Programme & Tickets

Cellist Bryan Cheng, who was a re:start artist in 2022 and a member of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble in 2024, will be performing his own concert at “Frühling” for the first time this year: For this debut, he’s bringing along his sister, pianist Silvie Cheng. Together, they have formed the Cheng² Duo since 2011. In fact, the Canadian-Chinese siblings have been making music together since early childhood. Bryan and Silvie also make this familial bond the theme of their programme, for example by exploring the imaginary connection between the music of Shostakovich and that of the Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze. They juxtapose Beethoven’s Duo Sonata in A major with a “sibling work” inspired by it, “A Portrait of the Imaginary Sibling,” which they commissioned from the Canadian composer Dinuk Wijeratne.