Puerto Soller Festival of Classical Music 2016: 23rd October. Pianoquintet of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Ssusanne Herzog on Violin, Franziska Drechsel on violin, Gernot Adrion on viola, Hans-Jakob Eschenburg on cello and Alexander Malter on piano. | Youtube: jos kuiper
Susanne Herzog is from Naumburg in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, a small town that boasts a cathedral that is a Unesco World Heritage Site.
The classical traditions of this town were the context for the young Susanne to take up the violin at the age of five. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar before moving on to Leipzig and then to Vienna, where she was tutored by Professor Gerhard Hetzel.
While in Leipzig she performed with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and she has been a member of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1989. For the second concert of this year’s Puerto Soller Festival of Classical Music, Susanne Herzog is joined by German cellist Dietmar Schwalke.
A member of the Berlin Philharmonic, his numerous recordings include one for the ECM label (the New Series for classical works rather than jazz) with pianist Alexander Malter. The festival’s artistic director, he completes the trio for this concert of works by Bach, Franck, Rachmaninoff.
Price
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