On 19 May at 18:00, two brilliant young pianists, Slava Tyrnavski and Julia Mikhailova, will present a lecture performance on Expressionism in music and visual media, whose most important aesthetic ideas are formulated in the correspondence between the painter Wassily Kandinsky and the composer Arnold Schönberg.

Program:

Arnold Schönberg: Sechs kleine Klavierstücke op. 19

Expressionism in cinema (1920s): screening

Hans Werner Henze: commentary on creative endeavors

Hans Werner Henze: Drei Miniaturen für Klavier

Camille van Lunen: Cartas Portuguesas

Sviatoslav (Slava) Tyrnavskii is a 28-year-old pianist who graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 2021.

He has received an impressive array of awards, including first place at the Danubia Talents music competition (2019, Budapest) and prizes at the Maria Yudina International Competition for Young Pianists, Piano Duets and Chamber Ensembles (2018, St. Petersburg).

He also participated in many master classes and was very active throughout Russia in concert and teaching activities, also having developed there a research and educational project on popularization of classical music.

Because of his critical stance against Russia's military assault against Ukraine, he was forced to leave Russia. Despite a highly stressful time since his arrival in Germany in Fall of 2022, he successfully passed the entrance exams for the Master's program at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and continues his professional career in Germany.

Julia Mikhailova was born in the Siberian city of Omsk. She has been involved in music since the age of five. In 2012, she entered the Gnessin Vocational School in Moscow, where she continued to pursue music professionally and with great interest. In 2021, she graduated with honours from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the piano class of professors Sergei Dorensky and Nikolai Lugansky. During her studies in Moscow, she won prizes at competitions such as: Festival "Days of S. Rachmaninoff in Moscow", 2nd prize at the IV Riga International Competition for Young Pianists, 1st prize at the IV Danubia Talents Music Competition in Budapest, main prize at the Gianluca Campociaro International Competition in Catania, Sicily. Yulia has performed at concerts and festivals not only as a soloist but also as an accompanist and has taken part in masterclasses under the direction of Prof. Grigory Gruzman and Prof. Vladimir Tropp.

Since October 2023, she has been studying song interpretation with Prof. Ulrich Eisenlohr at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and actively participates in concerts and masterclasses as a pianist and accompanist.

Camille van Lunen is a Dutch-French composer and singer. She began her musical studies with viola, followed by singing and composition in The Hague and Cologne, where she lives today. She composes for voice (songs and operas), choir and chamber music ensembles. Her work, which is characterized by its wit and richness of color, often focuses on current social issues.

She was composer in residence at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Lisbon, where she composed her "Quatuor pour l'Aurore des Temps". She is also a prizewinner of the International Composition Competition of the Nuremberg University of Music and the Mariann Steegmann Foundation, a finalist at the 4th Uuno Klami International Composition Competition and a prizewinner at the Biennale de Musique Vocale Contemporaine: Prix du Département de la Loire.

She has received commissions from Amsterdam ERC, Gulbenkian IGC Lisbon, Kölner Philharmonie, Acht Brücken Festival Köln, Basel Mädchen Kantorei and Sinfonietta Basel, WDR Rundfunkchor, Talitha Kumi Choir, Amwaj Choir Palestine, among others.

We are very grateful for the support of the following institutions which made this event possible: