Sonntagskonzert im Spiegelsaal

In the organizer's words:

IRENA JOSIFOSKA

The Serbian-Hungarian cellist Irena Josifoska has won many important prizes at national and international competitions. She is the 1st prize winner at the Gabrielli Competition in Berlin. As an academist at the Verbier Festival, she won the Prix Jean-Nicolas Firmenich prize for the best young cellist at the festival. Irena Josifoska won the Certificate of Honor at the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann (with debut at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall) and was the youngest semi-finalist at the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. She also received the Hans Gal Prize and German Music Competition Scholarship Prize with the Confringo Piano Quartet in 2024. She was "Artist in residence" at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Brussels for chamber music. Since the 2022/2023 season, she has been a scholarship holder of the Landesstiftung Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz. Irena Josifoska studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in the class of Prof. Xenia Jankovic and completed her master's degree at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Professor Jens-Peter Maintz, where she has been studying for her concert exam since 2022. She regularly performs concerts and recitals in Europe, the USA and Mexico. As a soloist, she has already been accompanied by renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Sinfonietta Berlin, the Philharmonisches Orchester Hagen, the Metamorphosen Berlin, the Wurttembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, the Detmolder Kammerorchester and the Kaunas Philharmonie. As a chamber musician she has performed with Albrecht Mayer, Guy Braunstein, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Sacha Rattle, Vadim Gluzman, Roman Simovic, Yeol Eum Son, Svetlin Roussev, Jens Peter Maintz and has been invited to festivals such as the Verbier Festival, Krzyzowa Music, Bebersee Festival, Musiktage Mondsee, Fränkischer Sommer, Vaduz Classic, KonzertLEBEN and the Paax Festival GNP Mexico. Irena has worked with David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Miklos Perenyi, among others. Composers Tibor Hartig, Dejan Despic, Svetozar Sasa Kovacevic, Aleksandar Vujic and Günter Puzberg have dedicated their compositions to Irena Josifoska.

She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon STAGE+ and Sony and her first solo debut CD "Cogitationes" (Thoughts) was released in 2024.
Irena plays a violoncello by William Forster (London), which is made available to her by the State Collection of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture.

FRANÇOIS LAMBRET

As a versatile pianist, passionate chamber musician, piano teacher and sought-after accompanist to some of the most famous voices, François Lambret has already worked with some of the greatest artists of his generation.
artists of his generation. Born in Paris and a Berliner by choice, he completed
his studies at the Conservatoire National de Paris (CNSMDP) and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with a diploma and a concert exam
in chamber music. As a student of Jean-François Heisser, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Christian Ivaldi and Fabio Bidini, François Lambret has never ceased to develop his musical diversity with the greatest performers.
diversity with the greatest interpreters. Trained and encouraged by members of the most prestigious string quartets (Berg, Ysaÿe,
Artemis), he has performed both as a solo artist and with the chamber
with the chamber music piano trio he founded, he has won several international prizes. Winner of the 1st Prize at the Trondheim Competition, the Audience Prize in Melbourne and winner of the Dorothy MacKenzie Award in New York, his career as a pianist has taken him on extensive tours, as a soloist or in the Trio Paul Klee, and has enabled him to undertake many parallel projects with singers, dancers and musicians.
projects with singers, dancers and electro-acoustic composers. His concerts in recent years have enabled him to perform in the largest concert halls in Europe (Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Pleyel, Cité de la Musique), America (Teatro Colón) and Asia (Topan Hall).
(Topan Hall). His 2018 tour with the composer Sven Helbig was very successful, with a full hall in the new
the new Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. His passion for dance and his regular presence at the Festival Violon sur le Sable in Royan, also gave him the opportunity to perform several times with the star dancers of the Paris Opera
(Dorothée Guilbert, Karl Paquette, Ludmila Pagliero and Laura Hecquet) on several occasions. His concerts are broadcast by numerous international radio stations (France Musique, NHK, NPO, Deutsche Welle) and his recording of works for harmonium and piano
by Alexandre Guilmant has received critical acclaim (Diapason). A regular guest at many European festivals in recent years, François Lambret has performed with a wide variety of artists such as pianists Nicholas Angelich, Bertrand Chamayou, Francesco Tristano, and string players Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Bruno
Delepelaire, Camille Thomas and Rosanne Philippens. Commissioned by Deutsche Grammophon and Sony Classical, François Lambret has accompanied
accompanied several of the labels' lyric singers, Elina Garanca, Benjamin Bernheim, Julie Fuchs and Regula Mühlemann, on the piano.