
Gestillte Sehnsucht.
2 Gesänge op. 91 für Altstimme mit Violoncello und Klavier.
Angelika Kirchschlager / Brendan Goh / Donka Angatscheva.
3. Alma Schindler-Mahler.
Laue Sommernacht.
Angelika Kirchschlager / Donka Angatscheva.
4. Hugo Wolf.
Kennst du das Land wo die Zitronen blühen.
Angelika Kirchschlager / Donka Angatscheva.
5. Handel/ Halvorsen.
Passacaglia.
Yury Revich / Brendan Goh.
PAUSE.
7. Hector Berlioz.
Vilanelle von "Les nuits d'été".
Angelika Kirchschlager / Donka Angatscheva.
8. Camille Saint-Saens.
Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix.
Arie von Dalila aus "Samson et Dalila".
Angelika Kirchschlager / Donka Angatscheva.
9. Astor Piazzolla.
Le Grand Tango.
Brendan Goh / Donka Angatscheva.
10. Pablo de Sarasate.
Carmen Fantasie.
Yury Revich / Donka Angatscheva.
11. Robert Stolz.
Musikarrangement von Cristian Spătaru.
Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein.
Lied aus der Operette “Der Favorit” von Fritz Grünbaum und Wilhelm Sterk.
Kammersängerin Angelika Kirchschlager comes from Salzburg and studied singing at the Vienna Music Academy with Walter Berry and Gerhard Kahry.
She is equally successful on the opera and concert stages. She has appeared at the world's most important opera houses and concert halls, including La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitain Opera, the Opéra Bastille, the Bavarian State Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Deutsche Oper as well as the Philharmonie Berlin and the San Francisco Opera.
She made her debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1994 as Cherubino. She has also appeared here as Orlofsky, Jenny Hill, Rosina, Nicklausse, Octavian, composer, Valencienne, Silla, Lauretta, Stephano, Dorabella, Clairon, Zerlina, among others. She had great success both at the world premiere in London and at the Vienna Volksoper in the title role of Sophie's Choice. In 2007 she was awarded the title of Austrian Kammersängerin, and in 2009 she was appointed honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. Among her most important awards are the GRAMMY Award, the BBC Music Award, the European Culture Prize, the Austrian Music Theatre Prize and four ECHO Klassik Awards.
ANGELIKA KIRCHSCHLAGER
Sunnyi Melles & Yury
Revich
'MOZART'S BÄSLE-BRIEFE' BY SUNNYI
MELLES & FRIDAY NIGHTS WITH
YURY REVICH
SUNDAY 4 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Sunnyi Melles reads "Mozart's Bäsle-Briefe"
Experience a wonderful evening with Sunnyi Melles as she reads the letters from Mozart to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, who was known as Bäsle. Highlights of the performance include Mozart's canon, "Bona Nox".
Friday Nights with Yury Revich
The concept of “Friday Nights” is “Concerts of Arts”, the term invented by Yury Revich. It is based on a synergy between Music, Fine Arts, Applied and Performative Arts, Dance, Fashion, Theater and Sensory Arts aiming to open new perspectives on the cultural field by listening to the arts and seeing the music.
Artists
Sunnyi Melles, Narrator
Yury Revich, Violin
Natascha Mair, Ballerina
Yuliya Draganova, Piano
PROGRAMME
1. W.A.Mozart.
Bäsle-Briefe.
Sunnyi Melles.
2. JW.A.Mozart.
Sonata in G major für Violine und Klavier.
Yury Revich / Yuliya draganova.
3. W.A.Mozart.
Rondo in G major für Violine und Klavier.
Yury Revich / Yuliya draganova.
4. Pablo Sarasate.
Concert Fantasy on themes from Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Op. 54.
Yury Revich / Yuliya draganova.
5. Yury Revich.
Originals.
Yury Revich.
