A German trio chamber music concert was held for teachers and students in the stadium（Wushan Campus）on May 31.Most of the playing tracks was composed by Jörg Widmann.
JörgWidmann,clarinet / composer / conductor
Clarinetist,composer, and conductor Jörg Widmann is one of the most versatile andintriguing artists ofhis generation. The 2014/15 season will see him appear asa soloist with orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Berlin, HamburgerPhilharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden undFreiburg, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and theDeutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The Cleveland Orchestra under FranzWelser-Möst has made Widmann’s music the focus of their large tour of Europethis season, and Yefim Bronfman and the Berliner Philharmoniker will performthe world premiere of Widmann’s first piano concerto under the baton of SirSimon Rattle.
Widmannwill continue his close collaboration with the Bamberger Symphoniker as theircomposer in residence. As a chamber musician he will appear at theUltraschall-Festival Berlin, Wigmore Hall London, Tonhalle Zürich, OpéraNational de Paris, Laeizhalle Hamburg, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, KonzerthausWien, Toppan Hall Tokyo and at Lincoln Center in New York. He will be joined byrenowned soloists and ensembles including András Schiff, Elisabeth Leonskaja,Tabea Zimmermann, Carolin Widmann, Daniel Barenboim, and the Hagen Quartet.
Continuingin his role as Principal Guest Conductor of the Irish Chamber Orchestra,Widmann is always extending the range of his conducting activities. This seasonhe will conduct a program with the London Chamber Orchestra.Widmann studiedclarinet with Gerd Starke and Charles Neidich, and regularly performs as aclarinetist with leading world orchestras, including collaborations withconductors such as Christoph von Dohnányi, Sylvain Cambreling, ChristophEschenbach, Kent Nagano and Franz Welser-Möst.Clarinet concerti dedicated toand written for him include Wolfgang Rihm’s Musik für Klarinette und Orchester(1999) and Aribert Rfeimann’s Cantus (2006). Widmann succeeded Dieter Klöckeras clarinet professor at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, where he also holdsa composition professorship.
Widmannstudied composition with Kay Westermann, Wilfried Hiller, and Wolfgang Rihm.His works continue to receive multiple awards, including the Belmont Award forContemporary Music from the Forberg Schneider Foundation in 1999, theSchneider-Schott Music Award and the Paul Hindemith Prize in 2002, the ArnoldSchoenberg Prize from the Vienna Arnold Schoenberg Centre and the DeutschesSymphonie-Orchester Berlin in 2004, and the prestigious Elise L. Stoeger Prizefrom the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2003 he received one ofthe encouragement awards from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and thehonorary award from the Munich Opera Festival. His opera Das Gesicht im Spiegelwas selected by the jury of experts from Opernwelt magazine as the mostimportant world premiere of the 2003/04 season. In 2006 Widmann received theSWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg’s composition award as well asthe Berliner Philharmoniker Academy’s Claudio Abbado Composition Award.Widmann’s string quartets I. Streichquartett (1997), Choralquartett(2003/2006), Jagdquartett (2003), IV: Streichquartett (2005) and Versuch überdie Fuge (5th Stringquartett with soprano, 2005) are firmly established in thechamber music repertoire.
Widmannis a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskollegs in Berlin and a full member of theBayerischen Akademie of Schönen Künste. Since 2007, he has also been a memberof the freien Akademie der Künste Hamburg and the Deutschen Akademie derDarstellenden Künste. Jörg Widmann lives and works in Freiburg and Munich.
ClaudioBohórquez
Cello
ClaudioBohórquez, descent of Peruvian and Uruguayan ancestors, has been hailed as oneof the most exciting and fascinating musicians of his generation by conductors,audiences, concert presenters and critics alike.His recent tour with theNational Symphony Orchestra under ChristophEschenbach with concerts inWashington and Latin America was a huge success. He played “unforgettably andexcellent” and his interpretation of the Lalo Cello Concerto was “the mostbeautiful I have ever heard”, wrote a Washington Post critic. In the 2012/2013season Claudio Bohórquez was able to display his talent as chamber musician: heappeared in Madrid and Bilbao together with JörgWidmann and Katia Skanavi andperformed piano trios by Beethoven with Viviane Hagner and Jonathan Giladduring the Beethoven Marathon at Konzerthaus Berlin.
