Baltic Sea Philharmonic

Baltic Sea Landscapes Tour 2016

Welcome

We are delighted to welcome you to our ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’ tour programme. With this April tour we launch our exciting new offshoot, Baltic Sea Philharmonic, and as our choice of repertoire reflects our deep love and care for the special natural environment through which we will be touring, as well as marking Prokofiev’s 125th anniversary, we have much to celebrate. We are happy to be able to do so together with you. Baltic Sea Philharmonic

Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation Our educational ambitions continue to develop

The birth and evolution of Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation; programme credits 32

Find out about our innovative teaching programme

Discover how our pioneering and practical approach to training musicians is reaping rewards; meet our coaches and players

24 Baltic Sea Music Academy Baltic Sea Philharmonic Introducing our new orchestra

Find out about Baltic Sea Philharmonic and our tour dates; welcome from Kristjan Järvi; Alexander Toradze celebrates Prokofiev; learn about our tour repertoire 06

Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic How our original orchestra is evolving

The future of our training orchestra, Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic (BYP); success stories from BYP 18

Baltic Sea Music Academy

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Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic performing at the Berlin Philharmonie, January 2014. Der Tagesspiegel wrote of the concert, ‘The music boils and steams like lava, repeatedly heralding the big eruption, until everything ends in a huge burst of sound. The public loved it’ Baltic Sea Philharmonic

06 07 Say hello to Baltic Sea Philharmonic

We introduce our new orchestra and look forward to some of its 2016 highlights

This tour we launch Baltic Sea Philharmonic, our exciting new initiative that marks the expansion of our educational aspirations for the region. Baltic Sea Philharmonic will become the main public-facing part of the Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation, coming together several times a year to tour specific projects across Europe and further. It will allow us to continue to develop Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic (BYP) and our Baltic Sea Repertoire for Baltic Sea Philharmonic’s Music Academy as progressive learning first ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’ tour reflects centres for the region. this passion for the environment and that of the composers, who are all from the region. Baltic Sea Philharmonic includes current We take the listener on a journey of the and former BYP players from the ten imagination across seas and landscapes, countries of the Baltic Sea region meeting nature and wildlife, with works – Denmark, Estonia, Finland, , such as ’s Karelia Suite, Arvo Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Pärt’s Swansong, Stravinsky’s Firebird, Russia and Sweden. Like BYP, it is a and Gediminas Gelgotas’s Mountains. young orchestra, but there is no age Waters. (Freedom). The orchestra also cap, so people of all ages can apply. The performs works by Prokofiev, whose 125th two orchestras share the foundation’s anniversary it will celebrate on 23 April ambitions, and are a platform for culture, with a concert in Moscow. society and the environment. As part of our advocacy for the environment, we partner with organisations that safeguard the cultural heritage and focus on environmental protection. For example, our Helsinki concert is presented by the John Nurminen Foundation to raise funds for their ‘Clean Baltic Sea’ projects.

Baltic Sea Philharmonic Say hello to Baltic Sea Philharmonic

‘Repertoire for Baltic Sea Philharmonic’s first “Baltic Sea Landscapes” tour reflects our passion for the environment and that of the composers included’ This tour will be followed in September 2016 with ‘Baltic Sea Discovery’, in which repertoire takes the theme of the swan, with works by Pärt (Swansong) and Tchaikovsky (Swan Lake). The celebrated Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica will join the orchestra, with its players embedded in Baltic Sea Philharmonic, and Kremer performing Weinberg’s Violin Concerto.

2016 promises another exciting journey for Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation and we are pleased to have you on board with us!

08 09 ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’ Tour, April 2016

Baltic Sea Philharmonic 15 April 2016, 6.00 pm, Kristjan Järvi, conductor Klaipeda (Concert Hall), Lithuania Alexander Toradze, piano 16 April 2016, 7.00 pm, Jean Sibelius: Liepāja (Great Amber Concert Hall), Karelia Suite, Op. 11 (Klaipeda, Liepāja, Latvia Tallinn, Helsinki) : 18 April 2016, 7.00 pm, Symphony No. 1 in D major Classical, Tallinn (Estonia Concert Hall), Op. 25 (Tallinn, St. Petersburg, Moscow) Estonia Sergei Prokofiev: No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 19 April 2016, 7.00 pm, (except for Tallinn) Helsinki (Music Centre), *** Finland Arvo Pärt: Swansong (Littlemore Tractus) for orchestra 21 April 2016, 6.30 pm, Gediminas Gelgotas: St. Petersburg (Mariinsky Concert Hall), Mountains. Waters. (Freedom) Russia : The Firebird (1945) 23 April 2016, 7.00 pm, Moscow (Tchaikovsky Concert Hall), Russia

