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When she is on the podium, says Joana Mallwitz, she wants to take the audience with her “from the very first note”. This approach has already brought her a remarkably successful career. After holding positions as General Music Director in Erfurt and Nuremberg, she has been Chief Conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since 2023. In her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, she leads us through very different worlds of sound with works by Prokofiev, Hindemith and Ravel. Anna Vinnitskaya will be the soloist in Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a work full of dreamy melancholy and pianistic brilliance.
Artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Joana Mallwitz conductor
Anna Vinnitskaya piano
Programme
Sergei Prokofiev
War and Peace, op. 91: Overture
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in D minor, op. 30
Anna Vinnitskaya piano
Interval
Paul Hindemith
Symphony Mathis der Maler
Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Series A: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
19:15
Series B: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Main Auditorium
37 to 106 €
Introduction
18:15
Series C: Concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Continuity and change
Portrait of the conductor Joana Mallwitz
Sie möchte »das Publikum von der ersten Note an mitnehmen«, wenn sie auf dem Podium steht, sagt Joana Mallwitz. Mit dieser Haltung ist ihr bereits eine glänzende Karriere gelungen. Nun gibt die 38-Jährige ihr Debüt bei den Berliner Philharmonikern.
Biografien
Joana Mallwitz
At the age of 28, Joana Mallwitz became the youngest female general music director in Europe, and was named Conductor of the Year 2019 by Opernwelt magazine. She is Honorary Conductor of the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, recipient of the Bavarian Constitutional Order and the Federal Cross of Merit, the first woman to head a major Berlin orchestra, and is the subject of a documentary film with cinematic release. All this has taken place over less than ten years. “I really want to spend my life making music together with other people,” says Joana Mallwitz.
She is frequently acclaimed for her drive, vigour, energy and charisma. “That’s what interests me," she explains, "that you take your audience on an adventurous journey in every concert.” Joana Mallwitz has been Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since 2023. Last year, her first recording, The Kurt Weill Album, was released by Deutsche Grammophon. In the current season, she is not only making her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, but also with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Anna Vinnitskaya
The question of whether or not she should become a musician never arose for Anna Vinnitskaya. “My parents are both pianists," she explains. "My grandfather was a conductor, my uncle was a successful violinist, winner of the renowned Tchaikovsky Competition – music has simply been part of my life since I was born. It was probably my parents’ wish at the beginning, but after five or six years, the piano was as much a part of my life as breathing or eating.” Today, Anna Vinnitskaya has won acclaim around the world with her virtuosity, poetic depth and tonal nuance.
Born in Novorossiysk in southern Russia, she received her training at the State Rachmaninov Conservatory in Rostov-on-Don before moving to the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 2002 as a master student of Yevgeny Korolyov, who also became her mentor. Seven years later, she became a professor there herself. First prize at the prestigious Concours Reine Elisabeth in Brussels in 2007 and the Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2008 marked the start of her international career. Anna Vinnitskaya made her debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2019. Her recordings have been honoured with awards such as the Diapason d'Or and the Gramophone Editor’s Choice.
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