PANTONALE FESTIVAL 2025 – ACCORDION SPRING

22 March 2025 | Opening concert in the Jesus Christus Kirche at 5 pm
4 April 2025 | Concert in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie at 6 pm
5 April 2025 | Closing concert in the Jesus Christus Kirche at 5 pm

The 11th International Accordion Festival PANTONALE 2025 ‘Accordion Spring’ presents world premieres of works by composers Gorka Hermosa, Mikolaj Majkusiak, Vladislav Zolotaryov and Roberto Molinelli. The jazz concerto by Viktor Vlasov, originally for accordion and big band, will be performed in an arrangement by Artem Nyzhnyk for accordion, horn and chamber orchestra.

The international accordion artists Radu Ratoi, Daniel Roth and Vladimir Murza will perform with top European soloists such as Anna Lipkind-Mazor (violin), Andrii Murza (violin), Friedemann Slenczka (viola), Dmitrii Prokofiev (cello), Arkady Shilkloper (horn) and the ‘Pantonale Kammerorchester’ under its conductor Miran Vaupotic.

Mikolai Majkusiak's triple concerto ‘Pictures from Darkness’ - a work for violin (Anna Lipkind-Mazor), cello (Dmitrii Prokofiev) and accordion (Radu Ratoi) will be premiered with chamber orchestra, as will a work for accordion (Radu Ratoi) with chamber orchestra by Roberto Molinelli.

The poem ‘Martin Eden’ after Jack London for viola and orchestra by Vladislav Zolotaryov, who died 50 years ago under tragic circumstances, will be premiered with Friedemann Slenczka as soloist.

Gorka Hermosa, whose composition ‘Peace Dream’ premiered at the two Pantonale Peace Festivals in 2023 and 2024, has added another work to this programme with ‘Hope’. ‘Peace Dream’ is based on the Ukrainian ‘Vesnyanka’ (Spring Song) and the Russian folk song ‘Utushka lugovaya’ (Meadow Duckling). These melodies enter into a relationship with each other, drown out and cross over each other and enter into a musical dialogue. In ‘Hope’, two choirs will complement the accordion trio and the chamber orchestra. At first, both Ukrainian and Russian melodies will appear as mystical as Neptune in the orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst and finally as solemn as Jupiter at the end.

Gorka Hermosa: Concerto ‘Peace Dream’ in the Berlin Philharmonie in May 2024

Programme
for the concert on 4 April 2025 in the Chamber Music Hall of the Berliner Philharmonie

• Mikołaj Majkusiak: Triple concerto ‘Pictures from Darkness’ - new work for violin (Anna Lipkind-Mazor), cello (Dmitrii Prokofiev) and accordion (Radu Ratoi) with string orchestra

• Vladislav Zolotaryov: ‘Martin Eden’ poem after Jack London for viola and orchestra

• Gorka Hermosa: Peace Dream Concerto in 3 movements for 3 accordions and chamber orchestra
  ‘Hope’ for 3 accordions, two choirs and a chamber orchestra

• Roberto Molinelli: ‘Visions from Sunland’ (Romanza / Tarantelle) for accordion (Radu Ratoi) and chamber orchestra

• Viktor Vlasov: ‘Jazz concerto for accordion and chamber orchestra’ - arrangement by Artem Nizhnik (Israel) for accordion (Vladimir Murza), horn (Arkady Shilkloper) and chamber orchestra

• Arkady Shilkloper: ‘Pilatus’ arrangement for alphorn, accordion and chamber orchestra

Tickets can be purchased shortly at Eventim.

The Pantonale e.V. has long been committed to the promotion of accordion music. It has been able to prove this impressively with its accordion festival series since 2014 and, not least, its 10th anniversary concert in 2023:


10th International Pantonale Accordion Festival 2024 - Trailer

The Pantonale Festival sees itself as a platform for accordionists, musicians and composers around the accordion. Pantonale will continue to motivate composers to create new works for accordion and other instruments with orchestra: a further contribution to the promotion of the young instrument for 2026, the year of the accordion!

 

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