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Concert & Recital Series
Altenberg Trio Wien
7 November 2007, 8:30pm
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Concert & Recital Series
Altenberg Trio Wien
7 November 2007, 8:30pm
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The Pharos Trust continues its Autumn / Winter 2007 Concert & Recital Series with a chamber music evening with Altenberg Trio Wien on Wednesday 7 November 2007 at 8:30pm, at the PASYDY Auditorium in Nicosia. The programme will include works by Beethoven as well as the Cyprus premiere of a new work by Cypriot composer Ayis Ioannides. The artists will also give two educational concerts for students in Nicosia as part of he Trust’s Music Education Programme, organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Since its
“official“ debut during the Salzburg Mozart Week (January 1994), the
Altenberg Trio Wien – one of the few full-time piano trios in the world of
chamber music – has in over 900 performances earned the reputation of one of the
most daring and consistent ensembles in this category. Its repertory comprises –
in addition to a large number of works from directly related fields – piano
quartets & quintets, duos, triple concertos, vocal chamber music, no less than
250 piano trios, among them numerous pieces which the Altenberg Trio suggested
and first performed itself. Simultaneously with its foundation, the ensemble
became trio in residence of Vienna’s Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, annually
performing a cycle in the Brahms Saal for that society; as trio in residence of
the Conservatory Vienna, the trio runs a seminar course for chamber music
majors. Among the Altenberg Trio´s other regular activities are the
International Brahms Festival at Muerzzuschlag (Austria), whose artistic
director is Claus-Christian Schuster, and the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo
(Piedmont), where the trio offers monthly master classes for young ensembles.
Pianist Claus-Christian Schuster studied in Vienna, Bloomington/ USA, and at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He won awards at several international piano and chamber music competitions, performing as a soloist until 1984. That same year he founded the Vienna Schubert Trio, a regular guest at the most important music centres and renowned chamber music festivals. Between 1976 and 1986 Claus-Christian Schuster taught at the Vienna Musikhochschule. In addition to performing widely, he is, together with his colleagues, at this point running a series of seminars for chamber music majors at the Conservatory Vienna as well as master classes in Europe and the U.S.
Violinist Amiram Ganz won the Jeunesses musicales Contest at the age of eleven and then continued his studies in the U.S.A. at the International Academy of Chamber Music in Rome, and between 1974 and 1979 on a scholarship at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. As finalist and award winner of several international competitions (Long-Thibaud/ Paris, ARD/ Munich, etc.), he became first concert master of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg in 1980. From 1987 he was the violinist of the Shostakovitch Trio, appearing at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow, etc. In 1994 he became a founding member of the Altenberg Trio of Vienna. Since 1981 he has also been teaching at the Strasbourg Conservatory and as a member of the Altenberg Trio he is now in charge of a series of seminars for course music majors at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna.
Alexander Gebert won his first international contest at the age of 17 and studied cello at the Sibelius Academy. Between 1995 and1998 he studied at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw on a Polish state scholarship. After his graduation there he continued his studies with Philippe Muller at the Paris Conservatory and on a DAAD scholarship in Stuttgart. In 2002 he was granted a three-year scholarship from the Groupe Banques Populaires in Paris. In 1997 he came second at the Lutoslawski Competition in Warsaw, and the year 2000 saw him win Third Prize at the Antonio Janigro Contest in Zagreb, Second Prize and Audience Prize at the International Geneva Cello Competition (where he played with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Heinrich Schiff conducting), and First Prize at the Valentino Bucchi Contest of Rome subsequently. He has widely performed both as a soloist and as a chamber musician at many prestigious venues (Kuhmo Festival, Oleg-Kagan-Musikfest, Festival de Deauville, Ravinia Festival).
Ticket Prices:
Adults: £12
Friends and Supporters of the Pharos Trust: £10
Concessions: £7
Tickets can be purchased from:
The Pharos Trust (22 663 871),
Athalassas Music Centre (22 510 547),
Moufflon bookshop (22 665 155),
Soloneion bookshop (22 666 799) and
Travelorama (22 452 945)