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Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Piece op. 39 (1897)

J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Gamba Sonata in G Major BWV 1027
1. Adagio
2. Allegro ma non tanto
3. Andante
4. Allegro Moderato

Fazil Say (*1970)
Viola Sonata op. 92 (2020)
1. Largo espressivo
2. Allegro assai molto energico

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Fantasiestücke op. 73 (1849)
1. Tender and with expression
2. Lively, light
3. Quick and fiery

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sonata for Viola and Piano op. 25, No. 4 (1922)
1. Very lively. Marked and powerful
2. Very slow quarters
3. Finale. Lively quarters

Prof. Dr. Kolja Lessing, Alexander Sonderegger, Piano

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The Turkish violist Öykü Canpolat-Rast is one of the most promising young musicians of her generation. In 2015, she won 1st prize and the audience prize for the best interpretation of a classical work at the 7th International Syzmon Goldberg Competition in Meißen. Since 2016, she has served as the deputy solo violist in the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2020, she switched to the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne as the 1st solo violist. Since 2022, she has also been a member of the orchestra of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, where she performs as a solo and deputy solo violist.

Öykü Canpolat-Rast, who has been teaching as a professor of viola at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts since October 2023, has played as a solo violist with significant orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the WDR Symphony Orchestra, and the MDR Symphony Orchestra under some of the most renowned conductors of our time, including Sir Simon Rattle, Christian Thielemann, Kirill Petrenko, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Francois Xavier-Roth, Herbert Blomstedt, and Daniel Barenboim. She has also performed as a soloist in works such as R. Strauss’ Don Quichotte, Carl Maria von Weber’s Andante e Rondo Ungarese, Franz Schubert’s Arpeggione, and W. Walton’s Viola Concerto with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Izmir Symphony Orchestra, and other notable orchestras. Furthermore, she has participated in various chamber music CD productions.

Born in 1993 in Izmir, the violist began her studies in 2002 with Çetin Aydar at the State Conservatory of Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir. In 2013, she continued her Bachelor’s studies at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with Prof. Pauline Sachse and Prof. Friedemann Weigle. From 2015, she studied at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin in the class of Prof. Tabea Zimmermann, graduating there in 2019 with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude). While still a student, she worked as an academician in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (2014-2016) and as a substitute violist with the Dresden Philharmonic. She plays on a viola made by the Berlin violin maker Tobias Seidl.

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