CONCERT
& RECITAL SERIES
The Pharos Arts Foundation at the
Wigmore Hall
2 July 2010, 7:30pm
Wigmore Hall, London, U.K.
The Pharos Arts Foundation is proud to support a unique concert at London's
Wigmore Hall with three of today’s most highly acclaimed young string
players, each with a major solo career. Violinist Julia Fischer, violist
Diemut Poppen and cellist Alexander Chaushian will join forces for Dmitry
Sitkovetsky’s wonderful transcription for string trio of JS Bach’s great
Goldberg Variations.
Julia Fischer / violin
German violinist Julia Fischer is recognized worldwide for possessing a
talent of uncommon ability and as an exceptionally gifted performer,
reflected in the numerous awards and effusive reviews she has received for
both her live performances and recordings, including “Artist of the Year” at
The Gramophone Awards in 2007. Praised for her imaginative and illuminating
interpretations of the classical repertoire, Fischer is equally lauded for
her technical skill, with the Financial Times saying “She may have spitfire
technique… but in Fischer’s case the notes are not an end in themselves but
purely a means to expressing musical truths.” Julia Fischer recorded Bach’s
Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin in 2005 and will revisit these works on
a two-month tour in 2010 encompassing 12 European cities and seven U.S.
cities, including two performances at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in March.
The recording earned worldwide critical praise including the rare
distinction of winning three of France’s most prestigious awards: the
Diapason d’Or from Diapason; the CHOC from Le Monde de la Musique; and the
highest rating from Classica Repertoire. The Bach recording also saw her
awarded the BBC Music Magazine Award as “Best Newcomer” in 2006. In addition
to the Bach tours, Julia Fischer’s European concert schedule for the 2009-10
season includes tours of Europe with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and
Yuri Temirkanov, and the Netherland Philharmonic Orchestra and Yakov
Kreizberg. Fischer is Artist in Residence with the Tonhalle Orchestra in
Zurich having performed a chamber music concert in December 2009. She will
also perform Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto at three concerts with
Michael Sanderling in June 2010. She will continue as Artist in Residence
with the orchestra in 2010-11 in Baden-Baden.
Diemut Poppen / viola
Diemut Poppen is considered one of the finest viola players of her
generation. Born into a musical family in Germany she took her first violin
lessons when she was seven years old and played her first concert as a
soloist already at the age of nine. With her love for chamber music she
later turned to the viola which became her main instrument from when she was
17. She studied with the crème de la crème of violists, in Düsseldorf, Köln,
Berlin, Bloomington/USA and Paris. Among her teachers were some of the
greatest viola players of her time, K.Kashkashian, B.Giuranna, J.Bashmet,
G.Janzer, H.Schlichtig. An important influence on her musical education had
also Sandor Vegh, Nathan Milstein, the Amadeus quartet, Sasha Schneider,
Oleg Kagan, Claudio Abbado, Nicolas Harnoncourt. As a soloist and chamber
musician Diemut Poppen has performed in the important music centers of the
world. She had the opportunity to collaborate as a soloist with conductors
like Heinz Holliger, Frans Brüggen and Claudio Abbado. Poppen has been
awarded the “European Music” prize. She is artistic director of the
Detmolder Sommerakademie and artistic advisor of the Thüringische
Sommerakademie for Chamber Music, both well known summer festival for music
students in Germany. Diemut Poppen is a co-principal the “Lucerne Festival
Orchestra”, an illustrious orchestra of soloists who play in orchestra only
once a year under Claudio Abbado. D.Poppen has recorded for Deutsche
Grammophon, Cappricio, Live classics, EMI, Tudor and Ondine.
Alexander Chaushian / cello
A graduate of the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama in London and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, cellist
Alexander Chaushian has been the recipient of numerous awards, such as the
first prize in the 1990 Premio Mozart Competition in Verona, the first prize
in the International Music Competition in Holland in 1992, the third prize
in the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and the third
prize and the special prize given by the Munich Chamber Orchestra at the
Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD in Germany. Chaushian has appeared
in prestigious venues throughout the world, including a greatly successful
debut at the Suntory Hall in Japan. As a soloist, he has played with a
number of renowned orchestras, including the Vienna Chamber Orchestra at
Vienna’s Konzerthaus and at the Bruchnerhaus in Linz, the London Mozart
Players and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the Orchestre de la Suisse
Romande, the Royal National Orchestra of Belgium, Les Solistes Europeens de
Luxembourg in a gala concert conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, the Boston Pops
Orchestra at Boston Symphony Hall, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
at Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared in highly acclaimed concerts with the
Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, with The Academy of St
Martin in the Fields and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican,
as well as the Padova Chamber Orchestra at the Sala Verdi in Milan.
Alexander Chaushian has given highly praised recitals at the Wigmore Hall
and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Harrogate Festival in England, the Kuhmo
International Festival in Finland, La Jolla Festival in the USA, the Theatre
du Chatelet in Paris, and in Montpellier as recipient of the Beracasa
Foundation Prize of the Radio-France and in Montpellier Festival. In 2006,
Alexander Chaushian recorded Dmitry Shostakovich’s Cello Sonata for
Performance Channel Television, as well as Wim Zwaag’s Cello Concerto with
the Núrnberger Symphoniker. His solo debut recording for the BIS label of
Weinberg’s Sonatas, in which he is partnered with Yevgeny Sudbin, was
recently released to much acclaim.
For ticket information and bookings, please contact Wigmore Hall's Box
Office at: +44 (0)20 7935 2141 or visit http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk
Julia Fischer
Diemut Poppen
Alexander Chaushian
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