Baltic Sea Philharmonic ‘Baltic Sea Discovery’ Tour, September 2016

Baltic Sea Philharmonic 18 September 2016, 7.00 pm, Kristjan Järvi, conductor Gdansk (European Solidarity Centre), Poland Gidon Kremer, violin 20 September 2016, 5.00 pm, Arvo Pärt: Copenhagen (DR Concert Hall), Swansong (Littlemore Tractus) for orchestra Denmark Mieczysław Weinberg: Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 67 24 September 2016, 8.00 pm, *** Peenemünde/Usedom (Kraftwerk), P.I. Tchaikovsky: Germany Swan Lake Ballet Music (Arr. by Kristjan Järvi)

Baltic Sea Philharmonic 8 December 2016, 11.00 am, Kristjan Järvi, conductor Vienna (Konzerthaus), Austria

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10 11 Welcome from Kristjan Järvi

Our Founding Conductor and Music Director explains the philosophy behind ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’

‘This tour brings together all our commitments: to culture, music and education, and especially to the environment. That’s why we’re calling it the ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’ tour. We’ll be touring on the actual Baltic Sea, stopping at ports of Klaipeda (Lithuania), Liepāja ‘It’s music that makes (Latvia), Tallinn (Estonia), Helsinki (Finland) you feel the northern and St. Petersburg (Russia). We are bringing the environment into focus with lights, the ice, the cold pieces that come from the area and are wind, the forests, the written by composers who are inspired by incredible feeling when nature. It’s music that makes you feel the you jump into the lakes’ Northern Lights, the ice, the cold wind, the forests, the incredible feeling when you jump into the lakes. The whole mentality and way of being of the region is formed by nature, which is why we have these great composers.

“Environment” is a very important word for Kristjan Järvi: Biography us, in two different senses. As humans we create the environment between each other. Born in Estonia, Kristjan Järvi emigrated It is also our neighbourhood. The sea gives to the United States as a child and grew us life, the trees give us air, and we all up in New York City. ​He has ‘earned a have to take care of it. We have to be reputation as one of the canniest, and connected to the greater environment in most innovative, programmers on the our daily lives, and then we realise that classical scene.’ (Reuters) Curating and there are no differences between peoples conducting his original, genre-fusing or nationalities. The whole planet is ours. projects and festivals with an individual It doesn’t matter where you come from or approach and style, his concerts have been what your story is: we must take care of proclaimed a ‘life-enhancing experience.’ each other, and of the Earth.’ (Herald Scotland). Kristjan realises his

Baltic Sea Philharmonic Welcome from Kristjan Järvi

pioneering ideas with his four ensembles: fresh look at the old, with concepts and as Music Director of the MDR Leipzig Radio presentation that transcend the borders of Symphony Orchestra and the Gstaad . The latest release entitled Festival Orchestra, as creator of his New ‘Passacaglia’ is a collaboration with Arvo York-based classical-hip-hop-jazz band Pärt celebrating the composers 80th Absolute Ensemble, and as Founding birthday. Kristjan’s latest release on Sony Conductor and Music Director of the Baltic Classical is part of a series of Tchaikovsky Sea Philharmonic. theatre works that began with Snow Maiden, and will continue with Sleeping Beauty As a recording artist his range from and Nutcracker. Hollywood soundtracks such as ‘Cloud Atlas’ and ‘Hunger Games’ to Kristjan works with some of today’s award-winning albums on Sony and brightest creative minds, from film directors Chandos, to his eponymous series on Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis, to renowned French label Naïve Classique: composers and artists Arvo Pärt, Steve the ‘Kristjan Järvi Sound Project’. Launched Reich, Tan Dun, Giya Kancheli, Hauschka, in 2014, the series features projects across Dhafer Youssef, Anoushka Shankar, Max all of his ensembles and is characterised Richter and Esa-Pekka Salonen. by his unmistakable approach in taking a

12 13 Prokofiev at 125 We celebrate the anniversary of the great Russian composer in the company of one of the great Prokofiev proponents, Alexander Toradze

