16th Kuressaare Chamber Music Days
August 3 - 7, 2010
Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 at 7 pm
Kuressaare Cultural Centre (Tallinna St. 6)
OPENING CONCERT
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Andres Paas (piano)
Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin)
Indrek Leivategija (cello)
Programme:
Uno Naissoo - Piano Trio
Jean Sibelius - Humoresques No 4, 6
Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - Fantasie on theme from the opera "The Golden Cockerel" by Efrem Zimbalist
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Piano Trio D minor, Op. 49 No. 1
Andres Paas, the main organiser and artistic director of the festival is continuing the nice tradition and will open the festival also this time. Throughout the years, the renowned and beloved pianist has performed music together with several top musicians, both from Estonia and abroad. This time he will perform together with two distinguished young Estonian musicians residing abroad Anna-Liisa Bezrodny and Indrek Leivategija. Anna-Liisa Bezrodny, residing in Great Britain, is a successful Estonian violinist having been recognized most with First Prizes at many international competitions. She is a concerto soloist as well as chamber musician performing actively on international stages. Cellist Indrek Leivategija, now residing in Germany, has despite of his young age succeeded in becoming one of the best cellists of Estonia. Just recently he won the First Prize in the renowned "Salieri - Zinetti" Chamber Music International Competition in Verona, Italy.
The programme of the opening concert is delightful and romantically passionate. The trio is going to play Naissoo´s Piano Trio, Sibelius´s Humoresques, Rimsky-Korsakov´s The Golden Cockerel in Zimbalist´s setting and Mendelssohns Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 No. 1.
Wednesday, August 4th 2010 at 7 pm
Kuressaare St Laurentius Church (Tallinna St. 13)
MEDITATIONS
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Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor Daniel Reuss
Programme: Pärt, Tobias, Tüür, Kreek
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is one of the best-known Estonian classical music performers in the world. During its 29 years of existence the choir has performed in most of the European countries, the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc. The choir has made numerous recordings for renowned recording companies such as Harmonia Mundi, ECM, Virgin Classics, Carus, et al. It has also won the Grammy award for Best Choral Performance in 2006. EPCC often participates in prominent festivals and it has also collaborated with various distinguished conductors, such as Claudio Abbado, Neeme Järvi, Nikolai Alekseev and others, and orchestras, such as Australian, Prague and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Concerto Copenhagen and many others. Since the season 2008/2009 the artistic director and chief conductor of the choir is Daniel Reuss from Holland.
In Kuressaare the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir will perform an interesting and varied programme of sacred choir music written by Estonian composers.
Wednesday, August 4th 2010 at 10 pm
Kuressaare Town Theatre (Tallinna St. 20)
VISIONS
"Dialogues. Pas de Guitare"
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Kaie Kõrb (dance)
Tiit Peterson (guitar)
Triin Hook (light artist)
Programme: Turina, Tansman, De Falla, Martin, Moreno-Torroba, Brouwer, Dyens
A performance called "Dialogues. Pas de Guitare" is a mixture of guitar music and modern dance performed by an Estonian top guitarist Tiit Peterson and our top ballerina Kaie Kõrb. A man and a woman. Southern music full of passion opposing restrained Nordic mentality. A guitar, human body, human soul.
Tiit Peterson introduces an exciting assortment of 20th century guitar music by several composers from Cuba, Spain, France, Tunisia and elsewhere. These beautiful melodies and complex rhythm combinations will challenge one of Estonias most beloved prima ballerina who this time will put herself to test in plastic dance.
The author of the choreography is Dmitri Hartenko who has had long artistic collaboration with both Kaie Kõrb and Tiit Peterson in very varied projects. Lighting is being taken care of by Triin Hook whose work will add colour to the general mood of the performance.
Thursday, August 5th 2010 at 10 pm
Kuressaare Castle (Lossihoov 1)
CASTLE MUSIC
Vocal quintet Calmus Ensemble (Germany)
Anja Lipfert (soprano)
Sebastian Krause (countertenor)
Tobias Pöche (tenor)
Ludwig Böhme (baritone)
Joe Roesler (bass)
Programme: De Prés, Schubert, De Machaut, Tallis, Schein, Bach etc.
