• Sun. 13.09.
  • 8.00 p.m.
  • Bremen
    ·Die Glocke

Mahler’s Symphony No. 4

Zeitinsel – Special concert

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Programme

    • Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
    • Symphony No. 4 in G major (arr. Yoel Gamzou)

Conductor

Yoel Gamzou

Yoel Gamzou has been Music Director at Bremen Theatre since the 2017/18 season. Previous engagements have seen him perform with orchestras such as the Bamberger Sinfoniker, the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

In addition to his work at Bremen Theatre, the 2020/21 season will see him giving his debuts with the Norske Opera with a performance of ›Tosca‹ and with the Paris Opera in a performance of the ›7 Deaths of Maria Callas‹, which he will also be conducting at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Further concerts will see him conduct the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia and several concerts in Japan. Last season he gave his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with a performance of ›Tosca‹.

Yoel Gamzou has won several prizes including the ECHO Klassik Award in November 2017 in the category Young Artist of the Year: Conductor. In 2013 he won the European Cultural Foundation’s renowned ›Princess Margriet Award‹ and in February 2012 he won the ›Berenberg Culture Prize‹ (Hamburg). As a 19-year old, he also won the international Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition’s scholarship prize.

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Lucia Richter

Anna Lucia Richter was born into a large family of musicians. She took her first singing lessons aged 9 from her mother Regina Dohmen and was a long-serving member of the Cologne Cathedral Girls’ Choir. She then went on to study with Kurt Widmer in Basel and completed her studies – and her degree – with Klesie Kelly-Moog at Cologne Music College. Her training was further rounded by input from Christoph Prégardien, Edith Wiens and Margreet Honig. In the spring of 2020 Anna Lucia Richter initiated a change to mezzo soprano in close consultation with vocal expert Tamar Rachum who continues to coach her. Anna Lucia Richter has received several prizes including the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

Anna Lucia Richter is a very welcome guest with renowned orchestras across the entire world. Recently, she has worked together with Teodor Currentzis and MusicAeterna in a concertante performance of Mozart’s ›La Clemenza di Tito‹, with Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra, with Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, Thomas Hengelbrock and the Orchestre de Paris and also with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra. As well as appearing with these ensembles, Anna Lucia Richter also performs regularly at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the BBC Proms in London, the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival or indeed as ›Artist in Residence‹ at the 2018 Rheingau Musik Festival and in Kölner Philharmonie 2018/19.

Conductor

Yoel Gamzou

Yoel Gamzou has been Music Director at Bremen Theatre since the 2017/18 season. Previous engagements have seen him perform with orchestras such as the Bamberger Sinfoniker, the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, the Malaysian Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

In addition to his work at Bremen Theatre, the 2020/21 season will see him giving his debuts with the Norske Opera with a performance of ›Tosca‹ and with the Paris Opera in a performance of the ›7 Deaths of Maria Callas‹, which he will also be conducting at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Further concerts will see him conduct the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia and several concerts in Japan. Last season he gave his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with a performance of ›Tosca‹.

Yoel Gamzou has won several prizes including the ECHO Klassik Award in November 2017 in the category Young Artist of the Year: Conductor. In 2013 he won the European Cultural Foundation’s renowned ›Princess Margriet Award‹ and in February 2012 he won the ›Berenberg Culture Prize‹ (Hamburg). As a 19-year old, he also won the international Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition’s scholarship prize.