Sun, Nov. 12, 2023, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
Darius Milhaud: "Suite d'après Corrette" op. 161b for oboe, clarinet and bassoon
Ernst Krenek: "Alpbach Quintet" op. 180 for wind quintet and percussion
Alexander Zemlinsky: Humoreske (Rondo) school piece for wind quintet
Francis Poulenc: Sextuor for wind quintet and piano
Manuela Tyllack
Guilherme Filipe Sousa
Christian Seibold
Fabian Lachenmaier
Jan Polle
Jesper Tjærby Korneliusen
Volker Krafft
Even as a child, Manuela Tyllack, who was born in Hamburg in 1968, loved the beautiful sound of the flute; at the age of ten she received her first lessons on the instrument. At 15 her teacher became Michael Bardeli, then a flutist in the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, who was a profound influence and awakened her wish to become an orchestra musician. A first prize at the “Jugend musiziert” competition and other awards paved the way for her studies with Karlheinz Zoeller at the Berlin University of the Arts, followed by a scholarship of the Karajan Academy from 1992 to 1994. During these two years, she was taught by Andreas Blau and was able to join concerts and tours of the Berlin Philharmonic in North America, Japan, Israel and Europe. In 1994 Manuela Tyllack was appointed to her first principal flute job in Lübeck, followed by the engagement as associate principal flute at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 1996.
Guilherme Filipe Costa e Sousa was born in Coimbra, Portugal. He completed his bachelor of music in oboe performance after studies with Ricardo Lopes at the Escola de Música e Artes do Espectáculo in Porto. He then completed a master of music degree with Diethelm Jonas at the Lübeck Music Academy. Both as a soloist and chamber musician, Guilherme Sousa has won various competitions, including first prizes at the music competition of the Portuguese Radio RTP “Prémio Jovens Músicos” in the solo and chamber music category, the first prize at the National Wind Instrument Competition in Terras de La-Sallete, the second prize at the 51st Possehl Music Award and the third prize at the 5th Józef Ciepłucha International Oboe Competition in Łódź, Poland. In Portugal, he was named Musical Newcomer of the Year in 2013. From 2015 to 2017 he was a member of the orchestral academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing concerts in Germany and abroad under conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Kent Nagano and Sir John Elliot Gardiner. In 2017 Guilherme Sousa was appointed associate principal oboe at the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He then became principal oboist of the Düsseldorf Symphonic Orchestra at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein from 2017 to 2020. In 2020 he won the position of principal oboist at the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Christian Seibold was born in Waiblingen, Baden-Württemberg, in 1966. He enrolled as a junior student at the Munich Music Academy at the age of 17, studying with Gerd Starke from 1982 to 1989. After an engagement at the Frankfurt Opera, he joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra as an E-flat clarinettist in 1993. His orchestral activities have taken him to internationally renowned orchestras, such as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Gürzenich Orchestra, where he has performed under such conductors as Valery Gergiev, Giuseppe Sinopoli and Wolfgang Sawallisch. He also makes regular guest appearances at major opera houses, e.g. the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Cologne Opera, Essen Opera and Hanover State Opera. In addition to his orchestral work, he has long been an active piano accompanist. Alongside his love for opera and art song, he also has a passion for jazz. In 2005 he founded the “Philharmonic Clowns” together with Larry Elam (trumpet), and they can be heard regularly with popular jazz standards throughout Hamburg. Another important focus for Seibold is chamber music. He has performed with various ensembles at such events as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, in Hitzacker and the Waldhaus Concerts in Flims, Switzerland. The clarinettist also teaches at the Hamburg Conservatory and serves as a juror for the federal competition “Jugend musiziert”. He has coached the wind section of various youth orchestras, such as the Albert Schweitzer Youth Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Hamburg University, and teaches at various summer academies.
Fabian Lachenmaier, born in the Eifel region, studied with Albrecht Holder and Ulrich Hermann at the Würzburg Academy of Music, graduating with a diploma and distinction in 2009. During this time he became a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the International Ensemble Modern Academy. During the 2009/10 season he was an intern at the SWR Symphony Orchestra. He joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra in 2010. As a chamber musician, he has been involved in productions with Ensemble Kontraste in Nürnberg for the Bavarian Radio and ZDF/Arte.
