Salute salon
Salut Salon is the name of a chamber music women's quartet from Hamburg occurring since 2002 in the formation piano, cello and two violins and was founded by the violinist Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried.
Newly arranged classical pieces, borrowings from folk and film music, her own chansons , tango nuevo , pop music , jazz , puppet shows and instrumental acrobatics are characteristic of her repertoire . The name “Salut Salon” goes back to the favorite piece of the original quartet formation (with Ameli Winkler at the piano and the cellist Simone Bachmann): Edward Elgar's “Salut d'amour”. Since the nucleus of the quartet was a regular literary-musical salon in the 1990s , it became Salut Salon .
history
The two founders of the quartet, Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried, met in Hamburg in the 1980s and played together at the first desk in the school orchestra. They stayed together even after graduating from high school, founded a shared apartment in their hometown and went on a world tour together for a few months. Since their first appearance as a duo, they have played chamber music regularly - at jour fixe in the apartment of their pianist Ameli Winkler, who is their friend, a meeting place for actors, musicians and writers who understood the tradition of the salons of the 19th and 20th centuries. As a quartet (with Ameli Winkler on piano and Simone Bachmann on cello) they made their first joint appearance in autumn 1999 at the Rose Gallery in Hamburg. In the years that followed, the quartet was booked more and more frequently. On January 3, 2003, they played their first major public concert in the Hamburg Music Hall , for which they glued the posters themselves. In the same year, they released their first CD, What can the heart for it, on Warner . Shortly thereafter, Warner offered them a recording deal. The quartet now gives over 100 concerts a year - in the first few years in changing formations, in which the violinists Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried always remained at the heart of the quartet.
Guest tours
Since 2005 the quartet has also performed abroad. There are regular guest appearances in the USA, in China (in 2010 they also represented the Hanseatic City of Hamburg as musical ambassadors at the Shanghai Expo), in Canada, Chile, Russia, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain and Kenya. There are also numerous appearances on television and contributions on the radio.
In 2012 the quartet went on an anniversary tour and celebrated the tenth anniversary of Salut Salon - even though the ensemble had already existed for twelve years, as Iris Siegfried remarked with a wink at the premiere in Hamburg's Thalia Theater . In 2016 she made her debut in New York City with a concert of her program Carnival of the Animals and Other Phantasies at the Michael Schimmel Center at Pace University.
Salut Salon have been touring France regularly since 2016. In January 2016 the quartet received standing ovations in the venerable Salle Gaveau in Paris. A year later, on January 24, 2017, the four Hamburg women performed at the L'Olympia in Paris at the climax of their tour of France .
Biographies
Angelika Bachmann
Angelika Bachmann was born in Hamburg in 1972 and, due to her special musical talent, was exempted from school lessons by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, so that she could devote herself to playing the violin from an early age. She has been a concert soloist since she was seven. a. Performed with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra , gained experience in television appearances and won numerous first federal prizes in “ Jugend musiziert ” competitions. She enjoyed her musical training u. a. with Michael Goldstein and Roland Greutter, the first concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra. Angelika Bachmann was a scholarship holder of the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and a juror of the LTM competition in Hamburg for many years. Her own musical arrangements were published under the title "Flexible Strings" in 2007 by Breitkopf & Härtel. In addition to music, Angelika Bachmann studied philosophy and German. In October 2011 she received the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment to musical work with children and young people.
Iris Siegfried
Iris Siegfried was born in Hamburg in 1972 and won a prize at the “ Jugend musiziert ” competition. She later sang in various Hamburg choirs and a cappella groups. In addition to her musical training, she completed a law degree in Hamburg, which she completed in 2000 with the second state examination. Since then she has been working as a lawyer in a Hamburg law firm in the field of competition and copyright law. In addition, she completed her studies at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg as a cultural manager . She is now a lecturer for culture and media management there and has been a professor since 2018. In October 2011 she received the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment to musical work with children and young people. Siegfried took a baby break in 2016 and was replaced by Meta Hüper for this time.
With Angelika Bachmann she founded the children's orchestra Coole Streicher .
