Concert of the International Music Cycle Young Virtuosi 2010 / 2011

In cooperation with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The Ragazze Quartet, The Netherlands
Rosa Arnold, 1st violin 
Jeanita Vriens, 2nd violin
Annemijn Bergkotte, viola
Geneviève Verhage, cello

Petra Pekolj, dancer, Slovenia

Programme:
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op.64, No.2 (Hob.III.65)
Bela Bartok: String Quartet No.1 (Op.7., Sz.40)
Franz Schubert:  Rosamunde (arr. for string quartet)
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade

The first concert of the Young Virtuosi cycle is the result of exciting cultural and economic cooperation between Slovenia and the Netherlands, while also marking the jubilee season of the composer Gustav Mahler. A Dutch string quartet will prepare a special programme for this occasion with the Slovene dancer Petra Peklaj.
The Ragazze Quartet is the youngest professional string quartet in the Netherlands. It is made up of four young musicians who became enthusiastic about chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music in the Hague. In 2009, the string quartet was accepted to a school that is unique in the world – the Dutch String Quartet Academy (NSKA). Prior to that, the quartet had already participated in numerous competitions and achieved extraordinary recognition (first prize in the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition, the youngest finalist in the Almere Competition, nomination for the Princess Christina Competition, etc). In March this year, the Dutch string quartet Ragazze appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York and participated in a workshop by the internationally renowned Kronos Quartet. On an invitation from the Kronos Quartet they also prepared a joint concert.
The young Slovene dancer Petra Peklaj is currently concluding her studies at the Amsterdam School of the Arts (Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten). Her talent attracted the attention of the internationally recognised dancer and choreographer Maja Delak, who is a teacher at this prestigious Dutch university. It is under the guidance of Maja Delak that the original choreography on the music Hugo Wolf will come about, the latter being a composer who will lead us to the time and space of Gustav Mahler.

Admission free.


Music Workshop for students of the Academy of Music, chamber music department 
Tuesday, 19 October, 2010, from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm
Križanke, Knight’s Hall