Eugène Ysaye
Zwei Sätze aus der Sonate für zwei Violinen a-Moll
David Nebel
Violin
David Nebel - Violin

Born in Zurich, David Nebel began playing the violin at the age of five. He first attended the conservatory in Zurich and later studied with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna and Yair Kless in Graz. David then continued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with Professor Alexander Gilman as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. In 2021 he won the prestigious Emily Anderson Prize of the Royal Philharmonic Society in London. David Nebel was a member of the LGT Young Soloists, a string ensemble of highly talented young musicians led by Alexander Gilman.
Nebel has also been a guest soloist at renowned festivals, including the Khachaturian Festival in Armenia, the Kissinger Sommer in Germany, where he performed the world premiere of Gediminas Gelgotas’ Violin Concerto, and the Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia as part of the Järvi Academy. He has also performed at concerts organized by the Orpheum Foundation in Switzerland. Highlights of recent seasons include performances and recordings with the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra.
In 2020, David Nebel released his first solo CD album with conductor Kristjan Järvi on the Sony Classical label. Together with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic, he recorded the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Philip Glass and the Violin Concerto by Igor Stravinksy. The album received excellent reviews from the international press, including Strad Magazine and Bayerischer Rundfunk.
David Nebel has been concertmaster of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since January 2023.
Nebel plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari, which was provided by a private sponsor.
Kosuke Yoshikawa
Violin
Kosuke Yoshikawa - Violin

Kosuke Yoshikawa was born in Tokyo in 1984 into a musical family and received his first violin lessons at the age of three. He later continued his education at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo with Toshiya Eto. From 2003 to 2010 he studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Josef Hell and passed with distinction. Later, he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich with Ana Chumachenco and also graduated with honors in 2013 with a master’s degree. His further extensive training was provided by private lessons with Rainer Honeck, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic. He was a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Bavarian State Opera from 2010 to 2011, and in 2011 he obtained a permanent position in the first violins in the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Since 2017, he has been first violinist in the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He plays as a substitute with orchestras such as the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian State Opera, the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. His solo successes include prizes at the Stefanie Hohl Competition in Vienna and the International Violin Competition in Sion-Vallais. As a soloist, Kosuke Yoshikawa has performed with members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Philharmonic Orchestra, Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. He has a great passion for chamber music and plays with several ensembles as well as with various violin duos, a piano trio and string quartets.
Behind the partially reconstructed façade of the Berlin Palace, the Humboldt Forum opens up with collections from many cultures around the world.
The musicians return to the historic location where the RSB has performed several times in the Palace of the Republic in the past. Inspired by the collections and exhibitions, they will play micro-concerts on the six museum Sundays from November 2024 to April 2025, each at 14:00. Entry is free.
The programmes of the concerts will be announced on the websites of the RSB and the Humboldt Forum before the respective dates.