Anna-Lena Perenthaler
Anna-Lena Perenthaler received her first formative cello lessons from Susanne Bohn-Schultze. She studied cello with Prof. Maria Kliegel at the HfMT Cologne, in Stuttgart with Jean-Guihen Queyras and with Prof. Troels Svane at the University of Music Lübeck, where she graduated with top marks. She has given concerts as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the Bergische Symphoniker and the Bodensee-Oberschwaben Chamber Orchestra. In the ›New Music‹ section, she was a guest of well-known ensembles such as the Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg and the ›Decoder Ensemble - Band for Current Music‹. Anna-Lena gained orchestral experience in the Konzerthaus-Orchester Berlin, the NDR-Sinfonie-Orchester Hamburg and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Thomas Hengelbrock brought her to his Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. Anna-Lena Perenthaler has been solo cellist at the Pforzheim Opera since January 2018. In 2014 she won first prize and the audience prize at the ›Musica Antiqua‹ international music competition in Bruges. In 2017 Anna-Lena was part of the interdisciplinary cultural project ›The Melting Pot‹ with dancers and musicians - awarded by the Adventis Foundation. She has played for Salut Salon since 2019.
Olga Shkrygunova
Olga Shkrygunova was born in Tambov, Russia, and received her first piano lessons at the age of five. She has lived in Germany since 2012 and completed her master’s degree in 2014 at the University of Music and Theater (HMT) Rostock in the class of Prof. Bernd Zack with distinction. In addition to master classes and a. With Viktor Merzhanov, Alexander Alexandrov, James Kirby, Tami Kanazawa, Yuval Admony and Alexander Bondurjanskij, Shkrygunova took part in international festivals and competitions during her studies - at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival, the Primavera Festival in Vienna, as a soloist with the Norddeutsche Rostock Philharmonic or at the Tambow Music Festival. Olga Shkrygunova has received numerous awards, such as first prize at the “Musica Classica” festival competition in Moscow and at the international “XXI Century Art” competition in Kiev. She received a special prize at the international festival for “Ostracized Music” in Schwerin and the sponsorship award from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation and was a prize winner at the 1st German Piano Competition “Polish Music”. In addition to her solo work, Shkrygunova is a sought-after chamber music partner and performs regularly in German-speaking and Russian countries with her piano-sound-clown duo "Klavieriki". She has been playing with Salut Salon since 2014; since 2018 at the piano as the first line-up. She lives in Berlin.
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Current quartet members
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Former quartet members
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program
For their programs, Salut Salon rewrite classical pieces for their cast, mixing classical music with film music, folk, jazz and pop. The Argentine Tango Nuevo by Astor Piazzolla also plays a role in all Salut Salon programs . There are also puppet shows with the hand puppet Oskar.
Programs
- 2004/05: What can the heart do for it?
- 2007/08: A matter of the heart
- 2009: Classically seduced
- 2010: To everything in the world
- 2011: A shark in the aquarium
- 2012: Anniversary program "Poetry & Truth"
- 2013/14: The Night of Fate
- 2015/16: A carnival of animals and other fantasies
- 2017/19: LOVE
- 2020/2022: The magic of dreams
Social projects
In addition to their own artistic work, the Salut Salon founders Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried are committed to ensuring that young people can experience music as a basic experience. They have been involved in various children's projects of their own since the 1990s. In October 2011 Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried received the Federal Cross of Merit for their commitment. In addition, Salut Salon 2015 were named honorary Alster lock keepers, as an award for their internationally celebrated musical programs and their extraordinary social commitment. Since 1981 personalities have been honored as honorary lock keepers "who, as local ambassadors, have increased the reputation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg all over the world".
The cool strings
The Cool Streicher are the Salut Salon children's orchestra, founded in 1995. The nucleus of the orchestra were children who Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried taught during their school days. In Iris Siegfried's parents' house, in the Hamburg district of Tonndorf, the “Coolen Streicher” had their first appearances and thought it was cool (hence the name). That children and adolescents play together, regardless of their level, is a deliberate concept. Angelika Bachmann writes the arrangements for the “cool strings”. Everyone gets the voice that suits them. The “cool strings” have won the Hamburg LTM competition several times and have already given concerts with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra in the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2004, the then Federal President Johannes Rau presented them with the “inventio” as Germany's most innovative music project.
