It’s not always the big events that characterize the musical life of a region. Especially the many small initiatives enrich the cultural offer with local artists and promising young people. The “Abendmusik in der Ursulinenkirche” is such a Linz institution and celebrated its 30th anniversary on Monday with a fine festival concert.
The former church rector and passionate musician Peter Paul Kaspar understood the sacred space as an ideal place for not only explicitly sacred music. In 1992, together with Alfred Stögmüller, director of the Landestheater, and harpsichordist Johannes Maria Bogner, he initiated a series of concerts that began intimately in the sacristy. Today there are around ten concerts in the nine weeks of the summer holidays.
The Linz composer has been a composer for 20 years Helmut Rogel Chairman of the organizing cultural association, and recorder player Michael Oman has been organizing the program for more than ten years. It is a limitless series of concerts that presents music from the Middle Ages to the present day with established artists, students from the Bruckner University and students from the Music High School in Linz.
A trombone quartet from the Bruckner University (Ulrich Gruchmann, Jonas Gassner, Thomas Gahleitner, Samuel Palmetshofer) with music from the 15th and 16th centuries provided the framework for the festive concert.
Norbert Gierlinger, Heidi Eidenberger, Peter Aigner and Andreas Pözlberger skilfully devoted themselves to Rogl’s eloquent “flauto.mobile” op. 61. Bruckner University Rector Martin Rummel not only intoned the “Three Miniatures for Solo Cello” op. 5, which he composed as a young musician for Rogl, but also – played intensively – Bach’s 6th solo suite. Michael and Martina Oman interpreted three fine movements for recorder and harpsichord with great virtuosity.
Source: Nachrichten
