Friedrich Thiele
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies Studies with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt funded by the Renate and Peter von Metzler patronage
Kronberg Academy Professional Studies
Kronberg Academy Master
Cello Masterclasses, participant
Kronberg Festival, workshop
Kronberg Festival, concert
Friedrich Thiele, born in 1996, already won a lot of national and international prizes. In September 2019 he just won the 2nd prize, audience award, and prize for the best interpretation of the commissioned piece at the ARD Music Competition in Munich.
In March 2019 he won the prize of “Deutscher Musikwettbewerb” in Nuremberg, as well as a special prize of “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben”.
2016-2021, Friedrich was a student in the class of Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in Weimar. Before then, he did his junior music studies in the class of Prof. Peter Bruns in Leipzig from the years of 2011-2016.
After his successes at the International Competition in Markneukirchen 2019 (2nd prize, audience award and orchestra award), the competition “Ton und Erklärung” in 2017 (1st prize) and the competition “TONALi” in 2015 (3rd prize and audience prize), his international career began.
As a soloist, Friedrich was invited to perform with the “Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks”, the orchestra of the national theatre in Brasília, the “Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen”,
the “Orquestra Sinfónica Simón Bolívar” in Caracas, the radio-symphony orchestra of Prague and the Symphony orchestra of Nuremberg. He already played in a lot of big concert halls, such as the Mariinsky-Theatre in St. Petersburg, the “Elbphilharmonie” and the “Laeiszhalle” in Hamburg, as well as the “Herkulessaal” and “Gasteig” in Munich.
As a passionate chamber musician, Friedrich gave his debut at the festival “Heidelberger Frühling”, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Molyvos International Festival and the „Vadim Repin Trans-Siberian Art Festival“. He played together with Igor Levit, Benjamin Beilman, Volker Jacobsen, Viviane Hagner and Marc-André Hamelin.
He has been supported by the „Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben“ since 2010, and plays a French Cello from the second half of the 19th century, sponsored by the „Deutsche Musikinstrumentenfonds“.
Since 2021, he has been 1st concertmaster of the violoncellos in the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
In 2018, Thiele took part in Kronberg’s Cello Masterclasses & Concerts, where he received a sponsorship award. He has been studying at Kronberg Academy with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt since 2020. His studies were funded by the Renate und Peter von Metzler patronage.
ÖSTERREICH
Participants
- Irène Duval violin
- Sào Soulez Larivière viola
- Sarah Jégou-Sageman violin
- Friedrich Thiele Cello
- Jérémie Moreau piano
- Mishka Rushdie Momen piano
- Geneva Lewis violin
- Kaoru Oe violin
- Matthew Lipman viola
- Gabriel Schwabe cello
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
• Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370 – approx. 15'
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondeau: Allegro
Michael Höfele, oboe
Irène Duval, violin
Sao Soulez-Larivière, viola
Benedict Kloeckner, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
• Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70 No. 1 (“Ghost Trio”) – approx. 25'
I. Allegro vivace e con brio (D major)
II. Largo assai ed espressivo (D minor)
III. Presto (D major)
Sarah Jégou-Sageman, violin
Friedrich Thiele, cello
Jeremie Moreau, piano
INTERMISSION
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951)
• Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 (1911) – approx. 5'
Mishka Momen, piano
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957)
• Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 – approx. 35'
I. Mäßiges Zeitmaß, mit schwungvoll blühendem Ausdruck
II. Adagio. Mit größter Ruhe, stets äußerst gebunden und ausdrucksvoll
III. Finale. Gemessen beinahe pathetisch
Geneva Lewis, violin
Kaoru Oe, violin
Matthew Lipman, viola
Gabriel Schwabe, cello
Mishka Momen, piano
Programme subject to change
RUSSLAND
Participants
- Cosima Soulez Larivière violin
- Kaoru Oe violin
- Sindy Mohamed viola
- Gabriel Schwabe Cello
- Julia Hamos piano
- Emil Kuyumcuyan
- Suyoen Kim violin
- Friedrich Thiele Cello
- Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula piano
Programme
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
• String Quartet No. 1 (unfinished), TH ii/30 – approx. 13'
II. Romance: Andante espressivo (G minor)
III. Scherzo: Allegro (D major)
Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin
Kaoru Oe, violin
Sindy Mohamed, viola
Gabriel Schwabe, cello
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975) / arr. Oriol Cruixent
• Suite for Variety Orchestra (“Jazz Suite No. 2”) – for piano trio & 3 percussionists – approx. 25'
Julia Hamos, piano
Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin
Gabriel Schwabe, cello
Emil Kuyumcuyan, percussion
N.N., percussion
INTERMISSION
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
• Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50 “À la mémoire d’un grand artiste” – approx. 50'
I. Pezzo elegiaco: Moderato assai – Allegro giusto
II. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto
– Finale e coda: Allegro risoluto e con fuoco
Suyeon Kim, violin
Friedrich Thiele, cello
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, piano
Programme subject to change
NORWEGEN
Participants
- Ragnhild Hemsing
- Edgar Moreau Cello
- Itai Navon piano
- Kaoru Oe violin
- Sindy Mohamed viola
- Suyoen Kim violin
- Irène Duval violin
- Cosima Soulez Larivière violin
- Peijun Xu viola
- Sebastian Fritsch Cello
- Friedrich Thiele Cello
Programme
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
• Andante in C minor for Piano Trio – approx. 11'
Ragnhild Hemsing, violin
Edgar Moreau, cello
Itai Navon, piano
Ragnhild Hemsing (*1988)
• Vetra – Chamber Suite based on Norwegian folk melodies for Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian folk fiddle) and strings
Ragnhild Hemsing, Hardanger fiddle
Kaoru Oe, violin
Sarah Jégou-Sageman, violin
Sindy Mohamed, viola
Edgar Moreau, cello
N.N., bass
INTERVAL
Johan Svendsen (1840–1911)
• String Octet in A major, Op. 3 – approx. 38'
I. Allegro risoluto ben marcato
II. Allegro scherzoso
III. Andante sostenuto
IV. Finale: Moderato – Allegro assai con fuoco
Suyeon Kim, violin
Irène Duval, violin
Cosima Soulez-Larivière, violin
Sarah Jégou-Sageman, violin
Sindy Mohamed, viola
Peijun Xu, viola
Sebastian Fritsch, cello
Friedrich Thiele, cello
Program subject to change