String games II

Performers

Muriel Cantoreggi, Julia Schröder, Anne-Katharina Schreiber → Violin
Anna Puig Torné → Viola
Elena Cheah → Violoncello
Chiara Opalio → Piano

Program

Jessie Montgomery → Three Pieces for Violin and Cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart → String Quintet in C major K. 515
Clara Schumann → Trio in G minor op. 17

Music with stringed instruments from classical to jazz: from 12 to 17 May 2025, teachers and students of stringed and plucked instruments are organizing a festival at the College of Music Freiburg. Almost all of the teachers of these subjects will be performing - an opportunity for the audience to hear renowned musicians who rarely play in Freiburg due to their international concert activities. The program includes pieces for small and large ensembles, including some that are rarely performed.

Saitenspiele I and II: harp, guitar, string chamber music

The first concert on May 12, 2025 will be preceded by a performance by three harp students: they will play in the foyer of the university from 6 p.m. and get the audience in the mood for the "Saitenfestival" as a kind of "musical welcome cocktail", says Muriel Cantoreggi. "Saitenspiele I: Nachtfantasien" will be performed by the guitar class and will range musically from Franz Schubert's quartet "Notturno", arranged for guitar, violin and cello, to improvisation and the jazz music of Thelonious Monk. The second concert, "Saitenspiele II: In Confidence", is performed exclusively by teachers from the university. On this chamber music evening, they will perform works from the Romantic period, such as a string quintet with two violas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a rarely performed piano trio by Clara Schumann. "This is a wonderful, highly original romantic trio. Clara Schumann composed it in 1846, shortly before her husband Robert wrote his first piano trio Opus 63, inspired by her work. She is in no way inferior to him musically," says Muriel Cantoreggi. The most modern piece of the festival will also be performed on this evening: "Three Pieces for Violin and Cello" by US composer Jessie Montgomery.

Further information on the "Saitenspiele" festival can be found in our press release.