Boulanger Trio to perform in the city’s chamber music festival tonight

The Boulanger Trio from Germany will perform as part of the Da Nang Chamber Music 2019 Festival at 8.00pm at the Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theatre on Sunday, the city’s Culture and Cinema Centre has said.

The Boulanger Trio from Germany will perform as part of the Da Nang Chamber Music 2019 Festival

at Nguyen Hien Dinh Theatre on Sunday. — Photo courtesy of Da Nang Culture and Cinema Centre

Founded in 2006, the trio, which includes Karla Haltenwanger, Birgit Erz and Ilona Kindt, is based in Hamburg and Berlin. In recent years, the group has gained an excellent reputation in the world of chamber music.

Haltenwanger won prizes at the Caltanissetta 2003 and Kuhmo 2004 international chamber music competitions, and won first prize at the All-German Competition Jugend Musiziert.

As a soloist, chamber musician and voice accompanist, she has toured Europe as well as Israel, Turkey and China.

Her performances at MIDEM in Cannes, Slovenian Radio in Ljubliana, EXPO in Hannover and the opening concert of the European Festival Weeks in Passau were all hailed by audience and critics alike.

Erz, born in Heilbronn in 1979, received her first piano, violin and recorder lessons at the age of five. Her education on the violin was mainly influenced by Petru Munteanu, Valery Gradow, Roman Nodel and Antje Weithaas.

In 2002, she took part in the International Composition Contest – Valentino Bucchi Prize in 20th century music, where she won a joint second prize. At the Mendelssohn Competition for Composition in Berlin, she received a special prize for the best interpretation.

Kindt won the Ritter Prize and a prize at the Elise Meyer Competition. She has taken part in master classes with Bernhard Greenhouse, Steven Isserlis and William Pleeth. She plays a cello made in Brussels by Thomas Meuwissen.

The Da Nang Chamber Music Festival has attracted locals and tourists since 2014. The Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theatre is located at 155 Phan Chau Trinh Street. Tickets can be purchased at the Event and Festival Orgainsing Centre at 23 Tran Phu Street.

(Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today)