Hindemith Days 2016
The patroness of the Hindemith Days 2016 is the Head of the Cultural Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Ina Hartwig. The other cooperation partners are the Frankfurt Museum of History, the ernst may society (registered association) and Schott Music Publishers in Mainz.
The Noon Concert at the Museum of History on 9 November will open with Hindemith’s 3 Anecdotes for Radio (published as “Three Pieces for Five Instruments”) composed in 1925. Members of the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra with Jan Polívka at the piano will perform under the direction of Stefan Blunier.
The awards ceremony of the Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau will take place on 12 November in Hanau, the city of the composer’s birth. This year’s recipient of the prize is the conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach, who will perform with the violist Tabea Zimmermann. (LINK: www.hanau.de/lih/portrait/preise/hindemith/). The festival will conclude on 20 November with the lecture concert "Paul Hindemith as the Guest of Ernst May". http://ernst-may-gesellschaft.de/programm/aktuelle-termine.html
Students of the Frankfurt Academy of Music – including prize winners – can be heard in performances at the Ernst May House, at Schott Music Publishers in Mainz and at the Academy itself. Sebastian Leibing (trumpet), Rayle Bligh (double bass) and Enea Cavallo (harp) will interpret sonatas composed by Hindemith for their respective instruments. The Duo Saxophilie with Regina Reiter and Anne Siebrasse will introduce the Konzertstück for two alto saxophones, and Johanna Schubert and Marit Neuhof will play the composer’s violin duets.
The festival concert on Paul Hindemith‘s birthday on 16 November will feature seventeen students under the direction of Prof. Günther Albers in the performance of Hin und Zurück (1927). This stage work is a brief parody of a marital drama; the composer himself designated it as a “sketch with music”.
Alongside Tabea Zimmermann, two other violists with international solo careers will perform at this year’s Hindemith Days: on 14 November Ruth Killius with the Alexander Trio (Willi Zimmermann, violin and Daniel Haefliger, violoncello) in the Cowherds’ Tower, and Tatjana Masurenko together with Roglit Ishay at the piano on 16 November, also in the Cowherds’ Tower. On this occasion, the Hindemith Institute will be showing the exhibition "Paul Hindemith and the Viola" from 14 to 20 November in the foyer of the Frankfurt Academy of Music.
Further information under: www.hindemith.info/de/institut/aktuelles/