Sunday, September 23, 7 p.m.
Cathedral
Varaždin Chamber Orchestra
Latica Honda Rosenberg, violin solo & artistic leadership
Programme:
YEAR AFTER AND YEAR BEFORE ANNIVERSARY
Pietro Antonio Locatelli
Introduzione teatrale op.4 no.5
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Pietro Antonio Locatelli
Concerto for violin in D major Il laberinto armonico op.3 no.12
Allegro
Largo-Presto-Adagio
Allegro
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in F sharp minor, TWV 55:fis1, Tafelmusik 10
Ouverture
Les Plaisirs
Angloise
La Badinerie italienne
Loure
Menuet I/II
Courante
Le Batelage
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture-Suite Don Quixotte, TWV 55:G10
Ouverture
Le reveille de Quixotte
Son attaque des Moulens a Vent
Les soupirs amoureux apres la Princesse Dulcinèe
Sanche Panche Berné
Le Galop de Rosinante
La Couché de Quixotte
About the performer:
Varaždin Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1994, continuing chamber orchestra tradition in Varaždin, especially strong in 50’s and 60’s years of past century. Their central activity is a cycle of five premiere concerts in a season performed in the concert hall of the CNT in Varaždin. The orchestra regularly performs at Varaždin Baroque Evenings and holds concerts all over Croatia – in Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar, Opatija, Osijek, Karlovac, Čakovec, as well as abroad – in Slovenia, Germany, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The orchestra recorded three CDs. Though appearing very often without the conductor, the orchestra occasionally cooperates with renowned conductors like Pavle Dešpalj, Milan Horvat, Kazushi Ono, Marko Letonja, Vjekoslav Šutej, Uroš Lajovic, Vladimir Kranjčević, Mladen Tarbuk, Ivo Lipanović, Zoran Juranić, Ivan Repušić and others. Some eminent instrumentalists and singers appeared on stage with the orchestra: Ruža Pospiš-Baldani, Dubravka Tomšič-Srebotnjak, Dunja Vejzović, Višnja Mažuran, Monika Leskovar, Karmen Pečar, Renata Pokupić, Radovan Vlatković, David Geringas, Valter Dešpalj, Dora Schwarzberg, Branimir Slokar, Peter Soave, Stanko Arnold, Ištvan Römer, Lovro Pogorelić,Božo Paradžik, Inva Mula…
Along with two permanent concertmasters (Dunja Bontek and Ivana Penić Defar), the orchestra is often engaging guests-concertmasters like Leon Spierer, Catherine Mackintosh, Taras Pečeny, Tamara Smirnova, Aleksandar Ivić, Boro Martinić, Mario Korunić, Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Stefan Milenkovich. The orchestra has been given the award of Varaždin Baroque Evenings Ivan Lukačić, the award of Croatian Society of Music Artists Milka Trnina, as well as the Plaque of the City of Varaždin. For their concert held on Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2007, they won Orlando award and for the concert held on Varaždin Baroque Evenings Jurica Murai award for the best interpretation of soloist, conductor or chamber ensemble.
Latica Honda-Rosenberg is among the foremost representatives of the generation of young violinists that is now established in concert life. Winning the silver medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1998 paved the way for an international career for her. The music magazine The Strad wrote at the time: ”Her assurance and strength of will immediately brought Heifetz to mind. Her musical idiom and her playing are eloquent, expressive, sensitive and variegated, or in short: wonderful, uplifting.”
Born the child of a Croatian cellist and Japanese singer, Latica Honda-Rosenberg grew up in Germany and commenced playing the violin at the age of four. She became a young pupil of Tibor Varga at the Detmold School of Music when she was nine. She continued her training with Zakhar Bron in Madrid at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia and at the Musikhochschule Lübeck.
Performing in the series ‘Debut on Deutschland-Radio’ and accompanied by the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, she made her debut as a soloist at the Philharmonie Berlin in 1989. She has since appeared as a soloist with the Orchestra of the Beethovenhalle Bonn, NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hanover, MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra National de Belgique, Russian State Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
Along with the appropriate Baroque solo concertos, Latica Honda-Rosenberg is happy to play not only works ranging from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky to Bartók, Shostakovich and Prokofief, but also such lesser-know concertos as those by Robert Schumann, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Jacques Loussier.
Since 2000 Latica Honda-Rosenberg has been recording exclusively for the Oehms Classics label. Three recordings with works by Bloch, Prokofief (chamber music), Shostakovitsch and Tchaikovsky (solo concertos) are already available. The recordings of chamber music by Ernest Bloch were chosen by The Strad’as its CD of the Month.
Apart from her worldwide activities on the concert platform, since 2003 Latica Honda-Rosenberg has held a professorship for violin at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. She also gives master classes in Germany, Italy (Gustav Mahler Academy), France, Croatia, Portugal and in Israel (Keshet Eilon Summer Course). Since April 2009 she received a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts.