FELICJA BLUMENTAL FESTIVAL'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY - 7-12.5.18 The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
FELICJA BLUMENTAL FESTIVAL'S 20TH
ANNIVERSARY
HOSTING THE WORLD'S GREATEST MUSICIANS
IN A HOMAGE TO THE FESTIVAL'S FOUNDER ANNETTE CELINE
May 7th to 12th 2018, The Tel Aviv
Museum of Art
The Felicja Blumental Music Festival, one of
Israel’s longest established and most acclaimed festivals, is marking 20 years
of diverse musical activity. This year, however, the festival will be taking
place without its founder, Annette Celine, Felicja Blumental’s daughter. Ms.
Celine passed away in June 2017. For 19 years, Annette Celine was director of
the festival’s artistic program, realizing her love of the arts and her wish to
present music in all its variety in a series of events addressing style,
performance and period. The 20th Festival will reflect Annette Celine’s taste,
presenting artists and styles she especially loved. Artists and ensembles from
all over the world who have taken part in the festival over the years will
return to Israel to perform in the 20th festival, a festival entirely dedicated
to Annette Celine’s memory.
L’Arpeggiata,
under the direction of Christina Pluhar, first appeared in the Felicja
Blumental Festival in 2006; at that time, it was still a totally unknown
ensemble. As with other ensembles, Annette Celine was one of the first to recognize
its huge potential. Since then it has become one of the most important
ensembles in the world of early music and is invited to perform at major world
festivals and venues. L’Arpeggiata will be presenting its beguiling program
“Mediterraneo” - a musical journey around the Mediterranean Basin, in which
fascinating cultural connections and fusions will be woven, from southern Italy
eastwards, to Greece and Turkey and westwards, to Spain (Majorca and Catalonia)
and Portugal. Also in the realm of early music, the Armonico Consort
(UK) directed by harpsichordist Christopher Monks, with soprano Gillian
Keith, will present a program of Bach cantatas. The ensemble’s first
appearance at the festival was in 2007.
Annette
Celine grew up in Brazil; there has, therefore, always a special focus on
Brazil in the festival. This year, the festival will host singer/mandolin
player Nilze Carvalho who will collaborate with the
Israeli Chorole Ensemble, the latter returning to the festival
following successful appearances in past years. Also from Brazil, we will host
three singers – soprano Gabriela Pacce, alto Denise de Freitas and
baritone Lício Bruno
- together with pianist Sonia Rubinsky in a program dedicated to the
music
of Heitor Villa-Lobos, who was a close friend of Felicja Blumental and Markus
Mizne. The major work on the program will be the “Cicio Brasileiro”.
Annette’s
liking for contemporary music and her ambition to promote women artists will
find expression in the program of homage to composers Chaya Czernowin, Betty
Olivero and Shulamit Ran. Conductor Ariel Zuckermann and the Israel
Chamber Orchestra, together with a number of soloists, will perform a
program of Olivero and Ran’s works’ Ensemble Nikel will perform works of
Czernowin. The festival will also include a discussion session with the
composers.
As
every year, the Tremolo Percussion Ensemble of the Israel Percussion
Center will return, this year collaborating with the Strasbourg Percussion
Ensemble (France) in a program of music of the 20th and 21st centuries, a
concert bristling with energy and rhythm.
The
Israeli Jazz Orchestra will also be returning to the
festival, this time as guests at the concert of trumpeter Avishai Cohen
and bassist Eli Magen.
Israeli
musicians - soprano Chen Reiss, pianists Daniel Gortler and Tal
Haim Samnon, ‘cellist Michal Korman and clarinettist Tibi Zeiger
- will join together for a concert of songs and instrumental works of Schubert
and Brahms.
Other
guests of the festival will be soprano Yael Levita, recorder player Tali
Rubinstein accompanied by harpsichordist/pianist Apollonio Maiello
(Germany), singers Lucy Shelton and Esti Kenan, Ensemble Marsh
Dondurma in a performance for children, pianist Ofra Yitzhaki and
other outstanding musicians from Israel and overseas, who will join to produce
an unforgettable festival in Annette Celine’s memory.
Tickets
range from NIS80 to NIS150.
Reductions
for American Express and Isracard card holders, Extra Members Club, workers’
committees, members/retirees of the Teachers’ Union, Tov Club, Ashmoret members
and more.
Special
reductions for friends of the festival and subscribers to Tarbut News, see
tarbut.news@gmail.com or the festival site.
Monday 7.5
17:00 / Assia Gallery
Lecture/ After 20 years
Yossi Schiffmann, lecturer
The vision behind the festival and its
realization
Admission free (lecture in Hebrew)
18:30 / Shidlovsky Auditorium
Kibbutz / REMIX. A tribute to Chaya Czernowin.
Nikel
Ensemble
Yaron Deutch, electronic guitar; Patrick
Stadler, saxophone; Brian Archinal, percussion; Antoine
Francoise, piano; Guest:
Krasimir Sterev, accordion
Enno Pope – Fleisch
Chaya Czernowin - Knights of the
Strange
Ann Cleare - The square of yellow
light that is your window
Ann Cleare - I'm not a clockmaker
either
Chaya Czernowin – Sahaf
Ticket / 80 NIS
20:30 / Recanati Auditorium
Mediterraneo
/ L’Arpeggiata - Christina Pluhar
Vinzenco
Capezzuto, alto
Anna
Dego, teatrodanza; Doron
Sherwin, cornetto; Judith
Steenbrink, baroque violin; Josep Maria Marti Duron, theorbo, lute & baroque
guitar; Sergey Saprychev, percussion;
Francesco Turrisi, harpsichord
Christina
Pluhar, theorbo & direction
Baroque
music from Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey &
Macedonia
Ticket / 150 NIS
Tuesday 8.5
17:00
Shidlovsky Auditorium
Bikur
Moledet
Encounter with composers Chaya
Czernowin, Betty Olivero and Shulamit Ran
Avigail Arnheim, moderator
Admission free
18:30 Assia gallery
Maiello-Rubinstein
Duo
Tali Rubinstein (Israel), recorders
Apollonio maiello (Germany), piano, harpischord.
