Category: Concert Series ” Echo of the Unheard”

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A musical – literary portrait: a reading from Egon Lustgarten’s captivating texts, which come from his letters, diaries and writings, accompanied by his music; Songs, arias, piano pieces and chamber music works. 

Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 7:00 p.m

Palais Ehrbar – Kleiner Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
A-1040 Vienna

Admission free! / Registration here.

Contributors:
Gregory von Leitis, reading
Michael Lahr from Leitis, reading 
Theresa Krügl, soprano
Xiao Bai, baritone
Jelena Pesic, piano
Yumeko Kawakami, piano

Program:
Works by Egon Lustgarten

Moderation:
Gerold Gruber, founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center of the mdw

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This evening is dedicated to the cello and piano sonatas of Francis Poulenc and Robert Fürstenthal, two masters of the 20th century: one renowned, the other remaining largely undiscovered until now. Poulenc’s 1948 Cello Sonata captivates with its dynamic contrasts and profound lyricism, blending classical elegance with contemporary sensitivity. Fürstenthal’s sonatas, composed in exile in the United States, are imbued with deep nostalgia and emotion. They mark his return to music-making after a long silence, conveying feelings of hope and sorrow with great intensity.

Thursday, January 23rd, 2024, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at 

Artists:

Clara Lindenbaum, cello

Margaret Kim, piano

Program: 

Robert Fürstenthal: Sonata op. 44 in C sharp minor

Robert Fürstenthal: Sonata op. 58 in f minor

Francis Poulenc: Sonata FP 143

Moderation: 

Gerold Gruber (founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center)

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In this extraordinary song recital, baritone Ryan Hugh Ross, pianist Daniel Rieppel and violinist Risa Schuchter the fascinating works of the composer Julius Bürger. You can hear the melodies recorded by the renowned tenor Joseph Schmidt and performed in the film “A Song Goes Around the World”, such as “Zigeunerlied” and “Launisches Glück”, as well as premieres from Bürger’s extensive work, which spanned 73 years. 

Before the concert, a film documentary Julius Bürger – expelled and rediscovered. A Viennese composer returns will provide insight into the life and work of the composer. Internationally successful, Bürger made his mark in the USA, where in 1984 he received the University of Indiana Composition Prize for his “Variations on a Theme by C. Ph. E. Bach.” This documentation was created in connection with the first performance of Julius Bürger’s orchestral works in Vienna, in August 2023 at the ORF’s Great Broadcasting Hall with the RSO under the direction of Gottfried Rabl.

Monday, September 16th, 2024, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at 

Artists:

Ryan Hugh Ross, baritone
Risa Schuchter, violin
Daniel Rieppel, piano

Program: 

Works by Julius Bürger

Moderation: 

Gerold Gruber (founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center)

Thursday, November 7th, 2024, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

© The Ciompi Quartet

Concert series “Echo of the Unheard” | June 18, 2024 I Arnold Schönberg and Wolfgang Fraenkel

Arnold Schönberg and Wolfgang Fraenkel are historically linked: two progressive Jewish composers who fled Europe with the rise of the Nazis. Schönberg came to the United States while the younger Fraenkel spent eight years in Shanghai, where he was an important teacher and cultural force. This concert compares these two strong personalities through two of their string quartets. Fraenkel’s quartet contains a dedication to the much admired Schönberg.

Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

The concert is fully booked!

Artists:

Ciompi Quartet

Eric Pritchard, violin | Hsiao-mei Ku, violin | Jonathan Bagg, viola | Caroline Stinson, cello

Program:

Arnold Schönberg: String Quartet No. 4 op 37

Wolfgang Fraenkel: Music for String Quartet (1949)

Moderation:

Ulrike Anton (Director of the Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna) | Gerold Gruber (founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center)

© Holzbläserquintett Windobona

The young woodwind quintet Windobona was founded in the summer of 2020 during the Angelika Prokopp Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic. Most members study at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and receive chamber music lessons from Gottfried Pokorny. They are active both nationally and internationally in chamber music and renowned orchestras, which contributes to valuable experience that they now use in the quintet. The ensemble regularly gives concerts throughout Austria, creates its own programs, performs at various events, works on commissioned compositions and plays at prestigious music festivals such as the Carinthian Summer. In 2022 they won 1st prize at the 4th International Cibulka Competition in Graz.

Monday, March 18, 2024, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at

Artists:

WOODWIND QUINTET WINDOBONA

Anna Karanitsch, flute
Isabella Schwarz, oboe
Klaus Höpfler, horn
Petra Seidl, bassoon
Julienne Spitzer, clarinet

Program:

Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet Op. 10

György Ligeti, 6 Bagatelles

Jean Françaix, Quintett Nr. 1

Moderation:

Gerold Gruber (founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center)

© Roman Drits

Pianist Linda Leine and soprano Pia Davila have been working together steadily since fall 2014. This exciting journey began with the 2015 “Schubert and Modernism” competition in Graz, where the duo received third prize. Since then it has been playing throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In Schwerin in 2016, the musicians won first prize in the Ostracized Music Competition – for both of them the beginning of working with music by ostracized composers. Since then, Linda Leine and Pia Davila have developed a wide repertoire, the core pieces of which can now be heard on the CD. There are various reasons why the musicians devote themselves particularly to this topic. In addition to the fantastic musical quality that the often unknown works and texts have, it is important to the two artists to make a social contribution through their profession. While Linda Leine learned the stories of her own Jewish family on her father’s side – her grandfather was interned in several German concentration camps and survived the Holocaust – for Pia Davila, cultivating memory for a democratic and peaceful life in the future is an important concern. For many years she was a member of the “Freundeskreis KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme e.V.” and her work as part of the guest student program for refugees at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater was honored with an invitation to the 2019 New Year’s reception with the Federal President at Bellevue Palace.

Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at

Artists:

Pia Davila, soprano
Linda Leine, piano

Program:

Songs by Erich Zeisl, Arnold Schönberg, Ruth Schonthal, Ilse Weber, among others.

Moderation:

Gerold Gruber (founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center)