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Saturday 7 March 14.00 & 16.00
Family Concert – Celebrate the 250-year
anniversary of composer Ludwig van Beethoven
with Ludde B,Ayla Kabaca and the Royal
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Saturday 7 March 14.00 & 16.00
Concert is canceled.
Friday 28 February 2020 20.00
Concert is canceled.
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
This concert has unfortunately been canceled as a result of the travel retrictions in Iran because of the corona virus. Purchased tickets are refunded by Konserthuset Stockholm’s box office.
At this evening’s concert, three major musical traditions unite: Persian, Armenian and Arabic, represented by three phenomenal young musicians. They are Sahar Mohammadi, who has one of the most beautiful voices for contemporary Persian singing; Jasser Haj Youssef from Tunisia, who has incorporated the viola d’amore with a natural approach into Arabic musical tradition; and Haïg Sarikouyoumdijan, the Armenian duduk master who has previously performed with gambist and early music expert Jordi Savall.
In addition to having perfectly mastered their voices and instruments, each of these three musicians has developed a personal form of expression and original musicality. They have contributed to the development of traditions that unite a long history of spirituality, philosophy and poetry.
Persian music is often described as mystical and melancholy, and frequently references the powerfully lyrical tradition of Persian literature and Sufism, the Islamic mysticism tradition with a special place in Iran. In this trio’s version, plenty of samples of this musical poetry are presented from heart to heart.
Curious Classics package – buy at least 3 concerts and receive 15% off
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Classical Eastern chamber music and modern compositions.
Saturday 29 February 2020 15.00
Classical Eastern chamber music and modern compositions.
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Meet the Sada Trio, a unique ensemble of three virtuosos, all based in Sweden, who breathe life into Eastern music traditions with authentic instruments.
Ahmad’s first solo record, entitled Sada (Arabic for voice), was released 15 years ago. Sada thus became the name of the newly formed trio, which also includes multi-instrumentalist, composer and musical storyteller Pedram Shahlai, who began his musical career in Saqez, in the Kurdish region of Iran. He discovered music at a young age and since childhood, he has wanted to cross borders between musical traditions. Pedram’s musical voice is transnational to say the least, with influences from classical, jazz, tango and Romany music, but its heart is in Kurdish musical tradition.
The third member of the trio is Feras Sharestan from Syria, who already began appearing with major international musicians while studying music in Damascus. He is specialized in the Eastern zither called the qanun, which has around seventy strings.
Ahmad Al Khatib will also be participating in the festival with the world premiere of his own piece, commissioned by Radio Sweden, in another constellation: Trio Sabil. Read more about the concert at Stallet on Thursday 20 February at 19.00
Curious Classics package – buy at least 3 concerts and receive 15% off
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Classic songs from Central Asia
Saturday 29 February 2020 20.00
Classic songs from Central Asia
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Already at the age of 12, Yulduz Turdieva was considered a rising star. Today she is one of the biggest musicians of Central Asia and has been acclaimed for her unparalleled ability to present the traditional music of the region.
She has mastered multiple musical styles, such as Central Asian Shashmaqam, Mavregi, Persian, Arabic and Turkish maqam. These styles are typically considered so challenging that it takes half a lifetime to master them.
There is no mistaking that Yulduz Turdieva is driven by great dedication to the ancient musical traditions of the region, but she is one of few women to appear on stage in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, she is internationally acclaimed and praised, and has performed concerts in France, Germany, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Israel and many other countries.
At this evening’s concert, she will be accompanied by Ulugbek Temirov, who plays the common percussion instrument in Uzbek musical tradition known as the doyra, a handheld frame drum called a daf in Iran. Rasulov Uktamjon contributes masterful performance on the national instruments of Uzbekistan, the tanbur, dutor and sato, all of which are stringed instruments and variations of a long-necked lute both with and without frets.
Curious Classics package – buy at least 3 concerts and receive 15% off
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Korean sanjo with Yi Ji-young
Sunday 1 March 2020 14.00
Korean sanjo with Yi Ji-young
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Yi Ji-Young is one of the world’s foremost soloists of the Korean gayageum, a classical twelve-string zither similar to the Japanese koto. For her virtuosity of the instrument and deep expertise in Korean musical heritage, she herself has been designated a national cultural treasure of Korea.
Yi Ji-Young began to play the gayageum already at age five. She is now a professor at Seoul National University and has released no fewer than 40 albums with a focus on Korean sanjo, traditional music with 2,000-year-old roots in shamanistic culture. The music has the capacity to evoke imagery and stories, she says.
“My entire life passes by when I play sanjo. A life that began like a hard and brutal winter. It moves into spring, when my beloved and I meet, and I experience a great sense of calm. But then time moves far too quickly. As I approach the end and everything becomes quiet, I sometimes begin to cry.”
At this evening’s concert, we will hear several samples of sanjo, instrumental music in which a solo instrument is accompanied by the percussion instrument known as the janggu.
Curious Classics package – buy at least 3 concerts and receive 15% off
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
The Edo period of Japan: profane and sacred
Sunday 1 March 2020 19.00
The Edo period of Japan: profane and sacred
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Keisuke Zenyoji is one of Japan’s most prominent virtuosos of the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute known as the shakuhachi. He is also a shakuhachi teacher in the Kanto region, with a focus on traditional music.
At this concert, we will hear him together with Akiko Fujimoto, one of the leading contemporary interpreters of music from the Edo period, which is known as Jiuta. Her masterful playing of the koto, the traditional 13-silk-string zither, has garnered significant international awe, as has her singing, which is said to perfectly personify the sound world of the Jiuta style. She is also known for her brilliant playing of the three-stringed instrument, the shamisen. Mariko Kezuka, who is also a prominent singer and shamisen and koto player, will also participate.
Like other areas of Japanese culture, the Japanese classical music tradition underwent a dynamic evolution in the Edo period, beginning in the early seventeenth century. The previous culture, which had been influenced by China, was reshaped into something all its own – something specifically Japanese.
The three guest musicians from Japan – Keisuke Zenyoji, Akiko Fujimoto and Mariko Kezuka – will also present, together with Swedish researcher and shakuhachi musician Gunnar Linder, a masterclass at the Royal College of Music on Friday 28 February at 13.30. Read more about the masterclass here
Curious Classics package – buy at least 3 concerts and receive 15% off
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
