About The concert
The two-time ECHO Award winner Ramón Ortega Quero is, without doubt, the most distinguished oboist of today and is recognized around the world as one of the most inspiring musicians of his generation.
At Snow Concert Hall he collaborates with his long time musical partner Ana de la Vega with whom he has recorded 2 acclaimed albums and performed throughout Europe’s major concert halls. Together they have been hailed as the new superstar duo of this rare flute / oboe combination with major European press noting “The harmony between the two soloists is almost dizzying” they are “Perfectly attuned” and play with ‘Brilliant Elegance’ (BBC). Dutch Cellist Tieje Hylkema (Sydney Opera and Ballet’s principal cellist) and renowned award-winning pianist Grace Kim complete this international chamber music star line-up.
Haydn’s evergreen ‘London Trio No.1’ and Bach’s masterstroke ‘The Musical Offering’, is beautifully balanced by both Clara and Robert Schumanns lavish Romances. The laters famous Fantasiestucke for cello and piano and the to seldom heard firecracker ‘Concertante in F’ for flute and piano by Moscheles closes what promises to be a concert of rarely experienced finesse and fire.
PROGRAMME
HAYDN – Trio No. 1 in C Major Hob. IV/1
R SCHUMANN – Romance No.1 from Op.94
C SCHUMANN – Romances Op.22
HUMMEL – Trio in A Major, Op.78
* INTERVAL *
J.S. BACH – Triosonate C Minor BWV 1079
R SCHUMANN – Fantasiestücke, op.73
MOSCHELES – Concertante in F Major
ARTISTS
RAMON ORTEGA QUERO – Oboe
ANA DE LA VEGA – Flute
GRACE KIM – Piano
TIEJE HYLKEMA – Cello
About Ramón Ortega Quero
Ortega career skyrocketed at the age of 19 when he won First Prize at the German ARD Music Competition and soon after became a “Rising Star” by the European Concert Hall Organisation. He soon after made his Carnegie Hall debut in recital in 2016.
Ramón Ortega Quero has been Principal Oboist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra since he was 19 – an orchestra rivaled only by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He was worked under its Principal Conductor Mariss Jansons, as well as with Riccardo Muti, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Colin Davies, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Barenboim, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Bernhard Haitink and Sir Simon Rattle.
He appears regularly as a guest soloist with major international orchestras including the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, MDR Sinfonieorchester, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchester, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Prague Philharmonia, and Düsseldorfer Symphoniker.
He also collaborates regularly with renowned musicians such as Janine Jansen, Guy Braunstein, Ana de la Vega and Tabea Zimmermann.
About Grace Kim
As a concerto soloist, Grace has performed with symphony orchestras of Australasia, Belgium, Russia, and Ukraine in some of the most prestigious venues. Among her numerous international and national prizes, the former child prodigy was a prizewinner of Bellini International Piano Competition (Italy), Citta di Marsala International Piano Competition, and National Keyboard Winner of the 2000 Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, also receiving the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Trust. After graduating from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, she gained two Master of Music degrees at Melbourne University and Rotterdam Conservatorium (Cum Laude) and was the 2002 Inaugural Fellow of the Australian National Academy of Music.
Many of her performances have been broadcast on radio and television. In 2006 she performed before Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and 400th anniversary celebrations of Dutch-Australian contact.
Grace’s passion for chamber music has seen her regularly work with eminent artists, and in 2007/08 she was the Artistic Director of the Summer Concert Series in the celebrated Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Returning after living and working in the Netherlands for eight years, Grace is now based Sydney, Australia
About Teije Hylkema
Teije Hylkema moved from The Netherlands to Australia in 2012 and has worked as a guest principal with various orchestras including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra before attaining the position of Principal Cellist in the Opera Australia Orchestra. Teije studied at the Amsterdam Conservatorium under the guidance of Dmitri Ferschtman. During his studies he started the Romeo Quartet, an award-winning Amsterdam-based string quartet that was tutored by Valentin Berlinsky and Isaac Stern and performed throughout Europe. He was the co-principal cellist at the Radio Kamer Filharmonie, an orchestra that specialized in baroque and modern repertoire with chief conductors Jaap van Zweden and Frans Brüggen. He was also a regular guest in the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding and Claudio Abbado.
Teije is also active as a principal musician of Sensory Concerts®; inclusive classical concerts for children, youth and adults with sensory and/or special needs.
A dedicated chamber musician, Teije has performed in many festivals in Europe, including Luzern Festival & the Amsterdam Grachtenfestival. In Australia, he was a guest artist at the Tyalgum Music festival, Newcastle Music Festival, “Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields” Festival, Opera Queensland and DanceNorth.
As a soloist, Teije’s performances in Australia include Elgar’s Cello Concerto at City Recital Hall and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with Orchestra Victoria (Melb) and Opera Australia Orchestra (Sydney). Recently, Teije toured the NSW region with his critically acclaimed “Bach to Bolling” concert program in collaboration with the Black Tulip Jazz Trio, he performed Paul Stanhope’s “Dawn Lament” at dawn in Uluru and was responsible for the world première of “Threnody for cello solo” by Australian composer Ross Fiddes.
Teije plays a cello made by Camillo Mandelli da Calco, Buenos Aires, 1916.
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