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Dudok Music Festival
From May 22 to 25 there will be a beautiful chamber music festival:
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Trio on tour March ’25
Izhar Elias, Alon Sariel (mandolin) and Michael Tsalka (harpsichord/fortepiano) will give 3 concerts:
March 9th: Culemborg (Netherlands)
March 10th: Münster (Germany)
March 26th: Tel-Aviv (Israel)
Works by a.o. Braun, Ben-Haim, Scarlatti, Beethoven and Hummel
See “events” for more information
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Beethoven 7/Giuliani
Info & tickets for Beethoven/Giuliani in Utrecht (January 24th): click HERE
January 24th and 25th ’25 Izhar Elias will perform Mauro Giuliani’s 2nd concerto (opus 36) together with award winning string quartet PuraCorda (first prize Van Wassenaer Competition, Eemerging ensemble ’23), in Utrecht and in Katwijk.
The other part of the program consists of a historical chamber music version of Beethoven’s 7th symphony, played by PuraCorda plus violist Femke Huizinga.
It is a concert about the relation between Beethoven and Giuliani. Giuliani played the cello during the première of Beethoven’s 7th symphony in Vienna in 1813. One year earlier Giuliani had premiered his duzzling 2nd concerto.
Izhar will play on 2 original early 19th century guitars:
an original Carlo Guadagnini guitar from the time of Giuliani’s 2nd concerto premiere (1812)
and a Georg Stauffer guitar from Vienna, the same kind Giuliani could have been played.
Beethoven/Giuliani in Utrecht
Beethoven/Giuliani in Katwijk
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Summer course in France
From June 29th until July 6th guitarists Izhar Elias and Fernando Riscado Cordas will be giving a summer course in the picturesque Bel Any in the village of Any-Martin-Rieux (France).
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La Guitaromanie on tour
In May and June Izhar Elias will continue touring with his solo program La Guitaromanie.
May 20th: Vorden (sold out)
May 26th: Almere
June 16th: Enkhuizen
See Event page
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La Guitaromanie
For a brief period in the early 19th century, the guitar enjoyed a veritable hype. Salons in Paris and Vienna hosted musical soirees where the latest compositions were performed for an intimate audience.
With your help an album can be produced recreating this unique 19th century guitar hype.
Crowdfunding
You can contribute to the world premiere recordings of pieces by guitar virtuosos Molino, Gragnani and Carulli, played on 3 original 19th century guitars by the most famous luthiers of the time. Other rarely heard pieces by Matiegka will be also released on the album.
These pieces are a great discovery. Let’s make it possible to show these treasures to the rest of the world.
La Guitaromanie will be released by Cobra Records, in very high audio quality.THIS is the crowdfunding link on voordekunst.nl
Thank you!
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The Folly: fake news transformed into art
The Folly is on tour: September and October in Amersfoort and Groningen.
See calendar for the exact details
Izhar Elias: Renaissance guitar, baroque guitar, romantic guitar, modern classical guitar, electric guitar
Paul and Menno de Nooijer: video artThe Folly Is a performance by Izhar Elias, Paul de Nooijer and Menno de Nooijer. Izhar plays the ancient chords of the Folia and other music on his guitars. Paul&Menno provide a surprising spectacle through projections.We see a temple, or rather a small temple. Well, is it actually a temple?The structure we see, also called a folly, was built purely for decoration in 19th-century gardens.As a passerby you were fooled (folly means foolish). Such a characteristic building is central to THE FOLLY.
Is it a temple or the projection of a temple? Which guitarist is real and which is a life-size projection? What am I seeing? Is it real or not? What reality are we actually looking at? Projections on screens, sheets, smoke and bodies. Photo animations play a major role, but when do the photos turn into video or into reality? -
Bosgraaf & Elias 20 years! Premieres
Now on YouTube
Recorder player Erik Bosgraaf and guitar player Izhar Elias have asked fifteen composers they have worked with in the last twenty years to compose a miniature composition of (about) twenty seconds for their 20 years anniversary
Film by Jochem van der Heide, 29 September 2022, Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden.
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October 22nd: Gitaar a/d Sluis
Guitar duo Izhar Elias and Fernando Riscado Cordas will give the closing concert of the new festival Gitaar aan de Sluis in Leidschendam.
They will play on various guitars works by a.o. Schubert, Rodrigo and Granados.October 22nd, 20:15
Dorpskerk
Delftsekade 7, LeidschendamGuitar duo Elias/Cordas in Leidschendam
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20 year anniversary Bosgraaf&Elias
September 29th Duo Bosgraaf&Elias will celebrate its 20 year anniversary with a special concert in Leiden.
20 Years of adventurous new and old music.
Especially for this celebration 15 composers have written a miniature.
Compositions by a.o.: De Roo, Auvinen, Tamminga, Räisänen, Charlton, Smetanin, Pisati, Sainsbury
