Matinée des Jeunes Etoiles VIII – Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Prize Winners

Chamber Music

Saturday, 2 September 2023
11.30 am, Gstaad Chapel

Cellist Samuel Niederhauser is anything but a stranger to the Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy! A disciple of Thomas Grossenbacher in Zurich and an unranked laureate of the last Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, he appeared as a soloist in 2016 in a movement of the Elgar Concerto with the Gstaad Festival Youth Orchestra and last summer played with the students of the Conducting Academy in Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. He shares the stage here with the Belarusian pianist Denis Linnik, a student of Claudio Martínez and Zoltán Fejérvári in Basel, who has also already distinguished himself in the context of the event: in the summer of 2019, under the vaults of the same Gstaad chapel, where he accompanied the “Jeune Etoile” Dmitry Smirnov. He has just released his first CD on KNS Classical, entitled “Night Wind” and dedicated to Janáček, Brahms and Medtner.