Jan Polle was born in Limburg in 1997. He first began taking horn lessons at the Limburg Music School at the age of eight. From October 2012 to September 2015 he was a junior student of Esa Tapani at the Frankfurt am Main Academy of Music and Performing Arts. There, he also began his bachelor studies in 2015. Jan Polle was a winner of the competition “Jugend musiziert” several times, including a prize at the federal level in 2012. He took master courses with Johannes Hinterholzer, the ensemble German Brass and Ensemble Modern (“epoch f”). From 2018 to 2020 Jan Polle was a member of the Kassel State Orchestra’s academy. He also gained professional experience as a substitute principal horn player at the State Orchestra of Lower Saxony in Hanover and elsewhere. Jan Polle has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2020 and has been deputy principal horn since 2022.
Jesper Tjærby Korneliusen was born in Copenhagen in 1972. He studied with Bent Lylloff at the Royal Danish Music Conservatory. From 1996 to 1999 he was a member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, where he played under conductors including Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Franz Welser-Möst, Seiji Ozawa and Semyon Bychkov. He began his career as principal timpanist of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Southern Westphalia; since 2004 he has been principal timpanist of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Here, he received the Eduard Söring Prize in 2005. Since 2017 Jesper Tjærby Korneliusen has also played regularly in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
Birthplace:
Tubingen, Germany
Studies:
Conducting and piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig as well as conducting, pianoforte and harpsichord at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam
Prizes:
First Prize at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition together with Dominik Köninger (2011)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Solo repetitor since the 2012/13 season, additionally musical assistant to the General Music Director (since the 2017/18 season)
Repertoire:
Focus on the German repertoire (Wagner, Strauss etc.), Italian repertoire, Mozart; special predilection for song and chamber music
Career Stages:
Musikalische Komödie/Oper Leipzig, Theater Hagen, Royal Opera Covent Garden London
Stages:
Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Aldeburgh Festival, Oper Leipzig, Theater Hagen, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, National Concert Hall Dublin, Mozartfest Würzburg, Opéra de Lille, Wigmore Hall London, et al.
Cooperation with orchestras:
Member of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, collaboration with Concerto Köln, Accademia Bizzantina, et al.
The 1st chamber concert of the season takes you on a musical journey through the 20th century - and nonchalantly into what is probably the most sensual (music) history lesson. The music of the 20th century oscillated between impressionism and expressionism, between sweet sensuality and brittle wonder: Darius Milhaud, Ernst Křenek, Alexander Zemlinsky and Francis Poulenc are children as well as artists of a zeitgeist which, in the face of social upheavals and political abysses, demanded as well as promoted a music of resistance, reflection and diversion. Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc found fertile ground for their ideas in Paris, where they joined the Groupe des Six. This cheeky group of artists in the 1920s dared to break out of the grandiose clichés of pre-World War I music and propagated the departure to a music of everyday life, of small forms and prosaic gestures. Milhaud's Suite for Three Winds was written for theater: For a production of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The multicolored, intoxicating Sextuor of the sound magician Poulenc, on the other hand, makes the highest demands on the virtuosity of the musicians and not only demands the pleasure of chamber music interaction, but also promotes the lyrical potential of new music. From Paris we move to the avant-garde and to Ernst Křenek, whose Œuvre reflects the great stylistic arc of the 20th century. The instrumentation alone of his Alpbach Quintet op. 180, written in exile in California, shows the composer's courage to explore new forms and colors. A composition of expressive melodies, contrapuntal percussion sounds and an extraordinary musical gesture. The Humoreske by Alexander Zemlinsky shows that music can be not only an expression but also a refuge. Contrary to what the title of the work suggests, the conditions under which it was written were by no means humorous. Alexander Zemlinsky had to flee to the USA as a Jewish artist. There he died in 1942, impoverished and forgotten, in the state of New York. The year before, he had written his Humoreske as a didactic commission for wind quintet - his last instrumental piece. It is a humorous rondo as an adieu to the world.
Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
Prices: € 28,00 / 20,00 / 14,00 / 10,00