Sunnyi Melles has Hungarian roots and grew up in Switzerland, where she appeared at the Stadttheater Basel at the age of ten and played her first film role at the age of fourteen Rosa in Der Steppenwolf (directed by Fred Haines) with Max von Sydow. Melles graduated from the Otto Falckenberg drama school in Munich and became a member of the renowned theatre company at the Münchner Kammerspiele.
There she played, amongst others, Gretchen in Goethe's Faust and Cressida in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida (both directed by Dieter Dorn), later also under the direction of Dorn at the Bavarian State Theater in Yasmina Reza's The God of Carnage (Annette). At the Salzburg Festival she played the Buhlschaft in Hofmannsthal's Jedermann (Regie Gernot Friedel), at the Burgtheater Vienna she was Phaedra in Jean Racine's Phaedra (directed by Matthias Hartmann), where she also played Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello (Directed by Hans Lietzau), die Milionärrin, the fool, in Thomas Bernhard’s Immanuel Kant as well as the Queen of the Night in Thomas Bernhard’s Der Ignorant und der Wahnsinnige (directed by Jan Bosse). At the Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, she performed the narrator in Schönberg's oratorio Gurre-Lieder (directed by Pierre Audi, conducted by Marc Albrecht).
In cinema and television Sunnyi Melles will soon be seen in Ruben Östlund's movie Triangle of Sadness, (Vera), in the opera film Springtime in Amsterdam (directed by Christof Loy), where she sings as an Hungarian Husarin Jacques Brel's song Amsterdam and On BBC2 England / ORF as The Countess Melancholy in Vienna Blood (with Matthew Bread), directed by Robert Dornhelm.
Recently Melles was seen in 38 - That was Vienna too, directed by Wolfgang Glück (Oscar-nominated for Austrian foreign movie), in the serial Altes Geld, directed by David Schalko and shown on ORF / ZDF. On ARTE / ORF History as Sisi, on France2 Cinéma in Les pianos de Berlin (with Alain Delon) and in Maigret (with Bruno Crémer).
SUNNYI MELLES
Awards:
Holder of the Bavarian Order of Merit
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts,
the European, Swiss and Austrian Film Academy
two times Actress of the Year, awarded by Theater Heute,
Nestroy, the Austrian Theatre Prize, for best actress,
Film award Chaplin shoe (a bronze casting of the original shoe of Charlie Chaplin)
YURY REVICH
In his twenties, violinist Yury Revich is already a multi-faceted artist of incredible depth, maturity and creativity. Winner of an ECHO Klassik 2016 “Newcomer of the Year” award, “Young Artist of the Year 2015” at the International Classical Music Awards and “Young Musician of the Year” by the Beethoven Center Vienna, he is one of the most expressive and versatile musicians of his generation.
At 18 years old Yury made his debut at Carnegie Hall with Daniil Trifonov, later on in La Scala with Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and his concerts since then have included performances at the Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Musikverein, Zurich Tonhalle, Vienna Konzerthaus, Leipzig Gewandhaus, BOZAR Brussels and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Moscow amongst many others while his recordings to date are featured on labels such as Sony Classical as well as a recording with ARS records for which he won his ECHO Klassik Award. Born into a musical family, Yury started playing the violin at age 5.
At the age of 7, he entered the Central Music Academy of the Moscow Conservatory as a student of Galina Turchaninova. Between 2005 and 2009, he studied under Viktor Pikaizen before moving to the Vienna Conservatory in 2009, where he studied with Pavel Vernikov. During his studies at the Vienna Conservatory, Yury founded the quartet “Quatuor du Soleil” whose performances encompass music from the Baroque through to contemporary works.
He is an Ambassador for the AMADEUS Vienna International School and professor at the WOM academy in Santander, a unique organisation which aims to promote classical music as a basis for generating musical and cultural excellence throughout Spain. Yury plays on a 1709 Stradivarius, generously loaned to him by the Goh Family Foundation.
