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The year 2018 was a quite eventful and successful one for us, in which we have travelled with our orchestras to wonderful places in Europe and Asia, enlarged our list of artists by further prestigious ensembles and exciting projects, have found a new home for our office and welcomed new partners and employees. Some of our plans for the first months of 2019:

• The Chamber Orchestra of Europe will return to its former hometown of Berlin in January and March
• The Aga Khan Music Initaitive will present the “Classics of the East” for whole three days in Dortmund
• The Orquestra de Cadaqués will combine Spanish repertoire with Schubert
• musicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis will be touring with Verdi’s Requiem through Western Europe
• Together with the Oberon Trio we are looking forward to the Beethoven Year 2020.

Our office will be closed between 22nd December 2018 and 7th January 2019.

Now, we would like to wish all of you happy holidays and a happy, healthy, successful musical year 2019 – we are looking forward to it!

To us, summer season means festival season! We look forward to attending the Molyvos International Music Festival on the island of Lesbos, presenting the Orchestra of the Deutschen Oper Berlin at the Ravello Festival, and travelling with musicAeterna, Europa Galante and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra to the Musikfest Bremen. Kremerata Baltica offers a multimedia concert expreience at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and La Folia Barockorchester Dresden invites the audience to the circus as part of the Musikfest Erzgebirge.

Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) 

Between 16 and 19 August, the Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) transforms the magical old town of Molyvos, located in northern Lesbos, into a musical center of international chamber music. Under the motto “Genesis” , festival founders Danae and Kiveli Dörken will bring together around 20 musicians from all over the world, who will gather to form exclusive ensembles during this time and perform in various formations at Molyvos Castle and at selected venues in the Old Town. In addition to the two pianists, Lars Vogt, Benedict Klöckner, Sebastian Manz, Maximilian Hornung und Sarah Christian will also perform.

16 – 19  August 2018, Molyvos International Music Festival, Molyvos

8 – 12 August 2018, Preactivities in different venues on the island of Lesbos

Ravello Festival

Maintaining the tradition of Wagnerian performance practice is an important cornerstone in the artistic profile of the Deutsche Oper. Numerous recordings and performances, as well as the fact that many orchestral members perform every summer in the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival, bear impressive testimony to this. The Ravello Festival is also closely linked to the composer: in memory of Wagner’s stay in this city of the arts in 1880, the festival was founded in 1952 as an annual homage to the composer and his epochal body of work. With an all Wagner program, the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin will present the final concert of this year’s festival.

Donald Runnicles (conductor) /  Allison Oakes (soprano) /  Annika Schlicht (mezzo-soprano) / Attilio Glaser (tenor) / Thomas Lehman (baritone)

25  August 2018, Ravello Festival 2018, Belvedere di Villa Rufolo

Musikfest Bremen

or almost 30 years now, the Musikfest Bremen has presented a program that is as varied as it is qualitatively outstanding, presenting operas, symphonic music, choral concerts, chamber music and solo evenings alongside experimental music, jazz and world music, featuring performers whose individual interpretations – whether traditionally or contemporary – consistently captivate audiences. The music festival opens with “Eine große Nachtmusik” ( “A Great Night Music” at various venues around the Bremen market square. The symphonic highlight of the opening evening will be Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna performing the three Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 7.

After their great success at the Music Festival Opening in 2016, Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi return to Bemen with two concert programs: On September 11, the Early Music specialists trace the steps of musical European Migrants during the Baroque period; on September 15, they will present Rossini’s late masterpiece Petite Messe solennelle in the St. Petri Dom. Another festival highlight is the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, which on the 12 and 13 of September will perform “Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” under the musical direction of René Jacobs

25 August 2018, Die Glocke – Teodor Currentzis, musicAeterna: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67  / Symphony No. 6 in F major op. 68 “Pastorale” / Symphony No. 7  in A major op. 92

11 September 2018, St. Florian Kirche Sillenstede – Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante: “European Migrants” works by M. Mascitti, G.F. Handel, F. Geminiani, J. Myslivecek, V. Martín y Soler a.o.

15 September 2018, St. Petri Dom – Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante, Annya Pinto (soprano) / Olga Syniakova (mezzo-sprano) / Matheus Pompeu (tenor) / Arturo Espinosa (bass) / Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana: G. Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle

12, 13 September 2018, St. Marienkirche Friesoythe and Stadttheater Bremen – René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester, Sunhae Im (soprano) / Robin Johannsen (soprano) / Benno Schachtner (countertenor) / Thomas Walker (tenor): G.F. Handel: “Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno” HWV 46aa

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival

Gidon Kremer has always been open to experiments, and he is bringing a typically innovative and exciting project to the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Kremer will perform with his ensemble Kremerata Baltica in a program where works for violin and orchestra by Robert Schumann and Karlheinz Stockhausen meet the pebble sculptures of  Nazir Ali Badr and the multimedia art of Sandro Kancheli.

