27 August, Monday, 7.30 pm The Tempel Synagogue, ul. Miodowa 24 Sinfonietta Cracovia Michael Martin Kofler flute, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 1791) DIVERTIMENTO in D major, K.136 Allegro Andante Presto FLUTE CONCERTO No. 1 in G major K.313 Allegro maestoso Adagio ma non troppo Rondo: Tempo di Menuetto * * * Carl Stamitz (1745 1801) CONCERTO for Flute in G Major, Op. 29 Allegro Andante non troppo moderato Rondo Allegro Franz Schubert (1797 1828) SYMPHONY No. 5, in B major, D.485 Allegro Andante con moto Menuetto. Allegro molto Allegro vivace
Michael Martin Kofler was born in 1966 in Villach and finished his studies with highest marks at the Academy of Music in Vienna with prof.wolfgang Schulz and prof. Werner Tripp and at the Music Academy Bassel with Peter-Lukas Graf. During this time he also attended masterclasses with Aurele Nicolet and André Jaunet. In 1987 Michael Martin Kofler became principal flutist of the Gustav-Mahler-Youth-Orchestra under the leadership of Claudio Abbado, in December 1987 Maestro Sergiu Celibidache engaged him as 1.principal flutist of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was playing under the leadership of James Levine, Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel and now Valery Gergiev. Already since his early youth Michael Martin Kofler won several prizes at international competitions, such as Prague, Brussels, Bari, Uelzen and the ARD-competition Munich. He was awarded the Price of the Austrian Ministry of Art and Science. Since 1983 Michael Martin Kofler is giving solo concerts, recitals, chamber music evenings in whole Europe and Japan and has been engaged for CD and radio recordings as well as TV performances. He is a regular popular guest with more than 90 renowned orchestras like The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the big Symphony Orchestras of Munich, Stuttgart, Prague, Moskow, Salzburg, Linz, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Calgary, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Mexico, Osaka, Kyoto, Zagreb, Warszawa, Belgrade, and the Chamber Orchestras of Munich, Vienna, Stuttgart, the Zagreb Soloists, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitain Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Budapest String Soloists, the Berlin Barock Orchestra, the Virtuosi di Praga, the Classical Polish Philharmonic, the Austrian Chamber Orchestra and the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn etc. He worked together as soloist with famous conductors like James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Fabio Luisi, Dimitri Kitajenko, Herbert Blomstedt, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, Bruno Weil, Hans Graf, Milan Horvat, Hubert Soudant, Andrey Boreyko, Pawel Przytocki, Katsushi Ono, Gunther Schuller, Pavel Kogan etc. As chambermusician he plays together with the pianists Paul Badura-Skoda, Irwin Gage, Stefan Vladar, Stephan Kiefer and Ikuyo Nakamichi, the guitarist Konrad Ragossnig, the harpists Regine Kofler (his wife), Han An Liu, Sarah O Brian and Xavier de Maistre, the clarinettist Martin Spangenberg, the string players Benjamin Streicher, Veronika Hagen, Clemens Hagen as well as the Mandelring Quartett and the Mozart-Quartett Salzburg.
Sinfonietta Cracovia is a Cracow institution of culture working as an orchestra. In 1994 it took the present name, got a patronage of the President of the City and received a status of the Orchestra of the Capital Royal City of Cracow. The commitment of Elżbieta and Krzysztof Penderecki had a great significance in all that. The first artistic director of the orchestra was a violinist and conductor Robert Kabara and since July 2014 the orchestra is led by Jerzy Dybał. The associates of Sinfonietta are Krzysztof Penderecki, Christoph Eschenbach, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Rudolf Bucbinder, Misha Majsky, Pieter Wispelwey, Ilya Gringolts, Antoni Wit, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Barry Douglas, Kaja Danczowska, Irena Grafenauer, Tabea Zimmermann. Sinfonietta Cracovia has concerted in such European music halls as Berliner Philharmonic Hall, Konzerthaus in Berlin, Herkules Saal in Munich, Kurhaus in Wiesbaden, Casino Hall in Bassel, Theatre Mogador in Paris, the Halls of Music Conservatory and Mariinsky Theatre in Petersburg, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Italian Theatres in Brescia, Naples and Parma, National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, Tonhalle in Zurich. Among the numerous recordings of the Orchestra are: TV productions for BBC Classical Music Television, Polish Television, TV Arte and CDs recorded for Arion, CD Accord Music Edition and DUX.
TEMPEL SYNAGOGUE was built in 1860 1862, probably according to the design of the architect Ignacy Hercok. lt was rebuilt and extended three times: in 1868, in the end of 19th century and in 1924. Synagogue was famous for the services of enlarge liturgy; for singing and sermons preached in Polish and German by renowned, university educated speakers, and also many innovations causing protests and outrage of orthodox Jews. The interior of this large synagogue is decorated with stuccos, stylising designs on the walls and interesting stained-glass windows. lt was a synagogue of enlightened Jews. Even before the First World War and in interwar period the famous rabbi and preacher Abraham Jcsaja Thon who was distinguished person in Europe were preaching here. 24th October 1990 in Tempel Synagogue a memorable concert took place, which was organised in favour of Polish-Jewish reconciliation. Putting the Star of David on the wall of the synagogue, removed in 1939 by the Nazis commemorated this event. The organiser of this unusual artistic event was the United Jewish Appeal, and Gilbert Levin conducted the orchestra. transl. Renata Włodek 131