Classical Concert

Bonn: »Transatlantic Music - from the Hudson to the Rhine«

with select master students from New York’s Juilliard School in cooperation with the Academy of Music and Dance, Cologne. A project under the patronage of the German ambassador to the USA, Dr. Klaus Scharioth.

Six top students from New York’s Juilliard School and one of their most renowned instructors, the violinist Professor Lewis Kaplan, made the journey across the Atlantic in May 2011. Chamber music, jazz and joint master classes were on the agenda when they came together with select master students from the Academy of Music and Dance in Cologne.

The exchange program between Cologne and New York is based on the idea to call forgotten transatlantic cultural heritage back to memory. New York’s Juilliard School is one of the places where the central-European traditions of teaching and practicing dance, theatre and music, which had been banished by the Nazis, carry on today--and from where they have returned in new form to Europe. Coached by Professor Kaplan and lecturers from Cologne, some of them alumni of the Juilliard School themselves, the students will jointly develop a concert program.

Amerika Haus NRW presents two concert performances with classical and modern focus points in the framework of the transatlantic music project.

In Bonn, the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Béla Bartók and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy were presented.

The exchange program between the Juilliard School and the Academy of Music and Dance, Cologne, is under the patronage of the German ambassador to the USA, Dr. Klaus Scharioth, and is transatlantically supported by renowned institutions such as the German Academic Exchange Service, the New Yorker Wirtschaftsrunde and the Excelsior Hotel Ernst, as well as private donations.

Our New York guests in Bonn:

Professor Lewis Kaplan, Violin
- transatlantic ensemble coach

Tanya Gabrielian, Piano

Laura Lutzke, Violin

Joan Topper, Viola

Uriel Vanchestein, Clarinet