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Sat, 08.08.2026
Chamber Music Festival | Time Flow | Mozart, Brahms, Pesson, Bonis, Sinnhuber (World Premiere)

Concert title
Chamber Music Festival | Time Flow | Mozart, Brahms, Pesson, Bonis, Sinnhuber (World Premiere)
Date
Sat 08.08.2026
Start of the concert
18:00

Contributors

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Alasdair Beatson, artistic director of the Chamber Music Festival
Soloists
see program

program

As part of the "Chamber Music Festival"

: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in F minor for String Trio KV 404a No. 6 (after Wilhelm Friedemann Bach)
Maria Wloszczowska, violin | Lilli Maijala, viola | Francesco Dillon, cello

Mel Bonis: Suite dans le style ancien for flute, violin, viola and piano op. 127
Manuel Astudillo Quintero, flute | Matteo Cimatti, violin | Alinka Rowe, viola | Francesco Granata, piano

Johannes Brahms: Ballade in B major for piano op. 10 No. 4
Francesco Granata, piano

Gérard Pesson: Nebenstück for clarinet and string quartet (1998)
Matthew Hunt, clarinet | Matteo Cimatti, violin | Maja Horvat, violin | Alessandro D'Amico, viola | Samuel Niederhauser, cello |

Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber: New work for solo piano, flute, clarinet, percussion and string quintet (2026)
World premiere – commissioned by the Musikdorf Ernen Festival
| Alasdair Beatson, piano | Manuel Astudillo Quintero, flute | Matthew Hunt, clarinet | Daniel Bard, violin | Chiara Sannicandro, violin | Lilli Maijala, viola | Miquel Garcia Ramon, cello | Jordi Carrasco Hjelm, double bass Santiago Villar Martín, percussion.

Duration approx. 70 minutes, no intermission.
Concert bus: Oberwald-Ernen (return to Oberwald and Binn after the village square concert at approx. 9:45 pm).
Tickets: CHF 0-45.
Pre-concert talk with Lea Vaterlaus at 5 pm in the Tellenhaus Ernen.

The third gala concert, featuring chamber music for small and large ensembles, revolves around the flow of time, with all the works making strong references to previous music. Mozart's opening piece is the result of his studies of Handel's and Bach's fugal techniques, while Mel Bonis, in her Suite dans le style ancien, refers more generally to the music of past eras.

The pair of works—Brahms's Ballade in B major for piano and Gérard Pesson's Nebenstück for clarinet and string quartet—is closely linked through Pesson's method of 'filtration' via memory.

The highlight of the concert is the world premiere of Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber's new Concertino for piano and ensemble with soloist Alasdair Beatson, whose artistry has captivated Sinnhuber (Composer in Residence 2025/26) from the very first moment.

Sinnhuber's work repeatedly draws on Baroque (and Classical) forms and styles, which she integrates into her own unique musical language – a language full of transparency, captivating light, and shimmering sounds.

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