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Jean-Guihen Queyras

Bach & Breakfast
Wed 6 Nov 09:30 - 10:00
Main Hall
Past event
Wed 6 Nov
09:30 - 10:00
Past event

Start the day with a Cello Suite by Bach

Program

Suite No. 4 in E Flat Major

Performers

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Six festival days start the way any day really should start: with a light breakfast and freshly pressed orange juice, a warm croissant and a cappuccino, followed by one of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six Cello Suites, each one performed by a different cellist. A Biënnale classic, loved by everyone!

Normally the suites are performed by cellists who have not performed on the Biënnale. Specially for the tenth Cello Biënnale, we have asked six ‘veterans’ who have previously graced our mornings at half past nine. 

Breakfast from 08:45

Part of

Biënnale in pictures: day 7

Biënnale in pictures: day 7 Woensdag November 6th 2024 ©Simon van Boxtel, Foppe Schut, Jelle Verhoeks Programma
In pictures

Jean-Guihen Queyras

Jean-Guihen Queyras (Montreal, 1967) has been involved with the Biënnale from the very start and has given countless memorable performances over the years at the festival. Queyras is known for his broad repertoire. He performs cello concertos by Haydn and Vivaldi just as well as he performs music by Dallapiccola, Kurtág, Ligeti, Webern, Boulez, and Gilbert Amy. He is a part of various chamber ensembles, including a piano trio with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov, and an ensemble with tombak specialists Kevan and Bijan Chemirani and kemenche player Sokratis Sinopoulos. In 2016 and 2018, he performed as soloist in Joël Bons’ Nomaden, which was composed specially for Queyras and the Atlas Ensemble. Queyras is a professor at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg and is the Artistic Director of the festival Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence. In 2022, Jean-Guihen Queyras received the Anner Bijlsma Award at the Opening Concert of the Cello Biënnale. 
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