14 and 15 August 2018, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival – Robert Schumann: Fugues on B.A.C.H. op. 60, Nos. 4, 5 and 6 (version for strings by Paul Angerer) / Violin Concerto in A minor after the Cello Concerto op. 129 (arr.René Koering) / “Images d’Orient”project with visuals”: Robert Schumann: “Bilder aus Osten”, op. 66 (arr. Friedrich Herrmann) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) Melodies from “Zodiac” (arr. Andrei Pushkarev) to be performed with images of stone art by Nizar Ali Badr, animation by Sandro Kancheli, with the participation of Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica

Musikfest Erzgebirge

To this day, the circus exerts a unique fascination on people of all ages. The combination of acrobatic artistry, trained animals and clowns, along with mystery, slapstick and magic also make him a longing in the digital age – a place of longing that, like so many others, would be unimaginable without music. At this year’s Musikfest Erzgebirge, the La Folia Barockorchester Dresden sets out to present the circus in as original a form as possible, combining the late baroque sound world of the 18th century with a sophisticated artistry program of circus artistry in a mirrored tent in the historic market place of Annaberg-Buchholz in a mirrored tent. The program, by Director Tim Schneider and the Musical Director Robin Peter Müller, will be presented two times performances a day between 7 and 11 September, with the premiere on 6 September opening the Musikfest Erzgebirge.

6 – 11 September 2018, Musikfest Erzgebirge – “Barocke Zirkusträume” with works by G. F. Handel, J. A. Hasse, A. Vivaldi, J.-P. Rameau o.a.

On June 27, 2018 CEO Andreas Richter was a live guest on the TV show “Der Tag”. With DW presenter Tina Gerhäusser he spoke about the international orchestra world. Unfortunately available in German only.

“The music was glowing, crisp and, when called for, impetuous and fiery.”
(The New York Times about “Idomeneo” in New York in August 2016) 

The Freiburger Baroque Orchestra (FBO) enriches the international music scene for 30 years. Always looking out for new ways in artistic questions, the FBO counts as one of the most important pioneers of the European orchestral world. René Jacobs, one of its most important partners, conducts Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” in concert version in Seoul, Shanghai and at Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt. The opera is a cornerstone of the repertoire offering an unknown perfection between music and words. When first performed, the audience was so enthusiastic that almost every aria had to be repeated. Famous characters will be performed by Mr. Jacobs’ favorite soloists.

6th, 7th July 2018, LOTTE Concert Hall (Seoul): “Le Nozze di Figaro” (concert version)

9th July 2018, Shanghai Grand Theatre: “Le Nozze di Figaro” (concert version)

13th, 14th July 2018, Esterházy Palace (Eisenstadt): “Le Nozze di Figaro” (concert version)

René Jacobs (conductor), Arttu Kataja (Il Conte di Almaviva) / Sophie Karthäuser (La Contesssa di Almaviva) / Sunhae Im (Susanna) / Robert Gleadow (Figaro) / Olivia Vermeulen (Cherubino) / Salomé Haller (Marcellina) / Thomas Walker (Don Curzio, Basilio) / Marcos Fink (Bartolo, Antonio) / Mirella Hagen (Barbarina) / Freiburger Baroque Orchestra / The National Choir of Seoul

Find out more about the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra here.

How migration within Europe has enriched the music history of the 17th and 18th century, can be experienced with Europa Galante’s and Fabio Biondi’s porgramme “European Migrants”. The orchestera is going to open this year’s Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouc and performs in July for the first time at Herrenchiemsee Festspielen.

08th June 2018, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci

27th July 2018, Herrenchiemsee Festspiele

In 2016 Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico published their theme-album  “Serpent & fire” featuring arias about the life, love and sorrow of the queens Cleopatra and Dido. The Guardian called it “another stunner”.  This year’s Festivo Festival’s opener and invited to the Rheingau Musik Festival.

26th July 2018, Festivo Aschau
07th August 2018, Rheingau Musik Festival

The Freiburger Barockorchester (FBO) enriches the international music scene for 30 years. Always looking out for new ways in artistic and organizational questions, the FBO counts as one of the most important pioneers of the European orchestral world. The 30th anniversary is going to be celebrated with a special concert series in Berlin, Stuttgart and Freiburg. With René Jacobs, one of its most important partners, the FBO is travelling to Shanghai and Seoul in July.

