Monday at Last with Mommertz and Mitchell

In the Monday At Last concert subscription, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary last spring, string trio ZilliacusPerssonRaitinen welcomes guest musicians to perform both new and old music alike, always in close proximity to the audience. Now, together with the trio, we will get to meet pianist Dirk Mommertz, who in addition to his performances as a soloist and chamber musician is also a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. British violinist Priya Mitchell will also take the stage.

The programme features music by internationally acclaimed composer Lera Auerbach, famous for her neo-Romantic musical language. She studied both composition and piano performance at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, but she is originally from the city of Chelyabinsk near the Ural Mountains in Russia. We will also hear work by Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke, two greats who have both previously been the focus of Konserthuset’s Composer Festival (in 1995 and 1988, respectively).

After Piazzolla’s passionately pulsating Grand Tango for violin and piano, the concert will conclude with Dmitri Shostakovich’s magnificent Piano Quintet. The music is filled with both darkness and humour, in which Shostakovich shines with advanced counterpoint, a combination of masterful instrument parts and subtle melodies.

In cooperation with ZPR String Trio