CHAMBER MUSIC


AEMSTEL ENSEMBLE
The Aemstel Ensemble was founded in 2003 by Patricia Verhagen and three string players of the world famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The piano quartet being their natural basis the Ensemble performs with various instrument combinations. A CD recording will follow their many successful performances.


Henriëtte Luytjes studied with WiktorLiberman in Utrecht and after her graduation as a soloist with Herman Krebbers. In 1986 she left for Vienna where she pursued her studies with Gerhart Hetzel and Wolfgang Schneiderhahn at the Wiener Hochschule. In 1991 she returned to Holland and joined the first violin-group of the famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. At the same time she founded the Eurydice-string quartet that made several cd’s and toured extensively. Henriëtte Luytjes is also member of the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra.


Ferdinand Hügel studied with Klaas Boon and pursued his solo-studies with Erwin Schiffer at the Amsterdam Conservatory. For many years he has been playing the viola and the viola d’amore in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He regularly performs the viola d’amore solos in Bach’s Johannes Passion. His solo repertoire also includes the works for viola and orchestra by Bloch, Stamitz and David. For more than twenty years he has been playing with the Sweelinck-string quartet performing in the Netherlands and abroad.


Arthur Oomens was admitted at the Amsterdam Conservatory at the age of fourteen. In 1976 he was appointed solo cellist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Three years later he joined the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and worked with famous conductors as Ormandy, Dorati, Jochum, Bernstein, Kleiber, Haitink, Harnoncourt, Solti and Giulini. He is a member of the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra and is a regular performer of chamber music. He also teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.


Patricia Verhagen > see Biography


PROGRAMS
Brahms, Fuchs en ?
The Aemstel Ensemble performs the first piano quartet of Brahms and the trio for violin, viola and piano of his contemporary Fuchs. This program can be completed with a string trio written by Beethoven, a Mozart-piano quartet or: the piano trio by Weinberg. This unknown Polish composer has a vast body of works ranging from piano solo compositions, operas, symphonies to chamber music in various combinations of instruments. His piano trio, written in Russia, is a testimony of his ability with broad, passionate melodies and poetic melancholy themes.

• Viola-piano: a program with works of Schumann, Bréville and Shostakowitch and a program with works of Beethoven, Rebecca Clarke and Martinu. With Ferdinand Hügel. The compositions may of course be combined in different ways.


• Aemstel ensemble with duo, trio and quartets of Schumann, Beethoven and Brahms.

• Bréville-programme: the solo sonata, sonata for viola and piano and the sonata for cello and piano. With Ferdinand Hügel and Arthur Oomens.

Optionally a brief elucidation of the music is given to the audience.

> see also Programs