After three years of absence, one of the last classical music festivals in Alsace, the Musicales de Colmar resume with a note of youth.
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After three long years of eclipse, Les Musicales de Colmar are back for Easter week. A new start resolutely turned towards the future with the young generation in the spotlight, under the leadership of cellist Marc Coppey. For the overture, young European soloists will perform Pierre and the Wolf by Prokofiev. On view until April 16.
The event is a great opportunity to bring together the talent of these young soloists, crowned with international prizes. On the program for the opening of the festival: Pierre and the Wolf by Prokofiev.
You really feel the extremely high individual level and suddenly the rehearsals are very effective.
Thus, these soloists play a familiar repertoire in magnificent heritage sites in Colmar and its surroundings, under the artistic direction of cellist Marc Coppe. The young team of musicians proposes to explore the repertoire of chamber music with winds as explained by the violinist Emmanuel Coppey.
We are going to propose all kinds of programs starting from these twelve people, things in trio, in quartet and to go around what is possible in wind instruments.
Emmanuel CoppeyViolinist
For the second week of these long-awaited musicals, the prestigious Prague Philharmonia will pay homage to the genius of the author of the Statue of Liberty with the New World Symphony and the cello concerto by Dvorak in St. Matthew’s Church. The concert will be conducted by Emmanuel Villaumeoriginally from Alsace, who travels to the most prestigious stages around the world, from Covent Garden in London to the Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala in Milan.
Then, on April 15, the Goldmund Quartet will take place at the Unterlinden Museum to interpret The Seven Last Words of Christ from Hayden.
The festival will end with the Orchester Philharmonique de Strasbourg and its young prodigy Aziz Shokhakimov in the Prokofiev program for thea Classical symphony and the 7th Symphony by Beethoven as well as the Concerto in G by Ravel by Bertrand Chamayou, nicknamed the little prince of the piano.