„La lumière du sud – das Licht des Südens“ | Duo Kravets-Kassung | Kirchhörder Serenaden

In the organizer's words:

DUO KRAVETS-KASSUNG
Lena Kravets - violoncello | Tobias Kassung - guitar

Program:

• Enrique Granados (1898-1937) (Arr.: Tobias Kassung) Andaluza
• Tobias Kassung (*1977) Capriccio à la lumière du sud, op. 16
• Claude Debussy (1862-1918) (Arr.: Lena Kravets & Tobias Kassung) Clair de Lune (No. 3 de la Suite bergamasque)
• Marin Marais (1656-1728) (Arr.: Lena Kravets & Tobias Kassung) Les folies d'Espagne Thème et variations
• Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) (Arr.: Lena Kravets & Tobias Kassung) Après un Rêve, op. 7 No. 1
• Mathias Duplessy (*1972) Sonata pour violoncelle et guitare en quatre rêves

1. Rêve fou - crazy dream
2. Rêve heureux - happy dream
3. Rêve exalté - sublime dream

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In 2011, Lena Kravets and Tobias Kassung established their duo in the Cologne Classical Ensemble. With the rare combination of cello and guitar, they develop very individual programs and delight audiences in their concerts across Germany.
"La lumière du sud - the light of the south" is dedicated entirely to the masters of French music. The vastness of the French coast, the high, blue sky and the special light have always inspired French artists to create special works of art. In music, too, lightness merges with southern flair and the French way of life. Great impressionists such as Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré meet the baroque master Marin Marais and the contemporary Parisian composer Mathias Duplessy, who wonderfully combines French lightness with flamenco and Brazilian bossa nova. The piece "Capriccio à la lumière du sud", written by Tobias Kassung himself, forms a bracket in the program - a homage to the tango and the light of the south.

Cologne-based Tobias Kassung is regarded as one of the outstanding German guitarists and a border crosser in his field. As a composer, he opens up new avenues for the guitar in the field of chamber music. Tobias Kassung has been the artistic director of the renowned Cologne Chamber Concerts at the Kunstverein since 2020. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, as well as at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. In 2003, he founded the Kölner Klassik Ensemble, of which he is still the artistic director today. Since then he has developed numerous chamber music projects: the Astor Trio, various duos, quartets and quintets. Tobias Kassung has recorded nine albums for KSG Exaudio and Sony Classical. His arrangements and compositions have been published by Tonos-Verlag (Darmstadt) and KSG Edition (Cologne). Recordings of his concerts and compositions have been broadcast by ARD, WDR, SWR, HR and Bayerischer Rundfunk, among others.

Lena Kravets, born in Tashkent, lives in Cologne and works as a freelance musician. In 2011, she founded the duo cello and guitar together with Tobias Kassung, with whom she performs at numerous concerts in Germany and abroad. She is solo cellist of the Kölner Klassik Ensemble and the Astor Trio with cello. Since 2021, she has been the artistic director of 8CELLI, a cello ensemble of eight outstanding cellists from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which she founded. She also works regularly with the Kölner Kammerorchester, the Neues Rheinisches Kammerorchester and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss. Lena Kravets grew up in a family of musicians and received her first piano lessons at the age of six at the W. A. Uspenskiy Music High School for highly gifted children. A few years later, she switched to the violoncello as her main subject. She studied at the Cologne University of Music with Prof. Susanne Müller-Hornbach and Laurentiu Sbarcea, where she completed her artistic diploma with distinction in 2014.

Price information:

Admission free, donations requested