Original music that combines the
aesthetics of the Baroque with the improvisation of the modern jazz.
Ticket / 80 NIS
20:30 Recanati auditorium
Percussion
celebration
Les
Percussions de Strasbourg (France):
François
Papirer, Minh-Tam Nguyen, Galdrik Subirana, Enrico Pedicone, Thibaut Weber,
Théo His-Mahier
Tremolo
Ensemble (Israel): Tomer Yariv, Lior Eldad, Nadav Ovadia,
tomer Galili, Daniel Solomonov
Gérard Grisey - Tempus Ex Machina
Toru Takemitsu - Rain Tree
Dor Fischer - Absurd
Edgard Varèse - Ionisation
Tomer Yariv - Hommage to Zappa
In colaboration with Israel
contemporary players
Ticket / 120 NIS
Wednesday 9.5
17:00 Konstantiner room
A
Woman’s Life and Love.
Avigail Arnheim, lecturer
Film and talk about Annette Celine,
the artist, singer and the festival's founder
Free admission
18:30 Assia gallery
Songs
that Annette sang and loved
Yael Levita, soprano; Daniel Gortler, piano
Songs with
and without words by Schumann, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Faure, Debussy & Chopin
Ticket / 80 NIS
20:30 Recanati auditorium
Rhythms
of Samba and the Choro
Nilze
Carvalho (Brazil),
singer and mandolin
Chorole quartet (Israel)
Salit lahav, flute, saxophone, accordion; Daniel
Ring, cavaquinho; Oded Aloni, percussion; Nir Steinberg, guitar
Choro music,
samba and well-known classical Brazilian tunes
Ticket / 150
NIS
Thursday 10.5
17:00 / Shitrit auditorium
“Bach
- The Genius from Leipzig”
Omer Shomroni, lecturer
A Lecture (in Hebrew) about Bach's
cantata BWV 82 (Ich habe genug) and about the secular wedding cantata
Ticket / 80 NIS
18:30 / Assia gallery
Ciclo Brasiliero
/ Villa-Lobos
Gabriela Pacce, soprano
Denise de Freitas, alto
Lício Bruno, baritone
Sonia Ruvinsky, piano
Villa
Lobos Ciclo Brasileiro (Brazilian Cycle) - a piano suite in 4
parts and inbetween –
Songs
composed by Villa-Lobos
Ticket /
80 NIS
20:30 / Recanati Auditorium
Bikur
Moledet
A tribute to composers Shulamit Ran and Betty
Olivero
Israel Chamber Orchestra
Ariel Zuckermann, conductor and flute
Lucy Shelton, soprano; Esty Kenan-Ofri, singer; Nimrod Guez,
viola
Noa Chorin, cello; Ofra Yitzhaki, piano
Shulamit Ran
- Under the Sun's Gaze, chamber concerto & Moon Songs for
soprano, flute, cello and piano
Betti
Olivero - Neharot Neharot for viola and orchestra & Juego De
Siempre for voice and orchestra
Ticket / 120
NIS
Friday 11.5
13:00 / Recanati auditorium
Chen
Reiss with songs, fantasies and friends
Chen
Reiss, soprano; Tal
Haim Samnon; piano; Daniel Gortler,
piano
Michal
Korman, cello; Tibi Cziger, clarinet
Schubert - Fantasia for piano in
four-hands
Strauss - songs
Brahms - trio for clarinet, cello and
piano op. 114
Schubert - The Shepherd on the Rock
Ticket / 160 NIS
15:00 Assia galery
Jerusalem
Music Center
The
David Goldman programme for Outstanding Young Musicians
Chamber music concert
Admission free
21:30 / Recanati auditorium
Israeli jazz songs
The Israel Jazz Orchestra hosts:
Eli Magen, vocals & double bass
Avishai Cohen, trumpet
Nostalgic Israeli songs and tunes in
new jazz arrangements, written specially for the festival
Ticket / 150 NIS
Sat. 12.5
12:00 / Recanati auditorium
Taninim
Al Harosh
Marsh Dondurma
Yoav Yefet, actor
The festival's second year – a concert
for the whole family.
Stories accompanied by the great sound
of brass players and drummers.
Ticket / 80 NIS
19:00 / Assia galery
Fort on Bach
Anat Fort, piano
Free style Jazz improvisations based on themes by J. S.
Bach
Ticket / 80 NIS
21:00 / Recanati auditorium
The
Wedding Cantata
And
other great Soprano cantatas
Armonico Consort (UK)
Christopher Monks, conductor and harpischord
Gillian Keith, soprano
Geoff
Coates , oboe; Annabel
Knight, flute; Garry Clarke, 1st
violin
Emma
Lake, 2nd violin; Joanne Miller, viola;
Gabriel Amherst, cello
Andrew
Durban , double bass
Bach - Ich habe genug BWV 82
Marcello - Oboe Concerto in D minor
Bach - Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten
BWV 202
Bach - O holder Tag, erwünschte Zeit
BWV 210
Ticket / 150 NIS
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