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Borderless Sounds

Ketevan Roinishvili, Kian Soltani, Nicolas Altstaedt, Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Wed 6 Nov 20:15 - 22:15
Main Hall
Past event
Wed 6 Nov
20:15 - 22:15
Past event

Music from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey

Program

Sulkhan Tsintsadze (1925 - 1991)
Three pieces on Georgian themes: Indi Mindi, Fly Away, Suliko

Sulkhan Tsintsadze
Sachidao, Nana, Tsekva 

Florian Magnus Maier (1973)
Gossamer Road 

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947)
Şövq, Music for Cello and Strings, Soltani, wereldpremière)
- Dreams
- Fighting

Interval

Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Reqs (Dance)

Grigor Narekatsi (ca 950 - ca 1050)
Havoun havoun

Aram Chatsjatoerjan (1903 - 1978)
Usundara from Gayaneh

Komitas (1869 - 1935)
Chinar es

Fazil Say (1970) 
Şahmeran
- Paradise Garden of Şahmeran
- Betrayal

Performers

Ketevan Roinishvili cello
Kian Soltani cello
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
DOMNIQ percussion
Amsterdam Sinfonietta
Candida Thompson director and violin

The country all this music originates from have their tensions, but their music fits together wonderfully. Azerbaijan composer Frangiz Ali-Zadeh writes a new cello concerto for Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Kian Soltani*.

Nicolas Altstaedt plays the second cello concerto by Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say, who wrote it especially for him. Florian Magnus Maier makes a new arrangement of his own piece Gossamer Road for Georgian cellist Ketevan Roinishvili and strings. The piece is largely based on Georgian music.

*Due to unforeseen circumstances, Ivan Monighetti will be replaced by Kian Soltani.

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

Kian Soltani

Kian Soltani (Bregenz, Austria, 1992) was born into a family of Persian musicians and started playing the cello when he was four years old. When he was twelve years old, he was accepted into the class of Ivan Monighetti at the Musik-Akademie in Basel. In 2014, he received a scholarship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, which allowed him to continue his studies within the Young Soloist Programme at the Kronberg Academy in Germany. Kian has won various competitions: the Karl Davidoff Competition in Latvia, the Antonio Janigro Competition in Croatia, and the Paolo Competition in Finland.  In January 2018, he released his debut album under Deutsche Grammophon, where he is contracted exclusively, and in 2020 he released his album containing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim. In 2021, he released his album Cello Unlimited, with compositions by Hans Zimmer and himself. Kian Soltani plays the ‘London’ Stradivarius 1694 cello (ex-Boccherini), which was made available to him on loan by the J & A Beare International Violin Society.
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Ketevan Roinishvili

Ketevan Roinishvili (Tbilisi, 1987) grew up in a musical family in Georgia. From 2003, she studied at the Conservatory of Tbilisi with Tamara Gabarishvili. Thanks to Russian conductor Lev Markiz and the ‘Friends of Conservatory Foundation’ in Tbilisi, she was able to come to Amsterdam in 2008. She graduated cum laude in 2012 as a student of Dmitry Ferschtman. She went on to study with Reinhardt Latzko in Vienna and returned to the Netherlands to study with Floris Mijnders.  Ketevan won the first prize at the National Competition of Georgia (2007), performing Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, and received a distinction at the international Dotzauer Competition in Dresden. In 2009, she won the ‘Servais’ prize at the international Servais Competition in Ghent. In 2013, Ketevan received the ‘Radio 4 studiebeurs’ at the Dutch Classical Talent competition. In 2016, Ketevan was selected for The John Adams Institute’s New Masters on Tour.  In 2019, Ketevan recorded her debut album Nana. At the 9th Cello Biënnale in 2022, Ketevan Roinishvili performed as soloist at the Opening Concert in the programme Silenzio, with the dancers of LeineRoebana.  
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Amsterdam Sinfonietta

