Category: Concert Series ” Echo of the Unheard”

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

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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

Admission free! / eventjet.at

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)

Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” I March 18, 2024 I Woodwind Quintet Windobona

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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)

Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” I April 16, 2024 I Somewhere in the World

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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)

Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” I December 12, 2023 I André Singer and Hans Winterberg

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Piano trios are an important part of the compositional work of André Singer and Hans Winterberg. The planned concert evening will feature the two still largely unknown but musically fascinating trios, interpreted by pianist David Hausknecht, violinist Floris Willem and cellist Cristina Basili.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at

Interpreters:

Floris Willem, violin
Cristina Basili, cello
David Hausknecht, piano

Program:

Hans Winterberg – Sudetensuite
André Singer – Klaviertrio Op. 32
Antonin Dvořák – Klaviertrio „Dumky“ No. 4, Op. 90

Moderation:

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

Concert Series „Echo of the Unheard“ I November 22, 2023 I Hans Winterberg Festival

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at

Interpreters:

INEO Quartet: Nadia Kalmykova, violin | Ljuba Kalmykova, violin | Yan-Lok ​​Hoi, viola | Constantin Paul Siepermann, viola
Duo: Weronika Strugala, viola | Zuzanna Basińska, piano
Quintet: Raika Yamakage, violin | Ayaka Matsudomi, clarinet | Helena Riedl, clarinet | Max Pichler, horn | Gabriel Meloni – piano

Works by Hans Winterberg

Sonata for cello and piano
String Quartet ( 1942) – Premiere of the complete version
Quintet for violin, 2 clarinets, horn and piano (1935)- Premiere

Moderation:

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

Concert Series „Echo of the Unheard“ I October 17, 2023

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The renowned duo – cellist Vida Vujic and pianist Sybilla Konstantinova – is dedicated to the cello sonatas of Walter Würzburger and Walter Bricht, whose papers are in the archives of the Exilarte Center

Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 7 p.m.
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / eventjet.at

Interpreters:

Vida Vujic, cello
Sybilla Konstantinova, piano

Program:

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano and cello op.69 A major

Walter Würzburger: Sonata for cello and piano (1989)

Walter Bricht: Sonata for cello and piano (1936)

Moderation:

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

Review of the concert published! Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” I June 22, 2023 I INEO String Quartet – Treasures from the Exilarte Center

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You can read the review of the concert here.

The Exilarte Center of the mdw- University of music and Performing Arts presents string quartets by Walter Bricht, Julius Bürger and Hans Gál. The legacies of these composers are in the archive of the Exilarte Center. Works by: Walter Bricht, Julius Bürger and Hans Gál

Performers:

INEO Quartet (Nadia Kalmykova – violin, Ljuba Kalmykova – violin, Yan-Lok ​​Hoi – viola, Constantin Paul Siepermann – cello)

Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7:00 p.m

Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar hall
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / register here.

Moderation: Gerold Gruber (founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte center)

Program:

Walter Bricht (1904 – 1970) – Chaconne, [WoO. 24] (1967)

Julius Bürger (1897-1995) – String Quartet No. 2 (1968)

Hans Gal (1890-1987) – String Quartet No. 4, op. 99 (1970)

Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” I May 16, 2023 I Elisabeth Leonskaja, Ulrike Anton and Alissa Firsova I – In the footsteps of students of Philip Herschkowitz and his students

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 7 PM (EST)
Palais Ehrbar- Large Ehrbar Hall
Mühlgasse 28, 1040 Vienna

As a former student of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, the composer Philip Herschkowitz was one of the most sought-after private teachers of young musicians in the former Soviet Union after the war until the 1980s. Because of his Jewish origins, Herschkowitz, who was born in Romania, was expelled from Vienna by the Nazi regime. In Moscow, too, he continued to suffer from anti-Semitic threats and his works were frowned upon as “formalistic”. The focus of the concert is the musical work of Dmitri Smirnov and Elena Firsova, both of whom belonged to the narrow circle of private students and whose compositions were on the regime’s notorious “black list” from 1979 onwards. The exceptional pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja could again be won as interpreter of this program, who will perform this evening together with singer Maacha Deubner, flutist Ulrike Anton, harpist Anna Verkholantseva, violist Marta Potulska and pianist and composer Alissa Firsova.

