Sun, Feb. 25, 2024, 11.00 am | Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall
Johann Strauss: "Treasure Waltz" op. 418 arranged by Anton Webern
Arnold Schönberg: Scherzo in F major for string quartet
Johann Strauss: "Wine, women and song" op. 333 arranged by Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg: Presto C major for string quartet
Johann Strauss: "Roses from the south" op. 388 arranged by Arnold Schoenberg
Gustav Mahler: Piano quartet movement in A minor
Karol Szymanowski: Streichquartett Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 37
Daria Pujanek
Piotr Pujanek
Yitong Guo
Arne Klein
Rupert Burleigh
Gottlieb Wallisch
Daria Pujanek was born in Poznan, Poland. She studied in her hometown with Janusz Purzycki and Michal Grabarczyk, in Berlin with Ilan Gronich and in Dresden with Jörg Faßmann, completing her studies with distinction. She complemented her training by attending master courses with Felix Andrievsky and Krzysztof Wegrzyn and others, as well as Thomas Brandis, who was a lasting influence. Daria Pujanek is the winner of several competitions. From 2003 to 2005 she held a scholarship of the Paul Hindemith Foundation in Berlin. She gathered orchestral experience as a concertmaster of the Young Chamber Opera Cologne, in the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and at the Kammerakademie Potsdam. In 2007 she became a member of the Bremen Philharmonic; in 2009 she joined the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
A native of Poland, Piotr Pujanek studied with Bartosz Bryła in Poznan and completed a concert degree at the Berlin University of the Arts, where Ilan Gronich was his teacher. He attended master courses with Thomas Brandis, Kolja Blacher, Christian Tetzlaff and Igor Oistrach. In 2003 he received the Encouragement Award at the Gerhard Taschner Competition in Berlin. He gathered experience as an orchestral musician playing with the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Yitong Guo was born in Lanzhou, China and raised in Beijing. He studied at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music in New York, at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He currently continues his concert degree studies at the Hamburg Academy of Music and Theatre. His teachers and mentors include Thomas Riebl, Pinchas Zukerman, Hartmut Rohde, Anna Kreetta, Patinka Kopec, Samuel Rhodes. Yitong Guo has won the first prize at the International Clara Schumann Competition, the second prize at the Hudson Valley String Competition, the fifth place at the International Max Rostal Competition and the Young Artist Award from Canada’s National Arts Centre. He has appeared at the Ravinia Festival and the Yellow Barn Festival and participated in the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove and the Seiji Ozawa International Academy. Since 2020 he has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
Arne Klein was born in 1960 and began playing the cello when he was six. Like many children, he played as a hobby, without great ambition. Only shortly before graduating from secondary school did the wish to make more of this hobby arise. Arne Klein studied with Wolfgang Mehlhorn at the Hamburg Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in 1990. One year before, he had already been engaged by the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra. Even during his student days, but also within orchestral life, Arne Klein has always enjoyed playing in smaller chamber music formations. Working on chamber music works independently is a welcome change from orchestral playing. The sensitive communication demanded of the individual musicians as they pursue their common goal is a great challenge leading to wonderful results.
Birthplace:
London, England
Studies:
Piano, Conducting und Musicology with Prof. Hamish Milne at Royal Academy of Music London (1984-1989); solo class Prof. David Wilde at University of Music and Drama Hanover (1989-1994)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera
Director of Studies since 2010/11
Career stages:
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (1998-2000), Director of Studies and Director opera studio at Oper Köln (2000-2010), guest at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2017), lecturer at Hochschule für Musik Hamburg (since 2013)
Cooperation with orchestras:
Arion Orchestra London, Gürzenich Orchester Köln
In the 4th chamber concert, things get very lively and varied, just like in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century: soulful waltz sounds meet the joy of experimentation of the Second Viennese School, late Romanticism meets Young Poland. Completely different composers, each with their own unique sound language, yet all revolving around the spirit and expression of the Fin de Siècle. Yet the expression hints at more than just the impending calendrical change from the 19th to the 20th century; the spirit of the turn of the century is a turbulent one: Romanticism is ending, and with it a musical attitude that had basically been in effect for 100 years is decaying. Suddenly new perceptions, ideas and visions reveal themselves and from them new styles are formed: symbolism, art nouveau, impressionism, aestheticism and last but not least the avant-garde. A time of contradiction - and surprises. For who would have thought that Anton Weber, one of the leading avant-gardists of his time, was a great refiner of salon music? However, arranging Johann Strauss Sohn's Schatzwalzer did not arise solely from his own musical interest. Arrangements of this kind were primarily intended to ensure the survival of Schönberg's "Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen" (Society for Private Musical Performances). That art is sometimes subject not only to artistic ideals, but also to commercial constraints, Arnold Schönberg had to recognize very early on. Thus he took his compositional destiny into his own hands with the founding of the Musikverein, and after the First World War found there a kind of refuge for the ideology of chamber music sound. Large orchestral works often failed not only because of changing public tastes, but also because of feasibility in the face of diminishing cultural funding. Thus, Schönberg, Webern and Berg made a virtue out of necessity and, for example, took on the works of Johann Strauss, the great son of the city of Vienna. The result was waltz arrangements and their own compositions, which were by no means music for a specific purpose, but quite the opposite: a joy of lightness and experimentation springs from them. The attempt to bring the sentimental heart of the musical city of Vienna very carefully up to the pulse of modernity succeeded in a masterly way.
Venue: Elbphilharmonie, Recital Hall, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 4, 20457 Hamburg
Prices: € 28,00 / 20,00 / 14,00 / 10,00
