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Saturday, September 7, 2024, 5:30 pm, Tambach Castle Church:
The Tilia Quartet returns to Tambach as Quintet
The Tilia Quartet has already made several guest appearances in Hafenpreppach and in the castle church in Tambach. As members of the Staatskapelle Berlin, the musicians guarantee the highest quality in their performances. At the same time, visitors can enjoy the lively presentation of the respective works.
Eva Römisch, Andreas Jentzsch – violin, Stanislava Stoykova, Wolfgang Hinzpeter – viola and Johanna Helm – cello, will perform the String Quintet in G minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the String Quintet in F major by Anton Bruckner.
These works have a special magic about them:
To mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth, his “Symphony for your pocket” will be performed: the String Quintet in F major with the famous Adagio, which, according to Wilhelm Furtwängler, “leads up to the great master’s true heavenly home”. Bruckner’s deep religiousness is emphasised by the Tambach Castle Church, which with its rococo splendour is also the perfect setting for Mozart’s String Quintet in G minor. A masterpiece for which a bon mot by the theologian Karl Barth fits like no other: “When the angels play music for God, they play Bach. But when they are among themselves, they play Mozart.”
Tickets for the concert can now be ordered by e-mail or by telephone on 0173-6060 302.
Highlight in Oktober 2024
A special musical highlight in triplicate awaits us in the days from 19. to 22. Oktober 2024. when pianist Julius Asal and cellist Philipp Schupelius will perform in Hafenpreppach.
Julius Asal was born in 1997 to a family of musicians in the Taunus region near Frankfurt am Main. He initially learned his instrument by ear and was already able to improvise when he received his first piano lessons at the age of eight. He developed this talent for free playing during his studies, which he completed in Frankfurt am Main at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and in Berlin at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”.
In 2021, Asal was selected for the “Sir András Schiff Performance Program for Young Pianists” at Kronberg Academy. In recent years, he has received decisive inspiration from musicians such as Christoph Eschenbach, Kirill Gerstein, Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, Eldar Nebolsin, Menahem Pressler, Antje Weithaas and Tabea Zimmermann.
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As a finalist in the 2017 International Busoni Piano Competition and winner of the Young Concert Artists European Auditions, he can be heard in many major concert halls around the world, including Wigmore Hall in London, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, the Vienna Musikverein and the Laeiszhalle Hamburg.
Deutsche Grammophon has signed Julius Asal under exclusive contract, a “discovery”, according to Klassik HEUTE. He has the ability to release “elemental energies” in his playing and a “phenomenal gift for subtle changes of mood”. Critics and audiences alike are enchanted by the 26-year-old pianist, who is characterized by musical poetry and sensitivity as well as a talent for improvising in a wide variety of styles. Asal also surprises audiences with his original program design.
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In March 2024, Classic FM selected Philipp Schupelius as one of the 30 most exciting young musicians in the world. The award-winning young cellist has already thrilled audiences as a soloist and chamber musician on numerous European stages. He is passionate about special concert formats, themed concerts and combining different art forms into one concert experience. He is currently studying at Kronberg Academy in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. His studies are made possible by the Sodalitas patronage.
In August 2023, Philipp Schupelius won the German Music Competition in Bonn. The prize is linked to a CD recording on the Leipzig label GENUIN, among other things. His debut CD recorded at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn: “Pau! A Tribute to Casals” was released in September 2023, in which Philipp Schupelius musically explores the world of ideas of the cellist of the century and peace activist Pablo Casals, the 50th anniversary of whose death will be celebrated in 2023.
Philipp Schupelius received the “Discovery Award” of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) at the age of 17. In October 2022 he received the Boris Pergamenschikow Grant and in the same month the Fanny Mendelssohn Prize. He was also awarded the First Great Award of the Manhattan Music Competition at the end of 2021 and the Silver Medal of the Eurovision Young Musicians Contest in 2022. He is a multiple first prize winner of Jugend musiziert. Philipp Schupelius will be a debut artist at the Nikolaisaal in Potsdam in the coming season.
Both artists will perform a solo concert before performing works for piano and cello together in the third concert.
We are delighted to have secured these two exceptional musical talents, who are still in the early stages of what is sure to be a remarkable and great career, for a concert in Hafenpreppach in the usual intimate atmosphere of our castle.
Below are the dates of the individual concerts:
- Saturday, October 19, 2024, 7:00 pm – Philipp Schupelius – Church Hafenpreppach
- Sunday, October 20, 2024, 7:00 pm – Hafenpreppach Castle
- Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 7:00 pm – Hafenpreppach Castle
We recommend booking tickets in good time for these concerts, for which space is naturally limited. The price of €60 per ticket/person (concessions: €40) includes a reception after the concerts on October 20 and 22, combined with the opportunity to meet the artists in person.
The previous concerts
The Tilia Quartet of the Staatskapelle Berlin performed at the invitation of the HIMS Academy on January 14, 2023 at the TAO Art Gallery on the occasion of the Mumbai Gallery Week. Works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Mozart were performed in front of an enthusiastic audience and a full house.
The Tilia Quartet on 14 January 2023 in Mumbai
With an attractive program of well-known and popular string quartets by the classics Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the Tilia Quartet from Berlin will give its first guest performance in Mumbai on January 14, 2023.
