Impressions 2021
That was the meetMUSIC OPEN AIR 2021.
Many thanks to our artists who made it what it was – a treat for the soul and ears. Many thanks to our guests, it was a feast for us!
We are very much looking forward to delighting you with fresh ideas in the coming year as well. Until then, we invite you to follow our event calendar – it remains sonorous in Draiflessen. Promised.
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The following is archive content from 2021
meetMUSIC OPEN AIR 2021
What can our visitors expect at our OPEN AIR 2021? First, a new setting, a premiere for Draiflessen: The young musicians* play for you in the garden, in a stylish as well as casual ambience and of course Corona compliant. But the great musical diversity of our two-day event is also extraordinary; the musicians combine classical chamber music with jazz and pop in a rousing, multi-faceted program. The special thing about this is that different styles are often played by the same ensembles in one concert, creating an amazing connection between different sound worlds.
Out of conviction, we give young art a chance to present itself. Some of the invited musicians have already performed on important stages around the world, while others are up-and-coming young artists. However, they all stand out for their passion for music and will let us experience ravishingly expressive concerts.
A personal framework is created by the two moderators Marie König and Malte Arkona, who lead through the program. But some of the musicians themselves will also moderate and be available for questions, which opens up a very individual approach to the music.
The idea of holding a summer music event has long been a dream of Isabella van Hamme, director of Draiflessen Conference. After a concert by the duo Anouchka & Katharina Hack in the fall of 2019 in Draiflessen, the musicians, inspired by the imposing building with its extraordinary settings, also expressed the idea of holding an OPEN AIR in this special place. A vision found its beginning here: An OPEN AIR with young excellent artists.
We are happy to welcome our visitors, connoisseurs and beginners, young and old in Mettingen!
Saturday, 21.08.2021
15:00
meetMUSIC concert in the afternoon
At the meetMUSIC concert in the afternoon for families and music lovers, the popular presenter Malte Arkona not only guides the audience through the musical program in an entertaining and informative way, but also introduces the musicians themselves in personal conversations. There is room for all questions of the small and large listeners.
Experience Spanish guitar music, impressionistic harp sounds and the brassy sound of four trombones in three short, highly diverse concerts!
Welcome and introduction with Malte Arkona
Malte Arkona is known to a wide audience as an actor, dubbing artist and TV presenter. He already proved that he is a true master of vocal acrobatics in the radio play for the ARD series
Babylon Berlin
and in the dubbing of the series
Modern Family
(Prof. Arvin Fennerman) demonstrated. As the host of the popular shows
Tigerenten Club
and
Germany’s best class
he is popular with young and old.
Malte’s great passion, already since his childhood at the piano, is classical music. As a music educator, he initially focused on younger classical music listeners, offering children and teens an entertaining, fun, and exciting introduction to the world of “classical” (and romantic, baroque, contemporary…) music. In doing so, he created a completely new, modern style of concert moderation with his authentic manner, which also met with a great response from adult audiences. In the meantime, Malte sees himself as a cross-generational music mediator. He easily manages to infect the audience with his own enthusiasm for the well-known and lesser-known musical works.
Special price – concert with Viktor Stryapin
On the occasion of this year’s meetMUSIC OPEN AIRS, Draiflessen GmbH & Co. oHG will for the first time award a special prize for a 1st place in age group V of the national competition “Jugend musiziert”. Viktor Stryapin won this 1st place with 25 points in the category “Plucked Instrument Solo”.
Liv Hansen | Harp
With great musical flair Liv Hansen takes her audience into the sonorous world of the harp. She was a scholarship holder of the Mozart Society Dortmund and performed as a soloist with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Sopot, among others.
www.mozart-gesellschaft-dortmund.de/stipendiaten/stipendiat/article/liv-inger-hansen-harfe
Svevia trombone quartet
The Svevia Trombone Quartet was founded in 2020 at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts.
In addition to classical training, the members also devote themselves to playing the baroque trombone. With works from the Renaissance to the modern age, the four young musicians show how broad the repertoire is and how diverse the musical expression on the trombone can be.
18:30
Double pack in the evening
On Saturday evening, look forward to two concerts interrupted by an intermission for refreshments.
Vision String Quartet
The Vision String Quartet won the prestigious Geneva Music Competition in 2016 and is considered one of the best and most exciting young string quartets of our time. In addition to profound interpretations of the great classical quartet literature, in which all quartet members always play from memory and thus achieve a particularly intense interplay, the Vision String Quartet also explores and expands the repertoire with plenty of groove and verve in the crossover realm.
HeptaPolka
HeptaPolka is an eight-piece band from Hamburg. She plays mainly Nordic and Balkan folk music, mixed with her own melodies and musical influences from all over the world. HeptaPolka creates a mixture of gentle dream and wild dance. Music that goes from the ear to the heart and from the heart to the hips.
Sunday, 22.08.2021
11:30 a.m.
Matinee concert
Jazzical Class
A strong interest in music outside the classical realm and in instruments other than their primary ones has united the duo of Peter Fleckenstein and Žilvinas Brazauskas. Their performances at the highest musical level include instruments such as piano, classical guitar and bass guitar, saxophone, clarinet, a wide range of percussion and even the voice. Their repertoire knows no genre boundaries.
www.zilvinasbrazauskas.net
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www.peterfleckenstein.com
14:00
Lunch concert
Duo Anouchka & Katharina Hack
Anouchka and Katharina Hack have been enlivening concert stages with their musical freshness and passion for several years. Their interplay is characterized by strong collaborative interpretations with great understanding of the works. In 2020, the duo released their debut CD, which was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award.
17:00
Final concert
Cello Octet
This ensemble is put together especially for the meetMUSIC OPEN AIR. It is composed of some of the most promising young cellists, most of whom study at the renowned Kronberg Academy.
Artistic direction
For years, the sisters Anouchka and Katharina Hack have been successful both as a duo and as soloists, giving concerts at the Beethovenhaus Bonn, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Gasteig Munich, the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and the Konzerthaus Dortmund, among others.
For meetMUSIC, both have now taken on the artistic direction of a music OPEN AIRS for the first time: “Our vision is to show young, exciting chamber music in all its diversity. To create a colorful festival program as artistic directors with unique young musicians is a long-held dream that will become reality this summer.” In their new capacity, Anouchka and Katharina Hack bring classical music as well as jazz and polka to Draiflessen and offer visitors of all ages a high-quality program in a special environment. “Music needs a place to sound. The atmosphere of Draiflessen provides the perfect space here.”
Katharina and Anouchka Hack received their musical training as young students with Prof. Ilja Scheps and Prof. Hans-Christian Schweiker at the Musikhochschule Köln. From 2014 to 2018 they studied with Prof. Konstanze Eickhorst and Prof. Troels Svane at the University of Music Lübeck. The musicians received further special musical impulses from David Geringas, Gary Hoffman, Andrej Jaszinsiki and Sir András Schiff and from Gautier Capuçon, for whose Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle Anouchka Hack was selected in 2017/18. Currently Katharina Hack is studying in the concert exam with Prof. Bernd Glemser in Würzburg, Anouchka Hack with Prof. Frans Helmerson at the renowned Kronberg Academy, supported by the Casals Patronage. The sisters are supported as scholarship holders by the Mozart Society Dortmund, the Ritter Foundation, the Dumcke Foundation and the German Foundation for Musical Life.