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Stiftskonzert: Pro Musica VI

Falko Hönisch Falko Hönisch |

Zum wiederholten Male kommt der Tenor und Pädagoge Wolfgang Klose (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock) nun nach Sankt Goar, um sich mit seinen Sängerinnen und Sängern eine Woche ganz der Musik und dem Gesang zu widmen,, umgeben von einer der schönsten und inspirierendsten Gegenden Deutschlands, der Wiege der Romantik, dem Oberen Mittelrheintal.

Passend zur Expertise von Herrn Klose als international renommierter Konzertsänger und zum Ort der Veranstaltung, werden in dem Stiftskonzert am Freitag, den 11. August um 19 Uhr in der Stiftskirche Sankt Goar vornehmlich Werke aus dem Bereich der Liedes und der Kirchenmusik zu hören sein; fein und sensibel musiziert in der schönen Akustik des unterdessen mindestens 1251-jährigen Kirchengebäudes im Herzen Sankt Goars.

PIANO – Prof. Benjamin Moser (Lucerne UASA)

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Teacher: 

Benjamin Moser came to international attention in June 2007 as a prizewinner in the prestigious Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow, in which he received the prize for the best interpretation of Tchaikovsky, as well as the audience prize. In January of that year he also won first prize in the International Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York, as well as eight additional special prizes and recitals in, among other venues, Paris (Gulbenkian Centre), Washington (Kennedy Centre) and New York (Carnegie Zankel Recital Hall).

Since then, Benjamin has performed regularly, both in solo recital, and as soloist with orchestra. These performances include the Tchaikvsky concerto at the Dubrovnik Festival, concertos by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky in the Munich Herkulesaal and in the Alte Oper Frankfurt with the Munich Symphony Orchestra. He performed Rachmaninov’s Paganini Variations with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He played Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie under Andris Nelsons. He has also played this concerto in the Tonhalle Zurich, with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic with conductor Wojciech Rajski, and for the Marienbad Chopin Festival. In addition, he has played concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Grieg and Rachmaninov and recitals with works by Bach through to contemporary composers throughout the US and in Argentina, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.

As guest performer, Benjamin Moser has been invited to many important festivals, including the Bodensee Festival, the Alpenklassik Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Klavierfestival Ruhr (to which he was reinvited six times), and to the YCA chamber music festival in Tokyo and Beijing. 

Concerts in 2015 included 6 Mozart concertos in Japan, the Mozart double concerto with the MDR Radio Orchestra and several others. In March 2016 he played his solo debut recital at the London Wigmore Hall. He also enjoys playing chamber music. He has played several concerts with various ensembles, collaborating with highly-regarded soloists such as Nicolas Altstaedt, Julian Steckel and his brother, Johannes Moser. 

In 2009 Benjamin made his debut recording with a CD of Russian piano music (with works by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Medtner and Prokofiev) with Munich-based label OehmsClassics, to critical acclaim. His second CD with French piano music by Debussy and Ravel was released in 2012, again through OehmsClassics and received excellent reviews. His third album with the final sonatas of Beethoven and Schubert was released in spring 2015 under the AvI Classics label and received rave reviews (among them the Supersonic Award by Pizzicato magazine). His newest CD with works by Gershwin, Wild and Mussorgskij was released in May 2019. 

He recorded Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Bamberg Symphony for the Bavarian radio. Many of his concerts have been recorded by radio stations, by the BR, SWR, RBB, Deutschlandfunk, Radio WQXR New York among others.

The young pianist, born in 1981 in Munich, hails from a family of musicians. He commenced his studies as a teenager at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Munich with Professor Michael Schäfer, before continuing with Professor Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste Berlin.He was also greatly inspired by his work with Dimitry Bashkirov, Fu Tsong, Stanislav Ioudenitch and since 2012 Alfred Brendel in London. During his studies in Berlin he won first prize in the Artur-Schnabel piano competition in Berlin and in 2003 he was a recipient of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes’ scholarship. In 2005 he received the Steinway Prize Berlin. He was also a recipient of scholarships from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the Deutsche Musikrat. 

Since March 2019 Benjamin has been teaching his own piano class as a professor at the Lucerne UASA in Switzerland.

ART SONG “Conteporary Music is not dissonant per se”- Prof. Hendrik Bräunlich (University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” Leipzig)

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Teacher:

Hendrik Bräunlich, was born in Leipzig. Prof. Bräunlich’s pianistic talent, as well as his general involvement in music have been nurtured since early childhood.

