Spring awakening and concert at Pütnitz Castle

Sat. 15.03. | from 15:00 hrs | € 30,00

Next date: 15/03/2025, 03:00 pm in Ribnitz-Damgarten

In anticipation of spring, musical highlights can be heard at Pütnitz. String trios by Bach, Beethoven and Martinů will be played by Henja Semmler (violin), Simone von Rahden (viola) and Antoaneta Emanuflova (cello). The artists will present the program, providing the audience with musical insights and an understanding of the works performed. Those interested are cordially invited to coffee and cake from 15:00 for 30.00 euros. After the concert - starting at 4 p.m. - all guests are invited to enjoy a drink and chat with the musicians. Due to the limited number of seats, a reservation is necessary at info@schloss-puetnitz.de or Tel: 01575 603 95 94 - Klassik Ahoy -.

Henja Semmler studied with Rainer Kussmaul, Thomas Brandis and Gerhard Schulz, among others, and has won prizes and awards, e.g. at the L. Spohr Competition, the German Music Competition and the German University Competition.
In 2006, she founded the Oberon Trio, with which she has since performed in major halls and at renowned festivals and released several CDs.
She has performed with chamber music partners such as Tabea Zimmermann, Jörg Widmann and Ian Bostridge at Musikfest Berlin, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and the Lucerne Festival, as well as at the invitation of Claudio Abbado at the "Berliner Begegnungen".

Henja Semmler was a founding member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. She has been engaged as a guest concertmaster by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Ensemble Resonanz, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Kammerakademie Potsdam, among others.

Teaching is an important part of her work. In 2018, she took up a violin professorship at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna. Since the winter semester 2023/24, she has been teaching as a violin professor at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. Master classes and jury activities take her to Germany and abroad.

Violist Simone von Rahden enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral musician and teacher.
She studied viola at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Wolfram Christ and at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann, where she passed her concert exam with distinction in 2011. She has received further prizes and scholarships at national and international youth competitions as well as from the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Foundation, the German Foundation for Musical Life, the Jütting Foundation in Stendal and from Claudio Abbado, who passed on the prize awarded to him by the Düsseldorf Kythera Foundation to young up-and-coming musicians.

Her first engagements took her to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the Orchestra Mozart Bologna and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra while she was still a student. She has been a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2009 and has also been active in the Spira mirabilis project since 2007. She was also principal violist in the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from 2016 to 2021.

Simone von Rahden has performed as a soloist with renowned orchestras such as the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. As a chamber musician, she can be heard regularly throughout Europe, in recent years also increasingly with ensembles on historical instruments such as the Quartetto Bernardini and her string quintet "Spunicunifait".

Simone von Rahden has been a lecturer for viola at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin since 2014. She also taught viola at the Rostock University of Music and Drama from October 2020 until she took over the professorship for string chamber music there in October 2023.

Antoaneta Emanuilova is internationally active as a chamber musician, soloist, solo cellist and lecturer.
She was born in Bulgaria and moved to Germany at the age of seven. She completed her studies with Wolfgang Boettcher and Jens Peter Maintz in Berlin and with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School in New York. At the same time, she was a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica, the German Foundation for Musical Life and the Baden-Württemberg State Collection.

Antoaneta Emanuilova regularly gives international concerts as a soloist and has received several awards, including first prize at the Domenico Gabrielli Competition in Berlin and the Grand Prix of the international competition "Music and Earth".
She was principal cellist of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and a member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. As first solo cellist, she worked regularly with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer and made guest appearances with leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and SWR Stuttgart. During the Claudio Abbado era, she was a member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.

Emanuilova currently devotes most of her time to chamber music and teaching. She has performed with artists such as Jörg Widmann, Nils Mönkemeyer, Anna Prohaska, Amihai Grosz and the Kuss Quartet. She has been a member of the Oberon Trio since 2012.

She has taught her own cello class at the Rostock University of Music and Drama for over ten years.