FIRE 4: Hannah Weirich, violin
Event Date: Dec 2, 2024
Event Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Koncertna dvorana GŠ Koper - Koper Music School Hall
PROGRAM
Rebecca Saunders: whispers (2023) for violin solo
Enno Poppe: Zwei Blätter (2023) for violin solo
Joseph Andrew Lake: The Visit (2023) for violin solo and radio
Georges Aperghis: Blumen für Uli (2023) for violin solo
Lisa Streich: WUNDER (2023) for violin at the piano
Helge Sten: Thought Forms (2021) for violin and tape
Bethan Morgan-Williams: Ffarwel i Uli (2023) for violin and Moogerfooger
What happens to a duo when one dies?
Violinist Hannah Weirich‘s solo program titled Here, There, and Everywhere – Hommage à Ulrich Löffler features works written in memory of Ulrich Löffler by composers Rebecca Saunders, Enno Poppe, Joseph Andrew Lake, Georges Aperghis, Lisa Streich, Bethan Morgan-Williams, and Helge Sten, all close creative partners of the Weirich-Löffler duo. Ulrich Löffler was a founding member of Ensemble Musikfabrik, a highly regarded soloist in contemporary music, a pianist, and a specialist in analog synthesizers. Although Ulrich can no longer perform, he remains “Here, There, and Everywhere,” and his presence is deeply felt in all of the works.
Hannah Weirich studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart with Ingolf Turban and attended masterclasses with Franco Gulli, Igor Ozim and Dénes Zsigmondy. Hannah Weirich has been performing worldwide since 1992 with her piano trio Trio Fridegk, with whom she has won several national and international prizes. In 2005, she became a member of Ensemble Musikfabrik, with whom she performs at national and international festivals and collaborates with renowned artists such as Milica Djordjević, Rebecca Saunders, Lisa Streich, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann and Enno Poppe. Several solo works dedicated to Hannah Weirich have been written, among others by Sarah Nemtsov, Rebecca Saunders, Lisa Streich, Georges Aperghis, Francesco Filidei and Enno Poppe. From 2011 to 2022, Hannah Weirich formed a duo with pianist Ulrich Löffler, which was primarily dedicated to music of the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2020, the duo initiated the premiere series „Zurück in der Zukunft“ (Back to the Future), for which new works for violin/e-violin and analogue keyboards were created. Hannah Weirich performs as a soloist with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and the Krakow State Philharmonic Orchestra, among others, and works with Ensemble Resonanz, Ascolta, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Asasello Quartet and the jazz formation Shreefpunk. In addition to her concert activities, Hannah Weirich also works as a coach with the National Youth Orchestra and Studio Musikfabrik, the youth ensemble for new music of the Landesmusikrat NRW.
FOTO: copyright Janet Sinica