Young Artist
Programme
UNDER THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF
BRENDAN GOH
MONDAY 5 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Young musicians on stage
The "Young Artists Programme", under the artistic direction of cellist Brendan Goh, offers a platform for the young, gifted and upcoming musicians to showcase their talents on their instruments.
Hannah Amann
Marlene Förstel
Elisabeth Herrmann
Theresa Laun
PROGRAMME
1. Joseph Strauß.
Arr. Hannah Amann Auf Ferienreisen, Polka schnell, op. 133.
2.Johann Strauß Sohn.
Arr. Leonhard Roczek Frühlingsstimmenwalzer, Opus 410.
3. Wilhelm Fitzenhagen.
Ave Maria, Opus 41.
4. Georg Christoph Wagenseil.
Sonata III. in C-Dur aus „Suite des pieces“, 1. Satz.
Vivace WV 445/3.
5. Joseph Jongen.
Deux pièces pour quatuor de violoncelles, Op. 89, 1. Légende, 2. Danses.
6. Matthias Bartolomey.
Quecksilber.
Brendan Goh was born in Singapore in 1999 and began his cello studies with Liwei Qin, head of the cello department of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory.
He moved to Vienna, Austria, in 2013 and continued his education with Franz and Matthias Bartolomey at the AMADEUS International School. In 2015 he entered the class of Lilia Schulz-Bayrova at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. Brendan took masterclasses with Valter Dešpalj, Reinhard Latzko, Arto Noras, Frans Helmerson und Ivan Monighetti. In 2015 he was accepted as a student at the renowned Kronberg Academy for a masterclass with Miklós Perényi. He also received additional support from Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis.
Brendan is a laureate of the international “Young Virtuosos competition” 2017, winner of the “New York International Artists Cello Competition” 2017 and 1st prizewinner of the Austrian youth competition “Prima La Musica” 2018.
In 2011 Brendan made his solo debut with the Camerata Singapore playing the cello concerto in C Major by Joseph Haydn. This was followed by appearances in Singapore, Korea, Japan, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria. In 2014 his first CD “Moments of Youth” with works by Bach, Schumann, Piazzolla and Paganini was released by the German label “ARS Production”.
2016 he made his debut in the chamber music hall of the Berlin Philharmonic as a soloist of the Camerata Berlin. As winner of the New York International Artists Competition, he performed in the prestigious Carnegie Hall in 2017. Since 2019, Brendan is artistic director of the concert series "Thursday Classics at AMADEUS" and the "AMADEUS Festival Vienna" (Young Artists Programme) in Vienna.
Brendan plays on the cello “The Strad” (1844) of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
BRENDAN GOH
Sleeping Beauty
JUST FOR KIDS
TUESDAY 6 JULY 2021, 11:00 AM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Adults: EUR 12.00
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The Festival experience for the whole family
Cellist Ana Topalovic and Accordionist Bogdan Laketic join narrator, Chris Pichler in taking our young audience into a musical fairy tale world with music that spans a century.
Artists
Chris Pichler, Concept, Speaker
Ana Topalovic, Cello
Bogdan Laketic, Accordeon
PROGRAMME
P. I. Tchaikovsky.
Music from the ballet “Sleeping Beauty”.
B. Bartok t.
6 Romanian Folk Dances.
V. Zolotaryev.
Children’s suite Nr. 1 .
A. Topalovic.
Emma’s Songs.
Chris Pichler was born in Linz and studied acting at the Vienna Conservatory. She was engaged at the German National Theater Weimar and later at the Vienna Volkstheater and Theater in der Josefstadt. She also performed at various other stages and festivals, including Schauspiel Frankfurt, Berliner Ensemble, Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Vienna Festival, Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam and Staatstheater Meiningen.
She has worked with directors such as Manfred Karge, Amélie Niermeyer, Anselm Weber, Josef Köpplinger, Hermann Beil, Georg Schmiedleitner, Frank Hoffmann, Leander Haußmann and Uwe Eric Laufenberg. She also directs herself and develops and writes solo recitals and libretti for musical evenings. She also plays in various cinema and television films and works as a narrator for radio plays and features for ORF, Deutschlandradio, RBB, WDR and Deutschlandfunk.
