played by concert pianist Sophia Weidemann

Much has already been written about this work, countless recordings exist of it, and yet it has not lost any of its original magic.
The Goldberg Variations still fascinate pianists and audiences alike - the performance of them is considered a milestone for any pianist.

In 30 variations, Johann Sebastian Bach presents a kaleidoscope of moods, all of which are touching and moving. Each variation, whether joyfully dancing, dreamy, or mournful, refers to a simple bass theme that is introduced in an Aria at the beginning of the work. The same Aria concludes the work later - after about 80 minutes of baroque composition art by the great master Bach.

Sunday, December 15, 2024, 6 pm, Sensemble Studio Stage
Admission 25,- Euro (reduced 15 Euro)

Supported by C. Bechstein Centrum Augsburg

About Sophia Weidemann

Pianist Sophia Weidemann, born in 1994 in Filderstadt, was accepted as a junior student at the Stuttgart University of Music in the class of Prof. Florian Wiek at the age of fifteen.

Trained at the University of Music in Stuttgart, the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and the Jāzeps Vītols Academy of Music in Riga, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees with top grades. In 2020, she was admitted to the concert examination, a postgraduate program designed for the training of highly gifted students.

In January 2023, she performed the Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach in the first part of her final exams and received the designation "passed with distinction" from the examination board for her interpretation.

She received further important impulses for her artistic work from Alfred Brendel, Till Fellner, Mikhail Voskresensky, and Ian Fountain, among others. She is a multiple award-winning prize winner of national and international competitions: with her chamber music ensemble Kyklos Chambers, she won the 1st prize at the Virtuoso e Belcanto Festival in Italy in the summer of 2022. As a soloist, she won first prizes at the international Alexander Scriabin Competition in Paris (2019) and the Bela Bartók Piano Competition in Vienna (2015). She is a fellow of Live Music Now, the Lyceum Club, the Helga Drews Foundation, as well as Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland.