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New video Hoffmeister Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
New YouTube video of the opening of the 8th International Changwon Music Festival in South Korea (Nov. 1, 2024). Hartmut Rohde joined the Seoul Virtuosi, playing the Hoffmeister Viola Concerto in D-major in the orchestra version by Franz Beyer. As an encore, he played the Sarabande from by Suite in D-minor by Johann Sebastian Bach BWV 1008…
2024 insights
The year starts con brio in the Berliner Philharmonic Hall with the Gala concert of the Spectrum Concerts Berlin series with Janine Jansen, Boris Brovtsin, Torleif Thedéen, Jens Peter Maintz, Sasha Sitkovetsky, and Gareth Lubbe. Hartmut Rohde will perform viola concertos by Carl Maria von Weber and Cecil Forsyth and Alessandro Rolla further in the year. Tours will take him to Korea, Ireland, Romania, Italy and the USA. He will be conducting the chamber orchestra of the University of the Arts Berlin with works surrounding the Wiener Schule by Arnold Schoenberg. He looks forward to several invitations for masterclasses in festivals such as Ljubljana, Sion, London, and the USA. In October he is artistic director of the international Max Rostal competition in Berlin for violin and viola.
Highlights 2023
Naming a few highlights of 2023: Hartmut Rohde conducted the Orchestre de Berlin in the Musikhalle Hamburg and Konzerthaus Berlin, featuring Brahms 3rd Symphony, Mozart “Entführung aus dem Serail”, Haydn Cello Concert D major with Cellist Jens Peter Maintz, and Ursula Mamloks symphonic piece “Constellations”, written for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Herbert Blomstedt. Further he performed Harold in Italy by Berlioz with the Hofer Symphoniker, being solo Violist of the Seoul International Music Festival Orchestra as well as launching his own new Music Festival in Brandenburg, the “Rhinluch Festival”, bringing together internationale prize winners for chamber music and orchestra concerts.
Hartmut Rohde
Hartmut Rohde is one of the leading and most sought-after European violists, renowned for his stylistic versatility and rhetorical perceptiveness. He is especially interested in bringing a historically informed approach to his interpretations of the classical, romantic and contemporary repertories. He holds a professorship at the University of the Arts Berlin, and is founding member of the renowned Mozart Piano Quartet which undertakes extensive worldwide tours.