Lukas Sternath, piano

Rising Stars – Replaces concert from 29 January 2025

This concert has already taken place! 28
This concert has already taken place! 28
Lukas Sternath
Lukas Sternath © Thomas Rabsch
  • Doors open 18:00

  • Pre-concert talk 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • Interval

  • End ca. 21:30

On the path to success

In 2025, giving the closing concert of the Rising Stars Festival and thereby bringing a crowning finale to a whole week of concerts by the most exciting young stars of the classical music world is the task of a young Viennese musician at his peak. Since Lukas Sternath discovered his love of music as a member of the Vienna Boys Choir, he soon arrived at the piano and so on the path to success. At the ARD International Music Competition in 2022, he did not just achieve first prize, but was also awarded with seven special prizes – unique in the history of the prestigious competition! He has since studied with Igor Levit and provides his recital with a challenging programme for the piano.

Please note: This concert replaces the cancelled concert from 29 January 2025. Tickets purchased for the postponed concert are valid for this event.

Sternath goes all out and opens the programme with the »Chaconne« by Sofia Gubaidulina – a highly concentrated piece which evokes the spirit of Johann Sebastian Bach in a modern tonal language. Sternath does not seem to want to indulge in breaks and proceeds with the Handel variations by Johannes Brahms. He made a joke out of taking an artlessly dancing topic as the starting point of an absurdly virtuoso work.

PatKop, as star violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja calls herself when she composes, writes the work commissioned for Lukas Sternath’s Rising Star concerts. Her works are consequently just as full of surprises as are her unconventional interpretations of other composers. With Franz Liszt’s legendary Sonata in B minor, the evening finds its brilliant end point with another pinnacle of the piano repertoire.

Performers

Lukas Sternath piano

Programme

Sofia Gubaidulina
Chaconne

Johannes Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by George Frideric Handel in B major, Op. 24

– Interval –

PatKop
Three Pieces for Piano / Commissioned by Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Luxembourg und der European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO)

Franz Liszt
Sonata in B minor, S 178


Encore:

Franz Liszt
Wiegenlied

Meet the Artist

with Lukas Sternath and Hanno Grahl

18:30 / Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal

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Promoter: HamburgMusik

Nominated by Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien and Philharmonie Luxembourg
In cooperation with ECHO – European Concert Hall Organisation
With the support of M.M.Warburg & CO

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