Fringe: Duo Mandelbrot
This concert is part of the free fringe programme of the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2025.
Duo Mandelbrot consists of American Baroque violinist Maya Webne-Behrman and German lutist Niels Pfeffer. The two met at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in 2019, where they both completed master’s degrees in the study of music performance from Renaissance through the Romantic periods. Maya and Niels aim to study and create music in a detailed manner, focusing on colour and texture in their modest instrumentation. Through the exploration of musical intimacy and sound, Mandelbrot delves into music from an array of periods and styles, with particular interest in and inspiration from folk music, the impressionist period, improvisation, playing from memory, and the fusing of all these methods of music-making.
Programme
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Adagio, BWV 1001
1685-1750 -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonata in D major
(from: Six sonates à violon seul accompagné par le clavessin, TWV 41:D1)1681-1767 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Was bist du doch, o Seele, so betrübet, BWV 506
Sonata for Violin in C minor, BWV 1017, Adagio
Komm, süßer Tod, BWV 478
Sonata for Violin in A minor, BWV 1003, Andante
Es ist Vollbracht! Vergiß ja nicht dies Wort, BWV 458 -
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Sonata for Flute in G major, Wq 123, H.550
1714-1788 -
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita for violin in D minor, BWV 1004, Gigue
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Maya Webne-Behrman violin, voice
- Niels Pfeffer lute
