Chamber Concert

About the event

The centrepiece of this varied chamber concert is Claude Debussy, the centenary of whose death is celebrated in 2018. As the founder of the impressionist era in music, Debussy is known primarily for his solo piano works, although he also created masterpieces in other genres. Some of them are presented this evening: alongside solo piano works, a selection of his songs and his sonata for cello and piano will be heard. Short chamber works by Spanish composers showing Debussy's influence complete the diverse programme.

Anna Adamik was born in Budapest, where she studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Annamaria Bodoky-Krause and Tamás Fülep, and at the University of Music in Vienna with Paul Badura-Skoda, taking her concert examination as a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Science and Research. Postgraduate studies with Ramón Walter in piano, song accompaniment and piano chamber music took her to the Freiburg University of Music. She attended masterclasses with Malcolm Bilson, Vitaly Margulis, Dmitri Bashkirov and Rudolf Kehrer. Her CD recordings include piano works by Bach (ambitus), works for flute and piano by Franz Schubert, “SERESTA – Music from South America” (ANTES) and contemporary music from Hungary (HUNGAROTON), plus radio and television recordings for ORF, SWR and Budapest Radio. Anna Adamik is professor of piano at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch and, since 2013, president of the Chopin Society Vorarlberg.

Since September 2017 the young mezzo-soprano Corinna Scheurle has been a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin as a scholarship holder of the Liz Mohn Culture and Music Foundation. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the August Everding Theatre Academy with Prof. Christiane Iven. On the stage of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden she has appeared as the Second Lady in The Magic Flute, the Sandman in Hansel and Gretel, Annina in La Traviata and the slave in Salome. In 2017 she won both first prize and the audience prize of the Gasteig Music Prize in Munich.

The cellist Martin Merker studied in Detmold (Karine Georgian), Basel (Reinhard Latzko and Ivan Monighetti) and Barcelona (Lluís Claret) and has won prizes at several international chamber music competitions. Since 1987 he has been cellist of the “Offenburg String Trio”, since 2000 a member of CAMERATA BERN and since 2002 principal cellist of the argovia philharmonic (Aarau, Switzerland). Several universities in Europe, the USA, Asia and South America have invited him as a guest lecturer. He has made numerous CD recordings for labels including ambitus, ANTES and NAXOS.

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