Just excellent
Joint concert by the Germany Scholarship holders at the Weimar Music University
This year's Germany Scholarship holders at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar will present themselves in a joint concert of excellence. The colourful programme includes works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss and Kurt Weill.
On Friday, 6 June at 6 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, the audience can look forward to arias and duets, solo pieces for accordion, guitar and piano, movements from a violin sonata, a flute quartet and a clarinet quintet, a rhythmic movement performance and much more. Admission to the concert is free.
As a preview of this year's summer theatre programme at the German National Theatre, arias and duets from Mozart's opera ‘The Magic Flute’ will be performed. Thora Müller and Ian Vais will sing, accompanied on the piano by Sofiia Mushtai. Also from Mozart's brilliant pen are the Flute Quartet KV 285 and the Clarinet Quintet KV 581, from which excerpts will be played by various Germany Scholarship holders.
Piano pieces by Franz Schubert will be performed by Kateryna Shapran and Alsa Formich, while organist Michael Stemmer will switch to the harpsichord to accompany violinist Rodrigo Pandorfa-Garrido in Georg Friedrich Händel's Violin Sonata Op. 1 No. 12. The first movement of Johannes Brahms' Piano Trio Op. 8 No. 1 will be performed by Hannah Kim (violin), Antoni Wrona (cello) and Sofiia Mushtai (piano). The programme will be complemented by a rhythmic movement performance by Junpeng Huang, who is studying elementary music education.
Other works include the jazz standard ‘Speak Low’ by Kurt Weill, a duo for clarinet and guitar by Manuel de Falla, and a modern accordion toccata by Ole Schmidt.
Thanks to the active support of foundations, companies and private sponsors, a total of 37 Germany Scholarships have been awarded for the current academic year at the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. The scholarship holders will receive 300 euros per month from October 2024 to September 2025.
The scholarships, half of which are financed by private donors and half by the federal government, are awarded for proven outstanding artistic, pedagogical or scientific achievements before or during studies, or for special achievements. Social commitment and special personal and family circumstances are also taken into account in the selection process.
[20 May 2025]