Chamber Music

Mendelssohn Oktett

© Marco Borggreve

3/23

Sunday | 3/23/2025
11:00 am Start of Concert
Konzertsaal im Kulturpalast, Dresden
Schloßstr. 2, 01067 Dresden
Floor Plan

About the Concert

Tickets for this event will be available from 12.06.2024 from 10 am.

It was none other than Goethe who inspired the stroke of genius of the just sixteen-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with one of his poems. His chamber music for eight strings, the famous Octet, made him famous in one fell swoop and cemented his reputation as a child prodigy who had grown up. To this day, it is impossible to escape the freshness, inspiration, abundance of wonderful melodies and surprising musical twists and turns of this work. It could therefore hardly be more fitting that very young musicians should play it in our concert: Members of the Kurt Masur Academy present their skills together with experienced Philharmoniker.

Program

Richard Strauss
Sextet for strings from the opera "Capriccio"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F major

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Octet in E-flat major for strings

Artists

Anna Zeller
Violin
Ipek Atila
Violin
Jisu Kim
Violin
Sophie Schüler
Violin
Soyoung Park
Violin
Johann Pätzold
Viola
Christina Biwank
Viola
Laura MacDonald
Cello
Ulf Prelle
Cello
Nao Hatsumi
Oboe

Biographies

Ipek Atila

She took master classes with Phillippe Grafin, Stefan Picard, Cuarteto Casals, Armida Quartet.
She was a scholarship recipient of the Pfahlberg Foundation and the E.T.A Hoffman Foundation.

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Soyoung Park

Soyoung Park studied at the Cologne University of Music with Prof. Susanna Yoko Henkel and Prof. Torsten Janicke. She is currently studying at the Dresden Carl Maria von Weber University of Music with Wolfgang Hentrich.

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Johann Pätzold

Johann Pätzold was born in Dresden in 2000. He grew up in a musical home in Radebeul, where he received his first violin lessons at the age of four. At the age of 13, he switched to viola and a year later transferred to the 'Carl Maria von Weber' State High School of Music in Dresden. 

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Christina Biwank

1st Principal Viola | Member of the Orchestra Board

Christina Biwank is principal violist of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra. She is also active in a variety of chamber music activities and holds a teaching position at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

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Laura MacDonald

Cello

British cellist Laura MacDonald now lives in Germany and can look back on a varied musical career. She studied in London at the Royal College of Music Junior Department with the late Michal Kaznowski before graduating with First Class Honours and the Regency Award for Outstanding Achievement from the Royal Academy in 2020. She then completed her Master's degree with Honours in Adrian Brendel's class at the Guildhall School of Music in 2022.

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Ulf Prelle

1st Principal Cello

Ulf Prelle began his cello studies in the USA with the La Salle Quartet and Zara Nelsova. Further studies took him to Basel with Thomas Demenga and to Cologne with Boris Pergamenschikow. Subsequently, he was a scholarship holder of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Nao Hatsumi

In 2018 she began her studies at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden. In 2022, she obtained her Bachelor's degree and continued her studies in “Modern Oboe and Baroque Oboe” at the Berlin University of the Arts.

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