This year marks the 125th anniversary of Prokofiev’s birth and we’re excited to be able to celebrate it in the company of one of the world’s leading Prokofiev champions, Alexander Toradze. He will be performing the Third Piano Concerto, his recording of He says: ‘One of the important things that which was chosen as ‘best recording ever’ Zak communicated to me was how unhappy by International Piano Quarterly. Prokofiev was that the lyrical, cantilena side of his music was often missed by players, Alexander brings special insights to critics and audiences. That became Prokofiev’s works, having several personal extremely important for me because it gave connections with the composer. His father, me liberty to treat his slow, lyrical music the composer David Toradze, studied with more tension.’ with Reinhold Glière, who was Prokofiev’s composition teacher, and he used to tell his Alexander describes the Third Piano young son: ‘Prokofiev never wrote one note Concerto: ‘It is like champagne. It has a that wasn’t genius.’ The young Alexander variety of geographical and ethnic became inspired by the composer’s piano identities – Russian, Jewish and Japanese. works when a famous pianist came to It is extremely cosmopolitan, a kaleido- his home town, he remembers: ‘My first scope of themes from many different parts impressions of Prokofiev’s music came and even many different times in his life.’ from Sviatoslav Richter. At a very young age I heard him perform whole recitals of Personal connections go further. The his music in , and that stayed with me Toradze and Järvi families have been close as the quintessential concert experience. ever since Alexander Toradze performed He performed the “war” sonatas, so I was at the USSR National Piano Competition in exposed to Sonata No. 7, and I played it at 1969 in Tallinn, under the baton of Neeme the age of 14, with vehement protest from Järvi, Kristjan’s father. David Toradze my teachers, but not my father.’ even composed his Second Symphony for Neeme. Alexander Toradze says, ‘It has He gathered an important insight from been a very deep, lifelong and important his teacher, Yakov Zak, who was a close friendship, first for my father and mother friend of Prokofiev and had performed his and Kristjan’s parents, and then for me and concertos with the composer in the hall. Paavo and Kristjan.’

Baltic Sea Philharmonic Alexander Toradze: Biography

Alexander Toradze is a concert pianist, best known for his classical Russian repertoire, with a career spanning more than three decades, performing with the world’s finest orchestras. He is a professor of piano at Indiana University South Bend.

Born in Georgia, then part of the former Soviet Union, Alexander entered Tbilisi’s central music school at six and first played with orchestra at nine. He continued his ‘It’s no regular concert: studies at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory it’s a concert with in Moscow at nineteen under Yakov Zak, Boris Zemliansky, and Lev Naumov. In serious consequences’ 1977, he finished second in the Fifth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1978. In 1983, while on tour with the Bolshoi Symphony He is looking forward to working with the Orchestra of Moscow, he requested asylum Baltic Sea Philharmonic, and describes the at the American Embassy in Madrid and has excitement of working with young since made his home in the United States. orchestras: ‘The enthusiasm, willingness In 1991, Alexander became the Martin and attention you get from these young endowed professor of piano at Indiana players puts you back to your own young University South Bend. years. It reminds you how exciting every note is, and should be, and any remark from your teacher makes it even more special. You put these things on the back burner because you don’t have time to recall them all, but when you’re with a youth orchestra it’s right there in front of you. Everything is doubled: double challenge, double pleasure, double inspiration. It’s no regular concert: it’s a concert with serious consequences.’

14 15 Baltic Sea Landscapes Explore the repertoire for our tour programme and find out more about the composers and their times

The natural beauty of the Baltic Sea enormous Romantic symphony. Prokofiev’s countries serves as inspiration for the first homeland was also experiencing upheaval programme of the Baltic Sea Philharmonic. at the time, as it transformed from a Tsarist With ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’, Kristjan Järvi Empire into the Soviet Republic. and the orchestra take the listener on a musical journey to countries that have been After the October Revolution in 1917, many connected to each other since ancient times Russian artists left their home, since cultural through their harbour cities, introducing us life still had to establish a new order there. to their wonderful composers. Opportunities arose in Europe and the USA. Prokofiev also moved there and established Jean Sibelius is probably the most famous his reputation as a pianist and composer on Finnish composer. He received piano and the basis of his Piano Concerto No. 3 violin lessons at an early age, studied at the op. 26. It was premiered in Chicago in conservatory in Helsinki and later moved to 1921. Prokofiev practised no other piece as Berlin and Vienna. Sibelius campaigned for intensively on the piano as this one. This the national Finnish movement, which called concerto, he once explained, ‘is known to for the foundation of an independent state. every child, so every passage has to be His Karelia Suite op. 11 (1893) is a declara- right.’ High-energy moments contrast with tion of faith in his homeland and addresses lyrical elements. The Petersburg composer the theme of Karelia, which was claimed by and musicologist Boris Assafiev declared Sweden, Russia and the Finnish people. that this work ‘radiates with the Russian Today the different parts of the population understanding of the significance and value live in peace in this lake- and forest- of art.’ Prokofiev never described himself as covered region of North-Eastern Europe. It an émigré, remaining a citizen of his country is not far to the architecturally beautiful St. and later returning to the Soviet Union. On Petersburg. In 1919, Sergei Prokofiev’s 23 April this year, Baltic Sea Philharmonic First Symphony op. 25 was premiered there. together with Kristjan Järvi and Alexander The compact piece became known as the Toradze will honour his 125th birthday with ‘Classical Symphony’. In it, the composer a concert in Moscow. honours his great example Joseph Haydn by using his tonal language. The music By contrast, the Estonian composer represented a musical turning point, since Arvo Pärt is a musical individualist, even the work declared its opposition to the during his training at the conservatory in