The Escuela Popular de Artes in Chile
In 2003, Salut Salon took on the sponsorship of the Escuela Popular de Artes in Chile - a project of the German Children's Aid . The music school is located in Achupallas, a slum of Viña del Mar . Salut Salon have already visited the school in Achupallas several times, once the “cool strings” were there too. As a transatlantic orchestra, the young musicians from Germany and Chile have already toured together twice. In the meantime, over 300 children and young people learn classical and modern instruments in the Escuela von Achupallas, founded in 1997, play in groups and give concerts. They come from poor families who cannot afford their children's musical education themselves.
The Young ClassX
Giving children and young people the opportunity to discover music for themselves together is what Salut Salon’s latest project is all about. For “The YoungClassX”, Angelika Bachmann and Alexander Birken from the Otto Group developed the basic idea for a support program in 2007 that aims to give as many children as possible all over Hamburg free access to classical music. The Otto Group financially supports the project. In the first year of 2011, 3186 children took part in “The Young ClassX”; 1700 children from 21 schools sang in 31 different district choirs. The instrumental students are taught according to the "coach-the-coach" principle by advanced students or music students. The children and young people can also play in a project orchestra. Guests at “The Young ClassX” included a. the exceptional percussionist Martin Grubinger, the Swedish choir director Gunnar Eriksson, who has shaped the choral improvisation movement worldwide for many years, and the conductor Christoph von Dohnany, with whom the project orchestra rehearsed in public. On the occasion of Christoph von Dohnányi's 80th birthday, the “The Young ClassX” project orchestra played in the great hall of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg at the gala concert Antonín Dvořák's Slavic Dance No. 8 as an encore based on the official program of the NDR Symphony Orchestra.
With the Chinese conductor Muhai Tang, the project orchestra and other Hamburg orchestras gave the opening concert “Day of Music 2010” in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. The idea of “The Young ClassX” should also come to life in places where children do not even make music themselves, but where they come into contact with classical music for the first time. That's what the “MusikMobil” is for. The project's own bus drives school classes e.g. B. to rehearsals in the Hamburg opera and the NDR symphony orchestra. With the brass from singer Jan Delay, we went to Yamaha in 2011 and to concerts with the noise collector and sound researcher Dr. Sound. All of their own and all other music projects for children and young people in the city are networked on the Young ClassX platform on the Internet. In the second year of its existence, “The Young ClassX” received the “Selected Location 2011” award in the “365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas” competition organized by the federal government and business. At the invitation of Federal President Christian Wulff, the “The Young ClassX” choir sang in June 2011 at the summer party in the garden of Bellevue Palace. At the world premiere of Nathaniel Stookey's “Mahl / er / werk”, children from “The Young ClassX” played together with musicians from the NDR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach in front of 10,000 spectators in Hamburg's O2 Arena. Cooperation partners of the project include a. the Hamburg Authority for Schools and Vocational Education and Training as well as the State Institute for Teacher Education and School Development, the Elbphilharmonie, the Ensemble Resonanz, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Yamaha, Steinway, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Ballet - John Neumeier, University of Music and Theater (HfMT) and Hamburg State Opera.
Hamburg instrumental competition
Angelika Bachmann and Iris Siegfried have been directing the renowned Hamburg instrumental competition since 2013, which was founded over 60 years ago by the regional association of sound artists and music teachers. It takes place every autumn. For over 30 years, the winners of the competition have been presented at the children's big concert in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg. Every year more than 250 children and young people between 6 and 20 years of age take part in the competition. The competition is sponsored by the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation, whose long-term scholarship was Angelika Bachmann, and the Haspa Music Foundation. In 2016 Angelika Bachmann developed with Stephanie Schiller and also supports the Töne der Welt competition from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation . For the first time, children and young people who play an instrument that is rather rare in classical music - from the alphorn to the Arabic oud to the Persian santur - are being supported for the first time.
