PARIS 1905 - Ein Klavierabend

Around the turn of the 20th century, Paris was the epicenter of artistic renewal. While painters such as Monet and Renoir redefined light and movement, writers such as Proust searched for the hidden depths of human consciousness.

In music, the rediscovery of Rameau connected the past with the present, while Debussy and Ravel experimented with impressionist timbres. Franck's late works resonated as a romantic legacy - an era in which tradition and new beginnings merged in a fascinating dialog.

Program

Jean Philippe Rameau

Les Cyclopes

Les tendres plaintes

Maurice Ravel

Sonatina

Claude Debussy

Selected Préludes Volume II

César Franck

Prelude, chorale et fugue

Artists

Gabriel Husson (*2005) is a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life. He received his first piano lessons at the age of 5. His formative teachers were the Russian piano teacher Oleg Krimer (Bonn), Marianne Reiser (Aachen) and Philippe Raskin (Brussels). He is currently studying piano with Prof. Éric Le Sage at the Freiburg University of Music. He previously studied with the American pianist Ben Kim at the HfM Weimar.

He received master classes from Prof. Nina Tichman, Prof. Lev Natochenny, Herbert Schuch and Michel Dalberto. He is a multiple first prize winner in the Jugend Musiziert competition, both in various chamber music categories and in 2023 in the piano solo category. He has also won the WDR Classical Music Prize of the City of Münster and numerous special prizes (including the Hamel Foundation; Ibach Prize; Draiflessen Prize).

Monan von Jülich (*2004) was born in Bonn and is currently studying piano with Prof. Hinrich Alpers at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. Recitals took him to Paris last year, including to the Hôtel de Beauharnais at the invitation of the German ambassador. He is also a member of the "Belvedere Chamber Ensemble", which is dedicated to music by Sorbian composers and with which he tours annually.

His musical education began at the age of 6 with piano lessons from Oleg Krimer in Bonn. He later moved to Prof. Juri Bogdanov at the Gnesin Academy in Moscow and then to Prof. Christian-Wilm Müller at the Schloss Belvedere Music High School in Weimar until 2023.

Monan von Jülich has won prizes at numerous international piano competitions. He has won 34 prizes in 38 international competitions to date. These include the Rachmaninoff Competition in Moscow, the Steinway Competition in Hamburg, the César Franck Competition in Kraainem (Belgium), the Hans-von-Bülow Competition in Meiningen, the Bechstein Competition in Berlin and the Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Szarfarnia (Poland).