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Thailand

July 29, 2025 at 19:00 Hrs.

Jan Ickert in Concert – An Evening of Cello

Concert|With Jonathan Weigle and Tarin Supprakorn

  • Goethe Saal, Goethe-Institut Thailand, Bangkok

  • Adults: 1,000 THB
    Children and Students: 400 THB
  • Part of series: Masterclass Series Concert

Concert by Professor Jan Ickert © Goethe-Institut Thailand

Concert by Professor Jan Ickert ©Goethe-Institut Thailand

Prof. Jan Ickert, Professor of Cello at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts and cellist of the Chagall Quartet, will take the stage at the Goethe-Institut Thailand. He will play both as a soloist and together with pianist Tarin Supprakorn and cellist Jonathan Weigle.

Programme
  • J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
  • J. Haydn: Duo for 2 Cellos in D major, Hob. X:II
  • P. Mieg: Les Images D’Épinal for 2 cellos
  • J. Brahm: Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 38
The concert marks the conclusion of the violin masterclass led by Prof. Ickert at the Goethe-Institut Thailand. Both the concert and the masterclass are organized by Jonathan Weigle in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Thailand.
 
The concert is supported by the Peter Mieg Foundation (Switzerland), Franke Violins Bangkok, and the Anja Fichte Foundation.

Further information about the artists

  • Jan Ickert began his musical training at Dr. Hoch’s Conservatory in Frankfurt. In 2002, he founded the Chagall Quartet Berlin, winning several international awards, including the Pergamenschikow Prize for Chamber Music. During the 2009/2010 season, he served as Assistant Principal Cellist of the Erfurt Opera Orchestra. He has performed with ensembles such as Orchester KlangVerwaltung, Spira Mirabilis, Kremerata Baltica, and as a soloist with the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen and the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic.
    Jan Ickert is also a dedicated educator. From 2008 to 2018, he served as Musical Director and Teacher of Violoncello and Chamber Music at the Emanuel Feuermann Conservatory. In 2017, he was appointed Professor of Violoncello at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

    Jan Ickert

  • Dr. Tarin Supprakorn is a recitalist, collaborative pianist, and pedagogue. He has won top prizes in numerous piano competitions in Thailand and elsewhere, and has played with orchestras in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Critics have praised his playing as “lyrical” and “graceful,”. The Bangkok Post has hailed him as “one of Thailand’s top young concert pianists.”

    Dr. Supprakorn received a Master and Doctoral degree of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Dr. Nelita True. He received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, where he studied with Dr. Thomas Hecht. In Thailand, he studied with Dr. Indhuon Srikaranonda.

    Currently, Dr. Supprakorn serves as a full-time faculty member at Western Music Department, Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University, and Head of Academic at Kawai Music School Thailand. He is also a piano instructor at Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School, SOONER The Classical Music School, Horwang Music Academy, One Academy, and Peterson Piano Institute.

  • Jonathan Weigle is equally successful as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician on international stages. He has been principal cellist of the Cologne Chamber Orchestra since 2015 and regularly plays at the same position at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London and the Orchester de Chambre de Paris. He has also made guest appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

    He has always placed an artistic focus on playing Chamber Music. Parallel to his cello studies with Josef Schwab and Troels Svane at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, he completed Chamber Music studies with Ralf Gothoni at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. He is currently committed to promoting music to children and young people, by conducting master classes and workshops at schools, for example as part of the SOTA Music Festival in India and in Shenzhen/China.