“The perfectly in sync Daidalos Guitar Duo, Stefan Koim and Raphael Ophaus, managed with their performance […] to create “freedom of meaning” for the listener. In other words, they succeeded in creating an atmosphere that did not allow for worn-out associations and distractions, generated tense attention and shone with moments of surprise.”
– Zeitschrift für Kultur in Würzburg und Arc-et-Senans
BiographY
The Daidalos Guitar Duo has set itself the task of creating something new and illuminating the old familiar in new contexts.
The musicians combine their critically acclaimed virtuosity and musicality with expertise in historical performance practice and contemporary music, and translate this into innovative concert programs at the crossroads between early and contemporary music.
A unique combination that inspires numerous composers and musicians to collaborate with the duo.
Raphael Ophaus and Stefan Koim have been making music together since their earliest youth. They have been awarded some of the most prestigious scholarships and international prizes, and have supplemented their guitar skills with studies in early music and musicology.
This is a unique duo whose extraordinary success is reflected in their collaborations with distinguished composers such as Helmut Lachenmann and guest appearances at international festivals such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses.
Follow the Daidalos Guitar Duo on an adventurous journey into previously undreamed-of worlds of sound!
Meet the Artists
Raphael Ophaus is a sought-after soloist, music educator and chamber musician. He regularly works with important
ensembles such as the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Aventure and the Curious Chamber Players at festivals such as the Musikfest Berlin, the Ruhrtriennale, the Darmstädter Ferienkursen and the New Year’s Concerts of the Alte Oper Frankfurt. He has performed with musicians such as Dennis Russell Davies, François-Xavier Roth, Ilan Volkov and Peter Rundel. His collaborations with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Louis Andriessen and Heinar Goebbels, as well as numerous premieres of works by young composers form a further focus of the
musician’s work.
Various CD and radio productions for BR, HR and SWR, among others, document his work. Raphael Ophaus has been honored for his performances at national and international competitions as well as with various scholarships. Among others, he is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, the Deutschlandstipendium, as well as the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation.
He studied the guitar with Prof. Jürgen Ruck and Prof. Stephan Schmidt and graduated with honors with a Master of Arts degree in musicology from the at the Universities of Würzburg and Zurich.
Stefan Koim studied classical guitar and historical instruments in Cologne, Salzburg, Boston and Würzburg with Hubert Käppel, Eliot Fisk, Jürgen Ruck and Thomas Boysen. In 2017, the Meisterklassendiplom was completed with distinction. Stefan Koim won several national and international prizes as a soloist and chamber musician.
Stefan Koim is constantly searching for new repertoire and experimenting with new concert formats. Due to his versatility, Stefan Koim is requested for world premieres, film music/opera performances and various chamber music projects (including Concerto Köln, Beethoven Orchester Bonn). Concert tours have taken him to Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and the USA. Further highlights were concerts in the Paulskirche Frankfurt, the Philharmonie Essen, the Cologne Opera, the TivoliVredenburg Utrecht, the Jordan Hall Boston, the Händelhaus Halle, the Wiener Saal Salzburg, the Glasunov Hall of the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, the Gnesin Academy of Music Moscow or at Harvard University in Cambridge.
Stefan Koim has been supported by the Rotary Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. CD releases on musicaphon and Naxos have been highly praised in the music press (including nominations for “Opus Klassik” and “Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik”). He is currently head of the guitar department at the Institute for Musicology and Music Education at the University of Osnabrück.
PROGRAM
Mikrocosm
A fluorescent fabric of Renaissance and modernist works
Lute, baroque guitar and the modern concert guitar are juxtaposed in this program, as are composers of the present and of the 17th century. The great arc that the Daidalos Guitar Duo spans from Foscarini to Quell, from Corbetta to Riehm, goes far beyond the mere juxtaposition of old and new and connects the works through a subcutaneous web of relationships to form a great whole. At the center of this network is a way of thinking that transcends the seemingly immovable equal temperament of today and points to the cosmos of the smallest intervals. But also the teacher-student relationships between Corbetta and Granata as well as between Riehm and Quell make the inner richness of relationships of the program clear. Through this richness of relationships, the old familiar can be experienced anew in Mikrokosmos and at the same time new worlds of sound are introduced.
