JAZZ-FRÜHSCHOPPEN / KLASSIK MEETS JAZZ

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The new concert format at gausz:

In a series of 3-4 concerts per year, gausz Ottensen offers young artists from Christiane Behn's musical workshop a platform to present themselves. Stories from the Renaissance, classical and romantic periods through to modern music and jazz are performed.

This second concert of the new format, on Sunday, July 14 at 11.30 am, is entitled: "Classical meets Jazz" will begin with the famous Renaissance song by John Dowland "Flow my tears" ; it will be rocked with Beethoven's violin sonata and jazzed with guitars, percussion, piano and vocals.

This jazzy morning pint - staged by young musicians - will fill an interesting and varied hour of your day.

PERFORMERS:
6 singers, 8 pianists, 2 cellists, percussion, 1 violinist from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Ukraine and Germany.

Christiane Behn comes from a Hamburg family of musicians and composers. She began her first piano lessons at the age of five with her grandfather and later with Gisela Stumme from Conrad Hansen's school. She studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg with professors Jürgen Hofer, Yara Bernette, Elgin Roth and Conrad Hansen and graduated with her concert exam with Prokofieff's 3rd piano concerto in the large Laeiszhalle. During her studies, Christiane Behn was assistant to Yara Bernette for two years with a temporary lectureship at this university.

Since her concert exam, she has been in demand worldwide as a soloist, accompanist and chamber musician with concerts and masterclasses in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Chile, Nepal, China, England, France, Holland, Italy and Austria.
In Germany, she has performed at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Braunschweig Chamber Music Podium, the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Schloss Elmau and the large and small halls of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg. She performed Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the large Laeiszhalle and Franz Schubert's Winterreise with Iris Vermillion in the crypt of St. Michael's Church. She and her duo partners have performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and excerpts from Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in Bayreuth, in the Ensemble Resonanz media bunker, at the Klangmanufaktur and at the Liszt en Provence Festival.

Since 2010, Christiane Behn has been a lecturer at the Hamburg Conservatory with her own piano class for students and highly talented students of the Hans Kauffmann Foundation. She also teaches for the Youth Chamber Music Initiative, Feldtmann Kulturell, in Hamburg. Her jury activities, including at the Steinway Competition and the state and national "Jugend musiziert" competition, her multiple invitations to master classes in Mexico, Panama Multinational Conservatory of Music, Shanghai via the Chinese Ministry of Culture, as well as England, make her an experienced teacher - as a result of this piano pedagogical work, she can be heard in the great Laeiszhalle as well as in the Elbphilharmonie.

As Vice President and member of the Brahms Society in Hamburg since 2022, Christiane Behn is committed to Brahms in schools and concerts such as the 1st Piano Concerto in 2023.