Viola Festival: Make It Your Own. Concert with Ionel Ungureanu and Sandro Nebieridze
Concert as part of the Viola Festival with Ionel Ungureanu, Sandro Nebieridze (pianist and composer) and students from the University of the Arts Bremen.
The following pieces will be performed: Ernest Bloch (1880-1959), Suite for Viola and Piano (Lento, Allegro ironico, Lento, Molto vivo); Sandro Nebieridze (2001*) and Ionel Ungureanu (1995*), Tunisian Rhapsody, as well as pieces worked on with the students from the workshop.
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About Ionel Ungureanu
Ionel Ungureanu is currently principal violist with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and lecturer in viola at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where he has been teaching his own major class in viola since 2024. He is a sought-after principal violist in leading orchestras in Germany and is equally passionate about chamber music with up-and-coming musicians of his generation. His main passion is teaching: with methodological precision, creativity and dedication, he imparts his diverse experience to students and inspires them to develop an open, holistic understanding of music.
His artistic profile extends far beyond the classical framework of an instrumentalist: in addition to his intensive orchestral and teaching activities, he composes and arranges music across genres and eras, which is often performed by his Balkan/jazz/contemporary ensemble Borsch4Breakfast. His greatest successes include third prize and the prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned work at the 2023 ARD Music Competition in the viola category, as well as his debut as a soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
Ungureanu was born in 1995 into a family of musicians and received his first violin lessons from his parents at the age of four. After studying with Ute Hasenauer and Marco Rizzi in Cologne and Mannheim, he initially studied violin with Nachum Erlich. During this time, he developed a fascination for composition, early music, jazz, string quartets and improvisation, which had a lasting influence on his musical thinking. He eventually discovered the viola as his primary instrument of expression and continued his training with Roland Glassl. He also received important artistic inspiration in masterclasses with Hartmut Rohde, Nobuko Imai and Atar Arad. Ungureanu plays a viola by Wolfgang Scharff from Wolfratshausen.
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About Sandro Nebieridze
Sandro Nebieridze began his musical training at the age of five at the Z. Paliashvili Central Music School in Tbilisi with Neli Imedashvili and Lali Sanikidze. He continued his studies at the State Vano Saradzhishvili Conservatory in Tbilisi, where his dual talents as a pianist and composer were further nurtured. He is currently studying piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and at the Fondazione Accademia di Imola incontri con il Maestro with Professors Antti Siirala and Boris Petrushansky.
His most significant awards include 2nd prize at the 65th Busoni Competition, 1st prize at Astana Piano Passion, 2nd prize at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp and the Grand Prix at the Grand Piano Competition. Another highlight of his career was the release of his debut album, on which he plays solo works by Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. The album was awarded the Tsinandali Prize and nominated for the Opus Klassik Awards 2020.
As a composer, his works, such as the award-winning Piano Concerto No. 1, both piano trios, the chamber ballet, the miniature for male choir and the impressive Illusionary Tango, have gained recognition both in Georgia and abroad. He has performed numerous times with orchestras worldwide under the baton of renowned conductors such as Petr Popelka, Olivier Tardy and Gianandrea Noseda.
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