Amsterdam Sinfonietta was founded in 1988 with Lev Markiz as the first Artistic Director. Candida Thompson has been the orchestra’s concertmaster since 1995 and became the Artistic Director in 2003. Throughout the past decades, Amsterdam Sinfonietta has grown into a regular guest at European concert halls and festivals. Amsterdam Sinfonietta has played a prominent role at the Cello Biënnale since the first edition in 2006, often giving world premieres of pieces by composers such as Dobrinka Tabakova, Pēteris Vasks, and David Lang.  Amsterdam Sinfonietta is characterised by its innovative programming. In addition to the core string repertoire, the orchestra brings original and exciting combinations of pieces, connects early and contemporary music, well-known and unknown repertoire. The orchestra commissions compositions and arrangements. It enters into unexpected collaborations and performs groundbreaking programmes, often including film, dance, and theatre. Amsterdam Sinfonietta has recorded various CDs under the label BIS, including Mendelssohn’s complete string symphonies, as well as 14 CDs since 2004 under their regular label Channel Classics, including The Mahler Album, The Argentinian Album, Lento Religioso, a collection of short arrangements for string orchestra, and Formidable, a collection of French chansons with baritone Thomas Oliemans. The orchestra has also recorded under the labels ECM, Sony Classical, and Deutsche Grammophon. Their first classical music film Strings saw its premiere in March 2020, followed by the releases of the films Misirlou (traditional), Atashgah (Jacobsen), and Tango (Piazzolla). 
Ensembles

Candida Thompson

Candida Thompson graduated in 1989 with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in Lonodn as a student of David Takeno, and continued her education at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. She has led string orchestras in Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Great Britain. She has performed in chamber settings with musicians such as Isaac Stern, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, and at festivals including the Kuhmo Festival (Finland), the Gubbio Festival (Italy), and the Delft Chamber Music Festival. She forms the Hamlet Piano Trio with cellist Xenia Jankovic and pianist Paolo Giacometti. She has been the concertmaster of Amsterdam Sinfonietta since 1995, and their Artistic Director since 2003. Candida plays a Guarneri del Gesù (1698-1744) kindly on loan from a private collector.
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Nicolas Altstaedt

German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt studied at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” with Boris Pergamenschikow and later with Eberhard Feltz. He is also a conductor and the Artistic Director of various festivals.  Altstaedt enjoys playing contemporary music and has performed works by composers such as Thomas Adès, Fazil Say, Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Helena Winkelman. New concertos have recently been composed for him by Anders Hillborg, Márton Illés, Erkki-Sven Tüür, and Liza Lim. His interpretations and performances of Baroque and classical music are unparallelled; as a soloist in J.S. Bach’s solo suites as well as in collaboration with lutist Thomas Dunford and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, and with Ensemble Arcangelo in their recording of the complete cello concertos by C.P.E. Bach and Boccherini. In 2018, Nicolas Altstaedt was the Artist in Spotlight at the Concertgebouw, and has been the Artistic Director of the Internationales Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus since 2012, succeeding Gidon Kremer. He has also been the Artistic Director and conductor of the Haydn Philharmonie since 2014.
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Dominique Vleeshouwers

Dominique Vleeshouwers (Weert, 1992) is a Dutch solo percussionist known professionally as DOMNIQ. He is the first percussionist to win the prestigious Dutch Music Prize and the winner of the first prize, as well as the press and the audience prize at the international TROMP Percussion Competition held in Eindhoven in 2014. He is known for his virtuosic percussion skills and out-of-the-box projects. He graduated cum laude from the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 2013 with the performance Kindsoldaat (‘Child soldier’), which won him the AHK Graduation Prize of the Amsterdam University of the Arts for the best graduation presentation. That same year, he worked together Patrice Bäumel at the Amsterdam Dance Event. Dominique is also an active chamber musician and has worked with the Pavel Haas Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, and the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble. He collaborated with Ivo Janssen and Mallet Collective Amsterdam to create a live recording of Simeon Ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato, selling out the Concertgebouw’s Grote Zaal.  Dominique has been a guest professor at the University of Music in Detmold and has been a teacher in the team of Percussion Friends at the Conservatory of Amsterdam’s Sweelinck Academy. He has also written two marimba methods titled Time for 4, which he will publish later this year.  He has performed with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Asko|Schönberg, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Tokyo Sinfonietta, and Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic.
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