Martinů Festtage 2024 in Basel

28th Martinů Festtage 2024
10 to 24 November 2024 in Basel
Artistic director: Robert Kolinsky

Since 1995, the pianist Robert Kolinsky together with his team accomplishes to bring renowned artists to Basel, where once a year in autumn the MARTINŮ FESTIVAL takes place. It is his aim to remain true to his idea to enthuse national and international celebrities with the music of the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů and to furthermore motivate them to include his music in their repertoire for their world tours.

Chamber Music I
Sunday 10 November 2024, 6.00 pm
Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland

Opening concert of the traditional festival in Basel. Albrecht Mayer & Friends.
Mazurka – Nocturne for oboe, two violins and violoncello, H 325
Piano Trio No. 1 (Cinq pièces brèves), H 193
Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Violoncello and Piano, H 315
Albrecht Mayer (oboe), Markéta Janoušková (violin), Sewon Cho (violin), Beni Santora (cello), Václav Vonašek (bassoon), Robert Kolinsky (piano)

Chanson
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 7.00 pm
Theater Tabourettli, Basel, Switzerland 

Program with cabaret songs by Kurt Weill and songs by Bohuslav Martinů.
Vladimir Korneev (chansonist), Markus Syperek (pianist, arranger)

Family Football Concert
Saturday 16 November 2024, 6.15 pm
Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland

Bohuslav MARTINŮ: Half-time, H 142
Music and sport: an inspiring combination. The wildly riotous New Orchestra Basel will be coached by conductor Christian Knüsel.

Cinema
Sunday 17 November 2024, 6.00 pm
Stadtkino Basel,Switzerland

As part of the artistic and cultural program ON Screen and in cooperation with the football film festival 11mm Berlin, 8 selected European short films will be shown.

Half-time. Collage, realization: Beni Santora, Switzerland, 2022, 8 min.
Record from the 1924 Olympic football games combined with Bohuslav Martinů's composition "Half-Time" from 1924.

Chamber Music II
Sunday 24 November 2024, 6.00 pm
Hans Huber-Saal, Stadtcasino Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Seven arabesques, rhytmic etudes for violin and piano, H 201a
Romance for violin and piano, H 186bis                    
Cinq Pièces breves, H 184
Czech Rhapsody, H 307

Alena Baeva (violin), Vadym Kholodenko (piano). A renowned violinist from Kyrgyzstan and a Ukrainian pianist will perform for the first time at a concert with works by Bohuslav Martinů and promise to be the musical highlight of the festival.

The festival was supported by the honorary patronage of the conductor Jakub Hrůša, the former president of Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová, the president of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel and the secretary general of the Council of Europe Alain Berset.

More information: http://www.martinu.ch/en/