Violist

It was in the evening on 23rd May 2022 that the COE set foot for the first time in the newly-built, not yet open, Casals Forum, a concert hall commissioned by the Kronberg Academy for its students to perform in a hall that truly showcases the outstanding level of music education provided by the Academy. For a number of years, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the Kronberg Academy have been working in Partnership, with the COE being invited to perform a number of times in Kronberg, including for the celebration of the Academy’s 25th anniversary in 2018. We are thrilled that this partnership has resulted in an invitation to become orchestra-in-residence at the Casals Forum where we can rehearse ahead of tours as well as perform smaller scale concerts with some of the Kronberg Academy students and teachers.

Kronberg Festival 2024

Casals Forum

Renowned Curtis alumni violinist Shanshan Yao (’08), violist Haesue Lee (’21), cellist Jean Kim (’18), and pianist Pallavi Mahidhara (’10) will embark on a tour of Europe in the spring of 2024. This exciting concert features Indian American composer Reena Esmail’s lush, romantic trio for violin, cello, and piano, Saans, inspired by the Franck Violin Sonata, and the wedding of dear friends, alongside Felix Mendelssohn’s first published composition, the charming Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s ingenious Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, a bold, colorful work of tremendous beauty that flits between dark and light, the elegance of the Viennese classical style, and the folky playfulness of a ländler waltz.

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Curtis on Tour in Bremen, Germany

Die Glocke, Kleiner Saal

Curtis on Tour in Munich, Germany

Nymphenburg Palace

Curtis on Tour in Paris, France

Curtis on Tour in Berlin, Germany

Kleiner Saal

Curtis on Tour in Madrid, Spain

National Music Auditorium

Curtis on Tour in Vilagarcía de Arousa, Spain

Auditorio Municipal Vilagarcía de Arousa

Curtis on Tour in Waterloo, Belgium

Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

This fall, Curtis on Tour performs across Europe with a newly commissioned work by Richard Danielpour entitled Canti della Natura (Songs of Nature). These exciting new songs set sonnets penned by Antonio Vivaldi, which were written to accompany his own Le quattro stagioni (Four Seasons). The new piece is performed alongside works of Schubert and Brahms.

Fundación Juan March

Curtis on Tour in Teulada-Moraira, Spain

Auditori Teulada

Kirill Karabits conducts works by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Walton and Tchaikovsky

Kultur- & Kongresszentrum Liederhalle

"Laurel sounds, part two. And again, old and new, familiar and rediscovered, are mixed together. Instruments begin to sing, transforming into Mozart's Papageno, Konstanze and Tamino. We meet the American Charles Martin Loeffler, born in Berlin in 1861, whose compositions mainly contain traces of Debussy, Franck and Chausson, but also a little Eastern European folk music. We marvel at the late romantic reed songs of Wagner fan August Klughardt, in which a lot of Fauré can be heard. And we discover Dora Pejačević, daughter of a Croatian count and a Hungarian baroness: a composer who later lived mainly in Dresden and Munich and whose style is close to that of Rachmaninoff. Finally, we also get to know the cellist and composer Alfredo Piatti, who lived in London for a long time and for whom Mendelssohn - so it is said - wanted to write a cello concerto. This never happened; this was probably not due to Piatti, who only died in 1901 at the age of 79.

winner of the ARD Music Competition

Hunting Hall

Schwetzingen Castle

Haesue Lee

Violist

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 31, 2025

Kirill Karabits conducts works by Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Walton and Tchaikovsky · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 25, 2025

winner of the ARD Music Competition · SWR Symphonieorchester

May 25, 2025

winner of the ARD Music Competition · SWR Symphonieorchester

Past events

Sep 25, 2024

Kronberg Festival 2024 · Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Jun 9, 2024

Curtis on Tour in Bremen, Germany · Curtis Institute of Music

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