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She has worked extensively with conductor Helmuth Rilling, singing various Bach Cantatas and the \u201eExsultate<\/em>, Jubilate\u201c in Seoul (Korea) and Milano (Italy) and the C-Minor Mass<\/em> of Mozart. With Ren\u00e9 Jacobs she worked on pieces like Falstaff<\/em> (Salieri), Il ritorno d\u2019Ulisse in Patria<\/em> (Monteverdi), Le nozze di Figaro<\/em> (Mozart) and Orpheus<\/em> (Telemann). <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She has collaborated with orchestras such as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Freiburger Barockorchester, with the Akademie fu\u0308r Alte Musik Berlin, the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, Concentus Musicus Wien and Belgium\u2019s B\u2019Rock.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Concert appearances include the most known places like Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wiener Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Gasteig M\u00fcnchen, K\u00f6lner Philharmonie, Baden-Baden Festspielhaus, Liceu Barcelona, Bozar Brussels, Konzerthaus Berlin, Tonhalle Z\u00fcrich Seoul Arts Center, Tonhalle Z\u00fcrich, Teatro Olimpico and others. She works with the finest conductors in the world, including Iv\u00e1n Fischer, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Simon Rattle, Ren\u00e9 Jacobs and Antonello Manacorda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n During the pandemic period she was invited to sing concerts broadcasted by Deutschlandradio Kultur and recorded various pieces like the Italian Songbook<\/em> by Hugo Wolf. Since she finished her studies with Prof. Ulrike Sonntag in Stuttgart she is also singing many recitals like at the Villa Wahnfried Richard-Wagner-Museum Bayreuth and the International Hugo-Wolf-Academy Stuttgart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cI always remain who I am. Only the music decides my meaning.\u201d (Guy Braunstein) A unique blend of virtuosity, restraint and creativity \u2013 this is what violinist, conductor and composer Guy Braunstein stands for. Like few others, he not only knows how to convince audiences with his music, but also how to challenge them: Whether with demanding programmes, sophisticated interpretations or his own works and arrangements \u2013 Guy Braunstein aims to surprise and reinvent. And although he can <\/p>\n Whether as a celebrated soloist who masters the standard repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich with ease, or as a congenial chamber music partner in a wide variety of formations: Guy Braunstein is a guest at the world’s most important music centres and festivals. His musical partners include Andr\u00e1s Schiff, Zubin, Mehta, Maurizio Pollini, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Yefim Bronfman, Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Martha Argerich, Mitsuko Uchida, Christoph von Dohn\u00e1nyi, Lang Lang, Emmanuel Ax, Andris Nelsons and Semyon Bychkov. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Highlights of the 2023\/24 season include concerts with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra,the Prague Chamber Soloists and the Copenhagen Phil, in which Guy Braunstein will appear as soloist and conductor. The programmes include his own works such as \u201cDie Nacht wird immer verkl\u00e4rter\u201d and the Rusalka Rhapsody as well as the violin concertos by Elgar, Delius and Haydn. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guy Braunstein’s greatest and identity-forming passion is arranging and composing: In the romantic tradition of Paganini and Liszt, he brilliantly transcribes musical masterpieces for his own or other instruments and instrumentations and presents operas, chamber music or even songs in a completely new form. In addition to excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s \u201cEugene Onegin\u201d and \u201cSwan Lake\u201d, he has also arranged Puccini arias and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k’s opera \u201cRusalka\u201d. In 2023, \u201cDie Nacht wird immer verkl\u00e4rter\u201d, an rrangement of Sch\u00f6nberg’s string sextet \u201cVerkl\u00e4rte Nacht\u201d, celebrated its premiere with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. The violinist is particularly fond of Beatles songs: in addition to the Six Variations on “Blackbird” and arrangements of “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Something”, Guy Braunstein also wrote the “Abbey Road Concerto”, a very virtuosic version of the Beatles’ album “Abbey Road” for solo violin and orchestra.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n VATROSLAV LISINSKI CONCERT HALL (SMALL HALL)<\/p>\n Saturday, 8 May 2027 <\/p>\n Soloist: Mirella Hagen, soprano<\/strong><\/p>\n Concertmaster Guy Braunstein<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat major, KV 458 “The Hunt”<\/p>\n 2. Ivan Fischer: A Nay Kleyd (WORLD PREMIERE)<\/p>\n 3. Gili Schwarzman: Frieda\u2019s Tale (WORLD PREMIERE)<\/i><\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations<\/i><\/p>\n Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony in C major, MWV N 9<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,119,120],"tags":[141,208,148,157],"class_list":["post-7032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-195","category-concerts","category-current-season","tag-guy-braunstein-en","tag-mirella-hagen","tag-vatroslav-lisinski-concert-hall","tag-zagreb-soloists"],"yoast_head":"\nGuy Braunstein<\/h3>\n
easily be categorised in the \u201ctradition of the great Jewish violinists such as Mischa Elman and Isaac Stern\u201d (Telegraph), for him music lives not only from its own history, but through perpetual renewal, updating and unexpected twists and turns.<\/p>\n
Guy Braunstein is also present on the international concert stage as a conductor: he was Conductor and Artist inResidence with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and the Trondheim Symfoniorkester and works with orchestras such as the Helsinki, Rotterdam and Israel Philharmonic as well as the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. <\/p>\n![\"Guy](\"https:\/\/zagrebacki-solisti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Guy-Braunstein-1-e1722526064584.jpg\")
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