From 1986 to 1992 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Music Conservatory) “Felix Mendelssohn Bertholdy” in Leipzig with emphasis on vocal accompaniment, piano solo and instrumental accompaniment.  There, under the tutelage of Maestro Eugen Wangler, he developed a love for the singing voice, and a passion for accompanying it.

From 1992 to 1997 he studied song interpretation in the postgraduate program at the same conservatory with Lied professor and mentor Prof. Karl-Peter Kammerlander,  During this same period he was given the opportunity to work privately with Charles Spencer, with whom he studied most extensively, and Prof. Hartmut Höll – both great lied interpreters. In addition, he accompanied master classes of well-known singers such as Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Schreier, Thomas Hampson and Jakob Stämpfli.  Mr. Stämpli, impressed with his work, invited him to accompany a master class in Sion (Suisse) during the Tibor Varga Festival.

Prof. Bräunlich’s success at the Varga Festival as well as his association with other famous artists led to additional invitations to accompany international singing competitions  such as the Schumann in Zwickau and the Bach in Leipzig. Charles Spencer used his influence to introduce Mr. Bräunlich to world-renowned mezzo-soprano, Christa Ludwig, with whom he became associated for many years – accompanying her master classes in Gumpoldskirchen near Vienna, Wiener Musikverein, Villecroze in France and a national conference of German-speaking singing teachers in Halle/Saale,) to name a few.

Prof. Bräunlich’s accompanying skills were indeed also acknowledged by the fact that he himself became a prize-winner: in 1993 he won the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize in Berlin,  and in the same year, the accompanying prize at the International Singing Competition in Tauberbischofsheim. In 1994 he received an award at the International Brahms Singing Competition in Hamburg, and in the 1997 Deutscher Musikwettbewerb awarded him a scholarship. In 1998 he was prize-winner at the first International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition in Passau.

The attention generated by these German music competitions enabled Prof. Bräunlich to start a concert career.  It also resulted in repeated invitations to accompany the above-mentioned competitions and master classes.

Prof. Bräunlich has recorded for all major German broadcasters. He has also participated in various CD projects, including the first recording of Lieder by Georg Göhler.  Other CD recordings include “Hausmusik bei Schumanns” with the Calmus Vocal Ensemble Leipzig, and the award-winning CD of the clarinetist Nicola Jürgensen.

In 1992 Prof. Bräunlich was offered a permanent full-time teaching position at the Leipzig Conservatory; the association with this institution continues to this day.  The pedagogical commitment he has to his students, and his support of their individual development is obviously enriched by his personal history of performing and accompanying.

In 2005, under the auspices of the ERASMUS exchange program, he was invited – together with Leipzig Conservatory Voice Prof. Dr. Jeanette Favaro-Reuter – to participate in coaching Lieder of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Royal College of Music in London. During this period he also tought during the  Leipzig Summer Courses of Puccini’s “Tosca” as well as master classes of clarinettist Allan Key and Prof. Dr. Favaro-Reuter.

Over the last years Prof. Bräunlich has offered classes, free of charge, at the Leipzig Conservatory with primary emphasis on Piano Lied literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has offered addition classes on topics such as “Robert Schumann´s Lieder” and “Claude Debussy´s Lieder and Chants”.

His involvement with 20th and 21st century Lied has led Prof. Bräunlich to an even greater concentration on contemporary music. In 2022, together with soprano Lisa Fornhammar, he developed a special New Music Program. The theme for the 2023/24 session is “New Music is not per se dissonant”.

Stiftskonzert: „Am Rhein, am sonnigen Rhein!“

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Ein Liederabend mit Werken von Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921) und Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121

Denn es gehet dem Menschen
Ich wandte mich
O Tod, wie bitter bist du
Wenn ich mit Menschen und mit Engelszungen redete

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
Eine Auswahl von Liedern aus seiner Bopparder Zeit:

Herz und Wald (Adelheid Wette)
Geheimnis (Moritz Leiffmann)
Wiegenlied (Elisabeth Ebeling)
Am Rhein (Johann von Wildenradt)
 
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Dichterliebe, Op. 48

Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
Wenn ich in deine Augen seh’
Ich will meine Seele tauchen
Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
Ich grolle nicht
Und wüßten’s die Blumen, die kleinen
Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
Hör ich das Liedchen klingen
Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
Ich hab’ im Traum geweinet
Allnächtlich im Traume
Aus alten Märchen
Die alten, bösen Lieder

Stiftskonzert: Requiem in d-Moll, KV 626

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© Norbert Kotzan

Den Höhepunkt des diesjährigen Mozart-Wochenendes in Sankt Goar stellt die Aufführung des berühmten Requiems in d-Moll, KV 626 in der evangelischen Stiftskirche St. Goar dar.

