• Sat. 11.05.
  • 8.00 p.m.
  • Bremen
    ·Die Glocke

Together for the fortune of tomorrow

Charity concert

They are young and highly talented: the three fledgling soloists performing at the 7th benefit concert are at the threshold of their careers. In Bremen’s Die Glocke concert hall, they now have the unique opportunity to demonstrate their talent in collaboration with an internationally critically acclaimed orchestra and at the same time do lasting good in support of the next generation of musical talent. That is because the proceeds from the benefit concert are traditionally donated to the Community Opera and other cultural education projects – a rewarding cycle initiated each year by the association ›Kunst fördert Kunst‹ (›Art promotes Art‹). With Alondra de la Parra, it has been possible to win an equally talented conductor as artistic director. Her spirited conducting certainly made a lasting impression at ›Summer in Lesmona‹ two years ago. In May, the native Mexican will also conduct a concert from the subscription series. The benefit concert taking place shortly afterwards therefore promises to deliver the highest level of musicality and concentrated girl power!

Programme

    • Sergej Prokofiev (1891–1953)
    • Symphonie Classique op. 25
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
    • Aria from Zaide ›Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben‹
    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Bassoon concerto in B major K 191
    • Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
    • ›In furore iustissimae irae‹ RV 626
    • César Franck (1822 - 1890)
    • Variations symphoniques

Moderator

Daniel Finkernagel

Soprano

Kerstin Dietl

Kerstin Dietl studied Ancient Music at the Bremen College of Arts between 2011 and 2018, initially with Tanya Aspelmeier and Harry van der Kamp, and later with Gemma Bertagnolli and Peter Kooij. Masterclasses with Gerd Türk and Emma Kirkby followed and she continues to receive important musical impulses through regular work with Jörg Straube.

Her solo work has seen this soprano, born in 1989, on stage with well-known ensembles such as Musica Alta Ripa, Schirokko, the Arp Schnitger Ensemble and Das kleine Konzert. She has been active on the international stage and has been performing in operatic works since 2016. As part of the Young Artist Gloger Academy, with Olof Boman, she gave her debut as Cupid in John Blow’s opera Venus and Adonis in Norway. In the summer of 2017 she took part in a number of performances of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Paul Agnew and the European Baroque Academy, at a series of well-known festivals in France, Spain, Slovenia and Switzerland. She has also sung the roles of Belinda and Second Witch in France, Portugal, Belgium and Italy.

Although her primary focus is Early Music, Classical and Romantic works also feature in her repertoire, as well as the great oratorios of Handel and Bach and a number of works, less well-known in Germany, from the English, French and Italian Baroque repertoire.

Piano

Kiveli Dörken

Kiveli Dörken’s temperament, passion and dedication to music can be felt in every moment of her concerts. Her infectious enthusiasm and engaging charisma give her a close rapport with her audience. She likes to talk to them before she sits down at the piano and explore the boundaries of sound possibilities and artistic expression. Her musical path began as a 7-year-old pupil of the renowned piano teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, by whom she was taught for ten years. She then continued her training with Lars Vogt, with whom Kiveli Dörken still studies in Hanover.

Dörken’s concert activities have already taken her to many renowned concert halls and to most countries in Europe, China and the USA. She has performed at the Kissinger Sommer, the ‘Spannungen’ festival in Heimbach, the Gezeitenkonzerte, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the ‘Sommets musicaux’ in Gstaad and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Highlights included performances for the Dalai Lama in 2007 and in 2009 for the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington D.C. In 2015, together with her sister Danae, Kiveli Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival on the Greek island of Lesbos and of which she is Artistic Director. Between the financial crisis and the refugee drama, the festival not only brings the tradition of classical music to Lesbos but has become a beacon of hope for the region.

Bassoon

Miriam Kofler

Miriam Kofler, born in Bolzano in 1991, took private lessons on the bassoon but after only one year, transferred to Professor Claudio Alberti at the conservatory ›C. Monteverdi‹ in Bolzano, where in 2011 she obtained her degree with honours.  In 2010 she won second prize at the ›G. Rossini‹ bassoon competition in Pesaro and in 2014 made it to the semi-finals of the ARD competition with her wind quintet ›Quintetto Spirito‹. The following year she completed her studies with Professor Marco Postinghel at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and from 2015 until 2017, this south Tyrolean bassoonist studied with Sergio Azzolini at the Music Academy in Basel. She was also a scholarship holder at the Karajan Academy and thus gained orchestral experience with the Berlin Philharmonic.

Since the 2018/19 season, Miriam Kofler has been Principal Bassoonist with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlin. She also performs regularly with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with Teodor Currentzis and Spira Miriabilis and the MusicAeterna Orchestra, or the Haydn Orchestra Bolzano. Various international concert tours have already taken her to some of the world’s most well-known concert halls such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Phiharmonie in Berlin, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Theatre of the Champs-Elysees in Paris, plus many others. Kofler has also participated in festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, the Easter Festival Baden Baden and the Bolzano Festival and is a founding member of the ensemble ›Desiderio‹; an international and dynamic formation founded in 2017 which constantly strives to find new angles and aspects in all its work.

Moderator

Daniel Finkernagel

Piano

Kiveli Dörken

Kiveli Dörken’s temperament, passion and dedication to music can be felt in every moment of her concerts. Her infectious enthusiasm and engaging charisma give her a close rapport with her audience. She likes to talk to them before she sits down at the piano and explore the boundaries of sound possibilities and artistic expression. Her musical path began as a 7-year-old pupil of the renowned piano teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, by whom she was taught for ten years. She then continued her training with Lars Vogt, with whom Kiveli Dörken still studies in Hanover.

Dörken’s concert activities have already taken her to many renowned concert halls and to most countries in Europe, China and the USA. She has performed at the Kissinger Sommer, the ‘Spannungen’ festival in Heimbach, the Gezeitenkonzerte, the Schwetzinger Festspiele, the ‘Sommets musicaux’ in Gstaad and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Highlights included performances for the Dalai Lama in 2007 and in 2009 for the then German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Washington D.C. In 2015, together with her sister Danae, Kiveli Dörken founded the Molyvos International Music Festival on the Greek island of Lesbos and of which she is Artistic Director. Between the financial crisis and the refugee drama, the festival not only brings the tradition of classical music to Lesbos but has become a beacon of hope for the region.