Brahms.LAB V with Florian Weber
Freedom we mean

7 Apr 2024
19:00
Auditorium of the New University Heidelberg
Musikfestival

For once, Brahms is not presented as an exhibit in the proverbial imaginary museum of musical works—viewing allowed, touching forbidden!—but rather as a starting point for decidedly free improvisational excursions. Anyone who wants to venture down this path should possess courage, a great deal of knowledge, and sound taste. Florian Weber, one of the most exciting pianists and musical innovators on the current jazz scene, possesses all of this in abundance: He grew up in Detmold, where the young Brahms once worked at the princely court. His father was a professor of art song interpretation. And a love for Brahms’ vocal and instrumental music has always been a part of Florian Weber’s life. Together with the members of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble and the women’s choir 4x4, he now takes on the early work “Vier Gesänge,” Op. 17.

Brahms.LAB is a space for young artists to experiment within the Musikfestival, where the musicians of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble create their own concerts and take on curatorial responsibilities.

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Florian Weber

Piano and conduction

Maxine Troglauer

Bass trombone

Andreas Becker

Horn

Konrad Probst

Horn

Nora von Marschall

Harp

Members of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble

Juliette Beauchamp
Violin

Benjamin Günst
Violin

Milena Wilke
Violin

Nina Tonji
Viola

Pieter de Koe
Violoncello

Hans Greve
Double bass

Anna-Lena Schnabel
Transverse Flute

Žilvinas Brazauskas
Clarinet

Tamara Kurkiewicz
Percussion

4x4 Frauenchor of the Heidelberg University of Education

Heike Kiefner-Jesatko

Conductor

Auditorium of the New University Heidelberg
Universitätsplatz 1
69117 Heidelberg
Directions by Public Transport

Bus lines: 29, 33 (stop: Universitätsplatz), 20, 30, 31, 36 (stop: Peterskirche)
Trains: S1, S2, S5 (stop: S-Bahnhof Altstadt)

Parking facilities for bicycles available Directions by Car

Parking garages: P9 Am Theater, P10 Friedrich-Ebert-Platz, P11 University Library

The elevator to the concert hall on the 2nd floor can be accessed via the right-side entrance, which is wheelchair-accessible. The balcony of the auditorium is not wheelchair-accessible.
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Genau jetzt - Florian Weber on Brahms' "Four Songs for Women's Choir"
15. 1. 2024   Podcast

Multi-talented Florian Weber can be experienced several times at the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival. As a pianist and improviser with his jazz trio and a series of unusual original compositions, together with clarinettist Kinan Azmeh and as a coach in Brahms.LAB V, where he performed Brahms' "Vier Gesänge" in an experimental concert performance with the Festivalcampus-Ensemble and the 4x4 Women's Choir of the Heidelberg University of Education. In the podcast, Florian Weber raves about the four songs, discovers enchanting harp sounds, horn fanfares, howling dogs and time standing still and, together with host Thilo Braun, asks about the difference between romantic clichés and true passion.

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