Thursday, 2008 August 14th, 8 PM
Dzintari Concert Hall
Cinema & Comedy
The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician
The show of Gidon Kremer, chamber orchestra Kremerata Baltica and Igudesman & Joo
Since the success, both critically and publicly, of the 2004 world premiere of “A Little Nightmare Music” at one of the most prestigious venues in the world, Vienna’s Musikverein, Igudesman & Joo have been delighting audiences all around the world in theatres, concert halls, and international festivals.
Internationally celebrated and respected musicians such as Gidon Kremer, Natalia Gutman, Janine Jansen, and Julian Rachlin immediately seized the opportunity to invite them to their own festivals, respectively, Lockenhaus, Kreuth, Utrecht and Dubrovnik. Besides having performed their show so far in Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, and Norway, “A Little Nightmare Music” will venture down under with performances in Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and ultimately the US and the UK.
Aleksey Igudesman and Richard Hyung-ki Joo have been working together since their very first meeting, at the age of 12, when they were pupils of the Yehudi Menuhin School. Very much inspired by Menuhin, their unified dream was to bring classical music to a larger audience. Now, years later, following in the footsteps of luminaries such as Victor Borge, Dudley Moore, and even Glenn Gould, they have created a ground-breaking show that defies categorization and by marrying humour with music, they have come closer to realizing their dream.
Now they present a new show Cinema and Comedy - The Rise and Fall of the Classical Musician. The evening’s protagonist, Gidon Kremer, is such an example of the classical musician. His real-life experiences serve as inspiration, his writings are a starting point.
