Debuts in the Festival Hall
Award-winning young musicians give two concerts as part of the Weimar Master Classes
The debut concerts as part of the Weimar Master Classes are a tradition all their own. This year, on Tuesday 25 July at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus, two winners of the last Weimar Spohr Violin Competition will present themselves first: Anton Carus won 1st prize in age category II and Alexandra Weissbecker 1st prize in category III.
Anton Carus was born in California (USA) in 2008 and is a young student at the Munich University of Music and Theatre. He will interpret the "Regenlied" Sonata by Johannes Brahms, which takes its name from the sound effects of the slow movement, and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst's Fantasy on Themes from Rossini's Otello op. 11.
Alexandra Weissbecker, born in Marburg in 2001, received her first violin lessons in Kazan (Russia) at the age of four. In 2019 she moved to Austria to continue her training at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg in the class of Prof. Pierre Amoyal. The young violinist is a prize winner of many international competitions. She will play Sergei Prokofiev's Second Violin Sonata, a rhythmically complex work with a dynamic, stirring effect - and Henryk Wieniawski's virtuoso "Faust Fantasy" op. 20.
Tickets at 15 euros, reduced rate 10 euros, are available at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
Another top-class debut concert awaits the audience on Wednesday, 26 July at 7:30 pm in the Festsaal Fürstenhaus. The former Weimar voice student and countertenor Nils Wanderer, who won 2nd prize in Plácido Doming's important "Operalia" singing competition in 2022, will sing. He will be accompanied on the concert grand piano by the accomplished songstress Teodora Oprisor.
Tickets are also available here at 15 euros, reduced rate 10 euros, at the Tourist Information Weimar and at the box office.
Nils Wanderer is truly a "wanderer between worlds", the title of one of his successful concert programmes. The countertenor is equally at home in the music of the Baroque as in that of the 20th century - and writes his own pop songs. Only recently he was celebrated as the Angel of Death in the musical "Romeo and Juliet" at Berlin's Theater des Westens.
Nils Wanderer now demonstrates his enormous stage presence at his debut concert. He will perform in a duo with the lied composer Teodora Oprisor on the piano, who has also won several prizes in lied competitions and was accepted into the Heidelberg Liedakademie in 2022 under the direction of Thomas Hampson.
The debut concert will open with Purcell's "Music for a while" from his opera "Oedipus", which deals with the power of music as consolation and relief in difficult times. Also on the programme are songs and arias by Georg Friedrich Händel, Franz Schubert, Richard Strauss and Benjamin Britten, among others, under the title "Come away, death".
More information:www.hfm-weimar.de/masterclasses
[24.07.2023]