Tilia Quartet Berlin
The Tilia Quartet takes its name from its “ancestral home”, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (tilia-Linde). Here, four musicians from the Staatskapelle Berlin joined together to form the string quartet:
Eva Römisch, born near Stuttgart, came to Berlin to study violin with Uwe-Martin Haiberg and Ulf Wallin. Even before her concert exam, she became a member of the Staatskapelle in 2002. After attending the Special School of Music in Berlin and the State Conservatory of Music in Bolzano/Italy, violinist Andreas Jentzsch studied in his native city of Berlin with Joachim Scholz and Michael Mücke and was a prize-winner in the “Musica senza frontiere” competition (1995). He has been a member of the Staatskapelle since 2002. Wolfgang Hinzpeter, a native of Hamburg, studied viola in Hanover with Hatto Beyerle and joined the Staatskapelle in 1999 after his first engagement at the Rhine Opera (Duisburg Symphony Orchestra). He has also been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 1998. The Berlin cellist Rebekka Markowski is a student of Heinrich Schiff and studied in Vienna and Zagreb. She won numerous international competitions, was a scholarship holder of the Karajan Academy, among others, and has been deputy principal cellist of the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin since 2015.
In addition to regular appearances in the concert series of the Berlin Staatskapelle and the Berlin Philharmonie, the Tilia Quartet has given numerous highly acclaimed concerts in Germany and abroad and has been invited to international festivals. The Deutschlandfunk, for example, stated, “The Tilia Quartet astounds with Verdi’s string quartet…so much fullness and such great subtlety,” the Husumer Nachrichten praised “the excellent playing of the Tilia Quartet,” and the Neue Merker from Vienna stated “it is hardly possible to play in an even purer, fresher, more balanced way!”
Pentecost Sunday, June 5, 2022, 5:00 pm, Schlosskirche Tambach
The internationally acclaimed string quartet of the Staatskapelle Berlin performed works by Joseph Haydn, Leos Janacek and Franz Schubert in a festive concert. We are delighted that the musicians were herewith making up for the concert that was cancelled in March 2020 due to Corona.
String Quartet of the Staatskapelle Berlin – The four string section leaders of the Berlin Staatskapelle achieve a remarkable fusion of the great orchestral tradition and the intimate world of chamber music. Violinists Jiyoon Lee and Krzysztof Specjal, violist Yulia Deyneka, and cellist Claudius Popp first performed together as a quartet in 2017, presenting a series of concerts with the complete Schubert quartets in Berlin’s new Pierre Boulez Saal. The idea to form a permanent string quartet came the Staatskapelle’s musical director Daniel Barenboim.
Tilia Quartet of the Staatskapelle Berlin, September 25, 2021
Schlosskirche Tambach
“The Staatskapelle ensemble gave its second concert at this special venue. The programme included string quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (KV 464 in A major) and Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (D major, op. 44.1). The invitation was issued on Saturday, 25 September 2021, at 6:00 pm, in the Tambach Castle Church. After the wonderful concert, visitors had the opportunity to experience the exhibition “Missing Landscapes” in the west wing of the castle, with the artists present.”
Wind quintet gives concerts in castle church, March 1, 2020
W.A.Mozart, Darius Milhaud, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Astor Piazzolla, Hanns Eisler
Excerpt from the article “Musikalischer Frühlingshauch” (Musical Breeze of Spring)
The wind ensemble of the Staatskapelle Berlin enchanted the audience in Tambach with exquisite works from Mozart to Piazolla.
Tambach – The concerts at the HIMS Academy Hafenpreppach build wonderfully on each other: Last summer there was Mozart and his time, in winter Beethoven’s and Schubert’s epoch, now in the beginning of spring we arrive at the 20s and 30s of the last century. And these selections were not chosen at random, as a connection to the Staatskapelle Berlin can always be established, even if – as in the case of Astor Piazolla, which closed the afternoon – only by the fact that the current chief conductor Daniel Barenboim has a lot to do with Brazil. Yes – and a bit of Mozart was also allowed, which is quite appropriate with the instrumentation of flute (Thomas Beyer), oboe (Gregor Witt), clarinet (Heiner Schindler), horn (Axel Grüner) and bassoon (Mathias Baier).
Tilia Quartet makes music at Tambach Castle, November 30, 2019
The HIMS Academy invites to the pre-Christmas concert on November 30 in the chapel of the castle. The musicians will play works by Felix-Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Ludwig von Beethoven.
Excerpt from the article “Denkgesang und Liebeskummer (Thinking song and heartbreak)
Tambach – The second concert of the HIMS Academy founded in summer 2019 at Hafenpreppach Castle could not take place open air in the cool late autumn. Since the conversion of the Orangery into a concert hall is just entering the final building permit phase, an adequate “replacement” was sought and found in the Tambach Castle Church, which Count zu Ortenburg had made possible. Under the motto “From the salon to the concert hall”, one returned to the castle, so to speak – in contrast to the 18th and 19th centuries, however, with an event for the general public that was not reserved for the nobility alone.
Kick-off with a top orchestra
With a concert by the wind octet of the Staatskapelle Berlin, the HIMS Academy in Hafenpreppach Castle makes its first public appearance as an organizer. The orangery of the baroque castle is to become a chamber music hall. The orangery of the baroque castle is to become a chamber music hall.
Excerpt from the article “Gassenmusik im Schlosshof” (Alley music in the castle courtyard)
“Classic makes happy” promises a new concert series that will make classical music lovers click their tongues. What is happening in this historic setting is unheard of: Hafenpreppach Castle, built around 300 years ago under Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau, is experiencing an unexpected renaissance. Last used for decades as a children’s home and then for private purposes, the castle is currently being given back its princely splendour under the two new owners (since 2016), in terms of building fabric, use and courtly culture.
