This page contains automatically translated content.

01/24/2020 | Campus-Meldung

University orchestra plays piano concerto from own pen

Schumacher and Schumann are on the program of the Kassel University Symphony Orchestra at its concerts on February 8 and 9. The Fourth Symphony by Robert Schumann is probably familiar to many music lovers. Schumacher's, however, is the world premiere of a piano concerto composed by a member of the orchestra.

Image: University of Kassel.
Orchestra of the University of Kassel.

Christian Schumacher has been the principal of the second violins in the university orchestra for many years.
The 34-year-old, who studied music at the University of Kassel and now works as a violin and viola teacher, describes his concert as a kind of "film music without film. It should give the listener the possibility of his or her own interpretation of a dramaturgical sequence - music for the head cinema, so to speak. Stylistically, the piece is based on the works of late romanticism and film music of the last century.

The soloist is Zifan Ye, a student at the Hanover Academy of Music. The 19-year-old comes from Inner Mongolia and began professional piano studies at the age of eight in the highly gifted class of a music conservatory in Beijing. He can already look back on numerous international prizes and successful performances around the globe.

The musical director is Malte Steinsiek, the longtime conductor of the university orchestra.
 

Dates:

Saturday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m., Martinskirche
Sunday, Feb. 9, 6 p.m., Friedenskirche
Admission: 12 euros, 6 euros concessions.

Advance ticket sales at Bauer and Hieber, Ständeplatz 13
Ticket reservations at the University Orchestra: Tel. 0561/4997977