Dieser berühmte Meilenstein der Musik war Mozarts letzte Komposition und wurde durch seinen Schüler Franz Xaver Süßmayr vollendete. Die Aufführung dieses Werks erlebte Wolfang Amadeus Mozart nicht mehr.

Foyerkonzert: Mozarts Leben – Ein Vortrag mit Musik

Falko Hönisch Falko Hönisch |
Roman Salyutov

Pianist und Dirigent Roman Salyutov referiert mit launigen Texten und musikalischen Beispielen am Flügel über W.A. Mozart. Musikinteressierte können auf diese Weise Einblicke in das Leben eines der wichtigsten Komponisten der Klassik erhalten.

Theaterbus: „Die Eroberung von Mexico“ am Staatstheater Mainz

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© Falko Hönisch

Ein neues Angebot macht die Internationale Musikakademie Sankt Goar und initiiert erstmalig einen Theaterbus, der die Menschen aus dem Oberen Mittelrheintal bequem zu Oper- und Musiktheateraufführungen in der näheren und weiteren Umgebung bringen wird.

Zu außergewöhnlichen Angeboten an verschiedenen Theatern und Opernhäusern, die erlebenswert sind, organisiert die Musikakademie zusätzlich zu den im Oberen Mittelrheintal stattfindenden Konzerten, entsprechende Theaterfahrten.

Zum Anfang dieses neuen Projekts, das das Leben und Wohnen im Oberen Mittelrheintal noch lebenswerter gestalten soll, wird mit einer zeitgenössischen Oper ein besonders mutiger Aufschlag gemacht:

Am 2. April 2023 geht es ins Staatstheater Mainz zur letzten Aufführung der von der Presse umjubelten Produktion „Die Eroberung von Mexico“ von Wolfgang Rihm, in der auch der Leiter der Internationalen Musikakademie Sankt Goar, Falko Hönisch, zu erleben ist.

Foyerkonzert: Du bist wie eine Blume

Falko Hönisch Falko Hönisch |

Anlässlich des Weltfrauentags am 8. März ist die Liedklasse der Hochschule für Musik Mainz mit einem Programm „Du bist wie eine Blume“, das inhaltlich ganz den Damen dieser Welt gewidmet ist, zu Gast in den Foyerkonzerten der Internationalen Musikakademie Sankt Goar im Glasfoyer der Rheinfelshalle.

Auf dem Programm stehen Werke u.a. von Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Hugo Wolf und Sergej Rachmaninoff.

Foyerkonzert: Posaune erschalle!

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Programm:​​

​​​​Gottfried Reich (1667- 1734)
Turmsonate
Adagio
Allegro
Adagio
Andante

​​​Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710- 1736)

Sonate in c-Moll
Allegro stregato
Ninetta
Marcie de pifferai

Carrickfergus​
(traditionelles irisches Volkslied)

Alexandre Guilmant (1837- 1911)
Morceau Symphonic​​, Op. 88 (1902)

​​​Axel Jörgensen (1881-1947)
Romance, Op. 21

PIANO – Prof. Klaus Sticken (Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna)

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Teacher:

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Klaus Sticken is a versatile and distinctive pianist with over 25 years of concert experience. He performs in such venues as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, the Philharmonie in Kiev, the Megaron in Athens, the Konzerthaus in Berlin and the Musikhalle in Hamburg. His successes in the Concours Clara Haskil in Vevey, the Grand Prix Maria Callas in Athens and the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan led, amongst other engagements, to concerts with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre Lausanne, the Ukraine State Orchestra and the Berlin Symphonic and Moscow Symphonic Orchestras. He undertakes concert tours throughout Europe and in the Far East.

His creative engagement with piano music is well displayed in the theme-based recitals for various radio stations, the Deutschlandradio, Radio Suisse Romande and Westdeutsche, Mitteldeutsche and Hessische Rundfunk and others. Sticken also works with experimentally minded partners such as the Kuss Quartet or the author and pianist Cord Garben and tries out new methods of presenting music and text with the poet Oskar Ansull. Recordings for the CD label Thorofon and many radio productions of seldom heard masterpieces by Clementi, Reubke, Strauss, Martin, Honegger, Korngold and Rota provide evidence of the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire.

Through his teachers Vladimir Krainev, Vitaly Margulis, Gyorgy Sebok and Alfred Brendel Klaus Sticken has become familiar with very varied approaches to music. Besides his concert activity serves as a professor of piano at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.