Voices
Chamber Concert
George Crumb
“Vox Balaenae” (Voice of the Whale) for flute, violoncello and piano (all electronically amplified)
John Dowland
“Ayres” – Lute songs – adapted for baritone and string quartet
Ruth Zechlin
“Hamlet Fragments” for baritone and string quartet
Brett Dean
“Voices of Angels” for violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and
Markus Schreiter
Flute
Nadine Contini
Violin
Nadine Contini - Violin
Nadine Contini, principal second violin, has been a member of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since March 2005.
She was born in 1979 in Saarbrücken and received her first violin lessons at the age of 5 years with Ms Christa Schmitt-Rink. Later she studied under Ulrieke Dierick. In 1996 she was admitted to the Pflüger-Stiftung Freiburg and the Spohr-Akademie for the promotion of highly gifted young violinists, where she was trained by Wolfgang Marschner and Ariane Mathäus. In 2000, she began her studies at the Musikhochschule “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin with Antje Weithaas, where she graduated with the concert exam of 2008. She attended master classes with Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Marschner, Christian Tetzlaff, Guy Braunstein, and Boris Pergamenchikov.
Nadine Contini has won awards in numerous competitions: In 1998, she was awarded with the first “Young Musicians” federal prize. In addition, she received a second prize at the International Max Reger Competition and a special prize for the best interpretation of a solo work by Max Reger. In 2004, she won the competition of Ibolyka-Gyarfas-Stiftung. She was awarded with prizes for cultural promotion by the Casino Gesellschaft Saarbrücken and the Saarländischen Rundfunk. In addition, she was the prize winner and scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
As a soloist, she has performed with the Landesjugendorchester of Saarland, the Cairo Chamber Orchestra, the Cairo Opera Orchestra, the Deutsche Spohr Philharmonie, the Symphonieorchester des Saarländischen Rundfunks as part of the concerts of young artists, the Max Bruch Philharmonie and the Brandenburger Symphoniker.
Nadine Contini plays a violin made by master violinmaker Stefan-Peter Greiner from Bonn and is involved as a mentor in the orchestra academy of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Kirstin Maria Pientka
Viola
Peter Albrecht
Violoncello
Hermann Wömmel-Stützer
Double Bass
Frank Gutschmidt
Piano
Georg Streuber
Baritone
Maria Pflüger
Violin
Juliane Färber-Rambo
Violin
Samuel Espinosa
Viola
Jörg Breuninger
Violoncello
Songs about animals, people and angels