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Season 2023/24

The Ehrbar Chamber Music Society opened its first concert season in October 2023.

 

Pianist Biliana Tzinlikova, violinist Klara Flieder and cellist Christophe Pantillon, all three of whom draw on a wealth of experience as chamber musicians in a wide variety of formats, instrumentations and styles, have come together to pool their diverse expertise gained from many years of international concert activity to create a joint concert series in Vienna.

 

The concrete reason for this idea was the marvellously successful restoration of Vienna's Ehrbar Halls. The Great Ehrbar Hall is considered one of the best chamber music halls in Vienna and has a corresponding profile in terms of music history. The restoration of the hall and the entire complex, which now shine in new splendour, offers audiences and performing artists a highly attractive and acoustically first-class setting for musical encounters. The Ehrbar Chamber Music Society has chosen this very special concert venue as the focus of its artistic intentions.

 

The centrepiece of the concert series is the great standard repertoire of piano chamber music. Chamber music literature is offered around this already extremely rich centre, which is thematically or historically related to the selected works.

 

High-calibre musicians from the large circle of colleagues and friends of the three core members of the ECMS take part in the concerts as guests.

 

Already in the first season, the special concern of the ECMS was to present outstanding young talents to the Viennese audience and thus give these promising artists a jump-start at the beginning of their careers. Biliana Tzinlikova, Klara Flieder and Christophe Pantillon are well connected through their many years of teaching activities with excellent young musicians and ensembles who are studying in Austria or are about to make a place for themselves in Austrian concert life. Offering these young people a platform is a fixture of the concert series. The second concert of the cycle was co-organised by the duo Andreas Siles-Mellinger (violin) and Sophie Druml (piano), while the third concert featured the very young Doppler Quartet.

Saturday, 7th October 2023 | 19:00h

Ehrbar Saal Vienna
1st Cycle Concert

Adrian Eröd & Piano Trio

Programme

J. Haydn: Selection from the Scottish Songs for Voice and Piano Trio, Hob.XXXIa

J. Haydn: Piano Trio in A major, Hob.XV:18

(Intermission)

F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

Adrian Eröd, baritone

Biliana Tzinlikova, piano

Klara Flieder, violin

Christophe Pantillon, cello

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Sunday, 3rd October 2023 | 19:00h

Ehrbar Saal Vienna
2nd Cycle Concert

Duo & Piano Quintet

Programme

B. Martinů: Duo No. 2 in D major H.371 for violin and violoncello

A. Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 75

L. Janáček: Sonata for Violin and Piano

(Intermission)

A. Dvořák: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81

Andreas Siles-Mellinger, violin

Sophie Druml, piano

Thomas Selditz, viola

Biliana Tzinlikova, piano

Klara Flieder, violin

Christophe Pantillon, cello

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Saturday, 2nd March 2024 | 19:00h

Ehrbar Saal Vienna
3rd Cycle Concert

French Music for the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Gabriel Fauré

Programme

G. Tailleferre: Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano

C. Debussy: String Quartet, Op. 10

(Intermission)

G. Fauré - Piano Quartet No. 1, Op. 15

Doppler Quartett: Nora Ratzberger & Julia Dueñas, violins | Laeticia Lermer, viola | Franziska Lermer, cello

Thomas Selditz, viola

Biliana Tzinlikova, piano

Klara Flieder, violin

Christophe Pantillon, cello

 

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Friday, 24th May 2024 | 19:00h

Ehrbar Saal Vienna
4th Cycle Concert

Schubert Evening

Programme

F. Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 100

(Intermission)

F. Schubert: Trout Quintet, Op. 114, D 667 in A major

Johannes Flieder, viola

Tommaso Huber, doublebass

Biliana Tzinlikova, piano

Klara Flieder, violin

Christophe Pantillon, cello

 

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Our guests for the season 2023/24

Adrian Eröd (baritone)

Adrian Eröd is one of the most successful Austrian singers of his generation. Apart of the Vienna State Opera he performs at the Salzburg Festival, the Bayreuth Festival, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Scala in Milan, the Opéra de Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Opera Zürich and the National Opera in Tokyo. His roles include Figaro in BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Eisenstein in THE BAT, Valentin in FAUST, Britten’S BILLY BUDD, Sixtus Beckmesser in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, Loge in RHEINGOLD and Prospero in T.Adès’ THE TEMPEST.

