Stampfen und Schweben
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| free admission |
| Please leave coats and large bags at the checkroom or lockers before the concert. The number of seats is limited, plus standing room. In the event of overcrowding, we will have to close the entrance temporarily. |
| Duration: 60 min |
| No language skills required |
| Humboldt Forum |
| Part of: Micro Concerts of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin |
Antonín Dvořák
Trio for two violins and viola in C major op. 74
- Allegro ma non troppo
- Larghetto
- Scherzo. Vivace – Trio. Poco meno mosso
- Tema con variazioni. Poco adagio – Molto allegro – Moderato – Molto allegro
“This fellow has more melodies than any of us, you could live off his scraps” – the great composer Johannes Brahms is said to have said with rustic enthusiasm about his younger Czech colleague Antonín Dvořák.
The virtuosity of the four-movement trio for two violins and a viola, a “bass-free” string trio, seems almost unleashed, for which Dvořák worked just as hard “as if I were writing a great symphony”.
Dvořák became world-famous with his ninth symphony “From the New World”. In 1892, he took up a position as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York. During his three years in the USA, he and his students studied the spirituals of black plantation workers and the melodies of Native Americans. This research inspired him to compose his symphony in 1893.
Born in Zurich, David Nebel began playing the violin at the age of five. He first attended the conservatory in Zurich and later studied with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna and Yair Kless in Graz. David then continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Professor Alexander Gilman as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. In 2021 he won the prestigious Emily Anderson Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. David Nebel was a member of the LGT Young Soloists, a string ensemble of highly talented young musicians led by Alexander Gilman.
Nebel has also been a guest soloist at renowned festivals, including the Khachaturian Festival in Armenia, the Kissinger Sommer in Germany, where he gave the world premiere of Gediminas Gelgotas’ Violin Concerto, and the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia as part of the Järvi Academy. He has also performed at concerts organized by the Orpheum Foundation in Switzerland. Highlights of recent seasons include performances and recordings with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.
In 2020, David Nebel released his first solo CD album with conductor Kristjan Järvi on the Sony Classical label. Together with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, he recorded the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Philip Glass and the Violin Concerto by Igor Stravinksy. The album received excellent reviews from the international press, including Strad Magazine and Bayerischer Rundfunk.
David Nebel has been concertmaster of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since January 2023.
Nebel plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari, which was provided by a private sponsor.
Violinist Oleh Kurochkin was born in 1994 in Yevpatoriya on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea to a family of musicians. He received his first violin lessons at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he was accepted into the M. Lysenko Kyiv Central Music School, in the class of Prof. Jaroslava Rivnjak. From 2012 to 2016, he studied at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine, from which he graduated with a bachelor’s degree. This was followed by studies at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule in Düsseldorf with Prof. Ida Bieler. In 2020, he completed a master’s degree in Solo Professional Performance at the Folkwang University of the Arts under Prof. Boris Garlitsky. He is currently completing his concert exam at the Folkwang UdK.
Oleh Kurochkin has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions. In 2010, he won 1st prize with his piano trio at the “Ignacy Jan Paderewski” International Chamber Music Competition and 1st prize as a soloist at “The Art of the XXI Century” violin competition. In 2012, he won 1st prize at the Euhen-Stankovich International Violin Competition. Most recently, he was awarded the “Pierre Guillaume Prize” in the final of the Eugene Ysaÿe Competition in 2018. In 2022, Kurochkin received the “Musik:Landschaft Westfalen Festival Award”. His solo career has taken him to numerous concert halls in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Moldova, Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary. He has also performed as a soloist with the symphony and chamber orchestras of Düsseldorf, Bonn, Berlin, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Crimea, Zaporizhia and Odesa, among others.
Since January 2023, Kurochkin has been Principal Conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. As principal guest concertmaster, he has appeared with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Sofia Philharmonic, Basel Chamber Orchestra ITEMPI, Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, Zermatt Festival, Aurora Festival Stockholm, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Rheingau Festival and Philharmonie der Nationen, among others. Between 2019 and 2020, Kurochkin was an academy member with the 1st violins of the Staatskapelle Berlin and from 2021 to 2022 a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
He received further important musical impulses through encounters with some of the greatest conductors of our time: Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta, Andris Nelsons, Herbert Blomstedt, Christian Thielemann, John Williams, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Gustavo Dudamel. Kurochkin is also an internationally sought-after chamber musician and regularly works with Renaud Capuçon, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Valery Sokolov, Claudio Bohorquez, Martin Stadtfeld, Alexander Hülshoff, Pedro Halffter, Alexander Zemtsov, Tomáš Jamník and the “Scharoun Ensemble Berlin”, among others.
Due to his successes, he initially received a scholarship from the Ukrainian government from 2009 to 2012, a “Deutschlandstipendium” from 2015 to 2019 and the DAAD Graduation Prize in 2017. Since 2018, he has been a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Foundation, which provided him with the historical violin “Ex-Schubert” Pietro Guarneri (Mantua, 1702) for three years. Since 2019, Kurochkin has been supported by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss am Rhein and, since 2020, by the Vere Music Fund. In March 2022, Kurochkin became the initiator and co-founder of the UAmusic.DE project, the platform for supporting Ukrainian musicians who had to leave their homeland due to the Russian war of aggression.
Since 2021, Oleh Kurochkin has been playing the Michele Deconet “ex Castelberg” (Venice, 1775) awarded to him by the Martha von Castelberg Foundation.
Born into a family of musicians, Elizaveta Zolotova was surrounded from an early age by people deeply devoted to music. She began violin lessons at the age of five and transitioned to the viola nine years later. After graduating from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2009, where she studied with Roman Balashov and Yuri Bashmet (viola) as well as Alexander Rudin (chamber music), she continued her education in Germany. At the Berlin University of the Arts, she studied with Wilfried Strehle and earned her Master’s degree as an instrumental soloist with distinction in 2016.
During her studies, Elizaveta Zolotova discovered her passion for orchestral performance. In 2007, she was accepted into the Verbier Festival Orchestra as a young violist, later performing with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Zermatt Music Academy, and the Russian-German Music Academy. She secured her first permanent orchestral position in 2014 with the Saxon State Orchestra Dresden, before moving on to the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and subsequently the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Elizaveta regularly appears as a guest musician with prestigious ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, and others. Since 2019, she has also been a member of the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
In addition to her orchestral engagements, Elizaveta Zolotova is an enthusiastic chamber musician and a passionate teacher. She also teaches at the Orchestra Academy of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
The micro-concerts are part of a series of concerts in which musicians from the RSB enter into a dialog with the location and the exhibitions. The Humboldt Forum and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin are jointly organizing the micro-concerts as part of the 100th anniversary of the RSB.
