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Bejun Mehta – Many Loves, One Voice

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"The thing that attracts me to conducting is that we get the chance to paint with an enormous brush. I play the violin as well, that is a much smaller paint brush. It’s still music, it’s still me, but the kind of colors that you can paint with an orchestra is incredible."

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, London Symphony Orchestra Blog, December 2014

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Welcome BEJUN MEHTA!

Meldung ansehen

"A young quartet is a chaotic mix of influences and aspirations which need to molded over time into a distinct and coherent voice. This process takes a great deal of time, sacrifice and patience, all of which are often in short supply in the most important years of a quartet's formation."

Cuarteto Casals, Fifteen Questions, 2017

"Performing complete cycles of all Beethoven sonatas has changed my life. One starts to look for connections; one needs two years to get close to the musical language. I've found connections encompassing all sonatas. Pablo Picasso expressed it well: I do not search – I find."

Saleem Ashkar, Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 2016

"The thing that captivates me about conducting is that we have the chance to paint with a huge brush. I also play the violin, which is a much smaller brush. It's music too, it's still me, but the kind of colors you can paint with an orchestra are incredible."

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, London Symphony Orchestra Blog, December 2014

"In the end - and this I learned from Harnoncourt - one cannot be certain about anything, it remains unprovable. The only option is to feel it, to create something beautiful with taste. This he taught me - to look the human side. "

Ariane Matiakh, VAN Magazin, September 2018

"What I feel is most beautiful, however, is one of these moments in opera when one is completely lonely, when one sheds the tear which one has all by oneself. If then you suceed in having people breathe with you, you're lonely indeed but not by yourself. "

Georg Nigl, VAN, February 2017

"The desire to be loved can become a real enemy. It can very much stand in our way when it comes to reaching a truly free interpretation, where you say, 'Bach is like this for me. I love you guys, but I will not compromise, because something more important is at stake.'"

Jean-Guihen Queyras, VAN, December 2017

"You need to implement immediately the ideas you have inside. Don't think about how to place your fingers, then it won't work. It has to come automatically, so to speak. You have to watch what I'm doing, but you can't stop."

Miklós Perényi, Fono Forum, January 2018

"I'm looking for a distillation. This point is the most the sublime, when nothing is superfluous."

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, Concerti, April 2015

"The music we are performing can be personal, but you have to share it whether it is a symphony, or a concerto, or chamber music, or even if it's solo music. If it's alone, you have to listen to yourself, and to the silence which accompanies you. You have to share it with the silence around you."

Marc Bouchkov, violonist.com, May 2013

Welcome BEJUN MEHTA!

With great joy, we welcome Bejun Mehta to our list. “Perhaps the most sophisticated and musically satisfying of today ́s countertenors” (Opera News, 2018) inspires all over the world singing the major roles of his repertoire as well as presenting his award-winning CD and concert programs ranging from baroque to contemporary music in all big concert halls.

In recent years, Bejun Mehta has also successfully made a name for himself as a conductor. In addition to his focus on working on the repertoire of the baroque and early classical periods with modern orchestras, his particular emphasis is on the combination between orchestra and voice.

With immediate effect, we will take over Bejun Mehta’s general management as singer and conductor – we are very much looking forward to an exciting joint path!

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