• Fri 29.05.
  • 7.30 p.m.
  • Bremen
    ·Die Glocke

Focus on Tchaikovsky

3rd Highlight subscription concert

Works by Brahms and Tchaikovsky

The multi-talented Fabian Müller from Bonn – pianist, conductor and composer – has already performed successfully with Paavo Järvi, Tarmo Peltokoski and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, and is now returning to Bremen for an extended concert run. Two evenings will be dedicated to Tchaikovsky, launching the next chapter of the joint Tchaikovsky project with Jérémie Rhorer, with whom the orchestra will subsequently tour Scandinavia. With various programmes planned for this concert tour, Bremen audiences will also be able to enjoy a broader selection this time – maybe even the chance to hear more than one Tchaikovsky symphony in the different subscription series? Both the Third and the tragic Fourth Symphonies will be featured in two concerts, alongside Johannes Brahms’ monumental Second Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s beloved First Piano Concerto, arguably the most famous of its genre.

Programme

    • Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
    • Piano concerto No. 2 in B-flat minor op. 83
    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
    • Symphony No. 4 in F minor op. 36

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.

Piano

Fabian Müller

Born in 1990, Fabian Müller is one of the most remarkable pianists of his generation. In 2017, he caused a sensation at the International ARD Music Competition in Munich, where he won an impressive five prizes. Since then, this pianist has developed a concert career at a high international level, making his debut with the Bayerischen Staatsorchester at Carnegie Hall in New York the following year and performing for the first time in the Elbphilharmonie. He now regularly appears in major concert halls, festivals and with renowned orchestras. Last season, Fabian Müller gave recitals for the first time at the Laeiszhalle as part of the prestigious Hamburg Master Pianists series and at London’s Wigmore Hall. At the invitation of Daniel Barenboim, he also performed all of Beethoven’s piano sonatas over eight evenings at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, Fabian Müller performs with Benjamin Appl, Bomsori Kim, Maximilian Hornung, Julia Hagen, Igor Levit, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Schumann Quartet, to name but a few. Fabian Müller also has an exclusive collaboration with the Berlin Classics label. His album featuring Schubert’s last three sonatas was released in 2022. Together with oboist Albrecht Mayer and the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, he has also recorded a Mozart album.

Fabian Müller is also committed to music education. As a festival pianist with the Echo Klassik award-winning Education Project of the Ruhr Piano Festival, he works with over 300 children every year, encouraging them to engage creatively with modern music.

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

Jérémie Rhorer is one of the most versatile and intellectually challenging conductors of his generation. As founder and musical director of the orchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, this French conductor is continuing artist-innovator tradition through his exploration of 18th and 19th century repertoire performed on historical instruments. He is also a renowned composer and winner of the Prix Pierre Cardin. For more than ten years, Jérémie Rhorer has developed a close relationship with the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, where he has conducted a wide range of standard, rarely performed and contemporary operas. Rhorer has also conducted major international orchestras such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a sought-after opera conductor, he has also conducted productions at the Wiener and Bayerische Staatsoper, the Teatro Real in Madrid and the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and is regularly invited to Europe’s most prestigious festivals. Highlights of the current season include his debuts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Bordeaux-Aquitaine and at Zürich Opera House with a new production of Offenbach’s rare opera ›Barkouff‹. In recent years, Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie have initiated an innovative residency at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence with an educational programme for new audiences. Jérémie Rhorer has been a regular guest at The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen for years. Together they are currently working on a special Tchaikovsky cycle, which will be presented on tour in Germany and Europe this year and in the coming years.