Matthias Goerne / Tamara Stefanovich
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- 20:00 / Cancelled 20:00 / Sold out Monday, 20:00
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian FoundationPricing
- 31,00 € – 70,00 €
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- Baritone
- Piano
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Matthias Goerne
Baritone
Celebrated around the globe for his opera and concert performances, German baritone Matthias Goerne is a frequent guest with leading orchestras and renowned festivals and concert halls. Among his musical partners are conductors such as Claudio Abbado(†), Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gustavo Dudamel, Christoph Eschenbach, Daniele Gatti , Bernard Haitink, Manfred Honeck, Mariss Jansons(†), Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Seiji Ozawa, Antonio Pappano, Kirill Petrenko, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst.
Matthias Goerne has appeared on the world’s principal opera stages, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Teatro Real in Madrid; Paris National Opera; Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, and the Vienna State Opera. His carefully chosen roles range from Amfortas, Marke, Wolfram, Wotan, Orest, and Jochanaan to the title roles in Béla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and Alban Berg’s Wozzeck.
Goerne’s artistry has been documented on numerous recordings, many of which have received rave reviews and prestigious awards, including five Grammy nominations, an ICMA award, a Gramophone Award, the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award 2017, Diapason d’or arte, and the ECHO Klassik 2017 in the category “Singer of the Year”. In 2001, he was appointed an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music in London. In the past three years, he has released four albums with Deutsche Grammophon: Beethoven Songs with Jan Lisiecki, a collection of Wagner, Strauss and Pfitzner Songs with Seong-Jin Cho, an album of Schumann and Brahms Songs with Daniil Trifonov, which was awarded “Vocal Recording of the Year” by Limelight, and “Schubert Revisited”, the latest album with The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen released in 2023, which brings the composer’s songs to life in arrangements for voice and orchestra. He is featured as Wotan on the Naxos release of the entire Ring Cycle with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and conductor Jaap van Zweden.
In the 2017/18 season, Matthias Goerne was the artist of residence at Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and The New York Philharmonic named him Artist-in-Residence for their 2018/19 season. He will be an artist in residence with the Shanghai Symphony in the 24/25 season.
Highlights of the past season include concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra as well as the Orchestre National de France conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, and a tour of Asia with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi. Matthias Goerne performed the role of Marke in Toulouse as well as the role of Amfortas at the Liceu Barcelona. Recitals with Leif Ove Andsnes, Markus Hinterhäuser and Víkingur Ólafsson took take him to Paris, London and Florence, among other cities.
During the 2023/24 season, Goerne embarked on an extensive recital and orchestral tour of China and has performed in a series of recitals with Evgeny Kissin in Europe and the United States. He sang the world premiere of Jörg Widmann's Schumannliebe at the Casa da Musica in Porto and the Cologne Philharmonie. In addition to a series of concerts with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, he sang Britten's War Requiem on tour in Germany with the SWR Symphony Orchestra. During the summer festival season, Goerne began a Schubert lied cycle at Lanaudière Festival and was the soloist with the OSM Montreal. He also returned to the Ravinia Festival and to Wigmore Hall, where he sang two recitals with different programs. Goerne also appeared at the Salzburg Festival, where he gave a lieder recital with Markus Hinterhäuser and performed Widmann’s Schumannliebe with the Camerata Salzburg.
In the upcoming 2024/25 season, his schedule includes tours in Asia with Maria João Pires and in Australia with Daniil Trifonov. Goerne will perform Bluebeard with Mikko Franck and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and will also appear at the Musikverein in Vienna for the Christmas concert and perform John Adams' “The Wound Dresser” with Marin Alsop. At the 2025 Mahler Festival, he will be a guest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with the NHK Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fabio Luisi. He will sing Frank Martin's Jedermann Monologue with the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski, and he will also appear in Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Lahav Shani. At the Hamburg International Music Festival, he will perform in Wozzeck with Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.
Born in Weimar, he studied with Hans-Joachim Beyer, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
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Tamara Stefanovich
Piano
One of the leading interpreters of contemporary piano repertoire today, Tamara Stefanovich dedicates herself to making the classical modern works as well as countless new compositions very much her own, captivating audiences worldwide with her uniquely tailored recital programmes and as soloist with the world’s leading orchestras. She partners with orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony and Philharmonic orchestras, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Mahler Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. Stefanovich performs at the world’s major concert venues including Suntory Hall Tokyo, London’s Royal Albert and Wigmore halls, Philharmonie Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmonie de Paris, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and Tonhalle Zürich. A welcome guest at international festivals, she appears at Salzburger Festspiele, Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, Musikfest Berlin, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Musikfest Hamburg, Musikfest Berlin, Flagey Piano Days, London Piano Festival and the BBC Proms.
Following her celebrated debut with Israel Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko and the German première of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No.3 with NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under Esa-Pekka Salonen, Stefanovich continues to present a large range of piano concertos from Liza Lim’s World as Lover, World as Self to Ravel, Abrahamsen, Bartók and Szymanowski, and enthralls audiences with her recital marathons of 50 Études and 20 Sonatas. The 2025/2026 season sees Tamara Stefanovich premiere a new piano concerto by Lisa Streich with Kansas City Symphony and Matthias Pintscher alongside returns to Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Belgrade Philharmonic and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Recitals will take her to Boulez Saal Berlin, Barbican Centre London and Grande Auditorio Calouste Gulbenkian amongst others.
Breaking new grounds, Tamara Stefanovich collaborates with Christopher Dell, Christian Lillinger and Jonas Westergard for the innovative band SDLW. After its’ astounding premiere at Kölner Philharmonie, the quartet performed in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and at Klangspuren Festival Schwaz. They released two albums on bastille musique in 2022 and in 2024, which have both been praised for their inventive and exciting sound - the most recent album winning the German Record Critics’ Award 2024.
Tamara Stefanovich has worked with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Sir George Benjamin, György Kurtág and Hans Abrahamsen. She works with chamber music partners such as Matthias Goerne, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, and Joana Mallwitz.
Her award-winning discography includes a recording of Kurtág’s Quasi una Fantasia and his double concerto with Asko|Schönberg Ensemble, Reinbert de Leeuw and Jean-Guihen Queyras for ECM which received the Edison Award. Her recording of Bartók’s Concerto for two pianos, percussion and orchestra with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Pierre Boulez (Deutsche Grammophon) was nominated for a Grammy Award. Tamara’s album Influences was dedicated to the works of Ives, Bartók, Messiaen and Bach on Pentatone. Her most recent album Organised Delirium on Pentatone is devoted to Pierre Boulez’s Second Sonata.
Tamara regularly leads educational projects at London’s Barbican Centre, Kölner Philharmonie and Klavier-Festival Ruhr. She was co-founder and curator of the Portland International Piano Festival ‘The Clearing’ and Visiting Professor at the London Royal Academy of Music and Accademia di Musica Pinerolo. She studied in Belgrade, at Curtis Institute and at Kölner Musikhochschule under Claude Frank and Radu Lupu.
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Hugo Wolf
Tamara Stefanovich is today one of the world’s foremost specialists in the contemporary piano repertoire, bringing a highly personal vision to the music that reflects our own era. Over the years, however, she has expanded her unique interpretative voice to a broader repertoire, especially in her acclaimed partnership with baritone Matthias Goerne, one of the most brilliant voices of our time. Speaking about these collaborations, Stefanovich described them in an interview as ‘experiences of incomparable intensity and beauty’.
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