Opening Concert: Lada Fedorova & Frederik Munk Larsen
We welcome you to this year’s opening concert!
Violinist Lada Fedorova and guitarist Frederik Munk Larsen present a program that focuses on both gentle and temperamental music from Southern Europe and South America.
The Concert
The famous violin virtuoso and composer, Niccolo Paganini, was also an avid guitarist and wrote a long list of works for both violin and guitar. Including a collection of beautiful sonatas from which they have selected their favorites.
The compatriot and megastar in London and Vienna in the early 19th century, Mauro Guiliani, represents the cultivated Viennese classical aesthetic in the beautiful “Grande Sonate”.
From Spain, they play virtuoso and temperamental dance pieces by Pablo Sarasate and Manuel de Falla.
In Astor Piazzolla’s modern tangos, the longing is combined with a physical, moving expression – music that gets both the musicians and the audience on their feet.
The Artists
Lada Fedorova
Czech violinist Lada Fedorova studied at the Prague Conservatory and the Janacek Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. Later, she continued her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Aarhus and the West Jutland Academy of Music in Esbjerg in Denmark, where she completed her studies with a debut from the Soloist Class.
Prizewinner at several international competitions, including in Dolný Kubín, Slovakia, Concertino Praga in the Czech Republic, the International Competition in Zabrze in Poland and the first prize from Radio Katowice, Poland. In 2012, she was awarded an award by Her Royal Highness Princess Marie.
She has participated in masterclasses with the world’s leading violinists, such as J. Epstein, Isaac Stern, Vaclav Hudecek and Cenek Pavlik. She has recorded two CDs. “Romance from Andalousie – virtuous dances of Pablo de Sarasate” and “Czech Violin Romance”. The latest CD includes, among others, the world premiere of the violin concerto by J.V. Kalivoda with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
She was a member of the Czech Philharmonic College, and concertmaster of the Czech Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist she has performed with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra, the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Archi Ensemble and the Czech Symphony Orchestra. She is very active as a soloist at various international music festivals and solo concerts.
Lada currently plays an 18th century violin (year 1757) made by Giovanni Battista Gabrielli from Cremona, Italy.
Frederik Munk Larsen
Guitarist Frederik Munk Larsen has achieved great recognition for his inspired interpretations of music from the Renaissance to the present day. This has led to reviews such as: “Rigour and spontaneity crackle through every bar” (The Gramophone, UK), “From a masterful Lagrima to the final de Falla with all the depth of nuances and subtlety demanded by the work” (Diario de Sevilla) or “Smeltende guitarspil” (Politiken).
Concert tours take him to festivals in North and South America, all of Europe, and Asia, as a soloist and as a chamber musician in, among others, Curious Chamber Players and Aarhus Sinfonietta. He collaborates with singers such as Peter Lodahl, Klara Ek and Ekaterina Bakanova and has been a soloist with orchestras such as Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. In 2023 he was a soloist with the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir, on a tour to Germany, which included, among others, included a concert in Thomas Church in Leipzig – J. S. Bach’s own church.
He is educated in Aarhus, Cologne and Barcelona.
Debut from the soloist class in 2001 and now head teacher of guitar at the Jutland Academy of Music in Aarhus, where he leads a successful class.
He regularly gives master classes abroad and participates in 19 CD recordings. He is the winner of several awards both as a soloist and chamber musician at international music competitions.
Composers such as Bent Sørensen, Simon Steen-Andersen, Svend Nielsen, Rei Munakata, Ailis Ni Riain, Erika Vega and Niels Rønsholdt have composed solo works for him.