 

Adrian Eröd is also frequently performing on the concert stage. He has appeared with the Vienna and the Berlin Phiharmonic, working with conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons.

 

He is particularly fond of Lied and is singing recitals with Helmut Deutsch, Justus Zeyen and Christoph Traxler. Adrian Eröd was nominated an Austrian Kammersänger.

Thomas Selditz (viola)

Thomas Selditz has made an international name for himself as a chamber musician. After his studies, he played as 1st solo violist under Daniel Barenboim in the Staatskapelle Berlin. Before being appointed professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2010, he held professorships at the conservatories in Hanover and Hamburg.

 

He belonged to the renowned Gaede Trio for over 20 years and was a member of the Hugo Wolf Quartet from 2013-2016. He has performed in halls such as New York's Carnegie Hall, Vienna's Konzerthaus, London's Wigmore Hall and the Cité de la musique Paris.

 

As a chamber musician, he has been a guest at many renowned international festivals and has recorded over 20 CDs for labels such as Sony, Largo Records, Tacet, MDG, Audite and Phoenix. His recording of Henri Vieuxtemps' works for viola and piano was awarded the Diapason d'Or and the German Record Critics' Prize in France in 2003. Most recently, the solo recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra London (Sinfonia Concertante by Walter Braunfels) was also awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in 2019.

Tommaso Huber (doublebass)

Tommaso Huber grew up in an environment influenced by folk music in Putzleinsdorf/Mühlviertel. He learned to play the accordion from his father at an early age and began his specific musical education at the Linz Music High School.

 

He studied concert double bass in Vienna and Graz with Ludwig Streicher, Josef Niederhammer and Johannes Auersperg, and in 2000 was engaged in the orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, where he has been playing ever since.

 

As an accordionist he plays in the ensembles AMARCORD WIEN, "The Flying Schnörtzenbrekkers" and in the Duo GürtlerHuber, for which he also composes and arranges.

 

1998 - 2007 Training as a violin maker privately in the workshop of Konrad Stoll, Haldenwang/Allgäu. In 2010 he passed the professional examination before the Vienna Guild of Craftsmen and obtained the authorisation to practice the violin making trade for new construction and repair of double basses.

 

At today's concert, Tommaso Huber will play a double bass from his own workshop, built in 2000.

Johannes Flieder (viola)

Johannes Flieder was born in Vienna in 1959 and studied violin with M. Biedermann at the Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität from 1966 to 1977, and subsequently viola with Siegfried Führlinger at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1977 to 1983.

 

In 1980 he won 2nd prize at the international ARD competition in Munich and in the same year became principal violist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist he has performed in Austria, Germany and Hungary, including at the Vienna Musikverein with the Wiener Concert-Verein, at the Bregenz Festival, at the Carinthian Summer, as well as in Berlin, Essen and Lübeck.

 

As a chamber musician he is a member of the Flieder Trio and the HABE Quartet, as well as other formations, and can point to a rich palette of radio and CD recordings. Johannes Flieder is a member of the Wiener Concert-Verein and regularly participates in the Concentus Musicus under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Sophie Druml (piano)

Sophie Druml was born in Vienna and has been taking piano and violin lessons since the age of six. She studied concert piano at the mdw and at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, as well as concert violin there and at the MUK.

 

Sophie is a recipient of numerous international awards and prizes and was among the last 12 in the piano duo category at the ARD Competition 2021. She has been invited to various festivals such as the Chopin Festival at Kartause Gaming, Klassik im Burghof Klagenfurt, LOISIARTE Festival, Kyoto International Music Festival, CLASSIX Kempten, Attergauer Kultursommer, Mattseer Diabellisommer, Schloß Walpersdorf and with the Arton Trio to the Megaron Gyzi Festival in Santorini.

