Grimm Duette
Francisca Portugal - viool
Natalie Kulina - viool |
Zocherlounge Bloemendaal |
Zocherlaan 1, Bloemendaal |
Grimm Duette
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Francisca Portugal (1998, Portugal) and Natalie Kulina (1996, Czech Republic) have been playing together as Grimm Duette and as a solid team in much larger chamber music and orchestral projects (most recently as collaborating on Maat Saxophone Quartet Debut album ‘Ciudades’, Score Collective) since 2017 when they met through their studies at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
The small and portable ensemble allows Grimm Duette to bring classical music almost anywhere. Their concerts over the years had led them outdoors, to a cave, to castles, rural towns, but also to schools, programmes, and housing facilities for the elderly and socially disadvantaged: places in which residents for different reasons usually do not have many opportunities to visit the concert halls. For this reason, they have arranged several famous virtuoso masterworks or even large symphonic works into fantasies with the setting of two violins, introducing the music they love to their audiences, while also being able to retell those stories with their narrative and musical language, fitted to each of them as individual players and as an ensemble. They have also performed recitals in concert halls in the Netherlands (most recently in Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Oosterkerk Amsterdam) and the Czech Republic. |
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Each separately an accomplished musician with diverse background, interests, and sound qualities, they never shy away from exploring their differences to create an engaging program, inclusive of any musical genre or historical timestamp, searching for the forgotten gems in the cultural heritage of their countries, working with composers, theatre artists or looking into their shared passion, literature, for inspiration.
The name directly refers to the brothers Grimm, who, along with many other fairytale writers and collectors of folk tales in the past centuries, encompassed regular human experiences and stories with a touch of magic and gift of storytelling, a skill shared by many composers and musicians alike, offering an escape, a moment of thrill, an opportunity for meditation or education - creating invisible links from performer to audience member and simply, and more importantly, from one human being to another. © www.grimmduette.com |
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Programma
R. Gliere: 12 Violin duets, op.49
II. Andantino
V. Vivace
VII. Allegretto
XI. Cantabile
Vaclav Trojan: The Emperor’s Nightingale
Ch. de Beriot: Rondo
Bela Bartok: Selection from 44 duets
- Ruthenian kolomejka
- Bagpipes
Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
II. The story of the Kalendar Prince
III. The Young Prince and Princess
II. Andantino
V. Vivace
VII. Allegretto
XI. Cantabile
Vaclav Trojan: The Emperor’s Nightingale
Ch. de Beriot: Rondo
Bela Bartok: Selection from 44 duets
- Ruthenian kolomejka
- Bagpipes
Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
II. The story of the Kalendar Prince
III. The Young Prince and Princess
