DA CAPO - Music for seniors
Music café at Kraftwerk e.V. on 7 November, 3 p.m.
On Thursday, 7 November 2019, 3 pm, senior citizens are once again invited to the DA CAPO music café - music for senior citizens in the main hall of Kraftwerk e.V.. Admission is six euros including coffee and cake. Barrier-free access is available at the signposted side entrance.
The Japanese pianist Emi Suzuki and Matthias Gagelmann on the cello will provide the musical entertainment this time. Nancy Gibson, Director of the Municipal Music School, will once again accompany this music café.
The Japanese pianist Emi Suzuki studied at the Tokyo College of Music and completed her studies at the Prague Conservatory. Concert tours as a soloist, but also as a chamber musician in various ensembles, have taken her through Germany, to the Czech Republic, Japan, France, Hungary, Italy and Thailand. She has won prizes in Japan, the Czech Republic and Italy. Emi Suzuki currently teaches at the Chemnitz Municipal Music School and the Youth Art School in Chomutov. She is involved in German-Czech co-operation on behalf of the Sächsische Mozart-Gesellschaft e.V. (Saxon Mozart Society).
Matthias Gagelmann, born in Reutlingen, grew up in Baden-Württemberg, where he also began his musical education. After winning his first prizes in the Jugend Musiziert competition, becoming a member of the Baden Württemberg State Youth Orchestra and his first semesters at the Trossingen University of Music, he studied for two years at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. There he founded the Korona Piano Trio with fellow students, with whom he performed at the Banff Festival and elsewhere.
After numerous masterclasses with renowned cellists, he completed his studies at the University of Music in Trossingen. This was followed by a busy chamber music career at home and abroad. His wife's engagement as a soprano at the Chemnitz Opera brought them both to Chemnitz in 1992. Matthias Gagelmann has been principal cellist of the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra (LSO) since 1993. In addition to the LSO, he has also performed as a soloist with numerous other orchestras. He was appointed chamber virtuoso in 2013.