Ludwig van Beethoven:
“Die Himmel rühmen des Ewigen Ehre”
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
Schiller Institute Chorus
Camerata Geminiani Orchestra
Conductor – Ingo Bathow
Fadeyev: “Morning at the Sea”
Peter Tchaikovsky: “Neapolitan Song”
Mykola Leontovych: “Schedryk”
Russian Children’s Chorus, Schostakowitsch-Music School Berlin-Lichtenberg
Conductor – Irina Freitag
“Kang ding Love Song”
“Zai na yao yuan de di fang”
“A la mu han”
Soloist — Changbo Wang
Conductor — Ya-ou Xie
Accompanist — Benjamin Lylloff
Peter Tschaikovsky:
“Andante Cantabile”
(From 1st string quartett, arranged for solo Cello and string orchestra)
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
Solo Cello: Olesya Sablina (Russia)
Camerata Geminiani
Antonio Vivaldi:
“Concerto in A major RV 158”
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
I. Allegro molto
II. Andante molto
III. Allegro
Camerata Geminiani
Johann Sebastian Bach:
“Double Violin Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043”
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
Gian Marco Sanna (1st Violin)
Roberto Valdes (2nd Violin)
Camerata Geminiani
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
“Mass in C – Coronation, KV 317”
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
Soprano: Sua Baek – Korea
Alto: Mayumi Nakamura – Japan
Tenor: Jose Mari Rubio – Philippines
Bass: Chanyoung Lee – Korea
Schiller Institute Chorus
Camerata Geminiani Orchestra
Conductor – Ingo Bathow
Giuseppe Verdi:
“Va, pensiero”
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
Schiller Institute Chorus
Camerata Geminiani Orchestra
Conductor – Ingo Bathow
Giuseppe Verdi:
“Va, pensiero” (Encore)
in the Verdi Tuning (a = 432 Hz)
All participants
Ingo Bathow
Conductor
Conductor Ingo Bathow was born in Germany but came early to the U.S. to be trained as a horn player by a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and to study at Northwestern University. His keen interest in historical music after graduation led to continued studies with Prof. John Stevens at Cambridge University. He began his career as a conductor and lecturer in 1989 when he became musical director of the Novum Convivium Musicum in Rome for a decade of intense staging of oratorios and operas. In 2003 he was elected President of the Network for International Cultural Exchange in Berlin that promotes the understanding between nations by the exchange of artists, composers and musical performances. From this period dates the intense and fertile cultural exchange with the People’s Republic of China which has resulted in his conducting of the China National Orchestra Chorus in the Beijing Concert Hall.
Sua Baek
Soprano
Sua Baek, Soprano and répétiteur, attended the Seoul Arts High School, majoring in vocal studies. She then studied with Prof. Gabriele Schnaut and Michaela Kaune at the Universität der Künste of Berlin. Sua Baek performed several Liederabende in Berlin and Weimar and as soloist in the opening concert of the 50th Choriner music festival with the Brandenburg Staatsorchester Frankfurt under the direction of GMD Howard Griffiths, as well as in the grand hall of the Berlin Philharmonic with the Camerata vocale Berlin chorus, conducted by Etta Hilsberg. She currently continues her studies as répétiteur with Prof. Alexander Vitlin at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler. She has worked as répétiteur for the Staatsoper Berlin and the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and as musical director for several opera productions.
Mayumi Nakamura
Alto
Mayumi Nakamura was born in Japan, where she attended the Musical High School “Kitakamakura Joshigakuen”. After graduation, she studied voice at the “Tokyo College of Music” and received her music degree for opera singing and Japanese musical education in 1996. Mayumi Nakamura has lived in Germany since 2000; she was engaged in the opera production of Jean Pacalet’s Ce soir on tue le cochon.
She is continually expanding her repertoire, by participating, for example, in the master classes of the Vienna Music Seminar and the 19th Steglitz Festival for Early Music (opera seria – opera buffa). In numerous concert engagements, both as soloist and as chorus member, Mayumi Nakamura has performed in the Berlin Dome, the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, the St. Matthäus-Kirche and at the Waldbühne in Berlin (among others). Since 2013, she has been a member of the Ernst Senff Choir Berlin as well as of the International Vocal Ensemble Choir, and works as a concert singer and vocal teacher.
