法國五月藝術節 貝多芬第二鋼琴協奏曲

柏鵬 (音樂總監)

享負盛名的指揮家、小提琴家、室樂演奏家及音樂教育家柏鵬，於2023/2024樂季起正式出任香港小交響樂團音樂總監，帶領樂團發掘更多音樂發展的可能，並與桂冠音樂總監葉詠詩和副指揮葉詠媛緊密合作，繼續讓香港及海外觀眾感受到音樂的美妙與力量。本樂季柏鵬執棒重點節目包括細川俊夫小提琴協奏曲的香港首演、肯特里奇《噢，信是彼邦》之亞洲首演、科隆WDR電台合唱團首度與樂團合作的巴赫《聖誕神曲》和全新的《大師灼見》系列，以及率領樂團於葡萄牙馬爾旺國際音樂節閉幕音樂會演出。

柏鵬現同時是科隆室樂團首席指揮，以色列室樂團首席客席指揮及葡萄牙馬爾旺國際音樂節藝術總監。他於2015/2016樂季起擔任香港小交響樂團首席客席指揮，期間於「相約大師柏鵬系列」中為香港觀眾帶來豐富及新鮮的曲目，當中包括不少德奧經典及當代作品。他曾帶領樂團於德國及葡萄牙演出，並且是香港國際指揮大賽評審團之聯合主席。

柏鵬於1995至2006年間擔任慕尼黑室樂團藝術總監，在短時間內即令樂團實力大增，形象煥然一新。2006年他被委任為薩爾布呂肯電台交響樂團音樂總監，2007年至2011年出任新的德意志電台愛樂樂團的音樂總監。柏鵬合作過的樂團包括維也納交響樂團、德累斯頓國家樂團、柏林德意志交響樂團、底特律交響樂團、法國電台愛樂、班貝格交響樂團、薩爾茨堡室樂團、荷蘭電台愛樂、海牙愛樂、巴西聖保羅交響樂團、印第安納波利斯交響樂團、首爾愛樂、新日本愛樂及新加坡交響樂團等。他在意大利亦演出頻繁，常與當地頂尖樂團合作，並在多個藝術節如威尼斯雙年音樂節中亮相和主持大師班。

柏鵬於2014年所創辦的葡萄牙馬爾旺國際音樂節聲譽日隆，國際知名獨奏家紛紛亮相。其他2022/2023樂季重點演出包括與葡萄牙波圖交響樂團合作演出，再度指揮德意志電台愛樂樂團、慕尼黑室樂團及雅典國家樂團，以及繼續與科隆室樂團合作莫扎特彌撒曲全集的灌錄工作。2020至2022年間，他是首爾古典革新音樂節藝術總監，節目策劃極具創意。此外，柏鵬經常為歌劇執棒，先後為斯圖加特國家歌劇院、法蘭克福歌劇院、科隆歌劇院、卡羅費利切劇院、埃森音樂劇院及由魯爾三年展委約的新製作等出任指揮，大獲好評。

柏鵬亦為出色的小提琴家，於1978年聯合創立了凱魯比尼四重奏。他曾任德特莫爾特音樂學院小提琴及室樂教授，其後於1996至2000年出任柏林艾斯勒音樂學院院長，並自2003年起為慕尼黑音樂及戲劇學院小提琴及室樂教授。他於2001至2005年間同時擔任著名的ARD慕尼黑國際音樂比賽藝術總監。2019年成立馬爾旺音樂及藝術國際學院。柏鵬亦於2021/2022年度起出任西班牙著名的索菲亞音樂學院小提琴系系主任。

巴福傑(鋼琴)

Born in 1987 near Brussels, Belgium, Julien Libeer’s earliest musical memory was the famous documentary on the recording of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. The piano, which he took up at age six, quickly became the faithful companion for expressing a love of music that thrives as much on opera, orchestra, and chamber music as on the piano repertoire.

For five decisive years, French-Polish pedagogue Jean Fassina was the patient, demanding, wise teacher that any aspiring musician should have the chance to encounter. This experience was followed by the equally intense collaboration with Maria João Pires at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, whose advice and support strongly influenced Julien’s views over the last few years.

Julien has performed at the Barbican Hall (London), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Palau de la Musica (Barcelona), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), and is a regular guest of the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In addition, other tours have taken him to Japan (Tokyo, Sumida Tryphony Hall), Lebanon (Beirut Chants festival), Turkey (Ankara Music Festival) and the US (Miami International Piano Festival). He is an artist in residence at Flagey.

He has performed with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia and New Japan Philharmonic; under conductors including Trevor Pinnock, Jun Märkl, Michel Tabachnik, Augustin Dumay, Hervé Niquet, Joshua Weilerstein and Enrique Mazzola. His dedication to the works of Dinu Lipatti have resulted in warm collaborations with the Bucarest Radio Orchestra, among others.

An accomplished chamber musician, he works on a regular basis with Augustin Dumay, Camille Thomas, Frank Braley, Maria João Pires and Lorenzo Gatto, with whom he has performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas over several seasons (at venues including Wigmore Hall, Louvre and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam).

Highlights of last seasons have included invitations of the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Wigmore Hall, Flagey (Brussels) and the Steinway International Concert Series (Cardiff). He was a guest at the Enescu Festival, the Beirut Chants Festival, the Miami International Piano Festival and has performed chamber music concerts at De Doelen (Rotterdam), the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Charleroi) and the Théâtre des Abesses (Paris).

Other recent highlights include the completion of Julien’s complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas recording with Lorenzo Gatto (Alpha Classics), which won the Diapason d’or de l’Année 2016; his debut concerto album featuring Lipatti’s Concertino for piano and orchestra and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat major, KV 595 (Les Métamorphoses Orchestra and conductor Raphaël Feye, on Evil Penguin Records). In addition, he was the recipient of an Echo Klassik Award in 2017 for his album with cellist Camille Thomas. Julien has then moved on to sign with Harmonia Mundi International, releasing an adventurous Bach –Bartók in 2020, followed in 2022 by A Well-tempered Conversation, a conceptual take on Bach’s iconic Well-Tempered Keyboard.

Julien Libeer has studied with Daniel Blumenthal (Royal Conservatory of Brussels), Jean Fassina (Paris) and Maria João Pires, and is an associate artist of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, where he also specialized in chamber music with the members of the Artemis Quartet. Furthermore, he has received the advice of Dmitry Bashkirov, Alfred Brendel, Nelson Delle Vigne-Fabbri, Jura Margulis and Gerhard Schulz (Alban Berg Quartet).

Beyond concertizing, Julien is driven to initiate or collaborate in projects which are rooted in the idea that music, far beyond its esthetic value, can be a force of change for anyone willing to listen. Amongst these projects was Julien hosting a Belgian TV series, that made a case for musical storytelling. He furthermore hosts the Salon Libeer concert series at the Bruges Concertgebouw, in which he joins a fellow musician and a speaker (e.g. philosopher, historian, author), as well as the lecture series Dead or Alive, a philosophical exploration of the shifts in classical music making (in collaboration with LUCA School of Arts and the Catholic University of Leuven.

As the artistic director of the Singing Molenbeek project, he supervises high level choir rehearsals in the primary schools of a Brussels suburb famous for all kinds of wrong reasons. It is Julien’s hope that introducing these children to music, with all its demands and rewards, will help them grow personally and socially.

平沙爾 Matthias PINTSCHER (作曲)