Baltic Sea Philharmonic latitudes around us and inside us. It was my idea and desire to create a sound and a musical structure in which all processes run as economically as possible and in which its inner elements constantly transform into new figures.’

Igor Stravinsky composed the Firebird ballet at the young age of 27. The impresario Sergei Diaghilev commissioned the piece Tallinn. He initially composed avant-garde for his innovative dance company Ballets pieces, which were often received with Russes (with dancers from St. Petersburg incomprehension. His study of medieval and Moscow), thereby showing great trust in music and religion later led to a peaceful, the young composer. And rightly so, since tonal language. In 1980, Pärt emigrated to in 1910, the premiered ballet, based on two Vienna and Berlin and quickly became a old Russian fairy tales, was a huge success. cult figure of New Music in the West. He only The public was electrified by the orchestral returned to his homeland in 2008. magnificence of the piece. The Russian The orchestral piece Swansong, which was ballerina Tamara Karsavina, the Russian premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic in dancer and choreographer Michail Fokin, 2014, is based on Pärt’s early composition and the stage set presenting the enchanted ‘Littlemore Tractus’. In it, he set the text by garden in which the golden apples grow, Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–1890) were especially impressive. to music. The theologian, poet and thinker was an influential figure in England. The music was also popular in concert halls Swansong is therefore a hymnic, in the form of three later orchestral suites, pensive piece. offering ‘best of’ versions in different lengths and orchestral constellations. Kristjan Järvi The Lithuanian Gediminas Gelgotas has has chosen the last of these, from 1945. enjoyed a special partnership with the The contrast between the dazzling ‘Infernal Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic for many Dance’ of the evil wizard Kashchei and the years. Most recently, the orchestra perfor- dreamy ‘Lullaby’ is enormous. Naturally, the med Mountains. Waters. (Freedom). The story recounts how the young Prince Ivan premiere was on 12 September 2015 in wins over his beloved princess. He is aided the Tonhalle, Zurich. Now the Baltic Sea by a mysterious firebird. It is truly magical Philharmonic is performing the impressive music that unfolds an almost archaic power piece for the first time, with its dark colour in the enormous crescendo of the Finale. tones and voluminous, natural composition. ‘Look at him: He is a man on the eve of his Gelgotas was inspired by pop music. In his fame,’ Diaghilev said of Stravinsky during piece, he aims to ‘explore the enormous ballet rehearsals. His prophecy was fulfilled.

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Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic receiving the European Culture Prize in Dresden’s Frauenkirche in October 2015, as ’an example to others to inspire worldwide audiences and foster cultural understanding in Europe and beyond’

18 19 Journey into the future

We look back at how far Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic has come since it began, and discover more about its ambitious plans

