Thursdsay, 2015 April 16th
Cesis, concerthall "CESIS"
Friday, 2015 April 17th, 7 PM
Great Guild Hall
Bundesjugendorchester (Germany)
Karl-Heinz Steffens, conductor
The German National Youth Orchestra, founded in 1969, is one of the world’s leading youth orchestras. The National Youth Orchestra brings together the best of the younger generation of musicians from all over Germany to demonstrate their skill in national and international concert tours under the direction of celebrated conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Gustavo Dudamel, Andris Nelson, Kurt Masur, Gerd Albrecht, Yakov Kreizberg, Andrey Boreyko or Michael Sanderling. Whether it was in Japan, China, Venezuela, South Africa or all over Europe, the Bundesjugendorchester has always been highly acclaimed by the audience and critics alike.
Conductor Karl-Heinz Steffens relinquished his post as Principal Clarinet of the Berlin Philharmonic and his international solo career in 2007 to devote himself to conducting. At the start of the 2009/10 season he took up his appointment as Music Director of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in Ludwigshafen. This season includes Steffens’ debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, as well as re-invitations to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Philharmonic and the Hallé Orchestra amongst others. Meanwhile he appears throughout Germany with orchestras such as the Bamberg Symphony, the Bayerisches Staatsorchester München, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the Munich Philharmonic and the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig and Stuttgart; other guest appearances have included the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Karl-Heinz Steffens is also a prolific operatic conductor. For his outstanding performance in the 2012 German Music Competition Tobias Feldmann was awarded the coveted Grand Prize as well as Special Prize of the Marie-Luise Imbusch Foundation. In the same year he won Third Prize at the 8th International Joseph Joachim Competition in Hannover, as well as winning the Audience Prize and Critics’ Prize.
Tobias Feldmann is prize winner at other national and international competitions (Germany, Romania, Lithuania, Italy and the Czech Republic). In the 2011 International Henri Marteau Competition he won First Prize, the Audience Prize and prizes for the best Bach and Reger performances.
As a soloist, he has performed with renowned orchestras. Concert tours have taken him to numerous countries and he appears regularly as a recitalist and chamber musician at major festivals. Invited by the Goethe-Institute, he performed concerts in Thailand, Vietnam and Tunisia.
Mr. Feldmann was the concertmaster of the national German Youth Orchestra from 2007 until 2010.
In April of 2014 the recording label GENUIN introduced bis debut-CD with works by Beethoven, Ysaÿe, Bartók und Waxman.
As a prize winner at the 21st Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds Music Competition of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Tobias Feldmann has performed on a 1703 Antonio Stradivari violin (Cremona), owned by the Federal Republic of Germany, since February 2013.
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