Série jeunes: Lionel & Demian Martin

Lionel and Demian Martin have long been a well-rehearsed duo. The brothers have already played various concerts together. However, they never lose sight of their own projects. Demian Martin, for example, is not just a pianist. He is also a composer, improvisation artist and producer of film music. His brother Lionel Martin, for whom the concert in the Kleine Tonhalle is more or less a home game as a student at the ZHdK, has been intensively involved in the concert world for a long time: "Giving concerts is probably my greatest passion of all. It gives me the feeling that I can fully unfold and assume a special presence in front of an audience that I'm not used to otherwise." Lionel Martin proved that there is also a lot of knowledge behind this passion at the "Ton und Erklärung" competition in 2022, where he not only had to play the piece, but also discuss it. With Dmitri Shostakovich's first cello concerto, he obviously succeeded in doing this very convincingly - as the youngest finalist. And he did so at the age of 19, having been voted "SWR2 New Talent" a year earlier. This choice probably reflects his early and deep interest in 20th century composers. The concert is also an indication of this, as the two brothers dedicate themselves not only to a cello sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven, but also to those by Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Rachmaninov.

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