The new Baltic Sea Philharmonic comes out of the success of Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic (BYP), which continues to develop its educational mission. In the short space of time since its first concert in 2008, BYP has become a major force for good on the international musical map. The orchestra first performed at the summit of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Riga under Kristjan Järvi, initiated by the Usedom Music Festival and gas pipeline The orchestra was an instant success operator Nord Stream AG, a partner- among musicians and audiences, as well ship brought about by Thomas Hummel, as sponsors, who understood the value of Executive Director of the Festival. the project, and conservatoires who could At that point, its mission was simple see the benefits to their students. As its – to bring together young people from reputation spread, it was invited to different countries of the Baltic Sea region perform across Europe, embarking on in musical harmony. Kristjan says: ‘Initially regular tours and playing at the most as an organisation we tried to highlight the prestigious concert halls and festivals, cooperation between the countries of such as White Nights Music Festival in the Baltic Sea. We wanted to reflect this in St. Petersburg, Baltic Sea Festival in a multinational orchestra made up of Stockholm, Bonn Beethovenfest, Rheingau young people. The main goal was to make Music Festival and Usedom Music Festival, music together.’ its original birthplace. Concert tours took it to Italy several times, and it performed in Berlin’s prestigious Philharmonie and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. Politicians, too, understood the importance of its mission, and after being invited to perform at the Summit of the Council of the Baltic Sea States in Stralsund in 2012, at the invitation of Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor praised the orchestra as ‘a compelling example of using music as a powerful medium for cooperation and integration across borders.’ Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic ‘The orchestra was an instant success among musicians and audiences, as well BYP has come of age, not only in name, as sponsors, who but also in its reputation and the scale of its understood the value ambitions. As Baltic Sea Philharmonic takes over the public touring role of the of the project, and organisation, BYP itself continues as an conservatoires who important training ground for the next could see the benefits generation of the region’s musicians, and to their students’ the source of Baltic Sea Philharmonic’s ranks, furthering the ambitions of the Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation, as well In 2015, these achievements were as benefitting society in general. honoured with the European Culture Prize by the European Culture Foundation ‘Pro Thomas Hummel looks back on the Europe’. The 2015 jury awarded BYP in success of the last nine years: acknowledgement of the enormous impact ‘It has been gratifying to see young players the orchestra has made on the culture of from different cultures collaborate in the the region. In particular, the jury cited the service of musical excellence, forming orchestra’s ‘passionate and thrilling lifelong friendships, and discovering new performances as an example to others audiences for classical music around to inspire worldwide audiences and foster Europe. Music shows us a perfect model of cultural understanding in Europe cooperation and creativity, of how society and beyond’. can function constructively and fairly, and BYP offers an excellent example of this The foundation has a rich network of model in action. We look forward to musical contacts and coaches, and its developing our activities in the Artistic Council includes , coming years, with the help of our Marek Janowski, Mariss Jansons and generous sponsors.’ Esa-Pekka Salonen. The late Kurt Masur was also a keen supporter, serving as a member of the Artistic Council, and conducted BYP twice.

20 21 Support system

Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic (BYP) is more than just great musical experiences – it offers inspiration and practical support for its players in making a successful professional life in music

An important part of our mission is to support young musicians from the Baltic Sea region in making the transition between studying their instruments and becoming professional. This is partly in giving them the opportunity to experience the joy and inspiration of working in a high-quality Percussionist Sebastiaan Molenaar is orchestra, but also in offering them a perfect example of how BYP helps its practical skills for a life in music, and an musicians. He has played in the in-depth knowledge of playing and living in orchestra since 2013, and has recently an orchestra. taken the step up to coaching the percussion section himself, in the recent Academy LAB session. He is currently studying for a Masters in Performance ‘I learnt so much at Amsterdam Conservatorium, but and I use that has already performed in the Oslo knowledge in my life’ Philharmonic, Kammerorchester Basel, the Dutch National Ballet Orchestra and Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. He explains how BYP has helped him professionally: ‘I have a sense of freedom when I play in BYP. Kristjan and the coaches are not so interested in what we call “perfect playing”. There’s a lot of freedom, which makes it much more interesting, and makes you more relaxed when you perform. In my case, I play better and can be myself more. This helps me in other situations, too: in other orchestras and at auditions. I can show more of myself without being too stressed.’

Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic ‘We all come from different backgrounds, but we’re all doing the Cellist Igne Pikalaviciute has also same things’ been inspired by BYP. She is a member since 2009 and as well as pursuing orchestral playing now, she is in the Adora Quartet, which includes two players she met in BYP, and which has already won awards. She says of her time in BYP: ‘I learnt so much and I use that knowledge in my life. It’s given me a new attitude, new energy, new feelings about music.’

