2023-09-15 13:37:16
On October 8th the OPUS Classic awarded, the most important German award for classical music. WELT AM SONNTAG awards the audience award for the best young artist of the year. Please choose your favorite from the six candidates!
We are giving away 5 x 2 tickets for the OPUS KLASSIK event on October 8th in the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt among all participants.
Concert hall at Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin
Quelle: pa/ZB/Kalaene Jens
But enough foreplay now. Here are the six nominated artists and their works:
Bruno Delepelaire
Don’t despise my grandmothers. What would have happened if Bruno Delepelaire’s grandmother hadn’t decided to learn the cello when she was older? She was declared borderline crazy. She then shared the cello teacher with her grandson, who was born in Paris in 1989.
He went to the Paris Conservatoire, came to the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic and – at 24! – first solo cellist as the first Karajan academic. Delepelaire is a virtuoso esthete, as his recording of Carl Friedrich Abel’s cello concertos shows. And a fine, elegant and radiant dialogue artist.
Bruno Delepelaire plays “Elegy” by John Williams
Source: WELT/OPUS KLASSIK
Jonathan Tetelman
Chilean orphan boy with a serious American upbringing, first a baritone, then a DJ, now a brilliant-looking tenor. The replacement for the veteran tweeters is more than ready for the Puccini year of 2024.
The 35-year-old Jonathan Tetelman has recorded two inexpensive solo CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, is a more than credible Latin lover on the opera stage and melts listeners’ hearts with his virile vocal steel. The musical theater stages are lining up. Sometimes tender, sometimes powerful – he can do verismo and late romanticism. That works!
Jonathan Tetelman Ponchielli Sky and sea
Source: WELT/OPUS KLASSIK
Julia Bullock
That sounds exciting. Dark, powerful, also girlishly tender. At the beginning of her first Nonesuch solo album, the 36-year-old American Julia Bullock, who lives in Munich, has the blues: “Brown Baby”. A favorite song by Nina Simone.
And like the great jazz singer, Bullock moves dreamily between sound worlds, is a sophisticated opera singer, and then again an interpreter who is very familiar with every gospel element. The facets of this fascinating soprano shimmer subtly. She is the muse of Peter Sellars, Teodor Currentzis and John Adams.
Julia Bullock sings gospel
Source: WELT/OPUS KLASSIK
Mao Fujita
If you look for role models for incredibly difficult Mozart playing, you’ll come up with anything but Vladimir Horowitz. Mao Fujita – born in Tokyo in 1998, played the piano for the first time at the age of three, Clara Haskil Prize winner in 2017 and runner-up in the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019 – at some point came across the recording of the C major Sonata KV 330, made in Moscow in 1986 .
That was the door opener for his own complete recording of the sonatas. Fujita digs into every note, letting Mozart shine from within. A free-spirited transparency monster.
Mao Fujita – Mozart – Piano Sonata No_ 12 in F Major K_ 332II_ Adagio
Source: WELT/OPUS KLASSIK
Max Volbers
The recorder, the bourgeoisie’s instrument of terror, can be a blessing. For an under-challenged, gifted boy, she was. Max Volbers, born in Westphalia and now 28, got hold of it when he was six. It became his means of expression.
Then came the organ, the harpsichord, and conducting the orchestra. Volbers, a student of Dorothee Oberlinger, who brought this instrument out of the shadows, became the first winner of the German Music Competition to play the recorder. As daring as he is dexterous, as restless as he is brilliant. A gift, not just for the recorder.
Max Volbers and his ensemble play Purcell
Source: WELT/OPUS KLASSIK
Tarmo Peltokoski
Even the hyped young desk star Klaus Mäkelä looks old. He is 27 years old, his Finnish compatriot Tarmo Peltokoski is only 23. Both come from Jorma Panula’s conducting school.
Peltokoski has a Filipino mother, was trained as a pianist and composer and is certainly blessed with the arrogance of youth. He heads the Latvian Symphony Orchestra Riga. He is principal guest conductor at the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and has the “Ring” behind him. In 2025 he will become head of the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse.
From the Finnish conductor’s forge: Tarmo Peltokoski conducts Oskar Böhme’s “renunciation”
Source: WELT/OPUS KLASSIK
And – who deserves your vote?
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Your WELT AM SUNDAY wishes you good luck!
Conditions of Participation: The deadline for participation is September 24th, 2023 (midnight). Participation is free and only possible once per person. The competition period is September 16, 2023 to September 24, 2023 11:59 p.m. The participant votes once for their favorites from the OPUS KLASSIK (WELT AM SONNTAG Audience Prize). A total of 5 x 2 tickets will be raffled off among all participants (excluding arrival and departure).
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