The two up-and-coming artists play wonderful pieces by Schummann, Smyth, Maier and Grieg on violin and piano
"Leipzig Friends"
Liv Migdal, violin, Mario Häring, piano
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) : Sonata No. 1 in A minor for violin and piano, op.105
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) : Sonata for violin and piano in A minor, op.7
Intermission
Amanda Maier (1853-1894) : Six pieces for violin and piano
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) : Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in G major, op.13
Liv Migdal, violin
Liv Migdal's performance at the Villa Papendorf could also be described as "back to the roots", as she began her violin studies as an eleven-year-old junior student with Christiane Hutcap at the Rostock University of Music and Drama, where she graduated with a diploma.
Since then, the award-winning musician has performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras and conductors on concert stages around the world, including Melbourne, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Oslo and Shanghai. In 2016, she made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie and the following year at the Elbphilharmonie. In addition to invitations from renowned festivals such as the Schumann Festival Bonn, Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, Mozartiana Gdansk, Ludwigsburg Palace Festival and a number of other music festivals in Europe and Asia, the violinist's concert calendar has included tours to Australia, France, Denmark and the UK in recent years.
Echoes of her performances sound as follows: "One of the most captivating violinists of our time, who creates timbres on her instrument that cast a spell over the audience!" ... "electrifying" ... "with expressive power" ... "existential playing" ... "from the ear directly into the soul" ... "a thoroughbred musician" . . . All of Migdal's previous CD recordings of works from the Baroque to the present day, including the recordings with pianist Marian Migdal as a duo partner and the Eight Seasons by Vivaldi and Piazzolla with the German Chamber Orchestra Berlin, which was nominated for the International Classical Music Award (ICMA), have received an excellent response from specialist critics and numerous international awards.
Mario Häring, piano
Mario Häring is no stranger to the Papendorf audience. In November 2021, the then newly crowned winner of the Opus Klassik presented himself together with the award-winning program and his co-winners Ragnhild Hemsing and Benedict Klöckner. Mario Häring was born in Hanover in November 1989 and grew up in Berlin. Coming from a German-Japanese family of musicians, he gained his first experience on the violin and piano at the age of three and received his first piano lessons shortly afterwards. Mario Häring made his orchestral debut in the Berlin Philharmonie in 2003. Since then, his intensive concert activities have taken him to renowned venues such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Elbphilharmonie, the Wigmore Hall London and the Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He received artistic inspiration and further studies, which he completed with top marks in 2017, from Prof. Kämmerling and Prof. Vogt.
