Chamber Concert
19 April 2007
Julius Schwahn, born in Aachen in 1976 and raised in the Eifel, received his first violin lessons at the age of seven. After forays into blues and jazz, he finally began his studies at the Cologne/Aachen University of Music with Alexis Vincent and Prof. Michael Vaimann.
Lessons in Berlin with Prof. Tomasz Tomaszewski followed.
He gained orchestral experience in, among others, the North Rhine-Westphalia State Youth Orchestra (Landesjugendorchester NRW) and as concertmaster of the Junges Symphonieorchester Aachen. Concert tours with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, also as section leader, took him to India, Korea and South America and across Europe.
In 1996 the Lions Club made it possible for him to record a CD with his piano partner.
In 2004 he took over the solo part in the world premiere of the violin concerto by Uri Rom, accompanied by the Young Symphony Orchestra of the Free University of Berlin. He has also performed violin concertos by Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi and Prokofiev with orchestral accompaniment.
He works as a freelance chamber musician, plays in the Irish folk band Clover, performs regularly with the Berliner Symphoniker as well as in the Ludos Quartett and with the Kaffeephoniker, is a section leader in the Kammerakademie Berlin and teaches privately and at a conservatoire.
Antonis Anissegos, born in 1970, had his first piano lessons at the age of seven. He studied at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki (E. Xenariou), where he received his piano diploma in 1991. Afterwards he extended his piano studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest (A. Láslo). At the same time he began studying composition there (G. Orbán), which he continued in 1992 at the University of Music in Vienna (K. Schwertzig) and from 1995 at the Cologne University of Music (K. Meyer). In parallel he also studied jazz piano with John Taylor in Cologne. In 1997 he graduated there with a diploma in composition. Until 2002 he was a master student of W. Zimmermann at the Berlin University of the Arts.
His composition scholarships include K. Nikitas – Thessaloniki, Alban Berg – Vienna, and Weimar, European Capital of Culture 1999.
He has performed his solo and chamber music and his orchestral and stage works in various European cities, among others with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Piandaemonium, Ensemble Mosaik, Ensemble Cornucopia, the Thessaloniki State Orchestra, the Farbenorchester Athen and the Junge Philharmonie Thüringen.
Antonis Anissegos lives in Berlin as a freelance musician. (www.enstase.com)
