Music season 2024/25 – 44th concert season/5th  concert

LUCA FERRINI, piano

ADAMAS STRING QUARTET

Roland Herret, 1. violin
Maria Wahlmüller, 2. violin
Anna Dekan, viola
Stefanie Prenn, cello

The fifth concert of this years Concert Season Ticket is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the italo-slovenian pianist Luca Ferrini as a musician. The renowned pianist, harpsichordist and organist from Monfalcone (Italy) invited the Adamas String Quartet, characterized by compositions from the Baroque to the contemporary, to join him on the big stage of Nova Gorica Cultural Centre at this special occasion.

Luca Ferrini studied piano, harpsichord, organ and organ composition and graduated with honours from the Conservatories of Trieste and Udine. For almost forty years, either as a soloist, in chamber ensembles or with orchestras, with with all three instruments, he has given equally successful concerts in Europe and elsewhere (St Petersburg Philharmonic, Beijing Concert Hall, Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Cankarjev dom and Slovenian Philharmonic in Ljubljana, Musikverein in Vienna, National Concert Hall in Dublin, National theatre of Malta, Seoul National University, Philharmonic in Ulaanbaatar and Odessa, Theatre St. Michel in Brussels, Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Zagreb, Belgrade, Madrid, Porto, Copenhagen, Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Buenos Aires, Chile, etc. He is a member of various early and contemporary music chamber groups (he has performed more than seventy-one new compositions), has recorded for numerous European radio stations and has made forty CDs. He has been an official accompanist at many summer and advanced courses and at international academies and competitions for various instruments (Denmark – Carl Nielsen International Competition, China – Beijing International Music Competition, Mexico – Henry Szeryng International Violin Competition, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Poland). He has taught at State Conservatories in Brescia and Salerno, as well as at the Klagenfurt Regional Conservatory and the Kgbl Conservatory in Ljubljana. He was also an accompanist at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana. He is currently a professor of piano, harpsichord, chamber music and accompanist at the Artistic High School in Koper.

Since its founding in 2003, the Adamas Quartet has received numerous awards, including at the international Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, the International Schubert Competition in Ruse, the Polish Music Prize from “isa” and the International Competition for “Verfemte Musik” in Schwerin. Their recordings – released by Gramola – have also gained significant attention, being labelled as “Star of the Month” by cultural magazine Bühne, receiving the Ö1-Pasticcio Award for “CD of the Week” on Radio Stephansdom and quoted to be “Diapason découverte” from the French specialist magazine Diapason. Through its engagement with “Verfemter Musik”, which the Nazis labelled as “degenerate” during World War II, the Adamas Quartet developed a personal focus for their repertoire. A further interest of the quartet is unusual or out of the ordinary stage productions that integrate other art forms – especially theatre – with music in an attempt to create new perspectives. Productions include: “Talk Haydn” (Rhetoric and Music), “Aufschrei”, “Think Haydn”, and the children’s project “4×1=1 – The Magic of the String Quartet.” The Adamas Quartet studied chamber music with Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. As scholarship holders of the International Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest (ISA), the Académie musicale de Villecroze, and the Britten-Pears Foundation, the musicians were able to receive further inspiration from Hatto Beyerle, Miguel da Silva, and Krzysztof Chorzelski.

Programme:

Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

D. Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57