Norway
- America
Music
in perspective
Johannes
Martens (cello)
Joachim Kwetzinsky (piano)
Monday
Dec 3 at 7 pm. Admission free!
at the Norwegian Seamen's Church, 317 East 52nd Street
Monday
Dec 3 at 7 pm we invite you to a concert at the Norwegian
Church in New York featuring two extraordinary young musicians
from Norway: Johannes Martens (cello) and Joachim Kwetzinsky
(piano).
About
the artists:
 Joachim
Kjelsaas Kwetzinsky is active on the stage in Norway and
abroad, performing as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist.
In 2004 he was selected, as one of two, for Rikskonsertene’s
three-year INTRO Classical programme. The selection committee
praised in particular his "wellprofiled programme, his
impressive overview and shaping of the musical material, and
his virtuoso, unsentimental yet sensitive performance”.
In 2004 Kwetzinsky completed his diploma course (the highest
level of postgraduate performance study) at the Norwegian
Academy of Music where his primary teacher was the noted pianist
Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. Kwetzinsky´s previous
teachers include Liv Glaser and Jiri Hlinka.
Kwetzinsky
was a prizewinner in the Concours Grieg 2002. He has performed
in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Austria, France, Spain,
Greece, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Oman, China, Bangladesh
and Russia.
He
has appeared as a soloist at several festivals in Norway and
abroad, including Bergen International Festival, Festival
of North Norway, Ultima, Christmas at the Kremlin and Woerthersee
Classics Festival.
 The
Norwegian cellist Johannes
Martens recieved his education from the professor
Leonhard Stehn at the Guildhall School of Music in London,
and from the Norwegian State Academy of Music with professor
Truls Mork. He has worked as principal cellist at the Norwegian
Opera and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, and he has appeared
as a soloist with several Norwegian orchestras. He currently
recieves a two year artists grant from the Norwegian Arts
Council, and he is about to record a CD with the music of
Elliott Carter, which is the reason for this visit to New
York.
About
the concert:
Edvard
Grieg (1843-1907)is the most famous composer Norway has fostered.
Now 100 years after his death, his music still seems fresh
and full of vitality. In this concert, there will be a performance
of the famous Ballade for solo piano, and the intermezzo for
cello and piano.
The
year after Grieg died, in 1908, the American composer Elliott
Carter was born in New York City, the city where he still
lives and composes music in an extrordinary tempo. Carter
is recognised as one of the most important composers in the
last century, and in this concert you will get to hear the
wonderful cello sonata from 1948.
Monday,
Dec 3, at 7 pm. Admission free!
at the Norwegian Seamen's Church, 317 East 52nd Street
Everyone
is welcome! |
