Chamber Music Concert

String quartet

The Collenbusch Quartet with Brahms, Shostakovich and a work by our resident composer.

4/7

Sunday | 4/07/2024
6:00 pm Start of Concert
Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden
Floor Plan
17 €
9 € for young people
8 € for Dresden-Pass

About the Concert

For many, Shostakovich's string quartets belong to the non plus ultra of chamber music - and his eighth in particular, since he himself spoke of it as his "Requiem". Our resident composer Lera Auerbach has also dedicated herself to this legacy. For her, everything new comes from a precise knowledge of tradition, and one believes to hear clear echoes of Shostakovich in her quartet. Brahms also took his cue from the great predecessors throughout his life, especially Bach's art of counterpoint and variation. His string quartet does not sound like Bach, but he has brought the continuous variations, which quickly captivate the listener, to a similar perfection as the baroque master.
The Collenbusch Quartet has recently impressed with its interpretations of the Beethoven quartets - in this concert, the Philharmonic musicians show that they also enjoy late Romantic and 20th and 21st century music.

Program

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor op. 110

Lera Auerbach
String Quartet No. 3 "Cetera Desunt" Sonnet for string quartet


String Quartet No. 2 in A minor op. 51/2

Contributer

Collenbusch Quartett
Ensemble
Cordula Fest
violin
Christiane Liskowsky
violin
Christina Biwank
viola
Ulf Prelle
violoncello

Biographies

Collenbusch Quartett

Cordula Fest (1st violin), Christiane Liskowsky (2nd violin), Christina Biwank (viola) and Ulf Prelle (violoncello) came together for the first time for a chamber music evening at Schloss Albrechtsberg in Dresden in 2012. The joy of this project and the good musical cooperation prompted them shortly afterwards to found the Collenbusch Quartet.

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Cordula Fest

Deputy concertmaster of the 2nd violins

Cordula Fest received her first violin lessons at the age of 5. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden with Prof. Reinhard Ulbricht and with Prof. Yair Kless at the University of Music in Graz/Austria. Numerous master classes, among others with Zakhar Bron, Donald Weilerstein and Roman Totenberg/USA completed her studies.

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Christiane Liskowsky

Christiane Liskowsky received her first violin lessons in Dresden at the age of seven and began her training in 1988 at the special school of the Carl Maria von Weber Academy of Music in Dresden. She participated very successfully several times in the national competition "Jugend musiziert" and played in the national youth orchestra.

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Christina Biwank

Solo violist - Member of the Orchestra Board

Christina Biwank is principal violist of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also active in a variety of chamber music activities and holds a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

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Ulf Prelle

Solo-Cellist

lf Prelle began his cello studies in the USA with the La Salle Quartet and Zara Nelsova. Further studies took him to Basel with Thomas Demenga and to Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow. Subsequently, he was a scholarship holder of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Several times he was first prize winner of university competitions and performed as a soloist with such renowned orchestras as the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and the Basel Symphony Orchestra.

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