Boulanger Trio from Germany will come to perform and have a class at Saigon Chamber Music 2019 from July 6 to 14. (Photo courtesy of SMC) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Atrio of classical musicians from Germany will perform to open Saigon ChamberMusic (SCM) 2019 shows at the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory on July 7.
The Boulanger Trio includesviolinist Birgit Erz, cellist Ilona Kindt and pianist Karla Haltenwanger.
The musicians will bring an emotional performance of European music fromthe gentle melodies of Clara Schumann in Germany to the Slavic rhythms ofAntonin Dvorak's music.
This year would have beencomposer Clara Schumann's 200th birthday.
The talented pianist and composerwas less renowned than her husband Robert Schumann, one of the bestknown composers of the Romantic era, largely due to her desire to stay out ofthe limelight.
“PianoTrio is a beautiful melodic work written for the private soiréeswhich where so fashionable at the time,” said Kindt. “The work has accompaniedus for all our trio career - it was the first work we ever recorded in a studioin 2008.”
Two other pieces will be Litaniae by Swiss-Russian composerPaul Juon and Piano Trio byCzech composer Antonin Dvorak to close the concert.
The trio was established in 2006and is based in Hamburg and Berlin. Over the years the threehave gained an excellent reputation in the world of chamber music.
The German newspaper Die Welt described a performance ofthe Boulanger Trio as “irresistible” whilst composer Wolfgang Rihm wrote in aletter: “To be interpreted in this way is surely the great dream of every composer”.
The trio released 8 CDs and haveplayed prestigious stages like the Vienna Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie concerthall in Hamburg, and Wigmore Hall of London.
The trio visited Vietnam for thefirst time last October to perform with Vietnam National SymphonyOrchestra in Hanoi and in HCM City.
The musicians will also hold aclass with students of the SCM 2019.
"It makes us very happy toshare our love for music and our experience with the students. It’s sowonderful that this works despite our different languages and differentcultural backgrounds since music remains the same language everywhere in the world," Kindtsaid.
SMC is a summer camp aiming atmusical inspirational experiences, especially in the chamber genre for youngpeople.
It was founded in 2014 originallyby Norwegian project Transposition Programme for classical music development.
This year, SCM is being co-heldby HCM Conservatory’s Centre for Music Talent and the Goethe Institute.-VNS/VNA
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