Skype project Ghetto Classics Kenya
On their Africa tour in 2015, Salut Salon worked in Korogocho, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, with young people from the “Ghetto Classics” - a children's and youth orchestra that gives young people the opportunity to learn a classical instrument. While working with the young people, it turned out that they lacked a lot of basic information - and above all, sufficient instrumental teachers. Angelika Bachmann was therefore looking for a way that the children could get lessons after Salut Salon had left. The Internet brought the solution: different musicians from Europe have been teaching the children in Nairobi via Skype every week since 2015. The lessons were initially financed from the proceeds of some benefit concerts given by Salut Salon in Nairobi. Since 2017 the foundation “Chances for Children” has been funding Skype lessons for children in Kenya.
Awards
- 2004: "inventio" sponsorship award from the German Music Council and the "100 Years of Yamaha" Foundation
- 2016: Echo Klassik 2016 in the category "Classics without borders"
Discography
- What can the heart do for it (CD live recording, release 2005)
- A matter of the heart (CD, live recording, release 2007)
- Classically seduced (DVD, live recording, 2009)
- Salute salon. The film (DVD, live recordings from 2010 and 2011, release 2012)
- Poetry and truth. The best of 10 years (CD, live recording, release 2013)
- Christmas With Salut Salon (release 2014)
- Salut Salon LIVE (release 2015)
- Carnival Fantasy (CD, DVD, release 2016)
Movies
- "Salut Salon - Lady Power in a Quartet" (Direction: Ralf Pleger / arte 2011)
Web links
- Discography: Salut Salon
- Official homepage (German): www.salutsalon.de
- Official Youtube-Channel: Salut Salon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephanie Schiller: A life full of violins - musician helps young people. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Salut Salon: Salut Salon on US Safari 2016. June 3, 2016, accessed on 13 March 2017 .
- ↑ SalutSalon: 2015 01 Today Journal Kenya. January 24, 2015, accessed March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Appearance in NDR Schleswig Holstein Magazin, 2010 (?) , Appearance at 3 nach 9 , Radio Bremen, 2016 (?)
- ↑ Salut Salon celebrates its tenth birthday after twelve years in: Hotspot-HH.de ( Memento from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Carnival of the Animals and Other Phantasies" ( Memento from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Schimmel Center at Pace University
- ↑ Stefan Reckziegel: Salut Salon is on the way to the Paris Olympia. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ^ Salut Salon, classique souriant au casino-théâtre Barrière . In: ladepeche.fr . ( ladepeche.fr [accessed March 13, 2017]).
- ^ Salut Salon: Salut Salon - Quartet. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ^ Salut Salon: Salut Salon - History. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ^ Salut Salon: Salut Salon - History. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Biography Lara Jones, Piano | Rhapsody in School. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: APPEARANCE: Quartet “Salut Salon” promises “Classics with pep” . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed on March 13, 2017]).
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: With a beer on the Alster. Retrieved March 13, 2017 .
- ^ DIE WELT: Quartet "Salut Salon" new honorary Alster lock keepers . In: THE WORLD . July 3, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed October 30, 2017]).
- ↑ Alster lock keepers: the lock keepers of honor. Retrieved October 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Kindernotilfe . Escuela Popular de Artes in Chile
- ^ The Young ClassX . Salut Salon project
- ↑ Hamburg Instrumental Competition. Retrieved August 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Registration for the Hamburg Instrumental Competition . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on August 28, 2017]).
- ^ Ghetto Classics . In: Art Of Music Foundation . ( artofmusic.co.ke [accessed August 28, 2017]).
- ↑ Kenya - "Ghetto Classics" | Foundation - opportunities for children. Retrieved on August 28, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Ginanne Brownell Mitic: A Classical Music Lover Changes Kenyan Children's Lives . In: The New York Times . October 26, 2016, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed August 28, 2017]).
- ↑ SalutSalon: ECHO KLASSIK 2016 for Salut Salon. October 12, 2016, accessed March 13, 2017 .
- ^ Federal Association of the Music Industry: ECHO Klassik | Classic without limits. Retrieved March 13, 2017 (English).