"These five young artists achieved the impossible and brought a cappella singing to a higher level. Their intonation is perfect and their musical talent as well as their interpretation skills could be described as incomparable. Calmus Ensemble towers above all other a cappella groups!" (Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City / USA).
Calmus Ensemble celebrated their ten years of performing music together expansively. The quintet with an active concert schedule is highly acclaimed in international level, they have performed in several prestigious concert halls, participated in festivals, both in Europe and also in North and South America. Among others, they have participated in renowned music festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Bach Festival Leipzig, The International a cappella Week in Hannover and elsewhere. They have also received many well-known awards, among which the most important are ECHO Klassik Award (2009), first prize in International Concert Artists Guild (2009) in New York and others. Their CDs have been highly acclaimed by the critics and they have won several prizes.
The repertoire of the Calmus Ensemble is expanded and in Kuressaare they will perform with a varied prorgramme ranging from renaissance music to modern compositions.
In collaboration with Goethe Institute
Friday, August 6th 2010 at 9 pm
SPA Rüütli Ritter Hall (Pargi 12)
EXOTIC PROMENADES
"Ao Luar da meia Noite" / "Midnight Moonlight"
Vocal-instrumental quartet South Trovadore (Portugal)
Mario Moita (piano, vocal)
Carlos Sousa (cavaquinho, vocal)
Luis Trindade (accordion, vocal)
Herlander Medinas (double bass, vocal)
Programme: Fado songs and Alentejo traditional songs
In our series of Exotic Promenades the festival will continue introducing Portuguese national music. South Trovadore is a vocal/instrumental ensemble, well known and popular in Portugal. It mainly performs national music from Alentejo, region in South Portugal. Their programme in our festival in Kuressaare is an exciting medley of fado sunny song depicting human feelings and tuna songs a new type of music for Estonian audience who will most probably hear such music for the first time at this concert. The quartet has introduced Portuguese music in many places all over the world and everywhere they have only received utterly positive feedback after their brilliant concerts, both from the audience as well as from the critics. The first part of the concert is called Fado on the piano where the pianist and singer of the quartet Mario Moita gives a completely new tinge to fado by his own exceptional interpretation. His juicy and special style of handling the piano and his voice of sensual timbre has been enjoyed everywhere from Portugal to Japan.
In collaboration with the Stanford Music
Saturday, August 7th 2010 at 7 pm
Kuressaare Cultural Centre (Tallinna St. 6)
FINALE
Garcia Abril Quartett (Spain-Switzerland)
Gabriel Estarellas Pascual (violin)
Muriel Quistad (violin)
Lea Gabriela Heinzer (viola)
Ilija Andrianov (cello)
Programme:
Joaquin Turina - String Quartet "Oración del torero" / "Prayer Of A Bullfighter"
Claude Debussy - String Quartet G minor op. 10
Antón Garcia Abril - String Quartet "Cuarteto para el nuevo milenio" / "Quartet For The New Millennium"
"...the musical interaction of the quartet is impressive. Their swinging in ensemble and their sensitive and masterful interpretation were so perfect that they swept the audience off their feet." (Schaffhauser Nachrichten / Germany).
The Garcia Abril Quartet, resident in Winterthur, Switzerland, was founded in 2004 and bears the name of one of Spain's most important contemporary composers, Antón García Abril. While the ensemble performs music from all styles and epochs, Spanish music holds a special place at the centre of their repertoire.
The García Abril Quartet is a highly renowned ensemble that has been invited to give several concerts in Switzerland, Italy, Spain and France including Trecastagni International Music Festival, Festival International de Guitare in Paris, ORPHEUS Festival concerts in Zurich, Festival Internacional de Musica de Malaga and others, to name a few.
The Garcia Abril Quartet has made numerous live recordings for Spanish National Radio with works by Haydn, Debussy, F. Martin, A. García Abril and others.
It has also recently been a prizewinner of the prestigious ORPHEUS-Konzerte and Migros-Kulturprozent chamber music competitions.
In Kuressaare they will perform enthralling string quartets by Spanish composers Turina and Garcia Abril, a premiere in Estonia.
In collaboration with the Spanish Embassy