Kammerakademie Potsdam zu Gast in Berlin

In September 2022, the young pianist Lukas Sternath caused a sensation: he won first prize in the ARD Music Competition and was also awarded seven special prizes, including the
He was also awarded seven special prizes, including the audience prize. Together with chief conductor Antonello Manacorda and the KAP, he will perform Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto for the first time in Potsdam and Berlin.

Schumann initially described his work for piano and orchestra as a "fantasy", before developing it into a three-movement solo concerto a few years later. The music is characterized by dancing momentum, virtuoso dialogues and delicate cantilenas, sometimes chamber music-like, sometimes symphonic. Béla Bartók was a neo-tonalist of his time who managed to shape an entire generation with his individual musical language. His early orchestral music is indebted to Richard Strauss, and the dance scene from "Ariadne" could even have been the inspiration for the lively, light character of his second orchestral suite.