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Participants

Teachers and students of the College of Music Freiburg
Mathias Trapp, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wulff → Overall conception

Program

Works by Gioacchino Rossini, Steve Reich, Morton Feldman, Darius Milhaud, César Franck, John Cage, Johann Sebastian Bach, among others. First part of the concert in the Wolfgang Hoffmann Hall. Second part of the concert in four salons: "virtuoso piano music" in the Wolfgang Hoffmann Hall, "contemporary music" in the "Small Hall" (room 156), "piano improvisations" in the Rhythmic Hall (room 137) and "global music" in the Mathilde Schwarz Hall (room 117).

Up to fourteen pianos on one stage

On November 22, 2024, the third "Tastenfest" will take place at the College of Music Freiburg. Between one and 16 pianists will be playing at the same time - 160 fingers flying over more than 700 keys in precise coordination! In the first part of the concert, they will perform works by Gioachino Rossini, Steve Reich and Johann Sebastian Bach, among others. In the second part, the audience decides for itself: Would they prefer to hear virtuoso or contemporary music, improvisations or works from other continents in one of the "salons"?

After 1990 and 2008, the "Tastenfest" is taking place for the third time at the College of Music Freiburg. Students and teachers play original pieces and works arranged for piano from different eras and in different styles. In addition to normal pianos and grand pianos, they will also use toy pianos, a prepared grand piano, a harmonium, an organ and a 16th-note piano.

In the first part of the concert, they will perform the overture from Gioachino Rossini's opera "Semiramide" in an arrangement by Carl Czerny for eight pianos and 16 pianists and Steve Reich's meditative piece "Six Pianos" from 1973. There will also be music by Morton Feldman, Darius Milhaud, César Franck and John Cage. Works by Johann Sebastian Bach will be played on a toy piano and a 16th-note piano, among others. "The aim of the Tastenfest is to show the public the concentrated power of the piano department at the College of Music Freiburg," explains piano lecturer Mathias Trapp, who organizes the Tastenfest. "That's why the pieces sound very different: from a powerful, loud opera overture to pieces that you can immerse yourself in and hardly dare to breathe."

In the second part of the concert, the audience has a choice

After the first part of the concert, which takes place in the Wolfgang Hoffmann Hall, the audience can decide for themselves after a short break what kind of music they would like to hear in one of the four "salons" in the university: virtuoso piano music on the large concert grand pianos on the stage of the Wolfgang Hoffmann Hall, or would you prefer contemporary music in the "Small Hall" (room 156)? Piano improvisations that can sound sometimes jazzy, sometimes classical and sometimes contemporary in the Rhythmic Hall (room 137)? Or works by composers from outside the European cultural sphere in the "Salon for World Music" in the Mathilde Schwarz Hall (room 117)? "You don't often have the opportunity to hear so many pianists playing a very broad program on different instruments at the same time - only the Tastenfest offers this chance," says Mathias Trapp.