Photo Credit: Fran Kaufman

AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!!

An die Musik Live! presents
Till Fellner's Baltimore Debut
All Beethoven Program
in our first presentation at the BMA

Tickets: $25 general/$10 students
BMA members and An die Musik members $20

"Fellner executes runs of stroboscopic evenness and clarity. The weight dissolves and the architecture dances." ~ Alex Ross, The New Yorker

ALL BEETHOVEN PROGRAM:

Sonata No. 12 A Flat Major Op. 26
Sonata No. 13 E Flat Major Op. 27/1
Sonata No. 14 C Sharp Minor Op. 27/2 Moonlight
Sonata No. 22 F Major Op. 54
Sonata No. 21 C Major Op. 53 Waldstein

"scrupulous musicianship and an intelligence that palpably searches in all directions for stimulus" ~ Paul Driver, The London Sunday Times

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Pianist Till Fellner plays with scrupulous musicianship, purity of style, and sparkling keyboard command – qualities that have earned him plaudits throughout Europe, and in the United States and Japan. His readings of the works of Bach and Beethoven in particular have already placed him among the elect in this repertoire, and the inspired ingenuity of his performances of such 20th century masters as György Kurtág and Elliott Carter have earned him many accolades.

Mr. Fellner is currently performing all of the Beethoven piano sonatas in a cycle spanning seven concerts over several seasons; the cycle is being presented in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Washington, DC as a co-presentation with the National Gallery, the Embassy Series and the Austrian Cultural Forum; as well at the Konzerthaus in Vienna; Wigmore Hall in London; the Salle Gaveau in Paris; and Toppan Hall in Tokyo. Mr. Fellner has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, and in major halls throughout the world.

This season hears Mr. Fellner in several return engagements with Kent Nagano and the Montréal Symphony, with whom he has recorded the Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5. He also plays Mozart K 456 with Hans Zender and the SWR Sinfonierorchester Baden-Baden & Freiburg. Recent engagements include performances with the Orchestre National de France with Kurt Masur, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London under Sir Charles Mackerras, and the Munich Philharmonic with Lothar Zagrosek at the podium.

In 1993 Mr. Fellner came to world attention by winning First Prize at the important Clara Haskil International Piano Competition at Vevey, Switzerland. During his relatively short period on the international scene, Mr. Fellner has appeared as guest soloist with many of the world's foremost orchestras, working with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph von Dohnányi, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Leonard Slatkin, among many others. He has also performed as partner to some of the leading younger instrumentalists and singers of our time, including cellist Heinrich Schiff; violinist Viviane Hagner; as part of a trio with violinist Lisa Batiashvili and cellist Adrian Brendel; and in recitals with the noted English tenor Mark Padmore, with whom he tours Schubert’s Winterreise this season.

Mr. Fellner has an impressive discography to his credit on the EMI, Claves, Erato, Philips, and ECM labels. His newest recording for ECM, Bach’s Two- and Three-Part Inventions and French Suite No. V, has received widespread critical praise, in keeping with his acclaimed ECM recording of the first book of Bach’s monumental Well-Tempered Clavier. Fellner has also recorded Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 19, 22, and 25; Beethoven’s Concertos Nos. 2 & 3; a selection of Beethoven piano sonatas; Beethoven’s works for cello and piano (with Heinrich Schiff), Schubert’s Sonata in A minor D.784 plus 6 Moments musicaux, 4 Impromptus and 12 waltzes; Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” Op. 16 and Schönberg’s Suite for Piano, Op. 25.

Till Fellner was a student of Helene Sedo-Stadler and has studied privately with Alfred Brendel, Meira Farkas, Oleg Maisenberg, and Claus-Christian Schuster.

"Till Fellner is turning out to be one of the great musical chameleons." ~ Allan Kozinn, The New York Times