Details
Giovanni Paolo Foscarini fl. ca. 1600-1647)
Sinfonia a 2
Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)
aus: Varii Capriccii per la Chitarra Spagnola (Mailand 1643)
Sinfonia
Sinfonia a 2
Michael Quell (*1960)
Momentaufnahmen/Caprichos
Reflexionen zu Goya…und darüber hinaus…
Rolf Riehm (*1937)
KlageTrauerSehnsucht
Tristan Murail (*1947)
Tellur
Giovanni Battista Granata (1620/1621 – 1687)
aus: Nouvo scielta di capricci armonici (Bologna 1651)
Sinfonia a dui
Bernado Pasquini (1637–1710)
aus: Sonate per uno o due Cembali con il basso cifrato
Sonata a due bassi
Lachenmann and Henze
Lachenmann and Henze like bow and lyre
With Hans Werner Henze and Helmut Lachenmann, Kontraste juxtaposes two of the great antipodes of the 20th century. Both composers locate themselves as heirs of European art music in the tradition of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but continue this path in opposite directions. While Lachenmann places the potentials hidden by Schönklang at the center of his music, in Henze’s work the expressive potentials of the past can be experienced anew. Schönklang and Geräusch confront each other in this program just as two diametrically different aesthetic concepts do. The antagonistic forces that unfold in contrasts inevitably draw the listener in.
Details
Hans Werner Henze (1926 – 2012)
Memorias de „El Cimarrón“
Die Welt
Das Herrenhaus
Die Flucht
Der Wald
Die Geister
Die Frauen
Die Pfarrer
Der Aufstand
Die Freundlichkeit
Stephan Storck (*1961)
DUO
für 2 akustische Gitarren (2018) *
Helmut Lachenmann (*1937)
Salut für Caudwell
für zwei Gitarristen (1977)
*Auftragskomposition des Daidalos Guitar Duo
Les deux amis
Friendship and the French Savoir-vivre
In Les deux Amis feiert das Daidalos Guitar Duo die Freundschaft und das französische Savoir-vivre. Die Freundschaft der beiden seit frühester Kindheit miteinander musizierenden Gitarristen wird dabei ebenso thematisch wie die zahlreichen Beziehungen der hier präsentierten Komponisten. Ein Fest, das durch die kontrastierenden, mehrere Jahrhunderte umfassenden Werke zu einem farbenfrohen und hoch virtuosen Klangspektakel wird und das den Hörer von den prunkvollen Sälen des spanischen Escorial bis in die schillernden Gassen der französischen Bohème mitnimmt. Les deux Amis offenbart den ganzen Facettenreichtum und die Klangvielfalt der Gitarre und überträgt die Lebenslust der Musiker und der Musik, auf alle, die diesem Fest beiwohnen.
Details
Sonate in h-Moll K. 27 (Arr. Bernd Kortenkamp)
Sonate in D-Dur, K. 492 (Arr. Daidalos Guitar Duo)
Sonate in d-Moll, K. 175 (Arr. Daidalos Guitar Duo)
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Les deux amis
Joseph Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)
Am Grabe der Geliebten
Unruhe
Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012)
Drei Märchenbilder aus der Kinderoper «Pollicino» (Arr. Jürgen Ruck und Elena Casoli)
Pastorale
Arietta
Notturno
Pierre Petit (1922-2000)
Toccata
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesure (1908-2002)
Elegie
Pierre Petit (1922-2000)
Events
08. Jul
2023
01. Jul
2023
18. Dez
2022
11. Dez
2022
03. Dez
2022
Gezeiten Festival
Bonn
Les Deux Amis
17.00 Uhr – Stadtpfarrkirche St. Nikolaus Büren
Les Deux Amis
18.00 Uhr – Maximilianhalle Hamm
Les Deux Amis: “Cantate ’86 Weihnachtskonzert”
17.00 Uhr – Kipferhaus Hinterkappelen Bern
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