With a wide variety of different instruments from body percussion through bells to the vibraphone, percussionist Vanessa Porter creates hypnotic soundscapes ranging from delicate beauty to violent eruptions. She also integrates electronic sounds into her playing – and a new work commissioned from the important composer Georges Aperghis.

Vanessa Porter Percussion

FOLIES À DEUX

Salvatore Sciarrino
Appendice alla perfezione, for 14 bells

Vinko Globokar
?Corporel, for percussionist on his body

David Lang
Anvil Chorus, for Set-up

Georges Aperghis
The Messenger *

Emil Kuyumcuyan
Shapes, for vibraphon

Georges Aperghis
Le corps à corps, for zarb and voice

Alexander Sandi Kuhn
À Deux, for vibraphon

The sounds between the pieces are composed by Vanessa Porter and created by Daniel Mudrack. The sounds are mainly recorded with percussion instruments by Vanessa Porter.

* Commissioned by Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, with the support of ECHO.

Vanessa Porter was nominated by the Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) and Festspielhaus Baden-Baden.

What an entry into the world of classical music! In 2012 Daniel Barenboim gave Cristina Gómez Godoy, then just turned 21, a position in his Staatskapelle Berlin, where she now plays the solo oboe. Since then, the young virtuoso, who was born in the Spanish town of Linares, fills her free days playing with other world-class orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic, or in a witty chamber-music ensemble alongside Daniel Barenboim, Guy Braunstein or Claire Huangci.

Cristina Gómez Godoy Oboe
Sara Ferrández Viola
Mario Häring Piano

Camille Saint-Saëns
Sonata for Oboe and Piano, in D major, op. 166

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Trio in E-flat major, K. 498, Kegelstatt

Claude Debussy
Preludes from Book 1 (selection)

Robert Kahn
Serenade in F minor, op. 73

Charlotte Bray
This other Eden *

* Commissioned by L’Auditori Barcelona and Palau de la Música Catalana, with the support of ECHO.

Cristina Gómez Godoy was nominated by L’Auditori Barcelona and Palau de la Música Catalana.

Diana Tishchenko, born in Crimea in 1990, stood out from the flood of talented young violinists at an early age. As the trade magazine The Strad put it: she has »the ability to captivate the audience with her strong personality and her impressive gestures«. The members of the international Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra agreed: they chose her as the youngest concertmaster of all time.

Diana Tishchenko Violin
José Gallardo Piano

Claude Debussy
Violin Sonata in G minor

Vasco Mendonça
A Box of Darkness with a Bird in its Heart, for solo violin *

César Franck
Violin Sonata in A major

* Commissioned by Casa da Música and Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris, with the support of ECHO.

Diana Tishchenko was nominated by Casa da Música and Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris.

It all began as an experiment at the Frankfurt College of Music, where four highly musical young people met, and then matured in the next ten years into one of the biggest hopes among the young generation of string quartets. The Aris Quartett has already walked off with a whole number of major prizes, including no fewer than five awards at the ARD Music Competition.

Aris Quartett
Anna Katharina Wildermuth Violin
Noémi Zipperling Violin
Caspar Vinzens Viola
Lukas Sieber Cello

György Kurtág
Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky, op. 28

Dmitri Chostakovitch
String Quartet No. 8, in C minor, op. 110

Misato Mochizuki
in-side *

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
String Quartet No. 3, in D major, op. 44 No. 1

* Commissioned by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Konzerthaus Dortmund, with the support of ECHO.

Aris Quartett was nominated by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Konzerthaus Dortmund.

James Newby has skyrocketed into the world of classical singing. Be it in an intimate song recital or on the big opera stage, be as the clown Papageno, the demonic Erlkönig or the desperate Wanderer – prizes and panegyrics have been showered on the 26-year-old British singer, who moves with ease between characters and genres. Only last season, he was the BBC's »New Generation Artist«, and he has also been a member of the ensemble at the Hanover State Opera since 2019.

James Newby Baritone
Marcelo Amaral Piano

Clara Schumann
6 Lieder, op. 13

Robert Schumann
Kerner-Lieder, op. 35

James Newby was nominated by The Barbican Centre.