Pianist

"The Fantastic" is the theme of this season's chamber concerts in the Apollosaal, based on the season's first opera premiere, Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann. Musicians of the Staatskapelle Berlin have developed programs that approach this idea and concept, which play a key role in music, in a variety of ways. Ranging from the Baroque to the present day, with a particular focus on the Romantic period, featuring Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and the multitalented E.T.A. Hoffmann (who, in an idealized form, became the title character in Offenbach's opera), "The Fantastic" will be explored with a variety of chamber music works in diverse ensembles.

Chamber Concert II

Berlin State Opera

On this evening, three young international artists with great voices who have already celebrated their first successes at major opera houses will be on stage. Only the opera salon in a chamber music setting allows a closeness to the artists that is impossible on the big stages of the theatres. Wonderful arias and duets are performed – highlights and unknown treasures of opera that will delight opera lovers and newcomers alike.

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Hamburg Chamber Music Festival International

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

As a chamber music professor and piano accompanist, Mara Mednik worked for decades to turn talented young musicians into the stars of tomorrow. She brought many as yet unknown greats to the stage of the Hamburg Chamber Music Festival. Her former students have included Daniel Hope, David Garett, Julian Steckel and Vilde Frang.

For more than six decades, the chamber concerts by musicians from the Staatskapelle have been a constant feature of the Staatsoper programme. This season, ensembles have come together to select music from different periods, styles and cultures under the theme of ‘playing together’. On eleven dates in the Apollosaal, which with its special atmosphere is an ideal venue for chamber music and communicative interaction between players and listeners, works from the Baroque to the present day will be performed in constellations that are both exciting and harmonious, in which tangible contrasts play just as important a role as a common resonance and the balancing of opposites.

Kam­mer­kon­zert IV

Apollosaal

Kam­mer­kon­zert VIII

Chamber Concert III

Emanuel Blumin-Sint is a rising star in the classical music world. The 20-year-old bassoonist has already given solo performances at New York's Carnegie Hall and the Elbphilharmonie. He has collaborated with Sir Simon Rattle and won more than a dozen first prizes in competitions. In 2024, he was awarded the Fanny Mendelssohn Förderpreis, which enabled him to create his debut album, "Leading Bassoon." This record clearly shows that Emanuel Blumin-Sint is on a mission. He wants to bring the bassoon to create a new image, bringing the sonic diversity offered by his instrument closer to the audience. In this "Classics on Sunday – Extra," he plays three of his most beautiful declarations of love for his instrument. Mozart's Bassoon Concerto is a poetic reverie tailor-made for the warm, singing tone of the bassoon. And Rossini beautifully combines the bassoon's soft tone with lightness and Italian flair.

Pianist

Elisaveta Blumina

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 19, 2026

Chamber Concert III · Staatskapelle Berlin

May 3, 2026

Bassoon Concerts – Classical on Sunday Extra · Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Past events

Dec 1, 2025

Chamber Concert II · Staatskapelle Berlin

Jun 15, 2025

Hamburg Chamber Music Festival International · Elbphilharmonie

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Bassoon Concerto by Mozart

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Conductor in Andante e rondo ongarese by Weber

Brandenburgischen Staatsorchesters Frankfurt

Piano in 3 Pieces for Cello and Piano by Boulanger

Staatskapelle Berlin

Piano in Piano Trio in A minor by Ravel

Staatskapelle Berlin

Piano in Piano Quintet by Weinberg

Staatskapelle Berlin

Piano in By Goethe by Jung

Staatskapelle Berlin

Piano in Sextet by Dreyfus

Staatskapelle Berlin

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