Benedict Klöckner and Anna Fedorova

Friday 10 August | 7:30pm

Schumann 5 folk pieces 

Shostakovich Sonata for cello & piano 

Brahms Sonata for cello & piano No.2

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Anna Fedorova, piano

Anna Fedorova is one of the world's premier young pianists. From an early age, she demonstrated an innate musical maturity and outstanding technical abilities. Her international concert career took off while she was only a child, and audiences around the world were stunned by the depth and power of her musical expression. Critics have praised Anna's signature “sweet modesty and wild expression,” which rendered listeners “completely taken by surprise, compelled and astonished.”

In September 2013 Anna performed Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto at the opening of the season of Sunday Morning Concerts series at the Great hall of the Royal Concertgebouw. Within two and a half a years, the recording of this concert received over 9 million views on YouTube and was highly praised among renown musicians. In November 2015 she returned to perform in the big hall of Concertgebouw in Sunday Morning Concerts series Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3, this performance was again steamed live on TV, internet and radio.

Benedict Klöckner, cello

Germany’s most promising cellist Benedict Klöckner (1989) plays concerts with renowned orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the German Radio Philharmonic, the NDR and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Kremerata Baltica, the Slovak Radio Orchestra and the Russian and Polish State Philharmonic Orchestras under conductors such as Simon Gaudenz, Howard Griffiths, Ingo Metzmacher, Michael Sanderling, Karl Heinz Steffens and Heinrich Schiff. He performs all over Europe, USA and South America at such venues as the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Carnegie Hall New York, the Tonhalle Zurich, the Athenäum Bukarest, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Musikverein Wien, the Arts Center Seoul, the Barbican and the Caldor Hall London.