Elena Bashkirova and the Jerusalem Festival Chamber Ensemble at the Budapest Spring Festival

Over het evenement

Let internationally renowned soloists lead you through Vienna, in Budapest.

Elena Bashkirova, the splendid pianist whose first instructor was her father, Dmitry Bashkirov, is a regular soloist with such leading orchestras as the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

As a chamber musician and accompanist, she has performed with some of the leading instrumentalists and singers of our time, including Gidon Kremer, Angela Denoke, Stella Doufexis, Robert Holl, and Thomas Quasthoff.

It was on her initiative that the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival was launched in 1998, of which she is artistic director. The Chamber Ensemble, which engages participants of the festival, is regularly invited to the prestigious events of Lucerne, Rheingau, Bad Kissingen, Menton, Stresa and Schleswig‐Holstein.

Their programme of chamber pieces brings the spirit of Vienna to Budapest’s Liszt Academy with a selection of masterpieces from different ages, from Haydn through Arnold Schoenberg and Beethoven to Alban Berg.

Haydn: Flute Trio in G major (Hob. XV:15)
Berg: Chamber Concerto — Adagio (arr. by the composer)
Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B flat major, Op.11
Beethoven: 'Kakadu' Variations, Op.121a
Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No.1, op.9 (arr. by Anton Webern)

Elena Bashkirova, piano
Michael Barenboim, violin
Andreas Brantelid, cello
Guy Eshed, flute
Shirley Brill, clarinet