After playing all the repertoire for two violins since they started their career, The Twiolins were looking for a new project. So it was only natural to have a look into their childhood, where they were impressed by the godfather of violin, Gidon Kremer. His interpretation of classical music but also the Tangos of Astor Piazzolla was the music at their home when they started to play the great pieces by their own. So it felt good to the siblings to adopt Kremer´s project „Eight seasons“ and transform it into a typical Twiolins project. 

To reduce the Four Seasons by Vivaldi for two violins was a risky adventure, but worth every note Christoph arranged – Arranging the music by himself was the only solution in his eyes after years of playing violin duos with his sister. Knowing the do´s and don’t´s of his ensemble he found the most beautiful version of this great masterpiece. 

After finishing the Four Seasons by Vivaldi the next task was to find the right music from Piazzolla for the two violins and after a little while of research he invited the viola to their ensemble to accomplish the feeling, the heat and the dance of Buenos Aires and to bring it to the concert halls.

The music of Vivaldi and Piazzolla takes the listener on a musical journey across two centuries and two hemispheres. It is a project in which the borders between musical genres, continents and centuries, are eliminated, and what endures is the consistent quality of the works themselves. For The Twiolins, siblings, raised in the classical tradition, but after finishing their academic studies always pushing the boundaries of musical genres, their common language is a musical one. The ensemble´s performance breathes new life into Vivaldi´s work without compromising its essence, and introduces audiences to Piazzolla´s lesser known and eminently worthy compositions. 

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) & Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Arr. Christoph Dingler

SPRING
Vivaldi: La Primavera, Op. 8, RV 269, 1. Allegro
Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel
Vivaldi: La Primavera, Op. 8, RV 269, 2. Largo
Piazzolla: La Muerte del Angel
Vivaldi: La Primavera, Op. 8, RV 269, 3. Allegro pastorale
Piazzolla: Resurreccion del Angel

SUMMER
Vivaldi: L’Estate, Op. 8, RV 315, 1. Allegro non molto
Piazzolla: Oblivion
Vivaldi: L’Estate, Op. 8, RV 315, 2. Adagio – Presto
Piazzolla: Fuga y Misterio
Vivaldi: L’Estate, Op. 8, RV 315, 3. Presto

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AUTUMN
Piazzolla: Adios Nonino
Vivaldi: L’Autunno, Op. 8, RV 293, 1. Allegro
Piazzolla: Mi Exaltacion
Vivaldi: L’Autunno, Op. 8, RV 293, 2. Adagio molto
Piazzolla: Buenos Aires Hora Cero
Vivaldi: L’Autunno, Op. 8, RV 293, 3. Allegro
Piazzolla: Psicosis

WINTER
Vivaldi: L’Inverno, Op. 8, RV 297, 1. Allegro non molto
Piazzolla: Vuelvo al sur
Vivaldi: L’Inverno, Op. 8, RV 297, 2. Largo
Piazzolla: Milonga en Re
Vivaldi: L’Inverno, Op. 8, RV 297, 3. Allegro

2x 45 min. Violin + Violin/Viola

NEW: Women in Music – the female voice of music!

Despite equal rights being established in 1957, women only make up about 13% of our current composer scene. The Twiolins, with equal representation as brother and sister, want to open perspectives with this program and put an emphasis on the female voice in music!

Searching through libraries and archives, they found Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen, a Venetian violinist, singer and composer of the classical period who toured all over Europe as a brilliant violinist. A little later and not so unknown is Fanny Hensel, born Fanny Mendelssohn. To honor her as a pioneer, Christoph Dingler has arranged one of her most beautiful works.

Only then is there a work by modern composer Grazyna Bacewicz, the celebrated Polish composer – with her ingenious Suita, which exudes joie de vivre.

All other works are by living female composers who know The Twiolins personally. There is a special story behind this: the compositions were created as part of the composition competition initiated by The Twiolins and have received awards and prizes from the audience. All of them have already made a name for themselves as composers and are mostly successful musicians in their own performing careers. Their works tell vivid stories that play out in front of the listener’s inner eye.

Maddalena Laura Sirmen-Lombardini (1745-1818):
Sechs Duette op.4, Nr. 1, Allegro, Minuetto

Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) (1805-1847):
Schwanenlied Op.1. Nr. 1

Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969):
Suita

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Rebecca Czech: Ich glaub, es gibt Regen

Judit Varga: Das Leben und Sterben einer Fliege

Tina Ternes: Windspiel

Sophie Pope: Sonett Nr. 5

Angela Rossel: Lullaby

Ewelina Nowicka: Jongleurs

Alexis Alrich: Chase Me

2x 45 min. Moderation in Englisch

With their program ”SECRET PLACES” the Twiolins invite the audience to a journey of discovery of hidden places deep inside their imagination. Pulsating rhythms of the Balkan dance in fog covered rocky landscapes, breath and light come to new life, a dancing and seducing ballerina battles the distorted sounds of rock.

With two violins, the two siblings create suspenseful and contrasting worlds and balance innovative musical language and soothing harmony. They mesmerize the audience into a deep trance until time and space stand still. Individual raindrops become the source of mindfulness, revealing the inner worlds of our soul.
Like an epochal musical setting of the “Storm and Urge” of the 21st century, the ride of the young poet Schiller through the German forest, sounds harmonically dense and inescapable. Wild beating cascades of emotion keep the audience mesmerized until the inevitable end.

