J.S. Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo
Thursday 25 May 2023, 7.30pm
Razumovsky Academy, 56 College Road NW10 5ET
7pm doors open
7.30pm concert (with an interval)
9.15pm reception
Tickets:
£30 (£15 students and under 25s)
£50 (£30 students and under 25s) to include post-concert drinks/eats buffet reception
For further details and booking request please contact [email protected]
PROGRAMME
J.S. Bach Sonata No.2 in A minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1003
J.S. Bach Partita No.3 in E major for Violin Solo, BWV 1006
Interval
J.S. Bach Sonata No.3 in C Major for Violin Solo, BWV 1005
J.S. Bach Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor for Violin Solo, BWV 1004
Kolja Blacher studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Dorothy DeLay and with Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. He performed as a soloist all over the world, with orchestras such as Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, NDR Symphony, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia and Baltimore Symphony. He has worked with conductors including Kirill Petrenko, Vladimir Jurowski, Dimitri Kitajenko, Mariss Jansons, Matthias Pintscher, Markus Stenz, Simone Young and Asher Fish.
Blacher’s programmatic spectrum comprises works for solo violin from Bach to Berio, the classical-romantic core repertoire, and contemporary music for violin and orchestra (including works by Magnus Lindberg, Kurt Weill, Hans Werner Henze and Bernd Alois Zimmermann). Open to new concert experiences, he gave the German premiere of Brett Dean’s „Electric Preludes“ for the six-string e-violin.
In the past six years „Play-Lead“ concerts have become the new focus in Blacher’s artistic activities; as a leader – both as a soloist and from the concertmaster’s chair – he worked regularly with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Taiwan Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Camerata Bern and the Orchestra of the “Komische Oper” in Berlin. This new form of performance practice, increasing sought after, leads him all over the world, from St. Antonio to Kuala Lumpur to Paris.
Blacher has recorded highly acclaimed CDs (e.g. Diapason d’Or) in collaboration with Claudio Abbado, with whom he has maintained close ties since their time at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. His CD with Schönbergs’s Violin Concerto (with Markus Stenz and Gürzenich-Orchester Köln) was released in Autumn 2013.
Kolja Blacher was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg before returning to his hometown of Berlin, where he teaches at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler.” A born and bred Berliner – his father was the Baltic-German composer Boris Blacher – Kolja Blacher lives with his family in Berlin.
Blacher plays a magnificent 1730 “Tritton” Stradivari violin.
For further details and booking request please contact [email protected]