print this page 24th Kuressaare Chamber Music Days July 31st - August 4th, 2018 Follow as on Facebook! Tuesday, July 31st 2018 at 7 pm Kuressaare Cultural Centre (Tallinna St. 6) OPENING CONCERT Andres Paas (piano) Anna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin) Estonia-United Kingdom Jan-Erik Gustafsson (cello) Finland Programme: Dmitri Shostakovitch - Piano Trio No. 2 E minor op. 67 Johannes Brahms - Piano Trio No. 2 C Major op. 87 Kuressaare Chamber Music Days is a musical event with national cultural status. The main organizer of the festival, renowned pianist Andres Paas, is a very experienced chamber musician, pedagogue and festival organizer. Throughout the years, he has performed with numerous international musicians and ensembles presenting a significant part of various international compositions at his festival – from compelling works of chamber music from duo sonatas to piano quintets. Laureate of numerous cultural prizes, Andres Paas will continue this beautiful tradition also this year by performing in the opening concert of the festival. This time his partners on stage are Anna-Liisa Bezrodny – an internationally acclaimed violinist already known to our audience – and Jan-Erik Gustafsson – one of the most outstanding Finnish cellists of our time, who will make a debut at our festival. The trio will perform exigent and eloquent piano trios by Shostakovich and Brahms. Wednesday, August 1st 2018 at 9 pm Kuressaare Castle (Lossihoov 1) VISIONS Mandolin Quartet Quatuor à Plectres de France France Natalia Korsak, Cécile Valette (mandolins), Fabio Gallucci (mandola), Grégory Morello (guitar) Programme: Debussy. Fauré. Poulenc. Françaix. Lai. Petit. Cosma. Galliano. Bolling. The Quatuor à Plectres de France is a mandolin quartet from France is made up of four musicians with big mission – their most important aim is to introduce and advocate mandolin as a very varied concert instrument. They have joined their forces, and combined talents and ambitions to become one of the world’s most important mandolin music performers. All the members of the quartet are versatile international musicians and professors. They have had more than a hundred world premieres, and they have collaborated with many artists, such as Cosma, Bolling, Galliano, Holanda, Marshall, Petit, Nicolau, etc. Thursday, August 2nd 2018 at 7 pm Kuressaare Castle (Lossihoov 1) FANTASIES Duo Telluur Heli Ernits (oboe, English horn) & Kirill Ogorodnikov (guitar) Programme: Coste. Lopez-Maya. Balkanski. Rodrigo. Bartók. Mägi. Eespere. Jõeleht. The Duo Telluur, founded in 2015, is an enthusiastic ensemble that got its name from a chemical element – silvery and delicate substance, referring to the unique acoustic sound of the ensemble. The combination of guitar and English horn played by two passionate musicians, Heli Ernits and Kirill Ogorodnikov, is rare in the music world. Inspiration for this combination came from matching the balmy sounds of these two instruments, and thus also the opportunity to play not only standard but also more modern music. The duo has fruitful collaboration with Estonian composers who have composed music specially for this ensemble. One of these pieces of music is also to be performed in Kuressaare. Thursday, August 2nd 2018 at 10 pm Kuressaare Castle (Lossihoov 1) CASTLE MUSIC Vocal Sextet - The Marian Consort United Kingdom Charlotte Ashley, Rachel Ambrose Evans (sopranos) Hannah Cooke (alto) Rory McCleery (countertenor, director) Guy Cutting (tenor) Edmund Saddington (bass) Programme: Lobo. Morago. Tallis. de Magalhaes. Fernandez. Cardoso. White. de Brito. "Deliciously outstanding" (Michael Riley, Gramophone) Taking its name from the Blessed Virgin Mary, a focus of religious devotion in the sacred music of all ages, The Marian Consort is a Gramophone Award-nominated and internationally-renowned early music vocal ensemble, recognised for its dynamic freshness of approach and innovative presentation of a broad range of repertoire. The Marian Consort has to date released eight CDs with Delphian Records and have performed across the UK and Europe. They have led various master classes, and collaborated with a variety of vocal and instrumental ensembles: the Carducci Quartet; the Berkeley Ensemble; the Rose Consort of Viols; et al. The founder and director of the ensemble is a renowned English countertenor and conductor Rory McCleery. Friday, August 3rd 2018 at 9 pm Kuressaare Cultural Centre (Tallinna St. 6) EXOTIC PROMENADES Tango performance "Que me van a hablar de amor" / What I Will Talk About Love Argentina La Porteña Tango Trío: Alejandro Picciano (guitar), Federico Peuvrel (piano), Matías Picciano (bandoneon), Eugenia Giordano (vocal), Damián Roezgas & Amira Luna (dancers) Tango performance "Qué me van a hablar de amor" by one of Argentina's most famous and popular tango ensembles, Porteña Tango Trio, has performed in twenty countries and on four continents. The trio recently presented their third album "What I Will Talk About Love" (the title of the current performance), and the music has an important role also in the performance in Kuressaare. Both, Argentina’s reputable singer Eugenia Giordano, as well as young tango dancers and choreographers Damián Roezgas and Amira Luna (the 2015 Tango World Cup finalists), will perform on the stage. The guitarist of La Porteña Tango Trio Alejandro Picciano brings a passionate show full of emotions to the stage, in which music and sensual dance bring unique and mysterious atmosphere and funny stories of Buenos Aires to the audience. Saturday, August 4th 2018 at 7 pm Kuressaare Cultural Centre (Tallinna St. 6) FINALE: Night Fantasy Eesti Sinfonietta Soloists: Haiou Zhang (piano) China-Germany Jarkko Ensio Launonen (cello) Finland Karl Johann Lattikas (vibraphone) Maano Männi (violin) Programme: Georges Gershwin - Lullaby for strings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No.12 A Major, K 414 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik Arturs Maskats - Midnight in Riga (Estonian Premiere) This year´s festival finale will again see Estonian Sinfonietta who has performed in the renowned European concert halls like Vienna Musikverein, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Philharmonics of Cologne and St Petersburg, Flagey and Bozar of Brussels as well as at many festivals – Ars Musica in Belgium, Festival Internazionale Pianistico di Brescia e Bergamo, Mittelfest and Festival Emilia Romagna in Italy, Iitti Music Festival in Finland and Musikfest Kreuth am Tegernsee in Germany. Performing together has taken the musicians to tours in Europe, South-America, Middle East and to many Estonian music festivals and concert series. The concert program "Night Fantasy" is inspired by evening and night sounds, and it brings an exciting selection of musical compositions by Mozart, Gershwin and Maskats’ to the audience. For the first time, the festival will also feature a piano concert with pianist Haiou Zhang, a Chinese musician residing in Germany.