20.00 Uhr
Weihnachtskonzert des Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasiums
I also believe that no other instrument can touch the soul like the violin. What do you do before a concert? Remind myself that the ability to play a concerto is a gift from heaven. Eat something. Tune myself inwardly to the first bars of the concerto.
Is there an instrument other than your own that you would like to master? There are many instruments I would love to be able to play. Cello, but also drums and piano would all be on my wish list.
On the other hand, there is still a lot of freedom to express the music. It’s a process – trying things together, adapting together, finding a way together. Which concert with the Konzerthausorchester was a special emotional experience for you?
Is there an instrument other than your own that you would like to master? I would like to be able to play all instruments. Is there a key work that started your love of music?
She has performed at chamber music festivals in Davos, Verbier and Kronberg, among others. She teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts. What do you find particularly appealing about playing the viola?
As a chamber musician, she performs in duo programmes with her brother, the pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz, among others. Is there a key work that started your love of music?
Is there an instrument other than your own that you would like to master? As a former trumpeter, I have mastered all valve instruments in the tenor and alto registers, plus trombones with historical bore sizes. That’s quite enough for me.
What other instrument would you like to master besides your own? I would like to be able to play the oboe because I like the sound very much. Is there a key work that started your love of music?
I usually eat a piece of fruit or some other snack before I change and warm up some more. Then we all gather to go on stage. Which favourite place in Berlin do you recommend when you have visitors?
On the other hand, being a musician is so exciting because even after 38 years, new things always come along – pieces that have not been played before, new interpretations, new people around me and new discoveries, even in a symphony that has been played umpteen
Like racism and any other form of marginalisation, anti-Semitism can have no place in our society. Even under the current fraught circumstances, we must not allow ourselves to be guided by hatred and provocation. We can all make a contribution to this.
Which other instrument besides your own would you like to master? I would love to be able to play the accordion – I think it’s a totally underrated, brilliant instrument.
Apart from the fact that it was and is always an experience to play under Iván Fischer, this concert rises above all others. I experienced the shared intensity of emotion between musicians and audience as something very special.