Dominik Wagner Kontrabassquartett - „Double Bass Rhapsody“
Friday, June 6, 2025, 9:30 PM
Kulturforum Franziskanerkloster, Paterskirche
Dominik Wagner Double Bass Quartet
Dominik Wagner, Felix Leissner, José Trigo & Todor Marcovich, double bass
“Double Bass Rhapsody” – Works by Bruckner, Piazzolla, Dvořák, Barber, Glanert, Freddie Mercury & Europe
Dominik Wagner excellently knows how to free his instrument from the shadowy existence and present new facets of the double bass. He achieves this not only with engaging stage presence, impressive virtuosity, and melodic singing line. His tireless commitment to expanding the repertoire, whether through composition commissions or the search for rarities, allows the double bass to resonate with a new diversity. He arranged Dvořák's fragments of the cello concerto in A major into the double bass concerto in D major with his father, composer Wolfram Wagner, which premiered at KKL Lucerne in the summer of 2023. At just mid-20s, Wagner is a professor at the University of Music in Würzburg, a scholarship holder of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, and an ECHO Klassik winner. In 2022, he was awarded the “Opus Klassik” as a young artist. He is also a prize winner in nearly all double bass competitions.
In addition to his solo activities, he is a passionate chamber musician, playing in a duo with pianist Lauma Skride as well as with jazz double bassist Georg Breinschmid, in a trio with clarinetist Sebastian Manz and Danae Dörken (piano), or in his own double bass quartet with colleagues from the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the BR Symphony Orchestra, and the NDR Radiophilharmonie.
Nachtmusik - The quite different concert experience!
Short but intense: The Kempener Nachtmusiken last for a good hour (without a break). The wonderful space of the Paterskirche can appear pure: it is completely empty but atmospherically lit. We forget the usual concert rituals. You seek your place wherever and however you want - on the carpet, in the choir stalls, leaned against the wall. Perhaps you lie down and listen to the music with a view of the church's vaulted ceiling? Or you bring something small to sit on. The music, the artists who make the space resonate, are of the kind that cannot be filed away. “U”- and “E”-music are not meaningful categories for them. But highest intensity, professional quality, and an audience that engages with the unheard – that is what matters to you/us.
We will not be too many, as this kind of musical enjoyment does not thrive in large numbers. In short: Unusual artists, unusual music, unusual time, unusual form. And unusual audience?
If you come a little earlier, you can still have a drink beforehand: the beverage sales start at 9 PM.
The concert is unseated! Please remember to bring your seating!
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