Dániel Ember and Ikuko Odai make music together - one of the rare congenial pairings that delight the audience.
Dániel Ember and Ikuko Odai have been playing together since 2009 - one of the rare congenial pairings that delight audiences.
Dániel Ember is the award-winning principal horn of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Pianist Ikuko Odai, winner of several international competitions, is an instrumental accompanist at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music Berlin.
The works performed in the concert are original compositions for horn and piano, including the rarely played Jugendwerk by Richard Strauss and the early, very beautiful and romantic Romance for horn and piano by Saint-Säens.
In the compositions by Beethoven and Rheinberger, the piano part is in the foreground.
Dániel Ember
Dániel Ember was born in Debrecen (Hungary) in 1982 and studied at the Zoltán Kodály Music School there with Miklós Kökényessy. He went on to study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with Ferenc Tarjáni. During this training, he was a member of the Ernő-Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra Budapest and the Hungarian Telecom Symphony Orchestra Budapest.ikuko
In 2005, Dániel Ember was accepted into the Orchestra Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, where he was taught by Stefan de Leval Jezierski until 2007. From 2010 to 2011 he was in Marie-Luise Neunecker's class at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. Between 2014 and 2018, he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts with Christian-Friedrich Dallmann. From 2007 to 2013 he was principal horn at the Hamburg State Opera.
Dániel Ember has won numerous prizes, including in 2001 in Brno (Czech Republic), 2002 in London and 2004 in Telfs (Austria). He was awarded 2nd prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 2010 and 3rd prize at the International Instrumental Competition in Markneukirchen in 2012.
He has been principal horn in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2013 and has also been a member of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 2017.
Ikuko Odai
Ikuko Odai began her piano studies at the Toho-Gakuen Academy of Music. She then completed postgraduate artistic studies in piano, piano duet and song accompaniment at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts under Prof. Konrad Richter and Hans-Peter Stenzl.
She has won several prizes at international piano duo competitions, e.g. 1st prize at the 11th International Chamber Music Competition "Provincial di Caltanisetta" in Italy and the Schubert Prize at the 19th International Schubert Competition in the Czech Republic. She was also awarded "Best Piano Accompanist" at the International Music Competition in Markneukirchen and at the Kurpinski Clarinet Competition in Poland.
She has been an instrumental accompanist at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin since 1992. Ikuko Odai is also a regular piano accompanist at international competitions such as the ARD Competition in Munich, the Markneukirchen International Music Competition and at various master classes.
She is also active as a chamber music partner and performs in Europe and Asia. She produced the CD "Avandgarde" and "Manu Scriptum" with the horn player Prof. Adrian Díaz Martínez.
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for horn and piano op. 17
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger: Sonata for horn and piano op. 178
Camille Saint-Säens: Romance op. 36
Richard Strauss: Introduction, Theme and Variations op. AV. 52
Exhibition of the season:
Helmut Müller, graphic art
Günther Hornig, material paintings
Paolo Demartin, turned objects made of green wood
