Berlin musicians team up with soprano Binu

The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Fri, 01/19/2007 3:24 PM  |  Life

A. Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Three classical musicians from Berlin are teaming up with the country's top soprano to showcase a range of pieces featuring the French horn from popular composers in Yogyakarta on Friday.

Collaborating with singer Binu D. Sukaman, the concert will take place at LIP Auditorium on Jl. Sagan 3, Yogyakarta at 7:30 p.m.

The Germans -- horn player Claudius Muller, violinist Magdalena Kostzewska and pianist Piotr Zuk -- will play music by Leone Sinigaglia, Nicolai von Wilm, Sergei Prokoviev and Johannes Brahms.

""I'm very excited to perform here in Indonesia. It's our first concert as a trio outside Germany,"" Muller told The Jakarta Post before a rehearsal with Binu on Wednesday.

Muller, born in Gehrden, Germany in 1983, has studied French horn since 1994, first as a student of Rudolf Gast, and then from 1998 at the Conservatory of Music and Theater in Frankfurt.

He also participated in master classes and courses in chamber music held by luminaries such as George Pohle, Peter Damm, Michael Hoeltzel, Christian Lampert and Michael Thompson at the London Royal Academy of Music.

Frequently the first prize winner in the ""Juggend Muziert"" national competition in Germany, Muller won second and third prizes in the International Competition AUDI-Mozart in Italy in 2002 and 2004.

As a soloist, Muller had given concerts with the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlin, Hanover's Philharmonic Radio Orchestra and the National Academic Orchestra of the Ukraine.

Kostzewska, who was born in Poznan, Poland in 1982, graduated from the violin class at the Academy of Music in Poznan.

From 2003-2005, she studied under Prof. Adam Kostecki at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and since 2006 under Prof. Tomasz Tomaszeski at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Kostzewska has won numerous national and international violin competitions in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Born in 1979, Zuk took his first piano lessons from Y. Suemasa and C. Biclea at the music school for youth in Bremerhaven in Germany.

He continued studying piano under Prof. Elena Lapitskaja at the Berlin University of Arts during 2002-2004.

In 2005, he recorded his first CD, Salonhorn, together with his famous father musician Zbigniew Zuk.

The trio, without Binu, will perform another concert in Bandung on Saturday at the French Cultural Center building.

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