We sincerely congratulate them and look forward to joining all of the celebrations!

11th June 2018, Philharmonie Berlin “30 Jahre FBO”
12th June 2018, Liederhalle Stuttgart “30 Jahre FBO”
13th, 14th June 2018, Konzerthaus Freiburg “30 Jahre FBO”
6th, 7th July 2018, LOTTE Concert Hall (Seoul): “Le Nozze di Figaro”
9th July 2018, Shanghai Grand Theatre: “Le Nozze di Figaro”

“You don’t need much, to form an ensemble for historical performance practice. In 2007, a troop of young, maybe crazy (or even insane?) musicians met up to create joyfully some noise. We secluded us in an old factory building, we played and experimented, we studied the repertoire and its sources, had lots of fun – but, what was most important: we looked out for our own style.”

Since their foundation in 2007 the La Folia Barockorchester on period instruments vitalises the international music scene. Whether in a chamber music instrumentation or with baroque opulence, whether with instrumental music or together with vocal soloist – the aspiring young orchestra under the direction of the violinist Robin Peter Müller  stands for energetic and overwhelming interpretations of the music from the 17th and 18th century.

Kremerata Baltica, an educational project with a long-term vision, was Gidon Kremer’s  50th birthday present to himself – a way of passing on his wisdom to young colleagues while making no compromises on artistic standards as he nurtured and inspired musical life in the region. The talented group of musicians developed in several years into one of the best international chamber orchestras in the world and has assured its international reputation in major concert venues around the world.

At first glance, they could not be more different from each other: the introvert and publicity-shy Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov and the Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis, famous for his extrovert way of conducting and flamboyant performance, that created the most outstanding ensemble musicAeterna of Perm Opera. In November 2017 at the latest, everyone could nonetheless witness the deep connection between two exceptional artistic personalities. “It is unbelievable, how the dynamic orchestra picked up details of certain motives and how the musicians brought an idea of turbulence to the movement”, was the judgment of Gerd Hoffmann.

From on 10th of April 2018, Melnikov, Currentzis and musicAeterna began another tour leading them to important European concert halls. Starting at Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the tour continued in Hannover, Milan, Vienna, Hamburg, Duesseldorf and Frankfurt am Main. The orchestra also debuted at the legendary Scala of Milano and the renowned Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. 

The repertoire contained works by Mozart and Beethoven, the most important representatives of the Viennese classical area. In 2014, Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna presented their milestone recording of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, highly acclaimed by public and press. The opera’s overture opened the evening, followed by Mozart’s Piano Concerto K 453 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.

10th of April 2018: Het Concertgebouw

11th of April 2018: Tivoli Vredenburg

13th of April 2018: Kuppelsaal im HCC Hannover

14th of April 2018: Alte Oper Frankfurt

16th of April 2018: La Scala di Milano

18th of April 2018: Konzerthaus Wien

20th of April 2018: Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

21st of April 2018: Tonhalle Düsseldorf

It’s been a long time since B’Rock was just a baroque orchestra. In recent years it has also gained ground in the classical, romantic and contemporary repertoires. Togehter with its spiritus rector René Jacobs the ensemble has set up a new long-term project: performances of Schubert’s complete symphonies, starting with the first and sixth symphonies – a youthful pairing in which Schubert both honours and emulates the illustrious legacy of his Viennese predecessors. The first and sixth symphonies by this master orchestrator are alternated with arias by Mozart performed by the soprano Robin Johannsen.

Th 08.03.18 SCHUBERT – MOZART, Toulouse, Grands Interprètes

Sa 10.03.18 SCHUBERT – MOZART, Gent, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke

Su 11.03.18 SCHUBERT – MOZART, Frankfurt, Alte Oper Frankfurt

Sa 17.03.18 SCHUBERT – MOZART, Innsbruck, MusikPlus Festival

Mo 19.03.18 SCHUBERT – MOZART, Friedrichshafen, Kulturamt Friedrichshafen

René Jacobs über das Schubert-Projekt

We are very much looking forward to new exciting concert projects beteween February and Mai 2018: B’Rock, Il Giardino Armonico and musicAeterna are going to perform with outstanding conductors and soloists in fascinationg venues in Europe. Also Finnish Baroque Orchestra features a real royal programme!

Find more details in our Newsletter.

If you want to be part of our list, let us know by sending a mail at: info@andreasrichter.berlin