GAIA music festival

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Gwendolyn Masin, Istvan Várdai, Balint Zsoldos. 2014

The GAIA Music Festival , until 2015 GAIA Chamber Music Festival , is a musical event in Switzerland . The festival's focus is chamber music. It takes place in Oberhofen am Thunersee in various places.

history

The GAIA Chamber Music Festival was founded in 2006 by the violinist Gwendolyn Masin . At the beginning, Hohenstaufen near Stuttgart was the venue. Between 2012 and 2014 National Councilor Matthias Aebischer was the club's president. The patron from 2010 to 2014 was the conductor David Zinman . The current club president is Christoph Ott.

The festival was awarded the Göppingen Culture Prize for its influence on cultural life.

Musician

Every year international musicians come together to rehearse and perform together for a week. Among others, the following musicians were guests at GAIA:

  • Violin: Gabriel Adorján, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Sandrine Cantoreggi , Daniel Garlitsky, Philippe Graffin, Anke Dill, Ilya Hoffmann, Esther Hoppe , Wonji Kim, Pil Kyun Paul, Kim Yura Lee, Gwendolyn Masin , Ronald Masin, Gina Maria McGuinness, Lena Neudauer , Sergey Ostrovsky, Igor Ozim, Rosanne Philippens, Rahel Rilling, Tatiana Samouil, Lisa Schatzman, Artiom Shishkov, Svetlin Roussev, Alexander Sitkovetsky , Jan Talich, Kirill Troussov , Isabelle van Keulen , Mary Ellen Woodside
  • Viola: Alessandro D'Amico, Guy Ben-Ziony, Gérard Caussé, Isabel Charisius, Blythe Teh Engstroem, Jan Gruening, Ilya Hoffman, Yura Lee, Anna Lipkind, Lilli Maijala, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Natalia Tchitch, Lars Anders Tomter , Dana Zemtsov, Mikhail Zemtsov
  • Cello: Dávid Adorján, Claudio Bohorquez, Alexander Chaushian, Christoph Croisé, Natalie Clein , Thomas Demenga, Chiara Enderle, Christopher Franzius Pavel Gomziakov, Frans Helmerson , Louise Hopkins, Christopher Jepson, Guy Johnston, Aleksei Kiseliov, Dóra Kokas , Gavriel Lipkind , Philippe Muller, David Pia, Rafael Rosenfeld, Timora Rosler, Martti Rousi, Jakob Spahn, Torleif Thedéen, István Várdai, Quirine Viersen
  • Cimbalom: Miklós Lukács
  • Flute: Janne Thomsen, Kaspar Zehnder
  • Clarinet: Reto Bieri, Don Li, Christoffer Sundqvist, Yevgeny Yehudin
  • Double bass: James Oesi , Massimo Pinca
  • Bassoon: Martin Kuuskmann
  • Saxophone: Daniel Schnyder
  • Harpsichord: Vital Julian Frey
  • Piano: Julia Bartha, Alasdair Beatson, Simon Bucher, Finghin Collins, Peter Frankl , Robert Kulek, Alexander Lonquich , Aleksandar Madzar, Vincenzo Maltempo, Hannes Minnaar, Cédric Pescia , Pascal Rogé, Dobrinka Tabakova , Marianna Shirinyan, Roman Zaslavsky, Bálint Zsoldos
  • Drums: Pavel Bialiayeu, Andrei Pushkarev
  • Harp: Sarah Christ , Jana Bouškovà
  • Singing: Jordanka Milkova, Stephanie Szanto,
  • Ensembles: Ariel Quartet, Aviv Quartet, Grazioso Chamber Orchestra of the Hungarian National Philharmonic, Haas & Mann, The Lipkind Quartet, Melisma Saxofon Quartet , Merel Quartet, ORIGIN Ensemble (Léa Valentin (violin), Priyanka Ravanelli (violin), Alexina Barbe (violin), Martin Moriarty (viola), Patrick Moriarty (violoncello), Quatuor Ernest, Tonus String Quartet, Young European Strings Chamber Orchestra, Yurodny

World premieres, Swiss premieres

GAIA offered world premieres and Swiss premieres from the start. In 2009, for example, works by Johan Halvorsen and Don Li were performed for the first time with Ania Losinger, Matthias Eser and the Tonus String Quartet. In 2010, Jorge Bosso's "Moshee" for cello and string orchestra was premiered in Switzerland as well as works by Max Bruch , Johan Halvorsen, Johann Sebastian Bach , Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Robert Schumann - including his first piano quartet - as Swiss premieres. In 2011 compositions and arranged works by Kurt Atterberg, Alban Berg , Ernest Bloch and Cesar Viana celebrated their premiere. In 2012, transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach's works were premiered. New works and transcriptions by composers such as Luigi Boccherini , Arcangelo Corelli , Astor Piazzolla , Andrei Pushkarev, Franz Schubert and the group Yurodny were shown in 2013. In 2014 Benjamin Britten's "Bagatelle" for violin, viola and piano as well as works by Paul Juon were performed for the first time in Switzerland. In 2015 Daniel Schnyder was Composer-in-Residence. The numerous works by Schnyder that were performed at the festival included the world premiere of "Mensch Blue" and the Swiss premiere of "Ad Parnassum".

In 2016 there were not only musical but also literary premieres for the first time. Lukas Hartmann wrote texts for Telemann's "Burlesque de Quixotte", Stravinsky's "Suite Italienne" and Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition". The version of the pictures, arranged for string quintet and piano, was also a Swiss premiere, with actress Heidi Maria Glössner participating as a speaker.

The two arrangements for works by Camille Saint-Saëns and Manuel de Falla , written by Raymond Deane for Gwendolyn Masins ORIGIN , were even premiered.

The 2017 program included numerous world premieres and Swiss premieres. Massimo Pincas "The Fates" for string quartet and cimbalom, OLUM by Marco Antonio Perez-Ramirez, "Bartók-Impressionen" (based on the "Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 68" by Béla Bartók ) by Miklós Lukács , as well as Maximilian Grossenbacher's "Airreel" Premiered. "Grotesque" by Rebecca Clarke was heard for the first time in front of the Swiss audience.

In the program of the tenth GAIA Festival in 2018, three pieces celebrated world premieres: “Andante for a Oberhofer Purzelbaum” and “Bourlesque” by Thomas Fortmann and “Hungarian-Jewish Melodies” by Raymond Deane.

Thomas Fortmann dedicated his "Dreisamkeit" for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and double bass to the 11th edition of the GAIA Music Festival, which celebrated its world premiere at the festival in 2019. Dobrinka Tabakova played her "Whispered Lullaby" for violin and piano with Gwendolyn Masin in Switzerland for the first time .

The musicians of the 11th edition of the GAIA music festival, Oberhofen

Master classes

Every year interpreters of international standing teach young instrumentalists. In 2011 the GAIA Masters Award was announced and awarded for the first time. The award gives talents the opportunity to return to GAIA the following year as a sponsored guest artist as part of the chamber music festival.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prize for outstanding cultural work. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 24, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Review musicians. Retrieved March 24, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The inspiration. Retrieved March 24, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jungfrau Zeitung of May 2, 2016
  5. ↑ GAIA Music Festival: Music and Word
  6. ↑ Program 2016 (PDF)
  7. ↑ http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/kultur/klassik/musikalische-reise-in-magische-sphaeren/story/15290189
  8. ↑ http://www.gaia-festival.com/ueber-gaia/gaia-musikfestival-oberhofen/programm-tickets/
  9. ↑ http://www.gaia-festival.com/ueber-gaia/gaia-musikfestival-oberhofen/programm-tickets/