She was awarded the ORF radio play prize as "Actor of the Year" and received the German Critics' Prize, the European Capital of Culture Prize and the Prix Europa. At the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Chris Pichler plays Mrs. Cheveley in "The Ideal Husband" and, after "Romy Schneider - Two Faces of a Woman", presents another of her celebrated solo performances, "Ich - Marilyn".
SUNNYI MELLES
Young Artist
Programme
UNDER THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF
BRENDAN GOH
TUESDAY 6 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Young musicians on stage
The "Young Artists Programme", under the artistic direction of cellist Brendan Goh, offers a platform for the young, gifted and upcoming musicians to showcase their talents on their instruments.
Maike Clemens (cello)
David Volkmer (Guitar)
PROGRAMME
1.Antonio Vivaldi.
La Follia.
2.Earth, Wind and Fire.
September.
3. Raffaele Bellafronte.
Suite No 1 for Guitar & Cello,.
II.Histérico,.
IV. Tango.
4. The Beatles.
Here Comes The Sun.
5. Neil Diamond.
Sweet Caroline.
6. Manuel de Falla.
arr. Konrad Ragossnig.
Siete Canciónes Populares.
Espagnolas: Asturiana , Polo , Jota.
Siete Canciónes Populares.
Espagnolas: Asturiana & Polo.
7. Queen.
Don’t Stop Me Now.
8. Ernst Bloch.
From Jewish Life - Three.
Sketches, I. Prayer.
9. The Beatles.
Eleanor Rigby.
10. Bob Marley.
arr. Sheku Kanneh-Mason.
No Woman No Cry.
11. Andrew York.
Yamour.
12. Ennio Morricone.
The Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe.
13. Eric Burdon & The Animals.
House Of The Rising Sun.
14. AC/DC.
Thunderstruck.
Simply Quartet
A SUMMER CHAMBER PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Simply Quartet
The Simply Quartet is one of the most aspiring and promising string quartets of the new generation. Danfeng Shen and Xiang Lu form an international constellation with the Norwegian cellist Ivan Valentin Hollup Roald and the Austrian violinist Antonia Rankersberger.
Artists
Danfeng Shen, Violin
Antonia Rankersberger, Violin
Xiang Lu, Viola
Ivan Valentin Hollup Roald, Cello
PROGRAMME
W.A. Mozart.
String quartet KV 575 in D-major.
Béla Bartók.
String quartet no. 6, Sz 114.
A.. Dvorak.
String quartet op. 105 in a-flat major .
SIMPLY QUARTET
Having received numerous international awards, the young ensemble is making its way into the classical music scene.
Founded in Shanghai in 2008 under the patronage of Professor Jensen Horn-Sin Lam, the quartet, originally consisting exclusively of Chinese members, gained a foothold in Vienna. Danfeng Shen and Xiang Lu form an international constellation with the Norwegian cellist Ivan Valentin Hollup Roald and the Austrian violinist Antonia Rankersberger.
The ensemble was awarded first prize at the 2017 International Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna and the 2018 International Chamber Music Competition "Schubert and Modern Music" in Graz. In addition to standard literature, the quartet also performs works by contemporary composers.
In 2017 they premiered the string quartet "Fleeting Moments" by Brad Lubman at the Grafenegg Festival. They have performed at the Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Konzerthaus, Stefaniensaal in Graz, Casa da Musica in Portugal, Rachmaninovsaal in Moscow, Vatican Museum, Pablo Casals Festival, Emergents Festival Barcelona, Shanghai Chamber Music Festival, Styrian Chamber Music Festival, Allegro Vivo in Lower Austria, and the Gent Festival in Belgium. The quartet also played various performances in the children's concerts of the Vienna Konzerthaus, including cooperation with the beatbox artist RoBeat.
