Chamber Music Evening N° 4

Yuki Manuela Janke

Born into a family of musicians in Munich, her career began at an early age. Her breakthrough came at the latest with numerous prizes at the Sarasate, Paganini and Tchaikovsky competitions, which quickly took her to the world's most important stages as a soloist. As a soloist and chamber musician, Yuki Manuela Janke also inspires as concertmaster of the most traditional orchestras. Her interpretation of Richard Strauss' "Heldenleben" in the Golden Hall in Vienna with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann attracted particular attention.
As concertmaster of the Staatskapelle Berlin, she enjoys the trust of conductors such as Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta. She is a regular guest with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and various orchestras abroad. She received her most important musical impulses from Igor Ozim at the Mozarteum Salzburg and through chamber music collaborations with Christoph Eschenbach, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, the Hagen Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet. Her broad repertoire ranges from baroque and romantic music to contemporary composers such as Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Krzysztof Meyer, Nicolas Bacri and Markus Schmitt. Her repertoire also includes forgotten works such as Franz Clement's Violin Concerto, which Janke recorded with Reinhard Goebel and the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. She plays on a violin by Robert König & Michael Betcher.

Teresa Beldi

Teresa Beldi, born in Hamburg in 1993, studied with Prof. Hillel Zori in Tel Aviv, with Frans Helmerson at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin and with Claudius Popp at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler. She also received important musical inputs from David Geringas, Arto Noras and Jens Peter Maintz.

Teresa’s concert engagements as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her outside Germany to France, Holland, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel and Italy.

Teresa has performed as a soloist with the Banatul Timisoara Symphony Orchestra, the Oltenia Craiova Symphony Orchestra (Romania), the Philharmonic Orchestra oft he Plovdid State Opera (Bulgaria) and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, among others, in venues such as the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Halle aux Grains Toulouse and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In addition to Haydn’s cello concerti (D major), Shostakovich No. 1 and Lalo, she performed Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major under the baton of Zubin Mehta in Tel Aviv in 2016 and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and Ion Martin in 2019.

As a chamber musician, Teresa performed several times in the Pierre Boulez Hall, in various groups and as part oft he Boulez Ensemble, at the Whitsun Festival Schloss Ettersburg, at the Usedom Music Festival and at the Mozart Festival Würzburg (in collaboration with the Minguet Quartet).