Celebrated young musicians to make UK debut at St Andrews

Monday 7 October 2024
Two celebrated young musicians from Germany are set to make their UK debut at the University of St Andrews Laidlaw Music Centre later this month.

 

Baritone Jonas Müller and pianist Anna Gebhardt will make their UK debut in St Andrews on Friday 25 October in a concert that reflects both artists’ focus on the art of German song. The concert will include music by Schubert, Hugo Wolf (excerpts from Mörike Lieder) and the Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann by Frank Martin.

 

Jonas Müller has, at the age of just 25, already recorded with Sony Classics and performed at various international festivals in Germany, Denmark and Spain, among others. Jonas has performed at the Berlin Philharmonie and worked with artists including Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside and Julius Drake. He is currently studying Lieder, German songs with piano accompaniment,  with renowned German baritone and bass singer Christian Gerharer. Together with pianist Anna Gebhardt, Jonas made his debut at the Konzerthaus in Berlin in 2023 and has won numerous awards including, very recently, at the Internationalen Wettbewerb für Liedkunst Stuttgart, 2024.

Anna Gebhardt is an award-winning young German pianist specialising in song accompaniment. During 2025 she will perform with the renowned tenor Julian Prégardien in recitals in Strasbourg, having already appeared with one of today’s greatest Lieder singers, tenor Christoph Prégardien. Anna has won multiple awards, including first prize at the Gasteig Competition, with Jonas Müller.

Laidlaw Music Centre Head of Programming Chris Bragg commented: “It’s a considerable coup for the University of St Andrews to secure the first-ever UK performance by two of Europe’s most exceptional young artists in the field of art song. Jonas Müller has an extraordinary voice and an ability to communicate texts with audiences which is vanishingly rare for someone so young. The McPherson Recital Room is one of the finest spaces in Europe for art song performance; this will be looked back on as an “I was there” moment in future years.”

The concert will take place in the McPherson Recital Room at the Laidlaw Music Centre, tickets can be booked in adavnce online via the Byre Theatre.


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