Trio Ariadne
Myriam Navarri, Oboe
Thomas Mittler, Horn
Josefa Schmidt, Piano
Program 1
In the first half of the program, we present composers in great unrest – Robert Kahn, Pavel Haas, and Jane Vignery suffered under the rule of the National Socialists. While Robert Kahn's music retreats into romanticism in the face of the world's injustices, this escapism is torn apart in the final movement of Jane Vignery's sonata, culminating in the cry for help from Haas' suite, his last completed work before his deportation to Theresienstadt. In contrast, the Reinecke trio in the second half stands as a fragile hope for the influence of music for a better world.
Robert Kahn (1865-1951)
Serenade for Oboe, Horn, and Piano in F minor, op. 73
approx. 11 minutes
Jane Vignery (1913-1974)
Sonata for Horn and Piano in B major, op. 7
Allegro – Lento ma non troppo – Allegro ben moderato
approx. 18 minutes
Pavel Haas (1899-1944)
Suite for Oboe and Piano
Furioso – Con Fuoco – Moderato
approx. 17 minutes
Break
Carl Reinecke (1824-1910)
Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano, op. 188 in A minor
Allegro moderato – Scherzo. Molto vivace – Adagio – Finale. Allegro moderato
approx. 22 minutes
Total duration of the program including 20 minutes of breaks and moderation: approx. 100-110 minutes
Myriam Navarri was born in 2002 in Segrate near Milan. She received her first oboe lessons from Irene Draxinger at the age of 13. Since 2020/2021, she has been studying at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf in the class of Prof. Ralph van Daal. Between 2016 and 2019, she was a multiple 1st prize winner at the National Competition “Jugend musiziert,” both with oboe and piano. At the Sony International Oboe Competition 2023 in Tokyo, she was a semifinalist, and at the German Music Competition 2024, she reached the final and won three special prizes and a scholarship, which included being accepted into the concert promotion of the German Music Competition. As a soloist, she performed with the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn the Oboe Concerto by Mozart, which was broadcasted by Deutschlandfunk. She gained orchestral experience at a young age as a member of the Federal Youth Orchestra as well as later as principal oboist in the Philharmonic Orchestra Hagen on a time-limited contract and as a fellow with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she played in the National Arts Orchestra in Ottawa/Canada and was a member of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. Further concerts have taken her both in chamber music and as an orchestral member to venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Heidelberger Frühling, and Höri Music Days, as well as to China, Italy, France, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Japan, Spain, and Hungary. She is a scholar of the Germany Scholarship, the Live Music Now Rhein-Ruhr Foundation, the German Foundation Music Life, and in 2021, she won the promotion prize of the Susanne-Scholten-Foundation.
Thomas Adrian Mittler, born in March 2000 in Frankfurt (Main), is one of the most promising young horn players of his generation. He was a member of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2022 to 2024 and has been the principal hornist of Ensemble Modern, the world's leading ensemble for contemporary music, since October 2024. He is a finalist and scholar of the German Music Competition 2024, where he also received a special prize from the German Foundation Music Life. Thomas Mittler began his musical career at the Mannheim Music School with Lucas Weinspach and Tobias Mahl. While still in school, he became a member of the State Youth Orchestras of Baden-Württemberg and Berlin and of the Federal Youth Orchestra. From 2016, he was a junior student at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Will Sanders, before being admitted in 2017 to the horn class of Christian-Friedrich Dallmann at the University of the Arts Berlin. Since 2021, he has been a member of the German National Scholarship Foundation. He has been successful in various national and international competitions, winning the 4th prize at the International Instrumental Competition Markneukirchen 2022, among others. His orchestral career began as a fellow at the Komische Oper Berlin in February 2022, before being accepted into the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic in September 2022. Guest appearances have taken him to, among others, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg.
Josefa Schmidt (*1998 in Stuttgart) is a pianist, TONALiSTIN, member of the Avin Trio, co-founder of MindMusic, and music educator. Her concert activities have taken her to, among others, the Rheingau Music Festival, Heidelberger Frühling, Beethovenfest Bonn, Mozartfest Würzburg, Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, and abroad. As a soloist, she has performed with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and musica assoluta. Concert recordings have been broadcast multiple times on SWR, NDR, BR Klassik, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk. Josefa Schmidt is a prizewinner of international competitions and won the TONALi Creative Prize. With the Avin Trio, she was awarded a scholarship and the special prize of the VON ZENGEN Art Auctions at the German Music Competition 2024. The trio also won the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival prize at the International Chamber Music Campus Weikersheim in 2023. Josefa Schmidt is a scholar of the German Foundation Music Life, the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, and Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland. She is currently studying for a master’s degree in chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Markus Becker, having previously studied at the same university with Roland Krüger. Artistic impulses were also received from Oliver Wille, Stefan Heinemeyer, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Sol Gabetta, and members of the Fauré, Artemis, and Belcea Quartets.
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