Music is balm for the soul! But it can also bring hope. Like the great composer L. van Beethoven once said ′′ Hope feeds me, it feeds half the world, and I have had it as a neighbor my life day; what else would I have become?” the national music festival Eifel Musicale starts the new year with good resolutions. In order to culturally enrich the social lock-down, the festival’s digital concert offer will be expanded with another 2 online concerts. These will be designed by the internationally renowned piano duo Xin Wang & Florian Koltun and will air at 18 pm on January 10. & 24. Classical lovers may rely on works by W.A. Mozart, C. Debussy, F. Schubert and W.A. Mozart are happy. A musical greeting to get ready for the next edition of Eifel Musicale, which will play the Eifel region from April to September 2021 with over 30 concerts at different locations.

Two multi-award winning musicians joined forces with the Aachen pianist Florian Koltun and the Chinese pianist Xin Wang, who have been regularly guesting on the major concert stages in Europe and Asia since then, such as the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Thürmer-Saal Bochum, Elmau Palace, Berliner Philharmonie , Qintai Concert Hall Wuhan, Qintai Concert Hall in Wuhan, Henan Art Center in Zhengzhou, Concert Hall in Ningbo or Poly Grand Theatre in Hohhot. Regular guest performances at major international music festivals worldwide, such as Scriabin Piano Festival Grosseto Italy, Piano Festival ′′ federimusica ′′ Naples Italy, ′′ Friday nights with Yury Revich ′′ Vienna Austria, International Art Festival Kotor Montenegro, International Music Festival Dei à Spain, ′′ Festival de Musique classique a Pompignan ′′ Toulouse France, Palais Sommer Dresden and ′′ International Piano Festival Wuhan ′′ China were celebrated by the international trade press. Working with international orchestras such as Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra, Aachen Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg and Berlin Camerata led by leading conductors such as Kazem Abdullah, James P. Liu, Yuri Gilbo, Eduardo Strausser and Fuad Ibrahimov show the musical quality of the musician. Both musicians are laureates of numerous international piano competitions in Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands and Luxembourg and received their musical education at the University of Music in cologne, Nuremberg and Trossingen. In addition, Xin Wang is the artistic director of the international festival ′′ Piano Summer Geilenkirchen ′′ as well as chairman of the jury and artistic director of the international piano competition ′′ Euregio Piano Award “.

PROGRAM

W. A. Mozart
Sonata for 4 hands in D major KV 381
– Allegro
– Andante
– Allegro Molto

L. van Beethoven
32 variations on an own theme in C minor, WoO 80

(Piano solo)

Sound – Götz Bürki

Image – Daniel Gronsfeld

Instrument – Piano Rumler

Technical support – Piano Diel

Source : Eifel Musicale Website