Raskin & Fleischmann

The Pharos Arts Foundation, in collaboration with the Embassy of Austria in Cyprus, presents a violin and piano recital with the duo Raskin & Fleischmann. The recital will take place on Tuesday 22 October 2013, at The Shoe Factory, Nicosia, 8:30pm, and will include works by Mozart and Brahms, as well as Korngold’s rarely performed Sonata in G major, Op.6.

RASKIN & FLEISCHMANN

Johannes Fleischmann (violin) and Philip Raskin (piano) met in August 2009 during the Panlo Casals Festival in Prades. A year later, they gave their first performance together, collaborating as a duo in Vienna, and since then, they have performed all over Europe, Africa and South America.

Raskin & Fleischmann have undertaken many festivals and are supported by many well-known musicians and pedagogic figures including Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet), Evgenia Epshtein (Aviv Quartet), Erich Hoebarth (Quatuor Mosaique), Marta Gulyas, Avedis Kouyoumdjian and Andras Keller (Keller Quartet). In November 2011, they released their first debut album that features works by Beethoven, Brahms and Frank to much critical acclaim – “Magnificent duo (…), the first offering his round, gleaming and orchestral playing to the lyricism, the perfect intonation and the bright sonorities of the second” (MDM, La Libre Belgique 2013).

Contemporary music is an extremely important aspect to their program which has led to several performances of world premiers. Raskin & Fleischmann regularly work with composers such as Serkan Guerkan and Christoph Ehrenfellner, who have dedicated the works “Mein Wien” and “Jagd Sonata” to them respectively.

The upcoming season 2013-2014 features among others, a concert tour in Colombia, concerts in Musikverein – Wien and a special highlight – the recording of a new CD with works by Mozart, Korngold and Ehrenfellner. In addition, they were also selected by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as ambassadors for the NASOM “New Austrian Sound of Music” Program in 2014-2015.

Born in Brussels in 1982, Philippe Raskin obtained his first degree with the highest honours from the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels where he studied under Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden. He then joined the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel and graduated with the highest honours, and received his Masters degree from the Brussels Conservatorium. Subsequently, he entered the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid where he worked from 2005 till 2009 with Dmitri Bashkirov and Claudio Martinez Mehner. As early as the first year, he received from H.M the Queen of Spain the Sobresaliente Prize at the Pardo Palace. Raskin has won several national and international competitions, among others the J.S. Bach Competition in Brussels, the International Piano Competition in Paris, and the International Andre Dumortier Competition. In 2012, he became the second prize winner at the Lyon International Piano Competition and First Prize-winner at the “Spanish Composers” International Piano Competition in Madrid. Philippe Raskin has played in several illustrious concert halls, such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts inBrussels, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid and the Bulgari Hall in Sofia. At the invitation of the Chopin Foundation in Warsaw he had the opportunity to play in the house where the composer was born. Philippe regularly plays with orchestra, notably the Belgian National Orchestra, the Philharmonic Sofia Orchestra, the Flemish Radio Orchestra, de Filarmonie, the Music Chapel of Tournai, the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, the Sturm und Klank Orchestra, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Malaga and the Symfonie Orkest Vlaanderen conducted by Damian Lorio, Dian Tchobanov, Pierre Bartholomée, Philippe Gérard, Olari Elts, Paul Goodwin, David Angus and Manuel Valdivieso.

Born in Vienna in 1983, Johannes Fleischmann is the son of the famous singing teacher Margit Klaushofer. At a young age, he entered the Wiener Universität für Musik and workedwith Klaus Maetzi and Christian Altenburger. He also worked with other famous teachers such as Andras Schiff, Erich Hoebarth, Rainer Honeck, Marianne Piketty, Mauricio Fuks and many others. Johannes gives concerts in solo, chamber music and with orchestra all over the world. He especially played in the Wiener Philharmoniker and the Wiener Symphoniker conducted by prestigious conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Valery Gergiev, Simon Rattle, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Colin Davis. He also played in the world most renowned halls: Carnegie Hall in New York, Musikverein in Vienna, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Barbican Hall in London, La Scala in Milan, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Berliner Philharmonie, and many others. Johannes Fleischmann has participated in many international festivals such as the Salzburger Festspiele, the Luzern Festival, the Europäischen Kulturtagen Frankfurt, the Attersee Klassik and the Steirischen Kammermusik Festival.

PROGRAMME:

W. A. Mozart: Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat major, K.454
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Violin in D-minor, Op.108

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W. E. Korngold: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Op.6

Tickets: €20 Adults / €15 Members of the Foundation, Concessions
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