Sun, Dec. 08, 2024, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
Felicitas Kukuck: "Zaubersprüche"
Sofia Gubaidulina: “An angel…” - song based on a text by Else Lasker-Schüler for alto and double bass
Giuseppe Verdi: “Luisa Miller” (excerpts) - arrangement for string quartet by Emanuele Muzio
Yixie Shen: "Das Perlgewebe" for string quintet, piano and voice - world premiere - (Text: Ida Dehmel)
Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 30
Sopran: Gabriele Rossmanith
Violine: Solveigh Rose
Violine: Kathrin Wipfler
Viola: Iris Icellioglu
Violoncello: Arne Klein
Kontrabass: Katharina von Held
Klavier: Saida Timina
Dirigentin (ihres Werks): Yixie Shen
Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Studies:
Violin studies at the Musikhochschule Trossingen, vocal studies with Sylvia Geszty at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart; Ks. Brigitte Eisenfeld (Studium)
Prizes:
1st Prize Mozartfestwettbewerb (1985), honored by the Hamburg Senate with the title of “Hamburger Kammersängerin” (2011)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera from 1988 to 2022 and Artistic Director of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since season 2020/21
Important parts:
Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Blanche (Dialogues des Carmélites), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), Despina (Così fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Micaëla (Carmen), Morgana (Alcina), Oscar (Un Ballo in Maschera), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Musetta (La Bohème), Sophie/Marianne Leitmetzerin (Der Rosenkavalier), Woglinde/Wellgunde (Das Rheingold), Ortlinde (Die Walküre), Hanna Glawari (Die lustige Witwe), Clorinda (La Cenerentola), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Fortuna/Giunone (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria), Vierte Magd (Elektra), szenischer Liederabend (Schumann und Schönberg), et al.
Stages:
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1985-88), guest engagements in Munich, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Willy Decker, Christof Loy, Guy Joosten, Harry Kupfer, Bob Wilson, Marco Arturo Marelli, Peter Konwitschny, Renaud Doucet, Achim Freyer, Calixto Bieito, John Dew, Vera Nemirova, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Horst Stein, Christian Thielemann, Donald Runnicles, Michel Plasson, Sir Antonio Pappano, Robin Ticciatti, Silvio Varviso, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, Kirill Petrenko, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher, Simone Young, Kent Nagano, et al.
Born in Lübeck, Solveigh Rose went to the Berlin University of the Arts after studying at the Lübeck Academy of Music and studied with Thomas Brandis, the former 1st concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Scholarships from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” and the “Jürgen Ponto Stiftung” supported her studies until she won an audition as 1st violinist with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 1990.
From 2000-2009 she performed with the Trio Kairos throughout Germany and in several European countries, as well as at the International Music Festival Puebla, Mexico, where she also gave a master class. She has recorded several CDs as a chamber musician for the Musicaphon label. Recently she has been playing in a new piano trio formation in the Brahms Trio Hamburg, together with Clemens Malich and Wolf Harden.
Her solo appearances have included the Berlin Symphony Orchestra with Beethoven's Violin Concerto, the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra under Gerd Albrecht with Mozart's 5th Violin Concerto and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra under Kent Nagano with the world premiere of “The Seasons of Life” by Régis Campo. Productions with SFB, the former Rias Berlin and NDR complemented these.
In addition to her commitment as an orchestral and chamber musician, Solveigh Rose devotes herself intensively to the promotion of young talent as a lecturer at the Hamburg Conservatory and at the Initiative Jugend-Kammermusik Hamburg. Since 2023, she has been playing a violin made especially for her by Hamburg master violin maker Klaus C. Grumpelt.
