Thursday, September 27, 7 p.m.

Ursuline Church

 

 

Mayumi Hirasaki, baroque violin

Vittorio Ghielmi, viola da gamba; pardessus de viole

 

Programme:

18th CENTURY MUSIC FOR VIOLIN, VIOLA DA GAMBA & PARDESSUS DE VIOLE

Arcangelo Corelli
Sonata in D major op.5 no.1
Grave-Allegro-Adagio-Grave-Allegro-Adagio
Allegro
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro

Georg Philipp Telemann
Fantasie for violin solo no.7 in C minor, TWV 40:16
Adagio
Presto
Grave
Vivace

Antonio Vivaldi
Sonata in D minor op.2 no.3, RV 14
Preludio. Andante
Corrente. Allegro
Adagio
Giga. Allegro

Carl Friedrich Abel
Two pieces for viola da gamba solo, from the autograph Improvisation Notebook (New York Drexel Collection)
Adagio
Allegro

Vittorio Ghielmi
Sakura (Cherry Blossom), melody from the japanese folk song

Barthelemy de Caix
Sonata in A major op.1 no. 4
Allegro
Aria
Ciaccona

 

Francesco Maria Veracini
Sonate Accademiche: Sonata in G minor op.2 no.5
Adagio assai
Capriccio Allegro assai – Adagio assai
Allegro assai
Giga Allegro

 

About the performer:

Mayumi Hirasaki started her violin studies at Tokyo University of Arts, continued and finished at the University of Music in Nuremberg and Augsburg in the class of Daniel Gaede. She studied baroque violin in the master class of Mary Utiger at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. She completed her church music studies at the Archdiocese of Bamberg and studied harpsichord in the class of Christine Schornsheim. She also attended Lucerne School of Music in the class of Giuliano Carmignola. She won a whole range of awards at the international competitions. Since 2011, she is a concertmaster of the ensemble Concerto Köln, where she cooperates with numerous prominent conductors and soloists like Peter Dijkstra, Andrea Marcon, Pablo Heras-Casado, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Giuliano Carmignola, Dorothee Oberlinger, Midori Seiler, Simone Kermes, Vivica Genaux and Valer Sabadus. She is also a permanent guest of various baroque orchestras and ensembles like Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Dresdner Festspielorchester (artistic leadership: Ivor Bolton), Zürcher Kammerorchester, Kammerorchester Basel, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, The King´s Consort, Neue Düsseldorfer Hofmusik, Collegium Cartusianum, La Divina Armonia, Il Suonar Parlante and Il Gardellino. She performed throughout Europe, United States and Japan. Her partners in chamber music playing are musicians like Christine Schornsheim, Francis Jacob, Maurice Steger, Naoki Kitaya, Lorenzo and Vittorio Ghielmi. She recorded numerous CDs. From winter 2009, she teaches baroque violin and viola at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and from autumn 2017, she took over a professorship for baroque violin and viola at Mozarteum in Salzburg.

 

Vittorio Ghielmi studied viola da gamba with Roberto Gini at Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milano, with Wieland Kuijeken at Conservatoire Royale in Brussel and with Christophe Coin in Paris. Cooperation with instrument builder Luc Breton and with numerous musicians of non-European traditions (India, Afghanistan, Africa, and Latin America) as well as exploring old music traditions that survived in forbidden parts of the world opened him new perspectives in the interpretation of European early music and significantly marked his music career. He performed, as a soloist and a conductor, with the most world famous orchestras like Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonia, Wiener-Concertverein, Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra etc. He performed recital duos with his brother Lorenzo and with Luca Pianca in the most prestigious concert halls like Musikverein in Viena, Berliner Philharmoniker Hall, and Casals Hall in Tokyo etc. As a soloist or chamber musician, he shared a stage with Gustavo Leonhardt (duo), Cecilia Bartoli, Andràs Schiff, Thomas Quasthoff, Mario Brunello, Enrico Onofri, Viktoria Mullova, Gracielo Gibelli, Giuliano Carmignolo, Christophe Coin, Reinhard Goebel, Giovanni Antonini, Ottavio Dantone etc. He is one of a few viola da gamba players, who regularly performs with the orchestra. He often plays world premieres of contemporary compositions, many of whom are devoted to him. From 2007 to 2011, he was the assistant of Riccardo Muti at the Salzburg Festival. With his ensemble, Il Suonar Parlante, he explores early music repertoire in a new way, creating new music realities. With that ensemble, he performed with a number of prominent jazz musicians like Kenny Wheeler, Uri Caine, Jim Black, Don Byron, Markus Stockhausen, Nguyen Lê and Achille Succi, jazz and blues singers like Cristine Zavalloni and Barbare Walker, and flamenco stars like Carmen Linares. Through ensemble, Ghielmi cooperates with traditional Asian musicians like Afghan virtuosos Ensemble Kaboul (Khaled Arman). His recordings won many awards and he has been recording for numerous respectable labels (Winter&Winter, Harmonia Mundi, Teldec, Decca, Sony, Auvidis, Opus 111 and Passacaille). He is a professor at Luca Marenzio Conservatory in Brescia and at Mozarteum in Salzburg, and the regularly holds master classes at the academies and universities all over the world.