Sun, Feb. 09, 2025, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
Johannes Brahms: Two songs for an alto voice with viola or cello and piano op. 91
Leoš Janácek: String Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio No. 2 in C major op. 87
Mezzosopran: Kady Evanyshyn
Violine: Daniel Cho
Violine: Yuri Katsumata-Monegatto
Viola: Sangyoon Lee
Violoncello: Minyoung Kim
Klavier: Petar Kostov
Birthplace:
Winnipeg, Canada
Studies:
Bachelor and Master of Music, The Juilliard School
Awards/Competitions:
First Prize of the New Orleans District and Second Prize of the Gulf Coast Region at the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (2023), Award from the Gerda Lissner Lieder/Song Competition (2017/18), Winner of the John Erskine Prize at The Juilliard School (2017) and the Tudor Bowl at the Winnipeg Music Festival (2015)
Masterclasses:
Lioba Braun, Brigitte Fassbänder, Elena Garanča, Thomas Hampson, Malcom Martineau, Anne Sofie von Otter, Bo Skovhus, Emmanuel Villaume, and others
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Was member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from 2019/20 to 2022/23
Important parts:
Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Charlotte (Werther), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Siébel (Faust), Zweite Dame (Die Zauberflöte), Mercédès (Carmen), Meg Page (Falstaff), Tisbé (La Cenerentola), Second Woman (Dido and Aeneas), Fjodor (Boris Godunov), Frau Reich (Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor), Phèdre (Hippolyte et Aricie), and others
Stages:
Opernhaus Zürich, Bregenzer Festspiele, Carnegie Hall, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opera Holland Park, Verbier Festival, Aspen Music Festival
Song:
World Premiere of “Drei Grabschriften” (Stefano Gervasoni), Performances of “Animus II” (Druckman), “Folk Songs” (Berio) and “Liebeslieder Walzer” (Brahms), Competitor of the 2019 Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition
Cooperation with Directors:
Edward Berkeley, Frank Castorf, Georges Delnon, James Darrah, Axel Ransich, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Jana Vetten, Stephen Wadsworth
Cooperation with Conductors:
Nicolas André, Paolo Arrivabeni, Giampaolo Bisanti, Daniele Callegari, William Christie, Jane Glover, Alexander Joel, Francesco Lanzillotta, Claire Levacher, Jeffrey Milarsky, Evelino Pidò, Teddy Poll, Avi Stein, Stephen Stubbs
Daniel Cho was born in New Jersey (USA) and began playing the violin in South Korea at the age of six. He received his bachelor's degree from The Juilliard School in the class of Hyo Kang and David Chan. He then continued his studies with Kolja Blacher at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. He won numerous international competitions, including the Max Rostal Competition 2019, in which he received the top prize. As a soloist he played with orchestras such as the Hamburger Camerata, the Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra and Sejong Soloists. In 2010 he made his New York debut in the Weill Hall of Carnegie Hall, presented by the Korea Music Foundation, and in 2013 he made his European debut at the Musée du Louvre in Paris as part of the "Concerts du Jeudi". He also appears as a member of Sejong Soloists and has worked closely with artists such as Gil Shaham, Cho-Liang Lin and Vadim Repin. As concertmaster he played with The Juilliard Orchestra, the Verbier Festival Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. From the 2021/22 season he joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra as first concertmaster.
Yuri Katsumata-Monegatto was born in Yokohama in 1992 and began playing the violin at the age of seven. She studied with Sonoko Numata at the Tokyo University of the Arts and with Nora Chastain and Marlene Ito at the Berlin University of the Arts, which she attended as a DAAD fellow. She received further musical impulses from the Artemis Quartet, among others. She gained orchestral experience in the Academy of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and at the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and at numerous international festivals such as the Verbier Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Pacific Music Festival. Yuri Katsumata is the winner of several competitions. As a soloist, she has performed numerous concerts, including Krzysztof Penderecki’s Double Concerto conducted by the composer himself. Since 2020 she has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Sangyoon Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1989 and began playing viola at the age of nine. He has performed as a soloist with the Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra and the Seoul National University String Ensemble in South Korea. He is also a first prize winner of the Hanyang and the Seoul Baroque Ensemble Competitions and won further international awards, for example at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition in France, the Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award in Switzerland and the International Max Rostal Competition in Berlin. Sangyoon Lee studied with Nimrod Guez at the Würzburg Academy of Music. He gained orchestral experience at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra when he held a limited contract there, and as an assistant section leader at the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra. He is Section Leader Viola at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Minyoung Kim was born in 1999 in Seoul, South Korea. She began her musical education at the age of 4 on the piano, and at 9 on the cello. She completed her bachelor's degree at Yonsei University with Prof. Sung-Won Yang. Since April 2023, Minyoung has been studying in the master's program at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin with Prof. Claudio Bohorquez. Young cellist had the opportunity to broaden her musical horizons by participating in Cello Akademie Rutesheim, Virtuoso&Belcanto Festival, Festival Cello Leon,Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Borromeo Music Festival, and Spring Festival in New York, where she performed at Lincoln Convention Center Rose Hall. Minyoung received important impetus from master classes given by Wen-Sinn Yang, Natalie Clein, Tamás Varga, Troels Svane, Iaszlo Fenyo, Laurence Lesser, Johannes Krebs, Adrian Brendel, Emil Rovner, Quatour Modigliani, and Novus String Quartet. From January 2020 to March 2022, she was a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, and from March 2022 to December 2022, she was an academist of the Korean National Symphony Orchestra. Since November 2023, she has been an academist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Petar Kostov received his education with Konrad Elser at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, as well as in Vienna. He attended master classes with Andrzej Jasiński, Ludmil Angelov, Boris Berman, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alexander Jenner and Bozhidar Nojev.
He is a multiple prize winner of national and international piano and chamber music competitions, including the International Chamber Music Festival "Allegro Vivo".
As part of "Wien Modern 2018", Petar Kostov played at the Vienna Konzerthaus for the entire performance of Luciano Berio's Sequenze cycle. In 2016, at the Vienna Radio Culture House, he performed Geirr Tveitt's piano concerto "Aurora Borealis" and Igor Stravinsky's piano concerto under Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada (Yale Symphony Orchestra), and in 2015 he created the piano part in Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon". He made his debut with orchestra in 2013 with the Plovdiv State Opera Orchestra. He is a sought-after chamber music partner and performs with various musicians and ensembles.
Since 2020 Petar Kostov has been working as a pianist for the Hamburg Ballet and the Hamburg Ballet School at the Hamburg State Opera.
As musicians, we have the ability to unite people, with words or without.
Daniel Cho, First Concertmaster
The works of the 3rd Chamber Concert are all about love and connection in word and sound: When Johannes Brahms set out to compose the “Two Songs”, it was because of his close friendship with his long-time companion, the violinist Joseph Joachim. Brahms wanted to create a musical memorial to his love and composed the “Spiritual Lullaby” based on a text by Emanuel Geibel for his wedding, but withdrew the composition and revised it. Together with “Stillte Sehnsucht” based on a text by Friedrich Rückert, the composer then published both songs on the occasion of another happy event: the baptism of his godchild, Joseph Joachim’s son. In both compositions you can hear the unbridled joy of life, born of love. Leoš Janáček's (late) love for Kamilla Stösslová, who was almost 40 years his junior, was under a completely different and much worse star. In his second string quartet with the programmatic nickname “Intimate Letters” the feelings for the young woman are omnipresent. Just a year before his death, Janáček left behind a frivolous testimony to a great love: eruptive, provocative and passionate.
Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
