Piano concerts in the Alte Druckerei

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Program:

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 15 in D minor

I. Maestoso - II. Adagio-III. - Rondo. Allegro non troppo

Soloist: Viktor Radic
Orchestra part: Lucia Lvjie Zhang

It is impressive - the first piano concerto by Johannes Brahms, a monumental work that he composed when he was only 26 years old. Powerful, virtuosic, rich in contrast and original, a virtuoso stroke by the young Brahms.

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JohannesBrahms (1833 - 1897)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major Op. 83

I. Allegro non troppo - II. Allegro appassionato - III. andante -IV. Allegretto grazioso

Soloist: Lucia Lvjie Zhang
Orchestra part: Viktor Radic

Johannes Brahms did not compose his second piano concerto until he was in his mid-forties. In it, solo and orchestra are not in competition, but complement each other to form a symphonic whole for the first time in music history. Critics even spoke of a "symphony with obbligato piano", emphasizing the innovative value of the composition.

Both pianists play in the class of Aleksandar Madžar.

About the artists:
Viktor Radić, born in 1996 in Novi Sad, began playing the piano as a student of Ivana Branovački and later continued his studies with Srđan Dalagija. He completed his bachelor's and master's degree at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, with Lidija Stanković; and master's degree at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, with Tatjana Ognjanovič: summa cum laude. He is currently enrolled in concert exam studies with Aleksandar Madžar at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg. Viktor has attended master classes with Arbo Valdma, Mikhail Voskresensky, Boris Berman, Gottlieb Wallisch, Aleksandar Madžar, Håkon Austbø, Bruno Canino, Svetlana Bogino and others.
He has won prizes at international competitions: Virtuosi per musica di piano forte, Czech Republic; San Dona di Piave, Italy; Isidor Bajić Piano Memorial International Competition, Serbia; Janez Matičič International Piano Competition, Slovenia. He was also a finalist and winner of the Audience Award at the 49th International Jeunesses Music Competition in Belgrade, Serbia. At the International Robert Schumann Competition (Video Edition) in Zwickau 2021, he was one of four equal prize winners in the piano category. He has given piano recitals in Serbia, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Croatia and Poland. He has performed at music festivals such as: Chopin Piano Fest in Prishtina, Kosovo; BEMUS, NIMUS, FESTUM festivals in Serbia; Krakow Piano Summer in Poland. He has performed as a soloist with the student orchestra of the Belgrade Faculty of Music in Serbia, as well as with the SNG Maribor Symphony Orchestra and the RTV Symphony Orchestra in Slovenia.

Lucia Lvjie Zhang was born in China in 1998. She received her first piano lessons from her mother at the age of three. At the age of ten, she began her piano studies with Prof. Yameng Huang at the China Central Conservatory of Music. In 2011, she was accepted into the Salzburg Mozarteum, where she studied as a junior student in Prof. Klaus Kaufmann's piano class. In 2013, at the age of 15, she successfully debuted with Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto in the Wasserburg Town Hall under the direction of Prof. Klaus Kaufmann. In 2014, she passed the entrance exam at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama and is now completing her Bachelor's degree with Prof. Ralf Nattkemper. In the same year, she was awarded a scholarship from the Oscar and Vera Ritter Foundation. In 2018, at the age of only 19, she played the complete 24 etudes of Frederic Chopin in a single evening at the Hamburg Chopin Society and shortly afterwards she played one of the greatest heavyweights of piano literature, Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto under the direction of Maestro Ovidiu Balan. In 2019, she was awarded a scholarship from Live Music Now Hamburg. At the same time, she was a semi-finalist in one of the biggest competitions in Spain - Premio Jaen. In 2023 she was a semi-finalist in the 29th Concours International de Piano d'Epinal. She has participated in numerous masterclasses with great pianists, e.g. Peter Lang, Daejin Kim, Konstanze Eickhorst, Matti Raekallio, Arnulf von Arnim, Lev Natochenny, Bernd Götzke, Alexei Gorlatch, Grigory Gruzman, Michel Beroff and Dang Thai Son. After successfully completing her bachelor's degree with the top grade of 1.0 in 2018, she is now studying for her concert exam.

Eintritt: 20,00 EUR

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