In January 2019, Premiere Performances will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of its annual chamber music festival, now called the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival (formerly the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival). The 2019 Festival will host 22 internationally acclaimed musicians for 5 ticketed concerts, a gala fundraising dinner and over 15 outreach and education events from Wednesday, 16 January to Thursday, 24 January 2019.
The Goethe-Institut is pleased to introduce the German cellist Julian Steckel, who is widely praised as one of the leading cellists of our time. At the Beare's Premiere Music Festival he is heard in two concerts. Programmes and ticketing information: https://www.pphk.org/festival/beares-premiere-music-festival-2019/ .
Julian Steckel will be performing in the following concerts at the Beare's Premiere Music Festival:
20.1.2019 (Sun), 8:00pm, Concert Hall, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE Slide Stride
ERICH KORNGOLD Suite for 2 violins, cello & piano left hand, Op. 23
22.1.2019 (Tue), 8:00pm, Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall
Forward Movement
EDWARD ELGAR Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
Julian Steckel is widely praised as one of the leading cellists of our time. In 2010, Julian Steckel played his way to first prize in the ARD International Music Competition, also winning the Audience Award, the Oehms Classic Award as well as the prize of the Münchner Kammerorchester.
His list of prizes is long: prior to receiving the above accolades, he won prizes at the Grand Prix Rostropovich in Paris, the Grand Prix Feuermann in Berlin and Pablo Casals Competition in Kronberg. In 2012, Julian Steckel was awarded the much coveted ECHO Klassik for his recording of the cello concertos of Korngold and Goldschmidt as well as Bloch’s Schelomo (with AVI music) alongside the Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz under Daniel Raiskin.
Today, Julian Steckel receives worldwide critical acclaim for his masterful, authentic interpretations, regularly performing with leading orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Munich Philharmonic, Gothenborg Symphony, Orchestre de Paris Rotterdam, Helsinki Philharmonic, Sankt Petersburg Philharmonic and many European and German Radio Symphony Orchestras. He has partnered with eminent conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Neville Marriner, Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, Fabien Gabel, Jakub Hrusa, Gustavo Gimeno, Mario Venzago, Heinrich Schiff, Andrey Boreyko, John Storgårds, und Michael Sanderling.
