Matilda Kaul

Canadian violinist Matilda Kaul is a graduate of the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Upon completion of her studies, she joined the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom she has appeared in the great halls and festivals of the world (Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, Vienna Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel, Lucerne KKL, Proms, Edinburgh Festival) with some of the most respected conductors of our time (Haitink, Harnoncourt, Nézet-Séguin, Jurowski). Kaul has been a frequent guest concertmaster and principal in orchestras around Europe (Zürich Tonhalle, BBC Symphony, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Kammer Akademie Potsdam), and maintains a strong interest in historical performance practice, having been heard in recording and on stage with John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre Romantique et Revolutionnaire and English Baroque Soloists, Philippe Herreweghe’s Orchestre des Champs Elysées, and Emmanuel Krivine’s Chambre Philharmonique. Kaul has performed as chamber musician on both sides of the Atlantic, at festivals such as Ravinia, Norfolk, Charlottesville, Prussia Cove (U.K.), La Loingtaine (France), Oulunsalo (Finland), East Neuk (Scotland), and Alfred Brendel’s Music at Plush (U.K.).

Programme

Mon
14.7.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809—1847):

Finale from Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 (1845)

Tue
15.7.

Veli Kujala (1976):

MiXi for quarter-tone accordion and string quartet (2011)

Thu
17.7.

Henning Mankell (1868—1930):

Notturno from String Quartet No. 2 in F minor, Op. 48 (1919)

Thu
17.7.

Jón Nordal (1926):

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)

Fri
18.7.

Dietrich Buxtehude (1637—1707):

Mein Herz ist bereit, BuxWV 73 cantata for bass, three violins and continuo

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Sat
19.7.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 'Pastoral' (1808, arr. for string sextet by M. G. Fischer 1810)

Sun
20.7.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872—1958):

Lark Ascending (1914, arr. for flute and string quintet by Martin Gerigk 2013)

Sun
20.7.

Joseph Haydn (1732—1809):

String Quartet No. 53 in D, Op. 64 No. 5 'Lark' (1790)