Woensdag 4 december 2024 om 19 u. : Exclusief huisconcert met SongHa Choi, laureate van de Koningin Elisabethwedstrijd voor viool 2024, begeleid door Nikola Meeuwsen, pianist bij de Kapel Koningin Elisabeth. Dit concert wordt georganiseerd in samenwerking met dr. Erik Loosen, lid van de Club van de Universitaire Stichting, Voorzitter van de Vereniging Vlaamse Academici afdeling Brussel, en met de Koningin Elisabeth-wedstrijd.
Het concert wordt gevolgd door een walking cocktail in aanwezigheid van de musici.
Deelnme: 65€ p.p. Inschrijvingsformulier.
Programma
E. Grieg : Viool Sonata No. 2 in G major
C. Franck : Viool Sonata in A Major
E. Zimbalist : Le Coq d'Or Fantasy
De musici
Biography - SongHa
Described as ‘mesmerising: full of passion, imagination and daring’ by The Times, SongHa is a
top prize winner of Montreal International Competition 2023, Windsor String Competition 2022,
Premio Lipizer International Competition 2020 and Yehudi Menuhin International Competition
2016. She was recently named a laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Competition 2024.
SongHa has given solo performances at Maison Symphonique Montreal, Berlin Philharmonie,
Elbphilharmonie, Palais de Bozar, Seoul Arts Centre, the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall in
London and Lotte Concert Hall, performing with orchestras such as Belgian National Orchestra,
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Württembergische
Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, KBS Symphony
Orchestra, Incheon Symphony Orchestra and Bucheon Symphony Orchestra.
SongHa is regularly featured on live media such as BBC3, Medici TV, RAI Italia, NPO, EuroArts,
BBC Arts and Classic FM. Festival highlights include solo appearances at the Gstaad Menuhin
Festival, Varna Music Festival and Davos World Economic Forum as well as performing at
Verbier Festival (Prix Reyl), Kronberg Festival (Ana Chumachenco Award), Tsinandali Festival,
Four Seasons Festival and Krzyzowa Festival.
Biography - Nikola Meeuwsen
Meeuwsen’s supple technique drew out the delicacy and beauty of
everything he played, and the evanescence of sound in Ravel’s
Tombeau de Couperin was enormously moving.” – The Uk Times
(appearance at St. Magnus Festival 2023)
Born in 2002, pianist Nikola Meeuwsen already has an impressive career. He made his solo
debut at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam in January 2024, he will play with the Residentie
Orkest in 2025, and with Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen in 2026. At just 20, he became the
youngest winner of the Grachtenfestival Prize and was the festival’s artist in residence in 2023.
He also received the Concertgebouw Young Talent Award in 2019, among other prizes.
Currently Nikola is being supported by the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund. Nikola performs
internationally and is regularly invited to take part in various festivals. In 2020 Dutch broadcaster
AVROTROS released his first CD, which includes works by Schumann, Scriabin, Brahms and
Bach. In addition to his solo performances, Nikola gave concerts with musicians such as Janine
Jansen, Corina Belcea and Augustin Dumay as well as with his teacher Enrico Pace. Next to
being coached by Pace and Marlies van Gent, he is currently studying at the Chapelle Musicale
Reine Elisabeth in Brussels with Frank Braley and Avedis Kouyoumdjian.