Sào Soulez Larivière, viola

Rising Stars

Sào Soulez Larivière
Sào Soulez Larivière © Clara Evens
Christoph Sietzen
Christoph Sietzen © Stefan Sietzen
  • Doors open 18:00

  • Pre-concert talk 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • Interval

An evening for curious ears

Experience the most exciting young personalities of the classical music world for a whole week – the Rising Stars Festival makes this possible. Chosen from the most famous concert halls in Europe, six excellent young musicians use the Elbphilharmonie Recital Hall to give the Hamburg audience sonic samples of their star potential. The festival kicks off with the Franco-Dutch violist Sào Soulez Larivière, whom the Elbphilharmonie itself nominated as its personal Rising Star for the 2024/25 season and who was already a guest in the »Teatime Classics« series. Larivière builds his programme around an equally rare and fascinating combination: the sonorous sound of the viola impacts on the kaleidoscope of sound of the percussion. The violist gets support from drummer and former Rising Star Christoph Sietzen – and this extraordinary line-up naturally does not offer standard repertoire, but a programme selection full of surprises and discoveries, which Larivière presents as a young artist with an open mind and mature personality.

Specifically for his Rising Stars concerts, a new work emerges by American composer Julia Wolfe, who was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 2015. Furthermore, the large-scale sonata for solo viola by György Ligeti Larivière offers ample opportunity to showcase the full range of his instrument in technique and expression.

The first half of the concert musically sounds out the relationship between nature and music: the spherical music of Armenian composers Tigran Mansurian and Komitas Vardapet give a musical voice to the eponymous birds and the piece »Naturale« by Luciano Berio adds viola and percussion to tape recordings of coarsely sung Sicilian folk songs.

Performers

Sào Soulez Larivière viola

Christoph Sietzen percussion

Programme

Tigran Mansurian
Havik (The Falcon) for Viola and Percussion

Komitas Vardapet
Krunk (The Crane) – Variation 1

Luciano Berio
Naturale / Ballet for Viola, Marimbaphone, Tamtam and Voice

– Interval –

Julia Wolfe
Cloth for 9 Viola Voices / commissioned by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Müpa Budapest, Barbican Centre London and the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO)

György Ligeti
Sonata for Solo Viola

Steve Reich
Cello Counterpoint / Transcription for Viola by Sào Soulez Larivière

Meet the Artist

with Sào Soulez Larivière and Luise Weiß

18:30 / Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal

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Rising Stars

Series

Young Artists

Promoter: HamburgMusik

Nominated by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Müpa Budapest and Barbican London
In cooperation with ECHO – European Concert Hall Organisation
With the support of M.M.Warburg & CO

During your visit

The Music of Tomorrow

Artist talks, rehearsal and concert visits for school pupils

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Elbphilharmonie Plaza

A public viewing platform on the 8th floor of the Elbphilharmonie

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Food and Drink

Before the concert and in the interval

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Coughing, clapping, chatting

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