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Dear All,
Here comes a long newsletter covering March AND April. A busy time ahead with most concerts in Sweden this time, and one in Lithuania.
The first twelwe concerts are piano quartet concerts together with my friends, the Lendvai String Trio - Nadia Wijzenbeek, violin, Ylvali Zilliacus, viola and Marie Macleod, cello. We are playing a programme of music by Stenhammar, Mahler, Schnittke, Schubert and Fauré plus a little surprise! We are playing in the following places:
Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 at 7.00pm
National Philharmonic Hall, Vilnius, Lithuania
More info at www.filharmonija.lt
Tuesday 25 Mar 2008 at 7.30pm
Artisten, Göteborg, Sweden
More info at www.kammarmusikgoteborg.nu
Wednesday 26 Mar 2008 at 7.30pm
Kalmar Castle, Kalmar, Sweden
More info at www.kalmarkammarmusikforening.se
Thursday 27 Mar 2008 at 7.30pm
Oskarshamns folkhögskola, Oskarshamn, Sweden
Friday 28 Mar 2008 at 7.30pm
Valhall, Hultsfred, Sweden
Sunday 30 Mar 2008 at 4.00pm
Carl Gustafs kyrka, Karlshamn, Sweden
Monday 31 Mar 2008 at 7.00pm
Alfvénsalen, Uppsala, Sweden
More info at www.kammarmusikiuppsala.se
Tuesday 1 Apr 2008 at 7.00pm
Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm, Sweden
Wednesday 2 Apr 2008 at 7.00pm
Västerås Concert Hall, Västerås, Sweden
More info at www.vmu.nu
Thursday 3 Apr 2008 at 7.00pm
Folkets hus, Ludvika, Sweden
Saturday 5 Apr 2008 at 5.00pm
Culturum, Nyköpig, Sweden
More info at www.nykoping.se
Sunday 6 Apr 2008 at 6.00pm
Folkets hus, Vänersborg, Sweden
More info at www.musik2.org
Then from the 9-20 April Stockholm celebrates the Olivier Messiaen centenary. I am playing in three concerts:
Saturday 12 Apr 2008 at 8.00pm in the Katarina church, Stockholm. This concert contains chamber and choral music by Messiaen including two Swedish preimeres. I will play the solo piano part in Trois Petites Liturgies de la présence Divine.
More info at www.messiaen2008.se
Sunday 13 Apr 2008 in the Stockholm Concert Hall, Stockholm at 1.00pm. This concert contains all of Messiaen's bird music for solo piano, performed by 12 pianists. I will play La Bouscarle from Catalogue d'oiseaux.
More info at www.konserthuset.se
Friday 18 Apr 2008 at 6.00pm at Studio 2, Radiohuset, Stockholm. The Ekberg/Sturfält Piano Duo (Oskar Ekberg and myself) perform Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen for two pianos.
More info at www.messiaen2008.se
Then finally I will take part in the Stockholm Concert Hall's composer weekend, this year dedicated to Anders Nilsson. I will play in three concerts all at the Stockholm Concert Hall:
Thursday 24 Apr 2008 at 7.30pm
Anders Nilsson Piano Concerto with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Petter Sundkvist
More info at www.konserthuset.se
Sunday 27 Apr 2008 at 3.00pm
The world premiere of Anders Nilsson's Ballade for cor anglais and piano together with Helen Jahren
More info at www.konserthuset.se
Sunday 27 Apr 2008 at 5.00pm
Anders Nilsson's Five Orchesteral Pieces for Piano solo
More info at www.konserthuset.se
If you are still bravely reading on after all of that, I would like to thank you for your patience. And I hope that you will all have a lovely Easter.
Welcome to the concerts, as always.
Best wishes
Martin Sturfält
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