“Diverse, colorful and personal, that’s what our festival will be,” promises director Nadja Kayali, “we invite you to music that touches the heart and literature that inspire the spirit.”
Vienna/ Salzburg/ Graz/ Carinthia (OTS) – With 46 events, concerts, talks and readings every day between July 6 and August 4, Carinthian Summer 2024 is more intense than ever. The series of events begins and ends with performances by the new man Festival Orchestra, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO). The opening concert Long live music! under the direction of Portuguese director Joana Carneiro die Music by Romantic composers and a premiere by Hannah Eisendle. American pianist Claire Huangci is the soloist in Clara Schumann’s piano concerto. The RSO Vienna presents itself as a festival orchestra in all its diversity with the final concert under the direction of the Briton Wayne Marshall: The great concerto Music from The Stars with George Gershwins Rhapsody in blue and legendary film music by John Williams, the festival ends on August 4 in Villach.
New music prominently represented by a full-length premiere by Bernhard Lang with the Vienna Platypus Ensemble, a premiere by Beat Furrer in Klagenfurt Cathedral with organist Wolfgang Kogert and a concert by Cantando Admont. New music can be heard in nature on musical tours on the Gerlitzen Alpe and the Kanzianiberg. Polish composer Wojtek Blecharz plays the entire Faaker See Island with the listening experience course Listening island. With a boat shuttle to the island and catering from the island hotel, short breaks and summer trips are ideal.
For the first time, the Carinthian Summer provides writing assignments on the subject Freedom to authors such as Anna Baar, Sabine Gruber, Julia Jost, Milena Michiko Flašar, Maja Haderlap, Martin Piekar, Kathrin Röggla and Sophia Lunra Schnack, which will be presented for the first time in short concerts in the morning with free admission. Further readings and discussions with Petra Morzé, Michael Maertens, Birgit Minichmayr, Robert Menasse and Philipp Blom will stimulate thought.
Artist of the Festival of Carinthian Summer this year is the cellist Eckart Runge. He was a founding member of the legendary Artemis Quartet and now joins his duo partner Jacques Ammon and the magnificent Esmé Quartet. Chamber Music Week. Runge & Ammon set the tone with their program Opium takes the audience back to the glamorous twenties and tells the story with two mimes Cello cinema Stories with humor, charm and sophistication. In the Oseanach college church, Runge and the Esmé Quartet play Schubert’s fifth string. More evenings of chamber music in Osean are organized by the great Polish Message Quartet, violinist Lena Neudauer, Matthias Kirschnereit (piano), Dorothy Khadem-Missagh (piano) and soprano Maria Ladurner.
Georg Nigl and Birgit Minichmayr, the outstanding baritone and actress of the castle, promise a meaningful summit meeting with Schubert Swan song and texts by Christina Lavant in the Oceanic college church. Rudolf Buchbinder comes to Villach for his annual recital with Beethoven and Chopin. The famous young cellist Anastasia Kobekina presents her new program about the light and atmosphere of Venice with the Basel Chamber Orchestra. Synesthesia, light, dance and music: a feast for the ignited senses Calling the Spirit – Skrjabin Mysterium with pianist Anika Vavič, puppeteer Christoph Bochdanksy, Rose Breuss and the Choreographia[Inter]Austria.
Also for children and families There is a series of events, many of which have free entry. From the children’s opera GOLD!, which is shown at various locations in Carinthia, through the multi-day children’s music workshop to the film music cycle with the RSO Vienna, Runge & Ammon and the Philharmonic Five, there is certainly something for everyone. This is the most important part of the family program Ö1- Cultural picnic on the opening weekend, which will be broadcast live on the radio from Osean. With free admission, the Vienna Philharmonic Lara Kusztrich, trombonist Bertl Mutters, jazz pianist Martin Listabarth, Anna Anderluh and ensembles from the NASOM BMEIA funding program will perform. There are dance events for children, the theater car Ensemble Porcia and the children’s opera GOLD come!.
Summer celebrations can be enjoyed at the Carinthian Summer with, among other things, atmospheric Fado by Cuca Roseta from Portugal and by the Syrian-Kurdish band Dabke Dilan, which joins the Burgenland-Croatian folk ensemble Kolo Slavuj and the Slovenian choir Podjuna from Carinthia. . Nadja Kayali: “Music touches, it moves, it changes us and gives us space for clear thoughts. Music, literature, communication. Let’s celebrate at Carinthian Summer 2024. Because Festival coming from the Festival!”
Questions & Contact:
Mag. Isabelle Gustorff
Personal advisor to the director
T +43 4242 2810030
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2024-04-17 15:05:55
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