Jerwood Hall
ECHO Rising Stars: Valerie Fritz
LSO St Luke's Guest Artist
LSO St Luke's
The Programme
Robert Schumann
Five Pieces in Folk Style arr for cello and accordion
Olivier Messiaen
Louange à l’éternité de Jésus arr for cello and accordion
Jennifer Walshe
THE SHEER TASK OF BEING ALIVE (UK premiere of ECHO commission)
Sofia Gubaidulina
In croce for cello and accordion
Mikołaj Majkusiak
Rhythms of doubt – part III
Valerie Fritz cello
Goran Stevanovich accordion
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Austrian cellist and ECHO Rising Star Valerie Fritz performs with acclaimed Bosnian accordionist Goran Stevanovich in the atmospheric setting of LSO St Luke’s.
Fritz specialises in both contemporary and classical music, applying experiments with electronics and gut strings to a broad repertoire. For this performance in LSO St Luke’s, the programme explores the complex tension between doubt and faith, from Schumann’s Five Pieces in Folk Style, through a movement from Messiaen’s startling Quatour pour le fin du temps, to more contemporary works, such as Mikołaj Majkusiak’s Rhythms of doubt, and a brand new ECHO commission by Jennifer Walshe.
Valerie Fritz is the first prize winner of the Berlin Prize for Young Artists and the Mainardi Cello Competition, as well as a scholarship holder of the concerto21 Foundation. She studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg under Clemens Hagen and Giovanni Gnocchi.
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