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The music world owes a great debt of gratitude to clarinettist Anton Stadler. After all, he inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to write a clarinet quintet which, with its yearning melodies, is one of the most beautiful works of chamber music. In turn, our Composer in Residence Wolfgang Rihm, who died in July , wrote his Four Studies for a clarinet quintet for the clarinettist and composer Jörg Widmann. According to Widmann, Rihm “understood and sensed the essence of our marvellous instrument like very few others”. Andraž Golob, bass clarinettist with the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2021, will present the two works together with colleagues.
Artists
Harry Ward violin
Angelo de Leo violin
Tobias Reifland viola
Solène Kermarrec cello
Andraž Golob clarinet
Programme
Wolfgang Rihm
Four Studies for a clarinet quintet
Interval
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
Additional information
In co-operation with Berliner Festspiele
Chamber Music Hall
11 to 29 €
Introduction
16:30
Series Q: Philharmonic Chamber Music
Biographies
Harry Ward
Harry Ward studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and the Robert McDuffie Centre for Strings in the USA. From 2018 to 2020, the violinist also trained at the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).
Harry Ward was supported by a scholarship from Musica Viva Australia's Futuremaker programme, where he was mentored by leading artists, directors and advisors from various fields. The winner of numerous competitions, he is in demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2021, he moved to Berlin to become a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2023, Harry Ward was accepted into the orchestra's first violin section.
Angelo de Leo
Angelo de Leo received his first violin lessons at the age of six. Five years later, he became a junior student at the Stuttgart University of Music, where he founded the De Leo Quartet with fellow students. From 2011, he studied in Lübeck with Thomas Brandis; in 2015, he continued his training in Berlin with Antje Weithaas and at the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
De Leo, who has won multiple prizes at international competitions, began an extensive concert career as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the philharmonic orchestras in Freiburg and Lübeck, among others. He has been a member of the Berlin Philharmonic's second violins since 2018.
Tobias Reifland
Tobias Reifland has been playing the viola since the age of seven, choosing the instrument because of its dark, warm sound. He studied at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and successfully completed his training in Munich in January 2020 with a masterclass certificate.
A winner of multiple awards at international compeitions, Reifland also attended masterclasses with Atar Arad, Nobuko Imai, Barbara Westphal and Tabea Zimmermann. He received further musical inspiration at the Kronberg Academy, the Detmold Summer Academy and the Accademia Musicale di Chigiana in Siena. After a two-year engagement as principal violist in the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tobias Reifland joined the Berliner Philharmoniker in September 2022.
Solène Kermarrec
Solène Kermarrec comes from Brest (France) and completed her cello studies at three renowned institutions: the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique in Paris with Jean-Marie Gamard, the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest with Miklós Perényi, and the Berlin University of the Arts in the class of Wolfgang Boettcher.
She has won several prizes, including first prize at the Domenico Gabrielli Competition in 2003. Since January 2007, Solène Kermarrec has been a member of the cello section of the Berliner Philharmoniker, and thus also of the internationally-successful ensemble of 12 cellists, and she also plays in the Venus Ensemble Berlin.
Andraž Golob
Andraž Golob studied clarinet at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with Gerald Pachinger and Bertram Egger. Born in Slovenia, he also attended masterclasses with Matthias Schorn, Andreas Schablas and Kilian Herold. His desire to make music together with others and his fascination with orchestral literature lead him to pursue a career as an orchestral musician.
A winner of multiple prizes of international competitions, he gained his first orchestral experience through freelance work with various orchestras, as a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, and as a member of the academy member of the Vienna Philharmonic. Andraž Golob has been bass clarinettist with the Berliner Philharmoniker since October 2021.
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