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Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic rehearses for a concert tour in Leipzig in 2014. Working with the orchestra offers musicians vital experience of professional life Baltic Sea Music Academy

24 25 In the LAB

Our innovative annual workshops offer vital experience for young musicians

Baltic Sea Music Academy is a unique This is part of the LAB’s progressive concept offering talented young players the outlook, as Kristjan explains: ‘Our aim is chance to work intensively in a professional to develop a different type of approach to orchestral context. For a whole week, they playing and understanding music, a holistic have the opportunity to work with Kristjan approach. This includes practical aspects Järvi and an esteemed group of coaches, of making music – using one’s body living, breathing, eating and sleeping properly, enjoying the physicality of playing, music. The experience opens up a world of the feeling of fun and making friends, of possibilities for them: musically, in training being part of one rhythmic entity. But it also and inspiring them; professionally, in giving includes the entrepreneurial sides: getting them insight into life as a musician; and things done effectively, being organised, making friends and colleagues from across commissioning music, helping conductors the entire Baltic Sea region who will last to work better and quicker. We serve a lifetime. all these different components in helping musicians achieve their musical potential.’ The Academy LAB’s approach is extensive, offering orchestra rehearsals, In this spirit, since 2010 Composition and sectional coaching and chamber music Conducting Workshops have run alongside projects, as well as workshops on specific the main Academy LAB session. Chosen subjects such as rhythm. Repertoire is young conductors work under Kristjan, wide-ranging, including great masterpieces and special guests, who have included of the repertoire as well as modern and Kurt Masur, to prepare programmes and specially-commissioned pieces and works practise with BYP, and for the Composition from outside the classical music genre. Workshop, young composers work with coach Daniel Schnyder, with BYP playing pieces that the composers have written that same week, recording them with professional production staff.

Baltic Sea Music Academy ‘Students can access the entire musical process of creating music, improvising, playing new music and traditional music, and knowing how to play in an orchestra’

Daniel Schnyder describes what makes the Academy so special: ‘There are many composition workshops, violin workshops and youth orchestras around the world. But there doesn’t exist another that is the whole package, where students can access the entire musical process of creating music, improvising, playing new music and traditional music, and knowing how to play in an orchestra. We always try to present something new and exciting to the young people, to give them ideas. We fuse all these aspects of music making together here, which is unique.’

26 27 Who’s Who

We’re delighted to welcome an internationally renowned group of musicians to our 2016 Academy from 9 to 14 April in Liepāja, Latvia, some of whom are regular faces with BYP, and some, new additions

Ole Edvard Antonsen, brass Jan Bjøranger, violin

Ole Edvard is one of the world’s leading Jan is a professor and head of the string trumpet soloists and one of Norway’s department at the University of Stavanger, biggest international stars. He is equally Norway, alongside a very active career as at home working with major symphony a soloist, ensemble leader and conductor. orchestras – such as the Berlin He teaches throughout Europe and is also Philharmonic or London Symphony Artistic Director of the ensemble 1B1 in Orchestra – as he is collaborating with Stavanger, which received a Norwegian pop, rock and jazz musicians, such as Grammy in 2015. Jan has been a coach for John Miles. He has played on all of the the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic since the main music stages in over 40 countries beginning in 2008. around the world, from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and also works as a conductor.

Paul Cortese, viola Charles DeRamus, double bass

Paul is professor of viola and chamber Charles is a member of the Gothenburg music at the Liceu Conservatory in Symphony Orchestra and teaches at Barcelona, Spain. He is former principal the University of Gothenburg Academy of viola of the Gothenburg Symphony in Music and Drama in Sweden. Originally Sweden and a frequent guest principal from the United States, he has performed, viola in many orchestras, as well as a recorded, and toured with major orchestras sought-after chamber musician. He has and festivals around the world. In addition recorded numerous discs for solo viola. to giving masterclasses in Sweden, Norway, Since 2008 Paul has been a member England, Japan and the US, Charles of the BYP coaches team. teaches regularly at numerous chamber music and orchestral festivals throughout the world.

Baltic Sea Music Academy Andrey Godik, woodwinds Justas Kulikauskas, cello

Oboist Andrey has performed as a soloist Justas is a solo cellist of the New Ideas and chamber musician, and in orchestras Chamber Orchestra NICO. He started including Symphony Orchestra, performing solos with all major orchestras Radio Orchestra and the Chamber in Lithuania aged ten, and he is a winner of Orchestra of Munich Philharmonic. international cello competitions. He is also a In 2014 he was awarded the Special Prize songwriter, producer and artist of Hip-Hop/ for Interpretation of Schumann at the RnB. At the 2012 Boss Championship he Cultural Music Competition and was selected as one of eight best loopers the Special Prize ‘Honorable Mention’ in the world. He released his first cello solo at the 66th Prague International Music album in 2015. Competition. He was principal oboe at the Komische Oper Berlin and is now principal oboe at the Staatstheater Braunschweig Daniel Schnyder, composition and Gstaad Festival Orchestra. Daniel is a composer, arranger and saxophonist in a wide variety of genres, Sebastiaan Molenaar, percussion and works as a composer-in-residence, consultant and soloist with many orchest- Sebastiaan is currently studying for his ras and festivals. Daniel is in demand as a Master’s in classical percussion at the composer, with commissions from the Berlin Amsterdam Conservatorium. Recent Philharmonic, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, engagements have included with Oslo Opera Philadelphia, Dresden Philharmonie, Philharmonic Orchestra, Kammerorchester Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Pacific Basel, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra and many others. Gstaad Festival Orchestra and the He composed ‘parkour musical’ for BYP, Norwegian Radio Orchestra. which was premiered in Berlin in 2010.

