News/Concerts
Master Class
Master Class Song and Opera with
KS Julie Kaufmann / Donald Sulzen
Wolfgang Sawallisch Music Academy: 21.2 – 26.2.2024
Course description
In this master class we will turn to the art of performing as a duo. Technical aspects such as dynamic balance, articulation, phrasing, style and the relationship between text and music will be discussed, as well as the psychological side of teamwork and the importance of healthy dialogue in the practice situation. Opera repertoire is also a central part of the course, bringing the art of opera accompaniment into focus.
Song repertoire / opera literature
You have free choice of repertoire. Please indicate your choice with your application, but no later than four weeks before the start of the course, so that duos can be set up if necessary. Please send with your application a detailed CV, as well as at least one audio or video recording, gladly also as a link to the organizer.
Who can participate
This course is especially beneficial for musicians who would like to perform as a duo. Duos are especially welcome, but singers without a piano partner or pianists without a singing partner can also participate. Duos will be formed before the course begins so that the appropriate repertoire can be rehearsed. The course is limited to a maximum of twelve participants.
Concerts
Concerts of the Munich Piano Trio
Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Nymphenburg Castle, Hubertussaal – Munich
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in A Major, Hob. XV: 35
Antonín Dvořák: Dumky Trio, op. 90
Robert Schumann: Quintet in E-flat Major, op. 44
Benefit Concert (Lions-Club Munich, Marienplatz e.V.)
Munich Piano Trio: Michael Arlt (violin), Gerhard Zank (violoncello), Donald Sulzen (piano)
Guests: Tilo Widenmeyer (viola) & Verena Kurz (2nd violin)
Tickets available at the door
CD Recording of the Munich Piano Trio with works by Robert Schumann
The Munich Piano Trio recorded two masterpieces by composer Robert Schumann in June 2023: the piano trio No. 3 in g minor, op. 110 and, together with Tilo Widenmeyer (viola) as well as Verena Kurz (2nd violin), the piano quintet in E-flat major, op. 44.
The CD will be released by the end of this year and can be ordered through the Munich Piano Trio.
Song Recitals with Thomas E. Bauer, Baritone
Songs of Robert Schumann
— Friday, February 25, 2022 at 6 pm
Crete Senesi Festival – Asciano (Italy)
Chiesa San Francesco
Songs of Gustav Mahler and Kurt Weill
— Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 5 pm
2022 Seoul International Music Festival (Südkorea)
Kumho Art Hall Yonsei Soeul
Songs of Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler
— Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Kulturwaldfestpiele Bayerischer Wald
Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Sebastian Kohlhepp, Tenor
Thomas E. Bauer, Baritone
Donald Sulzen, Piano & Dr. Libman
Dr. Matthias Junker, text & G. Mahler
Mahler's moving masterpiece in the piano version of the composer including a historically reconstructed, fateful conversation of the composer with his American physician Dr. Libman in New York.
Enjoy a showreel with the highlights of the concert of September 12, 2020.
Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall (China)
Recital with Gustav Mahler:
Songs from the Wunderhornlieder and Kindertotenlieder
— Sunday, June 13, 2020 at 8 pm
The concert has been canceled and will be re-performed at a later date.
Song Recitals with Anna Caterina Antonacci
Círculo de Belles Artes – Madrid (Spain)
Song Recital: Francis Poulenc, La voix humaine
— Sunday, November 28 2021 at 7 pm
Vancouver Recital Society (Canada)
Song Recital
— Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 3 pm
The concert has been canceled and will be re-performed at a later date.
Teatro Massimo Palermo – Opera House (Italy)
Song Recital
— Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 8:30 pm
The concert has been canceled and will be re-performed at a later date.
Concerts with the Eliot Quartet
Kulturwaldfestpiele Bayerischer Wald
W. A. Mozart: Piano Concertos KV 413 and KV 415
Performances:
— Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 5 pm
— Saturday, October 24, 2020 at 8 pm
The arrangement of the piano concertos without wind instruments was suggested by Mozart himself as a possible version. In the advertisement of the first edition from January, 1783, Mozart notes that the concertos “could be performed with a large orchestra with winds, but also as well with a quartet for 2 violins, 1 viola, and cello, without winds.”
