BALTIC SEAMUSIKFORUM2020
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Once again this year, the Baltic Sea Music Forum, which has become a tradition, will take place in the special ambience of Stolpe Castle on Usedom.
The internationally renowned cellist, chamber musician and conductor David Geringas will be the artistic mentor for master classes for musically highly talented students. The master classes and concerts are an exceptional platform for concentrated work with renowned artists and programmes that are closely aligned with the dramaturgy of the Usedom Music Festival.
is one of the most versatile musicians of our time. The cellist and conductor David Geringas, born in Vilnius/Lithuania, belongs to the musical elite of the present. An unusually broad repertoire from the earliest Baroque to contemporary music demonstrates the artist’s flexibility and curiosity. His intellectual rigor, stylistic versatility, melodic sentiment and sensuality of sound have earned him awards all over the world. The Rostropovich student and winner of the 1st prize and gold medal at the Tchaikovsky Competition (1970) can now look back on a career spanning decades. He has worked as a cellist as well as a conductor with many renowned artists. For years he has been coming regularly to the Usedom Music Festival to show and share his expertise.
Monday | 21.9. | 19:30 | Stolpe Castle | Stolpe Opening of the Baltic Sea Music Forum
David Geringas (cello)
Geir Dragfully (bayan)
Ingrida Rupaitė (violin)
With works by: ANTON FERDINAND TITZ, ANATOLIUS
ŠENDEROVAS, FAUSTAS LATĖNAS and ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
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Venue
Stolpe castle
Since 2010 the concerts of the Baltic Sea Music Forum with and around the Lithuanian cellist David Geringas and his master students form the cultural highlights in this jewel of the island history and architecture.
First mentioned in a document in 1251, the castle was the ancestral seat of the Counts of Schwerin, except for a few interruptions. In the following centuries the Pomeranian dukes were guests several times. It was not until the late Renaissance (1568-1612) that a building was erected which represents the core of the present castle: a two-storey building on a rectangular ground plan with the typical Renaissance blind gables and horizontal cornices. The castle is one of the most important Renaissance buildings in Western Pomerania. Badly damaged during the Thirty Years’ War, the building underwent numerous reconstructions in the following centuries. The simple baroque manor house was turned into a respectable residential castle, which remained in its function until 1945. After the Second World War and nationalisation, the building became increasingly dilapidated, which could only be stopped in 1995. Since then, the community and the Förderverein Schloss Stolpe e.V. have endeavoured to put the estate to a multi-faceted cultural use.
Castle 9 – 17406 Stolpe on Usedom
YOUNGCONCERTARTISTS
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Since 1994 there has been a cooperation with the renowned Young Concert Artists New York competition for young talents – a small transatlantic bridge, initiated by the honorary patron of the Usedom Music Festival Kurt Masur. In concerts, the Usedom Music Festival presents the winners of the final rounds in Leipzig and New York. The non-profit foundation Young Concert Artists founded the careers of world stars such as Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Pinchas Zukerman.
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‘Experience, discover, try, explore’ – this is the motto of the Young Usedom Music Festival, an initiative of the Usedom Music Festival, the Achterkerke Foundation for Children and the Sparkassen Foundation Western Pomerania for Science, Culture, Sport and Society. This year again, the committed series of events aims to promote joint music-making and the development of undreamt-of creativity among children and young people. Young people and professionals meet inside and outside of the schools on Usedom to discover together the manifold possibilities of music.