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In an interview with Irene Suchy, the pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja and the composer Alissa Firsova will talk about their apprenticeship years with Philip Herschkowitz and the compositions on the evening’s program. The concert takes place in memory of the composer and Herschkowitz student, Dmitri Smirnov, who died of Covid-19 in 2020.

Works by: Elena Firsova, Dmitri Smirnov, Arnold Schönberg and Philip Herschkowitz

Performers:
Elisabeth Leonskaja (piano)
Ulrike Anton (flute)
Maacha Deubner, (soprano)
Alissa Firsova (piano)
Anna Verkholantseva (harp)
Marta Potulska (viola)


Moderation: Irene Suchy


When: May 16, 2023, 7 PM (EST)
Where: Palais Ehrbar- Large Ehrbar Hall
Mühlgasse 28, 1040 Vienna

Concert Series “Echo of the Unheard” I April 13, 2023

The Exilarte Center presents songs by Walter Bricht, Julius Bürger, Robert Fürstenthal, Hans Gál and Wilhelm Grosz in the concert series “Echo of the Unheard”. The legacies of these composers are in the archive of the Exilarte Center. Works by Walter Arlen will also be heard.

Here you can find the program booklet.

Works by: Walter Bricht, Julius Bürger, Robert Fürstenthal, Hans Gál, Wilhelm Grosz and Walter Arlen

©Peter Kogoj


Performers:
Josipa Bainac-Hausknecht, Mezzo-soprano
Bálint Németh, Tenor
David Hausknecht, Piano

Moderation: Prof. Dr. Gerold Gruber (Founder of exil.arte and Chairman of the Exilarte Center)


Tuesday, April 13, 2023, 7 PM (EST)
Palais Ehrbar – small Ehrbar hall
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna


The composer Jan Urban – an homage, a project by pianist Biljana Urban in cooperation with the Exilarte Center I March 8 & 9, 2022 (2G)


The Composer Jan Urban – an Homage

The composer Jan Urban, born in Prague in 1875, spent most of his life among the South Slav regions, initially in the Kingdom of Serbia, after 1918 in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and from 1929 until its occupation by the Nazis in 1941 in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The declaration of the fascist-run Independent State of Croatia found Urban fleeing the country and returning to Serbia. His best friend, the Jewish conductor Lav Mirsky, together with whom he paved the way for modern Opera and symphonic musical life in Osijek, was deported. Among Jan Urban’s compositions celebrating the Resistance to the Nazis we find Sutjeska and Death of the Hero (Elegy).

Biljana Urban, well-known pianist and granddaughter of Jan Urban, has been advocating for the rediscovery of her grandfather’s works for many years. Her latest project in cooperation with the Exilarte Center at the mdw, which she will present at the Franz Liszt Hall of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna on March 8 & 9, 2022, involves young students from Austria, Serbia, Croatia , Spain and the Netherlands. During the process of preparing for a piano competition the young musicians have thoroughly studied Jan Urban’s oeuvre which they will present in a concert on March 9, 2022. The students will receive additional intensive preparation taking master classes with Biljana Urban.

Biljana Urban will perform works by Jan Urban and Hans Gál in a concert together with singer Annette Fischer and flutist Ulrike Anton on March 8, 2022.

The estate of Jan Urban is located in the archive of the Exilarte Center at the mdw.

Concert with works by Jan Urban and Hans Gál

Biljana Urban, piano
Annette Fischer, soprano
Ulrike Anton, flute

Tuesday, March 8, 2022, 7:30 p.m.

2G ( vaccinated or recovered) applies!


University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Lothringerstrasse 18
Franz Liszt Hall (3rd floor)
1030 Vienna/ Austria

Free admission

Student Performance

With students from Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Spain and the Netherlands

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 7 p.m.

2G ( vaccinated or recovered) applies!


University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Lothringerstrasse 18
Franz Liszt Hall (3rd floor)
1030 Vienna/Austria

Free admission