Kathrin Wipfler was born near Stuttgart in 1992. She was a junior student of Emily Körner in Stuttgart, then studying with Elisabeth Kufferath in Hanover and, as an exchange student, with Nora Chastain in Zurich for one year. During her studies, she was supported for five years by the String Instrument Collection of the State of Baden-Württemberg. She also attended numerous master courses given by Nora Chastain, Mi-Kyung Lee, Donald Weilerstein, Mauricio Fuks and András Keller, among others. A passionate chamber musician, in 2016 she received a scholarship to attend the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival in Vermont, USA, where she had the opportunity to work and perform with members of the Cleveland, Juilliard and Brentano String Quartets. She has also performed chamber music with Elisabeth Kufferath and Donald Weilerstein. Kathrin Wipfler gained orchestral experience as an intern and regular substitute at the NDR Radio Philharmonic in Hanover, at the NRD Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and the Stuttgart State Orchestra. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Iris Icellioglu was born in Îzmir in 1994 and studied viola at Dokuz Eylul Conservatory. In 2017 she took up master studies in Frankfurt and Munich with Roland Glassl. She gained orchestral experience in the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and as 2nd principal with the Karsiyaka Chamber Orchestra, among others. Since November 2017 she is a scholarship holder of Yehudi Menuhin Live Musik Now. From 2018 to 2020 Iris Icellioglu was a member of the Orchestra Academy and since the season 22/23 a member of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg.
Arne Klein was born in 1960 and began playing the cello when he was six. Like many children, he played as a hobby, without great ambition. Only shortly before graduating from secondary school did the wish to make more of this hobby arise. Arne Klein studied with Wolfgang Mehlhorn at the Hamburg Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 1990. One year before, he had already been engaged by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Even during his student days, but also within orchestral life, Arne Klein has always enjoyed playing in smaller chamber music formations. Working on chamber music works independently is a welcome change from orchestral playing. The sensitive communication demanded of the individual musicians as they pursue their common goal is a great challenge leading to wonderful results.
Katharina von Held has been a member of the double bass section of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 1997. She discovered her love for the double bass by way of jazz. She studied her instrument with Günther Klaus at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts; further teachers included Gary Karr, Klaus Stoll and Dieter Manderscheid. She began her career as associate principal double bass at the Mainz State Orchestra, followed by the orchestras of the Saarländischer Rundfunk and the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra. Her chamber music activities still speak of her love for jazz. Apart from purely classical formations such as the Frankfurt Double Bass Quartet, she appears with crossover ensembles such as The Philharmonic Clowns (together with the Philharmonic’s clarinettist Christian Seibold). For many years she has also been a pedagogue, holding positions at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre and the Rostock Music Academy.
Yixie Shen (*1993, CN) is a Hamburg-based composer whose work has received international recognition. She has been honored with major awards, including the Gaudeamus Award (2024), the “Zwei Orgeln Plus” prize from Musik 21 Niedersachsen (2024) and the Alexander International Music Award in collaboration with the junge norddeutsche philharmonie (2023).
Her works have been performed by various orchestras, ensembles and soloists in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, South Africa and China, including the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra; and ensembles such as collective lovemusic, Ensemble Ascolta, Ensemble KNM Berlin, Ensemble L'ART POUR L'ART, IEMA Ensemble and Trio Catch as well as the soloists of Ensemble LUX:NM and Ensemble Resonanz. Her works have also been presented at festivals such as the Gaudeamus Festival, the Heinrich Schütz Music Festival, the Musik 21 Festival and others.
After completing her bachelor's degree in composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she joined Prof. Fredrik Schwenk's class at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama as an exchange student in 2018, where she completed her master's degree and is about to complete her concert exam.
In addition to the big operas and concerts, it is above all the many small projects that always challenge us in beautiful and special ways - especially the projects for young audiences like our “Tonangeber”.
Katharina von Held, double bassist
The 1st chamber concert takes us on a musical journey through the history of four female composers and one of the most underestimated female figures in opera history. Louise Farrenc was an exceptional figure of her time: as a pianist, professor, publisher, cultural manager and mother, she not only stood for French music, but also for creative combativeness. In 1849, Giuseppe Verdi delved deep into the psychology of his characters, above all Luisa Miller, who gives his opera its title. Instead of a sentimental piece, he fully exploited the dramatic potential of the story and held up a mirror to all those whose human and social perfidy cost a life. Sensitivity and sophistication between sound and silence, powerlessness and empowerment: This is what characterizes Sofia Gubaidulina's music. This results in very different musical observations of her own identity, which nevertheless have one thing in common: Preserving one's own integrity against all doubt.
Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
