Live at Cantaleum presents: Duo Enigma "SAUDADE"

Iryna Gintova, born in Ukraine in 1988, has won numerous prizes, including the Grand Prix of the Pierre Lantier Competition in Paris, 2nd prize at the Città di Brescia Violin Competition and the Migros Culture Percentage Study Prize. In addition to her solo career, she is also active as a chamber musician and has performed at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival and the Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander, among others. She has been 2nd concertmaster of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra since 2013. Her CD with Telemann's 12 Fantasias received rave reviews, including BBC Music Magazine: "Mrs. Gintova plays with expressive warmth and stylistic propriety... She reaches the heart of the music."

Valentina Pfister has established herself on the classical music scene with lieder and chamber music and has received great recognition for her sound quality, artistic presence and musicality. She has performed in prestigious venues such as the Tonhalle Zurich, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. She has performed at festivals such as the Zurich Festival, Mallorca me suena and the Schubertiade Zurich. Concerts have taken her to the Villa Wesendonck in Zurich, the Blüthner Centre in Vienna, L'Auditori in Barcelona and the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, among others. Valentina has been awarded scholarships from the Académie musicale de Villecroze, the Thiébaud-Frey Foundation and the LYRA Foundation.

The Saudade programme includes works by Spanish, Brazilian and Argentinian composers such as de Falla, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla and Sarasate, whose music captures nostalgia and longing. Sarasate and de Falla integrated folk sounds into pieces such as Romanza Andaluza and Caprice Basque as well as the suite Siete canciones populares españolas, which shows different emotional worlds. Villa-Lobos' Sonata-Fantasia No. 1 reflects the complexity of Brazilian music. Piazzolla's Histoire du Tango tells the story of the tango. The concert concludes with Skoryk's Spanish Dance, which transports you to a land of longing with its fiery rhythm and oriental melody.

19:00 - doors open, free choice of seats
19:30 - concert begins
20:45 - concert ends
We are delighted to serve all concertgoers an aperitif afterwards.