Symphoniker Hamburg / João Barradas / Sylvain Cambreling

Ecstatic night music

In his series of works »Voyages«, which he began in 1997, Toshio Hosokawa thematises the dialogue between humankind and the universe. Sounds swelling and dissipating like waves. Nature answering us with a silence that bursts with energy. Hosokawa explores this yin and yang of sound and silence in »Extasis«, Part IV of the Voyages series, in which a solo accordion and orchestra resonate together in sound, fade away, unite in breath and face each other in outright contrast. The purpose of the journey is to unify humanity and the universe.

The Sir Jeffrey Tate Award of the Symphoniker Hamburg, initiated and endowed by Annegret and Claus-G. Budelmann, has been awarded every two years since 2020 to exceptionally talented young musicians. After Timothy Ridout and Martín García García, the exceptional young accordionist João Barradas will be honored in the third edition of the prize.