Livestream
In Memoriam Peter Jonas (1946 – 2020)
4. Monday Concert of the Bavarian State Opera, May 27, 2020
In remembrance of the unforgotten artistic director Peter Jonas, the Munich Piano Trio with violist Tilo Widenmeyer plays the Piano Quartet in E flat major, KV 493 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The professional recording team of the opera house has captured the special atmosphere of the moment in close-ups of rich sound and color.
CD Recordings
CD Recording of the Munich Piano Trio:
The Young Richard Strauss
Fono Forum (June 2018)
"The Munic Piano Trio plays the pieces with noble precision, stylistically following more the references than a conception of juvenile agitation."
MusicWeb International (April 2018)
"This performance by the Münchner Klaviertrio ... serves more to bring out the accomplishments of the young composer. ... This is a highly rewarding release, which clearly shows the progression of Richard Strauss the composer and which any self-respecting Straussian will relish. Strauss is clearly evident in patches of this music, especially in the piano writing of the Piano Quartet, and the Münchner Klaviertrio bring this out expertly. ... the recorded sound is also clear and detailed."
CD Recording of the Munich Piano Trio with works by Georg Schumann
The late romantic Cello Sonata, Opus 19 and the Piano Quartet, Opus 29 of Georg Schumann, a contemporary of Richard Strauss, has appeared on the cpo label.
These neglected masterpieces, which until now have not been recorded, are sure to raise high interest among critics, musicians and most important, listeners!
CD Recording of the Munich Piano Trio with works by Robert Schumann
In 2016, the Munich Piano trio has marketed two master compositions by Robert Schumann: the Piano Trio Opus 80 and the Piano Quartet Opus 47 with Tilo Widenmeyer as violist. It is the eights GENUIN-CD of the ensemble.
The CD was promoted on February 22, 2016 in the broadcasting Tonart-Klassik of Deutschlandradio-Kultur.
Highlights
The Best Classical Music of 2018
– The Best Performances –
“One of our most essential singers arrived for a rare New York recital in February at Zankel Hall. It was a quietly shattering yet deeply satisfying evening, a study in aging, nostalgia and death pursued through ripe Respighi songs, autumnal Nadia Boulanger, changeable early Britten, wryly pained Poulenc. (And, as encores, exquisitely shaped Frescobaldi and an almost murmured Habanera from “Carmen.”) No program notes, no speeches from the stage: She treated her audience like adults, sharing an intimacy charged with mystery.”
Zachary Woolfe (December 5, 2018)
Fondazione Mariele Ventre — Bologna (Italy)
Live performance of Bologna's concert, March 3, 2016
with songs by Monteverdi, Respighi, Pizzetti, Cilea, Refice, Mascagni, Poulenc, Fauré and Hahn
Teatro Comunale G. Chiabrera — Savona (Italy)
Live Recording of the Recital on December 7, 2013
with songs by Berlioz, Cilea, Debussy, Fauré, Hahn, Mascagni, Respighi, Tosti and Wagner
Teatro Comunale Chiabrera — Savona (Italy)
Live video recording of the inaugural concert of the Teatro Comunale in Savona — 2nd October 2010!
„La Voix Humaine" (Poulenc): Wigmore Hall
Poulencs master composition from the opening recital of Radio 3's Lunchtime Season 2015 live for the BBC with Fiona Talkington and an enthusiastic public.
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Triumph in Wigmore Hall – London
Acclaimed song recital in one of the world's most important recital venues: Lunchtime Concert live on BBC (Radio 3) with Sarah Walker and compositions of Fauré, Hahn, Bachelet, Respighi, Zandonai and Mascagni.
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„Le Cygne“ (The Swan): Live Registration
Camille Saint Saëns Le Cygne from The Carnival of the Animals in an exemplary Live Performance of the Kissinger Sommer on June 21, 2015 with Danjulo Ishizaka (violoncello).
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Live Recording with the Eliot Quartet
W. A. Mozart: Piano Concertos KV 413 and KV 415
— Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 4 pm