 

With the "Eurydice Quartet" she made her debut as 1st violinist at the Herbstgold Festival 2021 by Julian Rachlin. She is a musical partner of the Aron Quartet, Paul Gulda, Veronika Hagen and members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Andreas Siles-Mellinger (violin)

Born in 1998 in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Andreas Siles-Mellinger received his first violin lessons at the age of eight at the "Instituto Eduardo Laredo". In 2013 he received a scholarship from IMEN (International Music Education Network) to study in Austria at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School.

 

He leads a busy concert schedule at home and abroad (Baroque Festival "Misiones de Chiquitos" in Bolivia, Japan, USA, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Hungary, Germany), playing in famous concert halls such as Vienna Musikverein, Vienna Konzerthaus, Auditorium "Giovanni Arvedi" del Museo del Violino Cremona, Greek National Opera, The Masonic Temple in Washington and others.

 

Since October 2020, Andreas Siles Mellinger has been studying at the University Mozarteum Salzburg with Prof. Klara Flieder-Pantillon.

Doppler Quartet

The Doppler Quartet (Julia Dueñas and Nora Ratzberger, violins | Laeticia Lermer, viola | Franziska Lermer, violoncello) was founded in Salzburg in 2017. By now the members are between 13 and 16 years young and study at the University Mozarteum Salzburg (Pre-College), at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna mdw (Highly Gifted and Preparatory Course) and at the Johann Sebastian Bach Music School (Intensive Training and Young Masters Programme). As a quartet they are taught by Christophe Pantillon at the Margareten Music School.

 

The Doppler Quartett is a multiple prize winner in the youth competition "Prima la musica" and records 1st prizes in the regional competition in Salzburg 2019, 2021 and in Vienna 2023, as well as a 1st prize in the national competition in Salzburg 2021. In the national competition 2023, the Doppler Quartett emerged as national winner in the corresponding age category.

The first evening of the concert series had a vocal focus with its programme, on the one hand with the Scottish Songs by J. Haydn with Kammersänger Adrian Eröd, and on the other with the second piano trio by F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, which delves into the chorale world of J. S. Bach with its last movement.

 

The second concert was dedicated to Czech repertoire. In addition to one of the highlights of all piano chamber music, the Piano Quintet by A. Dvorak, the rarely performed second Duo for Violin and Violoncello by B. Martinu was performed, as well as the Romantic Pieces by A. Dvorak and the Sonata for Violin and Piano by L. Janacek, interpreted by the young guests Andreas Siles-Mellinger and Sophie Druml.

 

The third concert in the cycle commemorated the 100th anniversary of the death of G. Fauré, to whose monumental Piano Quartet in C minor the second half of the programme is dedicated. Completely different aspects of French piano chamber music were presented by the piano trio from the still under-recognised oeuvre of the composer G. Tailleferre. In the string quartet by C. Debussy, the young Doppler Quartet presented one of the greatest masterpieces of French chamber music.

 

The last of the four concerts, Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat major and the Trout Quintet, brought to the stage something that is often heard - but always a favourite.

Thank you for having been part of this season!

Our guests during the season 2023/24

Adrian Eröd (baritone)

Adrian Eröd is one of the most successful Austrian singers of his generation. Apart of the Vienna State Opera he performs at the Salzburg Festival, the Bayreuth Festival, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Scala in Milan, the Opéra de Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Chicago Lyric Opera, the Opera Zürich and the National Opera in Tokyo. His roles include Figaro in BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Papageno, Count Almaviva, Eisenstein in THE BAT, Valentin in FAUST, Britten’S BILLY BUDD, Sixtus Beckmesser in DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, Loge in RHEINGOLD and Prospero in T.Adès’ THE TEMPEST.

 

Adrian Eröd is also frequently performing on the concert stage. He has appeared with the Vienna and the Berlin Phiharmonic, working with conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Sir Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons.

 

He is particularly fond of Lied and is singing recitals with Helmut Deutsch, Justus Zeyen and Christoph Traxler. Adrian Eröd was nominated an Austrian Kammersänger.