Schumann Festival Weeks 2019
The Schumann Festival Weeks for the CLARA19 Festival Year
The highlight of CLARA19 will be the Schumann Festival Weeks (12-29 September 2019), which will revolve around the anniversary of his birth (13 September 1819) and wedding (12 September 1840). The pianist Lauma Skride will open and close the festival weeks. On 12/13 September 2019, she will perform Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto op. 7 with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under the direction of Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelsons in the "Grand Concert". On 29 September 2019, she will perform together with soprano Olena Tokar in the Schumann House.
Great things are in store on 14 September 2019: the Schumann House Leipzig will present itself with a new museum concept, which was developed in collaboration with the curator and Clara Schumann expert Dr Beatrix Borchard. This will be celebrated with a large Inselstrasse festival. Further concerts in the Schumann House will be given by the pianist Ragna Schirmer and the cellist Peter Bruns (15.09.19), the Vogler Quartett (25.09.19), Clara Schumann's great-great-granddaughter HeikeAngela Moser (26.09.19), amarcord (27.09.19), Susanne Grützmann (28.09.19) and others.
Chamber Music Festival "10 for Clara" from 18 to 22 September 2019
Especially for the anniversary year, the director of the Schumann House, Gregor Nowak, succeeded in initiating a separate chamber music festival "10 for Clara" (18-22 September 2019) as part of the Schumann Festival Weeks. "With "10 for Clara" we want to recreate the intense chamber music life of the Schumanns. The formative artists of the 19th century met here in the salons in Leipzig, played the latest compositions or arrangements and exchanged ideas. Ten internationally esteemed artists will perform together for a week at venues that were awarded the European Heritage Label in 2018. In "Clara's Club" at Inselstraße 18, things continue after the concert. In a relaxed atmosphere, accompanied by DJ sets, people chat and get a first listening impression of the following evening."
Antje Weithaas, Dong Suk Kang and Sayako Kusaka (violin), Pauline Sachse (viola), Marie-Elisabeth Hecker and Peter Bruns (violoncello), Martin Helmchen, Antti Siirala and Annegret Kuttner (piano) and Benedikt Hübner (double bass) will perform. The ten performers will play five concerts at four venues: the Schumann House (18.+22.09.19), the Summer Hall of the Bach Museum (19.09.19), the Old Nikolai School (20.09.19) and the Grieg Meeting Place (21.09.19). A limited number of festival passes are available for all five concerts and the three evenings in "Clara's Club".
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Schumann Festival Weeks 2019
