Musical summer in East Frisia
The Musical Summer in East Frisia is an international festival for classical music. It takes place annually over three weeks from July to August in East Frisia and the northeastern Netherlands . The Musical Summer in East Frisia cooperates on the Dutch side with the Peter de Grote Festival .
management
The founder and artistic director of the festival is the violinist and violin teacher Wolfram König . From 1992 to 2010 the festival cooperated with the International Festival Management Thomas Hummel, Hamburg .
history
The festival was founded in 1983 by the König family of musicians. Within a few years the number of concerts rose sharply. Since 2000 there have been around 50 concerts per festival with around 14,000 visitors. A master class for violin has been an integral part of the festival from the very beginning . Today the festival also includes courses in chamber music , piano, bassoon and cello . The musicologist Elmar Budde has been giving introductory lectures to the concerts since 2003. He also gives a five-day course with lectures on musical topics. In 2007 an association called Friends of the Musical Summer in East Friesland was founded , which has set itself the task of supporting the festival financially by collecting membership fees. From 2008 to 2012 there was a cooperation agreement between the König family and the East Frisian landscape that regulated the cooperation.
In the course of 2011 a dispute broke out between the König family of musicians and the East Frisian landscape, which the Aurich Regional Court and the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court also recently dealt with. The classical music festival was therefore carried out by Wolfram König from summer 2012 without the East Frisian landscape.
The East Frisian landscape then decided to set up its own classical concert series. This series of concerts took place for the first time in the summer of 2012 under the title Tidal Concerts in East Frisia .
program
The concept of the festival is called “Sound and Space”. Concerts are held in churches, castles, palaces, manors and parks in the region, the program of which matches the venues. The organizers have set themselves the goal of genuinely combining music and location. The majority of the concerts take place in one of the numerous historical churches in the region , whereby (in turn) as many communities in East Frisia as possible with suitable church rooms are considered. The opening concert traditionally takes place in the Aurich Lambertikirche , the final concert in the Johannes a Lasco library ( large church ) in Emden . Further event rooms are the historical castles of the region, including the Norderburg in Dornum and others.
Artist (selection)
Among the artists who have performed at the Musical Summer so far (up to and including 2011) is the conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy , under whose direction one of the four previously published recordings (final concert 2004) was made. His son, the clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy , also took part in the concert series. The son and daughter of the musical director Wolfram König, Iwan and Franziska König, should also be mentioned as well as the cellist Zara Nelsova and the cellist George Neikrug . Jeremy Menuhin, one of the two sons of the conductor and violinist Yehudi Menuhin , also appeared at the Musical Summer, as did Otto Waalkes with the performance of Peter and the Wolf. Other artists include Chen Halevi, Akio Koyama, Herwig Tachezi, Hie-Yon Choi and Erik-Wenbo Xu.
Sound carrier
- Sound & Space - Musical Summer in East Friesland (works by WA Mozart, JS Bach, H. Villa-Lobos and A. Schönberg played by artists from the Musical Summer), CD (1996).
- Otto Waalkes - Peter Und Der Wolf (Deutsche Grammophon Production), CD-Album (2001).
- Musical summer | Final concert 2004 - PI Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra in B flat minor, Op. 23; S. Rachmaninow: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Iwan König (piano), with the Symphony Orchestra of the Musical Summer in East Friesland and Groningen, 2CDs (2004).
- Iwan König, Herwig Tachezi - Lv Beethoven : Complete Works for Piano & Cello (Gramola), 2CDs (2007).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ werner-bonhoff-stiftung.de: König family vs. East Frisian Landscape , accessed February 14, 2016.
- ↑ Ostfriesen-Zeitung of February 14, 2012: Legal dispute on the music summer continues , accessed on February 14, 2016.
- ↑ taz.de: Dispute over the classical music festival in East Friesland , accessed on February 14, 2016.
- ↑ www.oz-online.de: After the festival dispute, we are looking ahead , April 16, 2012, accessed on the same day.