Summer Music Concert 2
Katja Lämmermann violinMischa Meyer cello
Freddy Kempf piano
Saturday 6 July 7.30pm

Schubert Sonata for Arpeggione and piano in A minor, performed by cello and piano
Schubert Fantasy in C for violin and piano
Schubert Piano trio in B flat major

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Rehearsal picture: Saturday 7 July 1.15pm

Katja's answers to our 'Summer Questions'

Q Who or what always puts a smile on your face?
A Freddy Kempf

Q What was your earliest childhood memory of summer?
A Barbecue outside

Q Are you going antwhere nice for your summer holidays?
A Venice

Q What is your favourite city?
A Munich and Zürich

Q What are you reading at the moment?
A 'Atlantis found' by Clive Cussler

Q What is your favourite summer drink?
A Apfelschorle (apple juice and sparkling water)

Q What food would you most associate with summer?
A Bruschetti

Q How would you like to be remembered?
A Fun to be around with

Mischa's answers to our 'Summer Questions'

Q Are you going antwhere nice for your summer holidays?
A Switzerland, near Lake Geneva

Q What is your favourite city?
A Berlin, because of the people, the history and the cultural life

Q What are you reading at the moment?
A J.G.Ballard - Short Stories

Q What music are you currently listening to?
A Old music by Telemann, Biber, Vivaldi and Monteverdi

Q What is your favourite summer drink?
A Caipinula and Radler (beer with lemonade)
 
Q What food would you most associate with summer?
A A big fat steak!

Q Which composer would you most like to have met?
A Bach

Q How would you like to be remembered?
A As a serious musician

Quotes

‘…Kempf’s fingerwork is precise and incisive, whatever the demands, the trio make a ripe, warm sound, putting together a fiery, cogent, intelligent and wholly compelling performance’
Evening Standard – Metro Life

‘playing of great intelligence, intellectual rigour and keen spontaneity’
Music Web

‘Performances by Freddy Kempf’s cultivated Trio are sensitive, commanding and full of individual imaginative touches.  They respond vividly to the vehemence and sinewy energy of the (Beethoven Trio No.3) C minor; and they even justify their romantically slow tempo in the andante with the eloquence of their phrasing.’
The Telegraph

‘The trio found an overall sunniness in the work (Beethoven ‘Triple’ Concerto), for all the moments of drama.  There was a constant sense of shared musical vision and relaxed intimacy in their playing, qualities born of familiarity, too often lacking in some concertante soloists who only come together for a single occasion.  There were enjoyable, anything-you-can-do dialogues between the string players in the finale…a performance of energy and high spirits, with moments of great beauty.
The Strad

Biography

Katja Laemmermann was born in 1980 and began studying the violin at the age of three. She continued her studies at the Munich Conservatoire with Anna Chumachenko before going on to the US to study with Miriam Fried at the School of Music in Bloomington (2003 – 2005) and with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston. She became Professor Weilerstein’s teaching assistant in 2004. She then returned to Europe to finish her studies at the Hans Eisler Conservatoire in Berlin with Ulf Wallin. She has taken part in masterclasses with Leonidas Kavakos, Cristoph Eschenbach and Gidon Kremer.

Her first success came by winning the national ‘Jugend Musiziert’ (Young Musician) competition in Germany closely followed by a special prize and third prize at the International Leopold Mozart competition. She immediately began to develop a career in Europe which was further reinforced by second prize at the International Viotti-Valsesia Competition and most recently at the televised International ARD music competition in Munich.

She has performed as soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Munich Philharmonic, the Sudwestdeutschen Philharmonie, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has been a guest of festivals such as Ravinia, Yellowbarn Vermont, Prussia Cove, collaborating with such artists as Wolfgang Sawallisch in the Munich Kunstlerhaus, Frans Helmerson in Ravnia and Lorin Maazel in Munich.

Katja was picked for the world renowned ‘Rising Stars’ series which give her international debuts in the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Athens, Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Konserthus in Stockholm, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and Carnegie Hall in New York. This season Katja makes her debut in Berlin both as a chamber soloist at the Philharmonie as well as at the Konzerthaus, performing Berg’s Violin Concerto with the Berliner Symphonie Orchestra. She returns to Munich and Boston to perform the Dvorák Violin Concerto as well as performing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the Augsburg Philharmonie. She undertakes a debut ten-concert tour of China performing the Brahms Double Concerto with Mischa Meyer. She also makes her debut in Moscow at the Conservatoire.

Mischa Meyer was born in 1983 in Baden-Baden, Germany, and began cello lessons with Dita Lammerse at the age of twelve. A year later he became a student of Professor Martin Ostertag at the Karlsruhe Music Academy.

Mischa Meyer has been the winner of the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Pörtschach, Austria (2002), the ‘Radeberger Forderpreis für Nachwuchsmusiker’, ‘Jugend Musiziert’ in the categories of solo cello and cello quartet, and the Cello Competition in Liezen, Austria (1998). He won second prize at the David Popper Competition in Varpalota, Hungary (1999), as well as the ‘Bundes Deutsches Industrie’ competition (2003).

Meyer has participated in many masterclasses by with Janos Starker, Wolfgang Böttcher, Lynn Harrel, Gustav Rivinius and Steven Isserlis. He performs regularly with the Baden-Badener Philharmonie, as well as with the Augsburger Philharmonie, the Rastatter Chamber Orchestra, and the Kyoto Chamber Orchestra.

Since the winter semester of 2004/2005, he has been studying at the Academy of Music ‘Hanns Eisler’ Berlin, with Professor David Geringas.

Freddy Kempf's biography can be found in concert 1 

After concert supper menu 2

Braised lamb shanks with rosemary and red wine; ricotta sage and sweet onion cheesecake; garlic potatoes; borlotti beans, tomato jus, cherry tomato and basil salad; leaf salad; carrot and raisin salad. Selection of breads. Chocolate roulade with raspberry coulis and cream. Coffee/tea

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'We thought the trio on Saturday was brilliant'
David Evans, Bury St Edmunds 

'The trio was outstanding and so sympathetically controlled by Kempf.  Although so familiar with the Schubert piano trio in Bflat I felt the excitement as though I was hearing it the first time and also appreciated what a great composition it is.'
Rhoda Ormerod