Chamber Music Projects Season 2025- 2026

BIRGIT ERZ (VIOLIN)
ILONA KINDT (CELLO)
KARLA HALTENWANGER (PIANO)

Programme 1

"Who's Afraid of..."
From the new album on Berlin Classics

Barbara Strozzi: Che si può fare (arranged by Wolfgang Renz)
Fanny Hensel: Trio in D minor op. 11
Lili Boulanger: A selection from: ‘Clairières dans le ciel’ (arranged by Boulanger Trio)
Barbara: Göttingen
Lera Auerbach: Postscriptum (2008)
Kate Bush: Running Up the Hill 
Elfrida Andrée: Trio No. 2 in G minor

This programme is dedicated to female composers whose lives were and are characterised by courage and emancipation. The Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée, for example, brought about a change in legislation in 1861 so that she could become an organist in Gothenburg - this was preceded by a law in 1860, also initiated by her, which allowed women to become telegraph operators. Fanny Hensel only managed to get some of her works published shortly before her death, in defiance of her father's orders and against the wishes of her brother Felix. Lili Boulanger, one of the sisters for whom the trio is named, was only 19 when she became the first woman to win the coveted 'Prix de Rome' composition prize in Paris in 1913.

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Programme 2

"Ludwigslust - Works by Ludwig van Beethoven"

Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost Trio’ (1808)
Kakadu Variations, Op. 121a (1816)
Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ (1811)

Composed in less than a decade, these three works reveal Beethoven's full range of expressive possibilities and tonal ingenuity. Using only the resources of the piano trio, the works range from intimate chamber music and sophisticated dialogue between the three protagonists to concertante virtuosity and symphonic power. Here Beethoven forges his own artistic path in form and expression, reaching full maturity.

FRANZISKA HÖLSCHER (VIOLIN)
STEPHEN WAARTS (VIOLIN)
ADRIEN LA MARCA (VIOLA)
ANDREI IONITA (CELLO)
DOMINIK WAGNER (DOUBLE BASS)
SEBASTIAN MANZ (CLARINET)
FELIX KLIESER (HORN)
THEO PLATH (BASSOON)

Aleš Pavlorek (born 1971): Divertimento for clarinet, horn and bassoon
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet in G major, Op. 77
Franz Schubert: Octet in F major, D 803

Schubert's Octet for clarinet, horn, bassoon and strings is paired with works by two Czech composers: a string quintet by the best-known and most popular Czech composer and a work for wind trio by an award-winning new voice on the Czech and international music scene – all performed by a superb, hand-picked ensemble!

Periods:
14.11. - 23.11.2025
and
30.01. - 08.02.2026

DANAE & KIVELI DÖRKEN (PIANO)
Programme for piano four hands
From the new album on Berlin Classics

"Apollo & Dionysus"
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in F minor
Manuel de Falla: Dos Danzas 
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 38 No. 6, ‘Duetto’ in A-flat major (arr. Czerny) 
Felix Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 67 No. 2 in F-sharp minor (arr. Czerny) 
Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1-10

A very intimate programme by the German-Greek sisters Danae and Kiveli Dörken, inspired by memories of their youth on the island of Lesbos, when their Greek grandmother would recount stories from Greek mythology during the summer holidays. The juxtaposition of the mythological deities Apollo and Dionysus has for centuries been a symbol of the two extremes in every human being - and this dichotomy runs through their concert programme. According to Greek philosophy, both deities should ideally be consulted by means of an inner dialogue in order to achieve a balanced life.

Programme 1

SEBASTIAN MANZ (CLARINET)
HERBERT SCHUCH (PIANO)
MAXIMILIAN HORNUNG (CELLO)

Nino Rota: Clarinet Trio (1973)
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1
Bohuslav Martinů: Cello Sonata No. 2
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114

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Programm 2

FRANZISKA HÖLSCHER (VIOLIN)
STEPHEN WAARTS (VIOLIN)
ADRIEN LA MARCA (VIOLA)
ANDREI IONITA (CELLO)
DOMINIK WAGNER (DOUBLE BASS)
SEBASTIAN MANZ (CLARINET)
FELIX KLIESER (HORN)
THEO PLATH (BASSOON)

Aleš Pavlorek (born 1971): Divertimento for clarinet, horn and bassoon
Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet in G major, Op. 77
Franz Schubert: Octet in F major, D 803

Schubert's Octet for clarinet, horn, bassoon and strings is paired with works by two Czech composers: a string quintet by the best-known and most popular Czech composer and a work for wind trio by an award-winning new voice on the Czech and international music scene – all performed by a superb, hand-picked ensemble!

Periods:
14.11. - 23.11.2025
and
30.01. - 08.02.2026

Programme 1

SINDY MOHAMED (VIOLA)
JOSÉPHINE OLECH (FLUTE)
ANAÏS GAUDEMARD (HARP)

Théodore Dubois:
- Terzettino for flute, viola and harp
Gabriel Fauré:
- Impromptu, Op.86 for solo harp
- Après un rêve (viola and harp)
- Pavane, Op.50 (flute and harp)
Claude Debussy:
- Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915)
Camille Saint-Saëns:
- Fantasy, Op. 95 for solo harp
- Romance, Op. 37 (flute and harp)
- Fantasy in A major, Op.124 (1907) for viola and harp
- Danse Macabre, Op.16 (arr. for flute, viola and harp by Sylvain Blassel)
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Programme 2

"Legends and Fairy Tales"

JURI VALLENTIN (OBOE)
SINDY MOHAMMED (VIOLA)
AARON PILSAN (PIANO)

August Klughardt: Schilflieder - Five Fantasy Pieces after Poems by Lenau, Op. 28 (oboe, viola and piano)
Robert Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 94 (oboe and piano) & Märchenbilder, Op. 113 (viola and piano)
Charles Martin Loeffler: Deux Rhapsodies - L'Étang & La Cornemuse after poems by Rollinat (oboe, viola and piano)
César Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue (piano solo)
Robert Kahn: Serenade, Op. 73 (oboe, viola and piano)