To explore new dimensions of music, the Twiolins initiated a composition competition held every three years. With daring combinations of sounds, beguiling melodies, or insane virtuosity, composers from around the world compete against each other and must win over the toughest jury, the audience. So far, over 500 composers from 55 Nations took part in the crossover composition award. The winner’s works of 2015 are presented in the program “SECRET PLACES”.

Metamorphosis – A. Gonobolin (*1953, Ukraine)
Carpathian – Dawid Lubowicz (*1981, Poland)
Maha nada – Sebastian Sylla (Germany)
TRANCE
      Trance no. 1 – Benjamin Heim (*1994, USA)
      Atem • Licht – Johannes Meyerhöfer (*1985, Germany)
Rock you vs. Ballerina – Jens Hubert (*1973, Germany)
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Balkanoid – A. Derecskei (*1982, Hungary)
Doch Laub und Wolken unter Nacht – Johannes Söllner (*1983, Germany)
A Fly´s Life & Decline – Judit Varga (*1976, Hungary)
RAINY DAY
      Ich glaub’, es gibt Regen – Rebecca Czech (*1983, Germany)
      Three Moods for two Violins, I – Andreas Håkestad (*1982, Norway)
      Eight Strings – Vladimir Torchinsky (*1986, Israel)
Schillers Nachtflug – Benedikt Brydern (*1966, USA)

2x 45 minutes with presentation. lighting concept available

Robeat is one of the world‘s most talented beatboxers and is the reigning European champion. For years, he’s been a large presence in the event and gala area, and has been impressing in TV and film.

The 28 year old prodigy leaves audiences speechless time and time again. As a “human beatbox” – meaning he’s only equipped with his microphone and voice – he demonstrates the artistry of mouth acrobatics. His unmistakable style, consisting of hard technobeats, fast drum-and-bass rhythms and mellow Hip-Hop sounds, is combined with his foray into singing and comedy.

When The Twiolins and Robeat go on stage together, two completely different ways of making music collide, but are combined in a beautiful and expressive way to blast the audience. Soothing violin sounds are supported by powerful beats, mouth acrobatics and special effects to create new colors in the musical stories The Twiolins tell.

The show Robeat meets The Twiolins connects the diversities between urban culture music and classical music in its best way and opens these two traditions to new audiences of all ages.

In 2013 The Twiolins and Robeat had their first concert together in Mallorca and since then they continuously share the stage and are connected in a musical friendship.
2x 45min, Presentation English/German

THE TWIOLINS – SOLO

Metamorphosis – Alexander Gonobolin (*1953, Ukraine)
Carpathian – Dawid Lubowicz (*1981, Poland)
Maha nada – Sebastian Sylla (*1974, Germany)
La Petite Valse – Aleksey Igudesman (*1973, Russia)

ROBEAT – SOLO

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Balkanoid – András Derecskei (*1982, Hungary)
Doch Laub und Wolken unter Nacht – Johannes Söllner (*1983, Germany)

THE TWIOLINS & ROBEAT

Ich glaub’, es gibt Regen – Rebecca Czech (*1983, Germany)
Waltz diabolique – Edmund Joliffe (*1976, UK)
Trance No. 1 – Benjamin Heim (*1994, USA)
Jongleurs – Ewelina Nowicka (*1982, Poland)

More pieces and encores coming soon, eg. “winter” from Vivaldi´s ‘four seasons’

2x 45 minutes with presentation

Spark, the Classical Band – one of the most talked about formations on the international young classical scene – meets the famous violin duo The Twiolins. This is a summit of classic revolutionaries, full of surprises, exciting sounds and the passion of a new generation of interpreters.

With radically new approaches to the classical tradition, both ensembles have brought fresh air into the chamber music world. In this joint concert, they show the whole spectrum of both ensembles – with new compositions created for each of them and for both groups together.

Spark was founded in 2007 and quickly became one of the most promising German classical music acts. With their ear for the unusual and the unheard, these five young musicians move effortlessly between the most contrasting musical worlds, celebrating an eccentric mix of classical masterpieces, minimalist music and avant-garde. In 2011, the Classical Band received an ECHO Klassik Award in the category “Classics without Borders” for their debut album Downtown Illusions.

The band has appeared at numerous international festivals and in some of the most prestigious concert halls of the world, such as the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Cologne Philharmonie, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Vienna Musikverein, the Barbican Center in London, the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam and others. The Twiolins and Spark gave their first concert together in 2013 to great enthusiasm from their fans and rave reviews. Since then, they are bound by a deep emotional and musical friendship. 2x 45min, Presentation English/German

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You will travel through the centuries and visit selected stations of the unique genre violinduo.

Starting with the special lightness of french baroque, through the virtuosic joy of Luigi Tomasini, going on the feastful romanticism of Charles Dancla up to the peak of modern music with the big Sonata of Sergej Prokoview.

At the end a shaman firework of two chasing ghosts, rising in glaring hights and devil rhythms up to their explosion and their vanishing.

Sonata nr. 4 – Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
Duo concertant nr. 1 – Luigi Tomasini (1741-1808)
Duo Brillante nr. 1 – Charles Dancla (1817-1907)
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Fairy Tale – Teodor Nicolau (*1973)
Sonate – Sergej Prokofiew (1891-1953)
Geisterspiel – Myung-Sun Lee (*1973)

2x 45 minutes with presentation