Tensions
The Tensions Festival is a festival for chamber music that takes place annually for one week in the Art Nouveau hydropower plant Heimbach .
Foundation and management
The Chamber Music Festival in 1998 from which Düren coming pianist Lars Vogt founded and has since been run by this. The festival is sponsored by the Kunstförderverein Kreis Düren e. V.
Festival participants
Lars Vogt invites established international classical music artists as well as young musicians. The regular cast of the festival includes the siblings Christian and Tanja Tetzlaff , Sharon Kam , Antje Weithaas , Elisabeth Kufferath and Gustav Rivinius . Frequent guests are u. a. Isabelle Faust , Florian Donderer , Alban Gerhardt , Tatjana Masurenko , Marie Luise Neunecker , Danae Dörken , Kiveli Dörken . Other important guests were Daniel Harding , Daniel Hope , Heinrich Schiff and Jean-Guihen Queyras .
Commissioned compositions
Every year the festival awards commissioned compositions or invites a composer in residence :
- 1998: Volker David Kirchner
- 1999: Daniel Börtz
- 2000: Johannes Harneit
- 2001: Matthias Pintscher
- 2002: Thomas Larcher
- 2003: Stuart MacRae
- 2004: Jörg Widmann
- 2005: Olga Neuwirth
- 2006: Brett Dean
- 2007: Manfred Trojahn
- 2008: Detlev Glanert
- 2009: Mark-Anthony Turnage
- 2010: Thomas Larcher
- 2011: Huw Watkins
- 2012: Thorsten Encke
- 2013: Kryštof Mařatka
- 2014: Tatiana Komarova
- 2015: Olli Mustonen
- 2016: Helen Grime
- 2017: Erkki-Sven Tüür
- 2018: Sergei Nevsky
Scholarships
The festival promotes young musicians through scholarships . The sponsors included:
- Jermolaj Albiker , violin
- Danae Dörken , piano
- Kiveli Dörken , piano
- Veronika Eberle , violin
- Alexej Gorlatch , piano
- Mario Häring , piano
- Anna Rita Hitay , piano
- Byol Kang , violin
- Zeynep Hedye Köylüoglu , bassoon
- Wanzhen Li , violin
- Kaoru Oe , violin
- Hyeyoon Park , violin
- Aaron Pilsan , piano
- Theo Plath , bassoon
- Timothy Ridout , viola
- Rachel Skleničková , piano
- Kian Soltani , violoncello
- Barbara Stegemann , oboe
- Alexander Vorontsov , piano
- Amy Yule , flute
Media partner
The Germany radio records the concerts since the beginning of the festival, and then sends it over the course of the year. Recordings of the festival appeared on EMI until 2010 and then on CAvi .
The festival location: the Heimbach hydropower plant
Stage in the power plant
Sergej Newski in conversation with Lars Vogt
Applause after the premiere of the play by Sergei Nevsky
Strings on the festival stage
Final applause at the encores concert
