September 20 – 22 | Chamber Music Festival of the ARD Prize Winners 2009

Tuesday, September 21, 7:00 p.m. | Classical Music
Gémeaux Quartett: Yu Zhuang, violin;
Manuel Oswald, violin; Sylvia Zucker, viola; Uli Witteler, cello
Gunars Upatnieks, bass; Hisako Kawamura, piano

Michail Glinka (1804-1857): Gran sestetto originale E flat major (Sextet for string quartet, bass and piano)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Piano Quintet E flat major, Op. 44

The ARD International Music Competition is among the oldest competitions of all. The declared purpose of the competition is to discover true personalities among the many young musicians that perform every year in Munich under tremendous peer pressure. The technical requirements are naturally very high, but the idea is not to find highly skilled automatons but young people who truly have something to say with their music, who feel that – despite all the hectic and competition – music lives from artistic collaboration. That is in fact the motto of the festival: chamber music unites.