The Simply Quartet is studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Johannes Meissl and has been a member of ECMA, European Chamber Music Academy, since 2017.
Igudesman & Joo
A LITTLE NIGHTMARE MUSIC
FRIDAY 9 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
Tickets:
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Category B: EUR 50.00
Category C: EUR 38.00
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CLASSICAL MUSIC COMEDIANS
Igudesman & Joo is a duo ,comprising classical musicians Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo whose shows combine comedy with classical music and popular culture. This event will be joined by Cellist Brendan Goh.
Igudesman & Joo will donate the proceeds of the event for a Scholarship for the AMADEUS Music & Arts Academy. We thank them for their generous commitment to young artists.
Artists
Aleksey Igudesman, Violin
Hyung-Ki Joo, Piano
Brendan Goh, Cello (Guest Performer)
PROGRAMME
" A little nightmaare music" show.
Millions of YouTube viewers can’t be wrong.
Well they can, but in this case they aren’t, and they’ve turned the inspired lunacy of musicians Igudesman & Joo into an internet and international sensation.
Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo have taken the world by storm with their unique and hilarious theatrical shows.
Combining comedy with music – their clips on YouTube have gathered over 45 million hits – they have appeared on many of the world’s biggest stages and have been invited to perform with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, L.A. Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia to name but a few.
Equally comfortable performing in concert halls as well as in stadiums in front of crowds of 18,000, their infectious zaniness and virtuosity have made millions of college and high school students among their biggest fans, building a younger and wider audience for classical music at a critical time for the industry.
IGUDESMAN & JOO
Janoska Ensemble
FESTIVAL FINALE À LA JANOSKA
SATURDAY 10 JULY 2021, 19:30 PM - FESTIVAL STAGE
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Rumba for Amadeus
“Rumba for Amadeus” is a dedication to František Janoska’s first son, Amadeus. It is also a very special homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this grand festival finale in the "Janoska Style", we also welcome special guest ,Brendan Goh.
The Janoska Ensemble will donate the proceeds of the event to support our "Young Artists" project. We thank them for their generous commitment to young artists.
Artists
Janoska Ensemble
Ondrej Janoska, Violin
Roman Janoska, Violin
František Janoska, Piano
Julius Darvas, Double-bass
Special Guests:
Brendan Goh, Cello
PROGRAMME
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Le nozze di Figaro Overture à la Janoska.
Paul McCartney.
Yesterday Beatles Song.
Roman Janoska.
Hello, Prince!.
Jules Massenet.
Méditation From the Opera “Thaïs“ - with Brendan Goh (Cello).
Janoska Ensemble.
Paganini Caprice 24 by Niccolo Paganini.
- Intermission –
Fritz Kreisler.
Praeludium and Allegro In the Style of Pugnani.
Johann Sebastian Bach.
Air 2nd movement from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068.
František Janoska.
Rumba for Amadeus.
František Janoska.
Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume - with Brendan Goh (Cello).
František Janoska.
Cole Over Beethoven Paraphrase on Moonlight Sonata and Night & Day.
Musical passion. That nicely sums up the spirit of the “Janoska Style”, with which the Janoska Ensemble has shot to international fame in no time – and certainly not just because of the consummate mastery of its instruments.
At each performance, the four artists dazzle their audience with their music and their vast reserves of creative energy. They see it as a personal challenge to fulfil, not to surpass, the high hopes of their fans.
They are playing with their audience’s knowledge of music, freely communicating widely known classical themes only to guide the ears of their listeners – slowly or suddenly – into surprisingly appropriate themes from quite different musical disciplines, without any sense of a break in style.
On the contrary, the act of listening is an irresistible pleasure. There is no template, no set formula, for this special ability of the Janoska Ensemble to create imaginative music. Nothing is merely adapted; every note, every motif, is lovingly and playfully reinvented. Janoska Style is far more than just a “sound”, it is “music to be lived” – you have to listen to it and feel it live.