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Since 2013, the Yehudi Menuhin Forum has been organizing chamber music concerts with outstanding performers under the artistic direction of Bernese pianist Hiroko Sakagami.
Without timpani and trumpets, a concert series of the smallest scale and greatest significance was established in 2013 on Helvetiaplatz in Bern, near the historical museum: the Forum Kammermusik - five concerts under the artistic direction of pianist Hiroko Sakagami, with the participation of outstanding musicians from Switzerland and abroad, such as the Carmina Quartet, Erich Höbarth, Patrick and Thomas Demenga and many others.
The concept is as simple as it is convincing: chamber music with piano is played in the acoustically well-sounding room of the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in various instrumentations of strings and winds from the classical, romantic and more recent periods. The concerts - always on Sundays - start at 5 pm and last around 90 minutes. Afterwards, an après-concert in the basement offers the opportunity to come into direct contact with the musicians over food and drink.
The concert series is supported by a small group of music enthusiasts and prominent personalities such as Thomas Füri, Alexander Wick, Michael Kaufmann and Werner Schmitt under the honorary patronage of the President of the Swiss Confederation Simonetta Sommaruga.
At the next concert (Sunday, November 29, 2015), Erich Höbarth (violin), Patrick Demenga (violoncello) and Hiroko Sakagami (piano) will perform works by W.A. Mozart (Trio in E major KV 542), Alfred Schnittke (Piano Trio 1985/1992) and Franz Schubert (Trio in E flat major, D. 929)
More details under www.forumkammermusik.ch
