Photos: Elke Mühlhoff (left); Fotostudio Hirsch, Köln (right)
Dear music lovers,
It is a great pleasure for us to be honored again by two such great clavichordists as Sigrun Stephan and Gerald Hambitzer! They last performed as a duo in 2019 and sent the audience into ecstasy! So this afternoon promises to be yet another great listening experience!
Sigrun Stephan
Being born in Eisenach, the same city as Johann Sebastian Bach, filled harpsichordist Sigrun Stephan with pride even as a child. In Weimar, where she attended the special school for music and subsequently studied piano at the university, she was reminded daily by a memorial plaque to Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that there are other wonderful keyboard instruments besides the piano.
The desire to explore the harpsichord took her to the Ruhr area, of all places, where she devoted herself to historical keyboard instruments at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen. There she also held a teaching position following her harpsichord studies.
Sigrun Stephan plays continuo in various ensembles, is active as a soloist and participates in numerous CD productions. Since 2006 Sigrun Stephan has devoted herself intensively to the clavichord and has specialized as a soloist on this expressive, sensitive instrument. Her motto “Volume proves nothing!” comes from Mark Twain.
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Gerald Hambitzer
iis a sought-after soloist and chamber musician on the harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano. Born in Bonn in 1957, he initially received a comprehensive musical education with harpsichord as his main artistic subject at the Cologne University of Music.
His international concert career began while he was still a student, primarily as a harpsichordist with the renowned baroque orchestra Concerto Köln, of which he was a permanent member from 1985 to 2020. During these years, guest performances have taken him to all the music centres of Europe as well as Algeria, India, South East Asia and America.
He is a regular guest at various radio stations and has participated in more than 50 CD productions for the labels Capriccio, Harmonia mundi France, Sony Classical Naxos and Teldec Classics International. His recordings as a soloist in harpsichord concertos by J. S. Bach, C. Ph. E. Bach and F. Durante have earned him international acclaim. He is also particularly interested in the clavichord, to which he has dedicated a CD recording on a historical instrument from 1756.
In 1999, Gerald Hambitzer was appointed professor at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Until the beginning of 2024, he was head of the Institute for Early Music and also taught the subjects of historical keyboard instruments, basso continuo practice and chamber music.
Always looking at the big picture, it was important to him to integrate general knowledge of historical performance practice into the individual instrumental and vocal study programmes at the Institute of Early Music and to create an interface for teaching, research and concert practice.
Saturday, 10 May 2025
17:00 h
at
Musikstudio & Galerie: Gabriele Paqué
Blücherstraße 14
53115 Bonn
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Program:
Charles Burney (1726-1814)
Sonata in E flat major
for piano four hands
Johann Gottfried Müthel (1728-1788)
Sonata in F major
Allegro – Largo e Staccato – Presto
Johann Ludwig Krebs (1713-1780)
Concerto a due Cembali obligati a minor
(Allegro) – Affettuoso – Allegro
INTERMISSION
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Contrapunctus XII (mirror fugue)
Invention F major
“jazzy” arranged for two clavichords by John Salmon
Contrapunctus XIII (mirror fugue)
from “Art of Fugue” D minor
Sinfonia A major
“jazzy” arranged for two clavichords by John Salmon
Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798)
Sonata in B flat major for piano
Allegro – Arioso ed un poco sostenuto – Molto Presto
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
Concerto a due Cembali concertati F major
Allegro moderato – Andante – Presto
Clavichords after Johann Heinrich Silbermann 1775,
built by Matthias Griewisch, Bammental 2014 and 2017
We’re looking forward to your visit!
Sincerely
Gabriele Paqué
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Parking spots in Bonn-Poppelsdorf, about a 10 minutes walk from the Blücherstraße!
Current exhibition: Natalia Simonenko
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Blücherstr. 14, 53115 Bonn
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