Radio Concert Season
Radio Chamber Orchestra - live broadcast
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
, 19.00
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, at 19.00 the Radio Chamber Orchestra invites you to a symphony concert that will have as guest the German conductor Eckart Hübner. The soloist of the concert will be cellist Răzvan Suma.
In the first part of the programme we will listen to Divertissement by Jacques Ibert and Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 by Camille Saint-Saëns. In the second part of the programme will be performed Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major by Joseph Haydn.
After having studied with Klaus Thuneman (bassoon) and later with Volker Rohde (conducting), Eckart Hübner was an instrumental soloist in a few of the greatest orchestras in Germany. At the same time he was also a soloist in music chamber ensembles, at the beginning in the Albert Schweitzer Quintet, winner of the first competition of the German television (ARD Competition). The ensemble received the much desired Award of the German Critique, given for the recording of the Integral of Wind Quintets by Anton Reicha.
The bassoonist Eckart Hübner has numerous solo recordings that have built up to the approval of his statute, being considered by the Klassik Heute one of the most famous bassoonists in Germany.
In the mid 1990s, his activity as professor started to take up a bigger space in his professional life. In the beginning he conducted the bassoon class at the Academy of Music in Basel, and starting with 1997 he occupied the same position at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin.
At the same time he dedicated much time to conducting and worked permanently for conductors such as James Conlon, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Bernard Haitink, as a studies director at the Youth Orchestra of the European Union (EUYO). Eckart Hübner also conducted the orchestras Bochumer Symphoniker, Jenaer Philharmonie, Kammerphilharmonie Merck in Darmstadt, the Symphony Orchestra of the Academy of Music in Lübeck, Sinfonietta in Riga, the State Philharmonic in Târgu Mureș, the Banat Philharmonic in Timișoara, the Philharmonic in Brașov, the one in Cluj-Napoca and the Radio Chamber Orchestra.
Răzvan Suma is one of the most active and important Romanian young instrumentalists, with a wide repertoire, presented in over 500 recitals and concerts held all around the world.
Besides his performing activity in Romania, he often holds concerts together with Spanish pianist Josu Okiñena, in prestigious halls such as Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Kursall in San Sebastian of the University in Valladolid. From this collaboration was born the CD with the two sonatas for piano and cello by Johannes Brahms. Răzvan Suma, together with Marian Cazacu, Alexandra Guțu and Octavian Lup, is part of the Cellissimo cellos quartet, ensemble that is present on the stages in Romania, Italy, Portugal, Macao or Morocco.
In 2004 was founded the Romanian Piano Trio, where we found Răzvan Suma together with two of the most appreciated Romanian musicians: Horia Mihail and Alexandru Tomescu; the three of them hold the annual national tours Music ON-LG. Starting with 2010, Răzvan Suma became a performing soloist of the Radio Music Bands, and in 2011 he became a member of the STRAD TRIO, together with violinist Alexandru Tomescu and pianist Toma Popovici.
The cellist Răzvan Suma held his first solo tour, Do you like Bach? between 1-21 March 2012, in eight cities in Romania, thus marking a premiere in classical music: the first performance by a Romanian artist, in one concert, of the Integral of Suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Translated by Anca Pavel
MTTLC, Bucharest University