Photo: Anna-Lena Ahlström
Jakob Koranyi
Jakob Koranyi has toured the world as a soloist and chamber musician. He has participated in world premieres of new cello concertos and performed the classical standard repertoire with many of the world’s leading orchestras and musicians. He has been a regular guest at festivals such as the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and the Cello Biennale in Amsterdam, and for over a decade, he performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.
Due to the ongoing climate crisis, Jakob has, since 2019, stopped accepting engagements that require air travel. This means, among other things, that he is focusing his concert activities in Europe until the aviation industry transitions to fossil-free energy sources.
Together with pianist Peter Friis Johansson, Jakob has also founded the climate-friendly chamber music festival and summer academy Fairplay Chamber Music in Järna, outside Stockholm.
Since 2022, Jakob has been a professor of cello at Edsberg, a chamber music-focused program within the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Programme
15.7.
Veli Kujala (1976):
MiXi? for quarter-tone accordion and string quartet (2011)
15.7.
Fazil Say (1970):
The Moving Mansion, Op. 72b (2017, transcription for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano by David Lundblad)
16.7.
Richard Strauss (1864—1949):
Sextet from the Opera Capriccio, Op. 85 (1940–41)
17.7.
Henning Mankell (1868—1930):
Notturno from String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 48 (1919)
17.7.
Jón Leifs (1899—1968):
Introduzione from Quintet, Op. 50 for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello (1960)
17.7.
Jón Nordal (1926—2024):
Why should we dwell on the past and The spinning sound of emptiness from String Quartet Frá draumi til draums (From Dream to Dream) (1996)
18.7.
Louis Spohr (1784—1859):
Double String Quartet No. 1, Op. 65 (1823)
20.7.
Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):
String Quartet No. 53 in D, Op. 64 No. 5 'Lark' (1790)
21.7.
Franz Berwald (1796—1868):
Septet in B flat for clarinet, bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1828)
22.7.
Niels Gade (1817—1890):
String Octet in F, Op. 17 (1848)
24.7.
Seppo Pohjola (1965):
Piano Quintet (2019)