Percussionist

Beethoven's Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra, Op. 56 is also known as the Triple Concert. Before embarking on a tour of the world's concert stages, it was first performed privately twice in the spring of 1804 for its patron – Prince Franz Joseph Maximilian Lobkowitz. Arranged for accordion, mandolin and piano, the performance will feature a trio of Israeli artists, with composer and conductor Omer Meir Wellber both conducting and playing the accordion. The mandolin will be played by Jakob Reuven and the piano by Guy Mintus, a composer and pianist also involved in jazz and an enthusiastic music teacher.

Beethoven and Dvořák's Eighth

Municipal House

There's something magical about the change that comes with the seasons. The idea of ​​a leaf growing from a bare branch in spring seems unimaginable, at least during the winter months. And yet: as soon as the first warm rays of sunshine make their way through, everything sprouts and blooms everywhere. Accompanied by Israeli mandolinist Jacob Reuven, students from grades 1 to 4 stroll through the seasons in this concert. Surrounded by music spanning more than 250 years, spring, summer, autumn, and winter seem both distant and close at hand. Sometimes the messenger of spring sits chirping on our shoulder, sometimes we dance the tango with him through the colorful sea of ​​leaves.

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Eight Seasons

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Under the direction of Omer Meir Wellber, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra is adding a colorful accent to the season: THE BLUE WEEK. The new festival replaces the former Academy Concerts and combines unique works and programs on the one hand and showcases the special qualities of our orchestra musicians on the other. In the first edition, they make metamorphoses of all kinds audible: In the third concert program of the festival week, Vivaldi's and Piazzolla's spring, summer, autumn and winter come together in an interplay and form eight seasons of different climatic zones.

3. Blue Concert EIGHT SEASONS

Elbphilharmonie

Starting this season, the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra's program will feature a new, colorful highlight: Blue Week. This festival replaces the former Academy Concerts and combines unique works and programs while showcasing the special qualities of the orchestra's musicians. In this first edition, they will make metamorphoses of all kinds audible – in this concert, humans are transformed into animals, oboe notes into alienated soundscapes, and fantasies into sonic reality.

Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra

Dance, and its consequences. This is, implicitly, the common thread of this evening, which began with Bach, via the Musical Offering reinterpreted by Webern, followed by the First Partita for solo violin , then culminating with Beethoven's Seventh Symphony , in which Wagner heard "the apotheosis of dance, dance in its supreme essence, the fusion of body and mind." There is still dance, with Aziza Sadikova, refining a Chaconne for mandolin after Bach.

Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 / Omer Meir Wellber

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

If the tutelary figure of Bach hovers over the evening, it is to better reinvent him, to decline links between places and eras, with dance as a fixed idea. Thus, the First Partita responds to a Chaconne for orchestra and mandolin by the composer Aziza Sadikova from Uzbekistan, while tango and klezmer accents smile on the Andalusia of Asturias of Albeniz. Not forgetting the conductor Omer Meir Wellber who came with his accordion. Beware of false pretenses!

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Funding provided in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and private funders.

Percussionist

Jacob Reuven

Events

Upcoming events

May 7, 2026

Guest performance in Dortmund | Ruhr Piano Festival · WDR Sinfonieorchester

Past events

Jan 26, 2026

Beethoven and Dvořák's Eighth · Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Oct 13, 2025

Eight Seasons · Elbphilharmonie

Future and recently performed repertoire

Mandolin in Triple Concerto by Beethoven

Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Mandolin in Asturias by Albéniz

Orchestre National de France

Percussion in The Eight Seasons by Vivaldi

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Mandolin in Chaconne by Sadikova

Orchestre National de France

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