Mendelssohn: Double Concerto

As part of the three-day events organized in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Zypern, the Pharos Arts Foundation presents Mendelssohn’s Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Ensemble in D minor. Written in 1823 and lasting approximately forty minutes, this captivating 'Double Concerto’ was the product of a 14-year-old genius and shows Mendelssohn at its purest and most imaginative form. Pianist Johannes Lang will team up with the exciting young violinist Julian Fahrner, and the Camerata Crucianorum, to deliver this wonderful work. The programme will also include J.S. Bach’s Sonata for violin and piano in G major, BWV 1019 and the Cyprus premiere of Raffaele Grimaldi’s Syntagma III for violin and piano.

Julian Fahrner / violin
Born in 1990 in Basel, Julian Fahrner started receiving his first violin lessons at the age of six, at the Music Academy of Basel. His teachers have included Heidy Raeber, Prof. Jörg Hofmann in Freiburg, and later Prof. Albrecht Breuninger at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe. Fahrner has collaborated with professors Christoph Wyneken, Buck and Jahn, as well as the Fauré and Mandelring quartets. He has won several first prizes at the German youth competition “Jugend Musiziert” for violin solo and chamber music. He is also the special prize winner of the Sonderpreisträger der Bundesapothekerkammer and the Badische Gemeinde Versicherung and he has won the art award of Sparkasse Markgräflerland. In addition, he won the Eduard Söring special prize of Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and a special prize at the international Max Reger competition in Weiden. In 2011, Julian Fahrner made his debut at the festival of Mecklenburg Vorpommern. For many years he served as the first concertmaster of the youth orchestra of Baden-Württemberg. As a soloist and chamber musician, he travelled across Europe, to Ecuador and Syria. He is the founder of the “Elliot O.” string quartet. Julian Fahrner plays on a violin by Jean-Baptiste Vuilliaume (Paris, 1874) made available to him by Landesammlung Baden-Württemberg and he is kindly supported by the Rudolf Eberle Foundation.

Johannes Lang / piano, direction
Born in Düsseldorf, Johannes Lang has been studying harpsichord with Prof. Dr. Robert Hill and church music at the University of Music in Freiburg, Germany. Earlier on, he had studied the piano with Eveline Vinh-Marinelli and at the age of 16 he had been accepted as a student for pre-college courses at the Freiburg Young Musician Academy of the Freiburg University of Music. After receiving eleven First Prizes in the categories organ, harpsichord and piano at the National Youth Competition of Germany “Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert” he won the illustrious Organ Competitions of Lübeck (2009), Bellelay (2011) and Leipzig (2012) and was also awarded prizes at the Organ Competitions in Ljubljana (2007), Herford (2008) and at the international ARD-Competition in Munich 2011. He is a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and the German Foundation of Music and he was appointed member of the jury in the 2012 Bundeswettbewerb competition. Johannes Lang also serves as cantor and organist at the Kreuzkirche Freiburg and has given many concerts playing the organ, harpsichord and piano as well as chamber music both in his home country and abroad. His work as a versatile musician is documented on many CD recordings, as well as radio and TV productions. In fall 2013, he will be recording a CD with J. S. Bach’s organ works for the well-known Genuin label.

Camerata Crucianorum
The ensemble Camerata Crucianorum is an international ensemble founded in 2011. It is the ensemble in residence at the Kreuzkirche Freiburg, Germany, performing various forms of music, especially classical concerts and church services. Its special feature is that all musicians are familiar with playing both original Baroque and modern instruments. The members of the ensemble are all students or former students of the Freiburg University of Music and come from various countries all over Europe like Norway, Hungary, France and the Netherlands. Their repertoire ranges from Dieterich Buxtehude to Max Reger including many works of the choir-symphonic repertoire and symphonic works of the early Classical era. The ensemble pursues the aim of enlivening music of all epochs by combining period instruments with deep, historically informed interpretations.

Programme:
J. S. Bach
Sonata for violin and piano, G major, BWV 1019

Raffaele Grimaldi
Syntagma III for violin and piano

interval

Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Ensemble in D minor

Tickets:
€15 Adults / €10 Members of the Foundation, Concessions
Box Office: Tel. 7000-9304 (daily 9.30-11.30am) / www.pharostickets.org