"Focus Jörg Widmann II" with public rehearsal and chamber concert

From April 19 to 21, 2024, the HfMDK and the Alte Oper Frank­furt are de­di­ca­ting an en­t­i­re wee­kend to the ex­cep­tio­nal ar­tist Jörg Wid­mann. The mul­ti-ta­len­ted ar­tist is ac­tive as a cla­ri­net­tist, con­duc­tor, com­po­ser and tea­cher and can con­stant­ly draw on his bubb­ling wealth of ide­as. Due to his im­pres­si­ve ver­sa­ti­li­ty, the Alte Oper pres­ents a the­ma­tic fo­cus with him as Ar­tist in Fo­cus for three con­se­cu­ti­ve sea­sons. While last sea­son the fo­cus was on Wid­man­n's com­po­si­tio­nal work, this year it is on his tea­ching ac­tivi­ties. As part of a pro­ject with stu­dents at the HfMDK, he will give a tas­te of this by rehe­ar­sing and per­forming his first five string quar­tets.

On April 21, 2024 from 7 pm, Wid­man­n's five string quar­tets will be per­for­med af­ter a two-day work pha­se, play­ed by five string quar­tets from Prof. Tim Vog­ler's cham­ber mu­sic class. The Fa­brik Quar­tet (No. 1), the Pa­ra­kos­mos Quar­tet (No. 2), the Raròn Quar­tet (No. 3), the Oxa­lis Quar­tet (No. 4) and the Ma­li­on Quar­tet, which will per­form tog­e­ther with Daria Ty­mos­hen­ko due to the unusu­al in­stru­men­ta­ti­on of String Quar­tet No. 5 with so­pra­no solo, will be heard in the HfMD­K's Gre­at Hall.

The HfMDK en­sem­bles will have the ex­tra­or­di­na­ry op­por­tu­ni­ty to fine-tune their in­ter­pre­ta­ti­ons with the help of the com­po­ser. The joint work on the 3rd and 5th string quar­tets can be ex­pe­ri­en­ced in a pu­blic rehe­ar­sal on April 20, 2024 from 7 p.m. in the Small Hall of the HfMDK. All lis­teners who have a ti­cket for the con­cert on April 21 are in­vi­ted to at­tend. Di­rec­t­ly be­fo­re the con­cert on April 21, Jörg Wid­mann will give a pia­no lec­tu­re on "Be­au­ti­ful pas­sa­ges" from mu­sic of the past and pre­sent in the Small Hall from 6 pm. The con­cert ti­cket for 7 p.m. also ser­ves as pro­of of ad­mis­si­on.

Prof. Tim Vog­ler pre­mie­red Wid­man­n's 4th String Quar­tet with his col­leagues from the Vog­ler Quar­tet in 2005 and is loo­king for­ward to the wee­kend with the "uni­ver­sal ar­tist" with gre­at an­ti­ci­pa­ti­on: "I think it's gre­at that the five en­sem­bles have the op­por­tu­ni­ty, af­ter they have fa­mi­lia­ri­zed them­sel­ves with the scores with the help of Prof. Lu­cas Fels and mys­elf, to meet their crea­tor and ex­pe­ri­ence at first hand how li­vely Jörg Wid­man­n's mu­sic is, how im­me­dia­te; and how he him­s­elf con­veys his ide­as about it." For the stu­dents, the wee­kend pro­mi­ses to be an unf­or­gett­able part of their trai­ning at the HfMDK.

Jörg Wid­mann is one of the most ex­ci­ting and ver­sa­ti­le ar­tists of his ge­nera­ti­on. In the 2023/24 sea­son, he can once again be ex­pe­ri­en­ced world­wi­de in all his fa­cets as a cla­ri­net­tist, con­duc­tor and com­po­ser, in­clu­ding as Com­po­ser in Re­si­dence with the Ber­li­ner Phil­har­mo­ni­ker and the Roy­al Stock­holm Phil­har­mo­nic Or­ches­tra, as Princi­pal Guest Con­duc­tor of the NDR Ra­dio­phil­har­mo­nie, Guest Con­duc­tor of the Mo­zar­te­um Or­ches­tra Salz­burg, As­so­cia­ted Con­duc­tor of the Mu­nich Cham­ber Or­ches­tra, Crea­ti­ve Part­ner of the Deut­sche Ra­dio Phil­har­mo­nie, Ar­tis­tic Part­ner of the Riga Sin­fo­ni­et­ta and Ar­tist in Fo­cus at the Alte Oper Frank­furt. Trai­ned as a cla­ri­net­tist and com­po­ser at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Mu­sic in Mu­nich and Karls­ru­he and at the Ju­il­li­ard School in New York, Jörg Wid­mann him­s­elf was a pro­fes­sor of cla­ri­net and com­po­si­ti­on at the Frei­burg Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic for many ye­ars. Sin­ce 2017, he has held a chair in com­po­si­ti­on at the Ba­ren­bo­im-Said Aka­de­mie Ber­lin.

Fa­brik Quar­tet

The mem­bers of the Fa­brik Quar­tet met in 2021 du­ring their trai­ning at the In­ter­na­tio­nal En­sem­ble Mo­dern Aca­de­my (IEMA) in Frank­furt and are now stu­dy­ing at the HfMDK in the Mas­ter's pro­gram in Cham­ber Mu­sic. They con­ti­nue to spe­cia­li­ze in new and con­tem­pora­ry mu­sic and work a lot with con­tem­pora­ry com­po­sers.

• Fe­der­i­co Cep­pe­tel­li (Vl. 1), Adam Wood­ward (Vl. 2), Ja­co­bo Diaz Ro­ble­dil­lo (Va.), Ele­na Cap­pel­let­ti (Vc.)
• https://www.fa­brik­quar­tet.com

Pa­ra­kos­mos Quar­tet

Four mu­si­ci­ans with cham­ber mu­sic ex­pe­ri­ence came tog­e­ther at the HfMDK in fall 2023 to form the Pa­ra­kos­mos Quar­tet. As part of the con­cert scho­l­ar­ship from the Frank­fur­ter Bür­ger­stif­tung and the HfMDK Frank­furt, they per­for­med ost­ra­ci­zed works by com­po­sers such as Rosy Wert­heim, Hen­riët­te Bos­mans, Erich Wolf­gang Korn­gold and Bern­hard Se­kles in the Holz­hau­sen­schlöss­chen and would like to con­ti­nue to draw the at­ten­ti­on of con­cert au­di­en­ces to un­der­ex­po­sed works of the quar­tet li­te­ra­tu­re.

• Efi Po­lo­ni­dou (Vl. 1), Bo­dam Lee (Vl. 2), Anna Bo­i­da (Va.), Ja­nis Mar­quard (Vc.)

Raròn Quar­tet

The Raròn Quar­tet was foun­ded in Fe­bru­a­ry 2022. The cur­rent four mem­bers are about to com­ple­te their in­di­vi­du­al de­gree pro­grams at the HfMDK and al­rea­dy have con­trac­ts with re­now­ned or­che­s­tras. They also re­gu­lar­ly come tog­e­ther as a quar­tet to pre­sent vir­tuo­so cham­ber mu­sic with gre­at depth and emo­tio­nal clo­seness.

• Hans Hen­ning Ernst (Vl. 1), Ca­ro­lin Grün (Vl. 2), Fran­zis­ka Hü­gel (Va.), Joa­chim Ja­ma­er (Vc.)

Oxa­lis Quar­tet

The Oxa­lis Quar­tet came tog­e­ther at the Mainz Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic in 2017 and unites four young mu­si­ci­ans from Mol­d­o­va, Slo­ve­nia and Ger­ma­ny who sha­re a gre­at pas­si­on for the li­te­ra­tu­re of the string quar­tet and are ab­sor­bed in it tog­e­ther. They have al­rea­dy per­for­med in several coun­tries and have won nu­me­rous awards, in­clu­ding a spe­cial pri­ze at the Men­dels­sohn Uni­ver­si­ty Com­pe­ti­ti­on in Ber­lin.

• Ste­fan Be­san (Vl. 1), Frie­de­ri­ke Kam­pick (Vl. 2), Tim Düll­berg (Va.), Lu­ci­ja Ru­pert (Vc.)
• https://www.oxa­lis­quar­tett.de/

Ma­li­on Quar­tet

The Ma­li­on Quar­tet is one of the most ver­sa­ti­le quar­tets of the young up-and-co­m­ing ge­nera­ti­on and, in ad­di­ti­on to its in­ter­na­tio­nal con­cert ac­tivi­ties, also pur­su­es a spe­cial vi­si­on of mu­sic edu­ca­ti­on that re­gu­lar­ly at­trac­ts at­ten­ti­on from the spe­cia­list press. Sin­ce its foun­da­ti­on in 2018, it has al­rea­dy won va­rious awards and scho­l­ar­ships. The quar­tet mem­bers are the in­itia­tors of nu­me­rous pro­jec­ts of their own with the aim of brin­ging clas­si­cal mu­sic to a wide au­di­ence through unusu­al con­cert for­mats.

• Alex Jus­sow (Vl. 1), Miki Na­ga­ha­ra (Vl. 2), Li­lya Tym­chys­hyn (Va.), Bet­ti­na Kess­ler (Vc.)
• https://ma­lionquar­tett.com/

So­pra­no Daria Ty­mos­hen­ko was born in Khar­kiv (Ukrai­ne) and has been sin­ging sin­ce the age of se­ven. She first stu­di­ed at a mu­sic school in Khar­kiv, then from 2018 at the Na­tio­nal Aca­de­my of Mu­sic in Kiev. in 2019, an Eras­mus ex­chan­ge pro­gram en­ab­led her to spend a year stu­dy­ing at the "Nino Rota" Con­ser­vato­ry in Mo­no­po­li (Ita­ly). in 2022, she was forced to lea­ve Ukrai­ne with her fa­mi­ly due to the Rus­si­an war of ag­gres­si­on. She has been stu­dy­ing clas­si­cal voice at the HfMDK sin­ce Oc­to­ber 2022.