Jose Mari Rubio
Tenor
Philippine tenor Jose Mari Rubio is a member and soloist of the Diplomatic Choir of Berlin. He started classical vocal training at 11 years old, in time for his participation at the National Music Competition for Young Artists (NAMCYA), a competitive platform for young classical singers held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He won the top prize in the solo voice category of NAMCYA. It was also in the same year that he joined a children’s choir for his first international concert tour in the United States. During his time at the university, he became a member and soloist of two time Choir of the World winners, the University of Santo Tomas Singers, and has joined the choir for competitions and five international concert tours covering North and Central America, Asia and Europe. He worked years in government service and corporate industry before joining his wife on a diplomatic mission in Berlin.
Chanyoung Lee
Bass
Chanyoung Lee studied at the Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, and studies for his Masters at the Musikhochschule Hanns Eisler since 2014. He has performed the roles of Sarastro in The Magic Flute and Leporello in Don Giovanni by W. A. Mozart in Seoul, as well as Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor by O. Nicolai, Pasquale in Don Pasquale by G. Donizetti and speaker in The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart at the Hochschule Hanns Eisler Berlin. In the oratorio repertoire, he has performed several masses in Seoul: Missa brevis in G, KV 49 and Missa brevis in d, KV 65, Missa in C „Dominicusmesse“, KV 66 and Mass in C „Trinitatismesse“, KV 167 by W. A. Mozart.
The Schiller Institute Chorus
The Schiller Institute intends, through its work in music, to help create a cultural renaissance, focused on the development of each individual’s creativity. Over the past 15 years, the European Schiller Institute chorus has worked on and presented selected pieces of the classical repertoire in the Verdi tuning and the belcanto tradition. Among them, Jesu, meine Freude, the Magnificat and Mass in B minor of J.S. Bach, the fourth movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, as well as his Choral Fantasy and selections from the opera Fidelio. Renowned teachers of bel canto singing, such as Antonella Banaudi, support this work.
In the United States, the Schiller Institute, together with the Foundation for the Revival of Classical Culture, initiated a choral project in December 2014 in various parts of New York City, to counter the escalation of violence and brutalization. Among the works performed by this “Manhattan project” is Händel’s Messiah.
We hope to inspire musically interested amateurs of all ages and backgrounds to jointly discover the beauty of classical compositions, and to perform great works of art in collaboration with professional musicians. You are most welcome to join our chorus!
Russian Children’s Chorus of the Schostakowitsch Music School of Berlin-Lichtenberg
The Russian Children’s Chorus of Schostakowitsch Music School of Berlin-Lichtenberg was founded in 2010, and its repertoire includes European and Russian Chorus pieces, Folksongs, classical and popular Music. It regularly performs its own concerts and partake in various events. Chorus director: Irina Freitag.
Berlin Chinese Academicians’ Chorus
The Chinese Academic Chorus Berlin was founded in February 1995. Their members come from China, but they study, do research or work in Berlin and the surrounding area. The Chorus has performed at many international events in Berlin as well as in Dresden, Leipzig, Hannover and Bonn and was in 1997 chosen by the Shanghai Opera House to act as opera Chorus for the first European performance of the stage work “Savage Land” at the Saarland State Theatre. In 2007 the Chorus performed together with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra the Chinese symphonic poem “Echo of the Hakka Houses of the Earth” in the concert hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. The various activities of the Chinese Academic Chorus served as vehicle for cultural exchange in Germany, which is recognized and valued from all sides. Internationally acclaimed pianist Ya-ou Xie has recently taken over the position of conductor.
Camerata Geminiani
The Camerata Geminiani is the first string chamber orchestra in London – and probably in Europe – which performs at 432Hz. Made of musicians with international experience and coming from different countries, they share the same passion about music, enjoying an extremely intense feedback from the public. The Camerata collaborates with many high level soloists which are enthusiastic to taste the exquisite experience of the original frequency. It has to be very clear that the Camerata Geminiani is NOT a baroque orchestra, and plays in a modern way and with vibrato.
Gian Marco Sanna
Founder and artistic director of The Geminiani Project, he is an Italian violinist with international experience; he has been invited as a soloist, and a leader from various orchestras. He also collaborated with several orchestras in Europe. Second leader and soloist of the Camerata Ensemble with Roberto Valdes, he is a passionate musician and teacher, some of whose students have received awards in international competitions. He plays a Nicolas Lupot of the end of the 18th century.
Roberto Valdes (Guest artist)
Very renowned musician, he’s a cuban violinist and professor, which played in important theatres around the world; amongst his collaborations, as an international soloist, are important names like Frank Preuss, and Mikhail Bezverkhny. Also a soloist, founder, leader, and artistic director of Camerata Filarmonica del Caribe, and Camerata Ensemble, among others, he’s a professor in Lisbon-Portugal; many of his students won international prizes.
