Events organised by the municipal music school in October 2019
Tuesday, 1 October, 6 pm
Piano workshop
Location: Municipal Music School, Concert Hall
Admission: free
Young, talented piano students let their nimble fingers whiz across the keys and delight the audience with a colourful mix of old and modern pieces.
Sunday, 6 October, 11 a.m.
Matinée concert - romances and romanticism
Svetlana Katchour, soprano, and Tatjana Funk, piano
Venue: Municipal Music School, Concert Hall
Admission: 10 to 15 euros
Works by Robert Schumann, Peter Ilitsch Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Giacomo Puccini
Svetlana Katchour was born in Eupatoria (Crimean peninsula). She studied in Moscow with Gertruda Troyanova. She moved to Düsseldorf in 1991. She received a permanent engagement in 1993. Her roles have included the Countess (The Marriage of Figaro), Tosca, Mimi, Violetta, Gilda, Amelia and Donna Anna. Svetlana Katchour has been a freelance artist for several years and has appeared as Mimi, Cio-Cio-San, Elisabetta, Norma, Violetta, Tosca and Maria Stuarda at major theatres in Dresden, Hamburg, Leipzig, Zagreb, Lucerne, Auckland, Pretoria, Moscow, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk, among others. She is a regular guest at the Chemnitz Opera.
Tatjana Funk was born in Sahtersk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She began piano lessons at the age of eight. After completing her music school education in Sahtersk "with honours", she continued her musical studies at the Technical School of Music (1993 to 1997) and at the College of Music (1997 to 1999) in Donetsk.
She moved to Germany with her family in 1999. She began teaching at the Yamaha Music School in Chemnitz in 2001 and has been working as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Chemnitz Municipal Music School since 2007.
Thursday, 10 October, 3 pm
DA CAPO - "See, hear, savour"
On a musical journey with the accordion duo Leuschner
Venue: Kraftwerk e.V., Kaßbergstr. 36, 09112 Chemnitz
Admission: 6 euros (including coffee and cake)
The accordion duo Leuschner is characterised by its wide-ranging interests in almost all areas of music. Their programme ranges from Russian folk songs and French music to sound-intensive arrangements of classical works. Light music is also an integral part of their repertoire. They have effortlessly mastered the art of improvising well-known contemporary song melodies.