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Ivan Repušić, chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, is celebrated for his emotional, gripping style. This season, he directs the Karajan Academy for the first time, presenting a varied programme with the young musicians. An early classical symphony by JS Bach’s son Johann Christian meets the Notturno by the young Arnold Schönberg, a work still very much in the late Romantic tradition. Pierre Boulez mourns the death of Igor Stravinsky in his Mémoriale, while Friedrich Gulda’s Cello Concerto and Darius Milhaud's Le Boeuf sur le toit are full of musical humour.
Artists
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Ivan Repušić conductor
Tatu Kauppinen cello
Programme
Johann Christian Bach
Sinfonia in B flat major, op. 18 No. 2
Friedrich Gulda
Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra
Tatu Kauppinen cello
Interval
Pierre Boulez
Mémoriale (...explosante fixe ... Originel)
Arnold Schoenberg
Notturno für Solo-Violine, Harfe und Streicher
Darius Milhaud
Le Bœuf sur le toit, fantasy for orchestra, op. 58
Chamber Music Hall
11 to 29 €
Introduction
18:15
Biographies
Ivan Repušić
It was his enthusiasm for musical theatre that brought Ivan Repušić to conducting; he loved “everything that has to do with the voice, especially choral music,” he explains. The Croatian “team player among conductors” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) has been praised for his energy, enthusiasm and precision. Repušić, who trained at the Academy of Music in Zagreb and with Jorma Panula and Gianluigi Gelmetti, was assistant to Donald Runnicles at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He began his career at the Croatian National Theatre in Split. In 2011 he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Puccini’s La bohème, going on to conducted works such as Lucia di Lammermoor, Macbeth, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, Tosca, Turandot, Carmen and Tannhäuser as first permanent guest conductor.
Repušić was First Kapellmeister and General Music Director at the Staatsoper Hannover and now makes guest appearances at major opera houses across Europe. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, he became chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, where he soon won wide acclaim for his cycle of early and rarely-performed Verdi operas such as Luisa Miller, I due Foscari and Attila. This season, Repušić will take up the post of chief conductor with the Staatskapelle Weimar; and next season, he joins the Leipzig Opera as general music director.
Tatu Kauppinen
Tatu Kauppinen, who joined the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Karajan Academy in February 2023, loves the versatile sound of the cello “from the lowest notes of the lower register to the high registers of the upper strings," he says. "And the middle register sounds as if someone is talking to you; it's very human.” The Helsinki-born musician studied at the Sibelius Academy with Marko Ylönen. In 2022, the year he completed his bachelor’s degree, he not only won first prize, but also the audience prize and a special prize at the national Finnish cello competition in Turku, making him one of the most celebrated young cellists in his home country.
In addition to his training at the Karajan Academy with Martin Löhr, Tatu Kauppinen is currently studying at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre with Natalie Clein. He has also attended masterclasses with Arto Noras, Ola Karlsson and Nils Mönkemeyer. Kauppinen has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and the Joensuu City Orchestra. He has performed as a chamber musician at various festivals, including the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence and the Naantali Music Festival in Finland.
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