28 29 Our Musicians 2016

Violin Cello Anna Arkhipova (Russia) Stefano Cucuzzella (Germany) Karol Bartoszewicz (Poland) Greta Ernesaks (Estonia) Vida Bobin (Poland) Zuzanna Filipek (Poland) Toomas Ellervee (Estonia) Aleksandra Hermanowska (Poland) Ilze Gagaine (Latvia) Haruko Onoda (Germany) Leila Hairova (Latvia) Armas Riives (Estonia) Vincent Hamann (Germany) Elzbieta Rychwalska (Poland) Dita Immermane (Latvia) Tomasz Szewczyk (Poland) Kseniia Ivakina (Russia) Seeun Kang (Germany) Double Bass Kaido Kopli (Estonia) Miranda Erlich (Germany) Marzena Malinowska (Poland) Johann Nikolaus Franz (Germany) Erika Melnicuka (Latvia) Milosz Madejski (Poland) Liisi Metsvahi (Estonia) Eduard Gadea Salom (Sweden) Jan Mleczko (Poland) Regina Udod (Estonia) Laura Muskare (Latvia) Jack Vallinder (Sweden) Evgenia Pavlova (Russia) Maria Selnes (Norway) Flute Kinga Streszewska (Poland) Yu-Cheng Hsu (Germany) Katarzyna Sylla (Poland) Kaisa Kortelainen (Finland) Anna Trukhina (Russia) Maria Luisk (Estonia) Anna Wałek (Poland) Giedrė Žarėnaitė (Lithuania) Oboe Laura Zimka (Latvia) Ingely Laiv (Estonia) Celia Olivares (Germany) Viola Annika Oser (Germany) Mikhail Balan (Russia) Nils Biesewig (Germany) Clarinet Patricia Gomez Carretero (Germany) Frederik von Würden (Denmark) Aleksandr Dubitsa (Estonia) Alexey Mikhaylenko (Russia) Teresa Järve (Estonia) Jure Robek (Germany) Annija Kerno (Latvia) Viktoriia Orlova (Russia) Bassoon Marina Paccagnan (Germany) Xavier Vidal Alemañ (Sweden) Marta Racene (Latvia) Karolina Borodacz (Poland) Agnieszka Żyniewicz (Poland) Arseniy Shakptsov (Russia)

Baltic Sea Music Academy French Horn Conducting Workshop Dominik Kosyrczyk (Poland) Alexey Mikhaylenko (Russia) Jenni Lamminen (Finland) Arseniy Shakptsov (Russia) Cesar Cabanero Martinez (Germany) Martynas Stakionis (Lithuania) Grigory Yakubovich (Russia) Edmar Tuul (Estonia)

Trumpet Assistant Conductor José Ángel Toscano Fernández (Germany) Marlon Chen Katja Lasser (Germany) Daniel Stadtfeld (Germany) Team Thomas Hummel (Executive Director) Trombone Jutta Loosen (Communications Director) Rina Endo (Germany) Rita Sosedow (Production Manager) Philip Pineda Resch (Germany) Vivian Boerschmann (Project Assistant) Jüri Leek (Estonia) Juliane Gröger (Project Assistant) Katharina Wickel (Project Assistant) Tuba Alexander Datz (Press Officer) Ludwig Angerhöfer (Germany) Ariane Todes (International Communications) Oliver Kietzmann (Ass. to Executive Director) Harp Thomas Hesse (Stage Manager) Maria-Theresa Freibott (Germany) Andriy Lukyanets (Stage Manager)

Piano Aretas Botyrius (Lithuania)

Percussion Lauri Ahone (Estonia) Konrad-Wilhelm Angerhöfer (Germany) Markus Knoben (Germany) Mathias Matland (Norway)

Composition Workshop Jan Kohl (Germany) Gilberto Moreno Ramos (Germany) Aleksejs Peguševs (Latvia) Mari Sainio (Finland)