Asa student of Boris Pergamenschikow, Claudio Bohórquez achieved success at anearly age at international competitions such as the Tschaikowsky YouthCompetition in Moscow and the Rostropovich Cello Competition in Paris. Thisculminated in 2000 with three awards at the first International Pablo CasalsCompetition held under the auspices of the Kronberg Academy: Marta CasalsIstomin presented Claudio Bohórquez with first prize, a special award for thebest chamber music, and also the use of Casals’ Gofriller cello for a period oftwo years. He also won first prize at the International Music Competition inGeneva, an achievement that marked the start of his career as a soloist.Meanwhile he has become a teacher himself: since 2003 he is guest professor atthe 'HannsEisler' Academy of Music in Berlin and was appointed as Professor atthe Stuttgart Music Academy in autumn 2011.
ClaudioBohórquez has performed with the SächsischeStaatskapelle Dresden, theGewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the RussianNational Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In Japan he hasappeared with both the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and the Tokyo PhilharmonicOrchestra. In the United States he has recently performed concerts with theBoston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los AngelesPhilharmonic, National Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.Renownedconductors with whom Claudio Bohórquez has worked include DanielBarenboim,ChristophEschenbach, KrzysztofPenderecki.Claudio Bohórquez has beeninvited to numerous festivals as a guest performer, including the CasalsFestival in Puerto Rico, the City of London Festival, the Penderecki Festivalin Warsaw and the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival.
Highlightsof the season 2014/15 will be several concerts in the USA, in Washington withthe National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of ChristophEschenbach, withthe Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Charles Dutoit.Besides severalCD recordings, radio broadcasts and television appearances, Claudio Bohórquezperformed on Paul Englishby's soundtrack of the film Ten Minutes Older -The Cello which was seen in cinemas around the world.
ClaudioBohórquez plays a G. B. Rogeri violoncello presented to him by theLandeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg.
Oscar Bohórquez
Violin
Christoph Eschenbach, Music Director of the National SymphonyOrchestra Washington DC, has described the rising German violinist, OscarBohórquez, as ‘one of the most promising young violinists. His splendidtechnique, his musical profoundness and his charisma are very special.’
The 20th september 2009 marked Oscar Bohórquez’s debut with theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra.
Oscar Bohórquez studied at the Curtis Institute of Music inPhiladelphia with Professor Aaron Rosand from 1998 to 2002, and at theUniversity of Music in Vienna with Professor Günter Pichler of the Alban Berg Quartettfrom 2002 to 2008.
Since then concert tours have taken him to major venuesthroughout Germany such as the Hamburg Laeiszhalle, the Bonn Beethovenhalle,the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the Stuttgart Liederhalle, the Leipzig Gewandhaus ,and the Berlin Philharmonie.
In recent years Oscar Bohórquez appeared at the Frankfurt AlteOper with chief conductor Sebastian Weigle of the Museumsorchester, at theNuremberg Meistersingerhalle with the Nuremberg symphony under the baton ofAlexander Shelley, as well as in numerous southamerican concert tours of Perú,Chile, Argentina, and Brazil including Bartok’s 2nd violin concerto, theTchaikovsky, Brahms and Mendelssohn concertos and Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasy. InJanuary 2013 Bohórquez appeared with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma at theAuditorium Conciliazione in Rome. In January 2014 soloist Oscar Bohórqueztoured in China with the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra including appearances atthe Oriental Arts Center/Shanghai, and the Great Hall of the People/Beijing.
Solo and chamber music activities have also taken him throughoutEurope, the US, and Southamerica including the New York ‘Strad for lunch’concert series, the Kronberg Festival in Germany, and the Sociedad Filarmónicaof Lima/Peru.
Alongside his brother, the cellist Claudio Bohórquez, Oscar hasformed the Bohórquez Duo, who recorded together the ‘Seduced’ Album of works byPaganini, Gallo and Piazzolla.
Oscar Bohórquez plays the Giovanni Battista Guadagnini ‘GrandeDame’ violin from 1770, which was previously owned by Günter Pichler of theAlban Berg Quartet. He currently resides in Paris.