The German pianist Oliver Kern opens the 2023 Chopin Festival with this concert in which he performs works by Johannes Brahms, Miquel Capllonch, Ludwig van Beethoven and Frédéric Chopin. This year's edition of the Festival Chopin de Valldemossa is subsidized by the Department of Culture of the Consell de Mallorca, the Institut d'Estudis Balearics of the Government of the Balearic Islands and the European Union with Next Generation funds.
Oliver Kern (Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1970) graduated in piano, conducting and choir conducting at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart. He continued his piano studies with Rudolf Buchbinder and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Musik-Akademie in Basel and the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
He has been a professor at Hanyang University in Seoul, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg and, since 2012, he has been a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt.
He has played in prestigious concert halls all over the world and has performed as soloist with important orchestras such as the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, the China National Symphony Orchestra, or the symphony orchestras of the Berlin, Munich, Hannover and Vienna radios, with conductors such as Enrique Batiz, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Stern, Lü Jia, Marc Soustrot, Gerard Oskamp and Dimitri Yablonski.
Program:
Ballad no.1 in G minor op. 23 by Frederic Chopin
Pieces for piano op. 118 by Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo. Allegro non assai
Intermezzo. Andante teneramente
Ballad. Allegro energico
Intermezzo. Allegretto un poco agitato
Romance. Andante
Intermezzo. Andante, largo e mesto
Tema i variacions, by Miquel Capllonch
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Preludes op. 28 (selection), by Frédéric Chopin
C major, E minor, A major, C sharp minor, D flat major, F minor, C minor.
Sonata no. 8 in C minor op. 13. Patética, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Serious. Allegro di molto e con brio
Andante cantabile
Rondo. Allegro
Scherzo in C sharp minor op. 39, by Frederic Chopin
Since the creation of the Pro Chopin Committee in 1930 by the composer Joan Maria Thomàs, in addition to paying permanent tribute to Chopin's work, one of the objectives has been the recovery and dissemination of the island's musical heritage and the best contemporary music made in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.
Following this line of recovery and dissemination, this year's Chopin Festival wanted to keep in mind three very significant island musicians: Antoni Lliteres i Carrió (Artà, 1673 – Madrid, 1747), Miquel Capllonch (Pollença, 1861 – 1935) and Carme Fernández Vidal (Palma, 1970).
The four concerts of the Chopin Festival 2023 are held in the Cloister of the Cartuja de Valldemossa from August 6 to 27. In the Chapter House you can see the Ñaco Fabré exhibition Dar a ver.