30 31 Building a legacy

The Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation e. V. was born out of the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic, and has ambitious plans for the future

BYP started off as a project, but its immediate success was enormous, inspiring young players, audiences and politicians, through its values of passion, community and innovation. And as its Alongside these sessions and tours, we message of social progress through have developed a programme of outreach music education got through wherever it work among the communities in which performed, the organisation’s ambitions BYP performs. During its 2015 ‘Baltic Sea grew, necessitating the formation of an Voyage’ tour in September, orchestra association under German law – Baltic Sea members ran workshops with local Music Education Foundation. musicians in Heiden, Germany, coaching local brass and marching bands, and then Our Academy LAB sessions (see page 24) performing with them. They also gave two have become well-known for their special concerts for Danish schools in innovative approach to orchestral training Copenhagen, offering the chance for and the intense focus they offer students. 3,400 school children to experience live Since 2010 they have also included work- classical music, many for the first time. shops for conductors and composers. This cooperation for the project ‘Into the Music’ with DR Musikarium with its educational work is now an essential part of the foundation’s work and will be continued ‘We have developed this year, in the autumn. our initial idea of Baltic And so, from the initial goals of bringing culture and national people together, BMEF has developed into identity, and music a fully-fledged Baltic Sea music education without borders, into system. For 2016 and beyond, we look a complex educational forward to continuing our progress and innovation, bringing music to more programme’ players and audiences, and to future generations of music lovers, and making the world a better place. ‘In BYP you see young people who are dedicated and Dr Dirk von Ameln, Chairman of the successful, but they Foundation, is passionate about his work also have fun. They with the organisation and the orchestras. are a lesson to us all, He explains how society can learn from BYP: ‘With BYP, you see young people and also to industry’ playing music on a voluntary basis, doing it well, and focused on working together. This is rare for today’s society, in which many young people are bored by what they think they need to do and spend so much time in their own space. In BYP you see young people who are dedicated and successful, but they also enjoy themselves. They are a lesson to us all, and also to industry. They prove that doing a job well can be the most gratifying thing you can do in life. They all come from different countries and yet there is no competition or conflict between them: they help each other and bring each other forward, which is so important. Music can be a tool to demonstrate that peaceful coexistence can easily be achieved when people just do something together.

The BYP experience isn’t just about the music, though: it’s about the excitement that you see and feel, which jumps over into the audience. Hearing BYP is about having fun and being entertained. We’re taking music off its pedestal, bringing it into people’s lives.’

32 33 Published by Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation e. V. Strasse der Pariser Kommune 38 10243 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 297 702 90 Fax: +49 (0)30 297 702 92 Email: [email protected] www.bmef.eu

Dr Dirk von Ameln, Chairman of the Board Acknowledgements Jan Lundin, Deputy Chairman Baltic Sea Music Education Foundation Rolf Seelige-Steinhoff, Deputy Chairman is grateful for all the support received Frank Häuser, Treasurer throughout the year by individual persons, Matthias Warnig, President of the Board companies and institutions, as well as all of Trustees music lovers. Many thanks to all of them! Prof Dr h. c. Cornelia Pieper, Special Envoy Baltic Sea Philharmonic We would especially like to thank the Great Amber Concert Hall and the Liepāja Kristjan Järvi, Founding Conductor and Symphony Orchestra in Liepāja, Latvia, Music Director for their collaboration during our Academy Thomas Hummel, Executive Director LAB in April 2016. Jutta Loosen, Communications Director A special thanks to violinist David Nebel Artistic Council and Alexander Gilman, LGT Young Valery Gergiev, Marek Janowski, Soloist from Zug, Switzerland as well as Mariss Jansons, Kurt Masur (†), Vilius Keras from Vilnius, Lithuania for Esa-Pekka Salonen the recording session of the ‘Baltic Sea Landscapes’ album in Liepāja, Latvia. Editors Matthias Corvin, Jutta Loosen, Ariane Todes We would like to welcome Heike Mackenbach and Jens Lange as Design well as Maximilian Hofmann, Max Streicher Brousse & Ruddigkeit, Anna Kusnier GmbH & Co. KG aA, as supporters and thank them for their contribution to our Photos Academy LAB 2016. All photographs by Peter Adamik, except page 13 Franck Ferville, A great thank you to all the music academies page 15 Columbia Artists Management Inc., involved in our 2016 projects and for their page 17 Petri Porkola support and help.

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