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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
September 7th 7.30pm London
Benedict Kloeckner is happy and proud to open the season with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. He will play two concertos , including the first performance of Howard Blake´s double concerto.The evening programme commemorates the 20th anniversary of Lady Dianas death.
Hindemith/Metzmacher
October, 2rd/ 3rd Rosengarten
Hindemith Cello concerto with Ingo Metzmacher /Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
New CD with Anna Fedorova
Franck/ Chopin Cello/Piano Sonatas
UK/ US release of the new Album with Anna Fedorova!
If you want to check it out,
it is right now the “CD of the week “ on the Dutch radio.
http://www.radio4.nl/lichtopvier/nieuws-pagina/17170/prijs-cd-week-25-chopin-en-franck-door-kloeckner-fedorova
Many thanks to everyone involved, the German Radio SWR2 , Brilliant Classics, Steven Isserlis, András Schiff, Hartmut Höll , Rob Groen, Kate Adams ,Marco Borggreve , Cristine Ehman and our dear professors!
Verbier Festival
August 1st
Late night concert
Schubert “Trout”
Freunde San Luzi Engadin
August 3rd 8pm Zuoz San Luzi
Mahler, Brahms:
Sebastian Bohren Violine & Lech Uszynsky Viola & Danae Dörken Piano
KLASSIK RADIO ON AIR AKTUELL
July 28thBenedict Kloeckner zu Gast
Star Cellist Live in der Holger Wemhoff Show
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International Manhattan Music Competition
New York
First Prize for Benedict Kloeckner
“Manhattan International Music Competition is designed
to discover artists of outstanding personality”
Kammermusiktage Mettlach
August 13th 11am
Tschaikowsky/Rachmaninoff Trio Anna Fedorova Piano. Franziska Hölscher Violine
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Molyvos Musikfestival
August 14th-18thMolyvos Greece
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International Music Festival Koblenz
Koblenz 31th August-15th October
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
7th September 8pm Cadogan Hall
Memorial Concert Lady Diana with Music from Howard Blake
USA Tournee
September 15th-21th Boston, Chicago
Concerts Schloss Achberg
September 22th8pm Schloss Achberg
Chambermusic with Celine Moinet (Oboe) and Florian Uhlig (Piano)
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International Music Festival Koblenz
September24th 5pm SchlossMontabaur
Bell´Arte Trio and Marc Bouchkov (Violine) Timothy Ridout (Viola)
Dvorak and Schostakowitsch
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Hindemith/Metzmacher
October 2rd/ 3rd Rosengarten
Hindemith Cello concerto with Ingo Metzmacher /Orchester des Nationaltheaters Mannheim
Internationales Musik Festival Koblenz
October 15th Rhein Moselhalle
Elgar Cello Konzert with Youth Orchestra Rheinland Pfalz
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Elbphilharmonie Grosser Saal
October 23th 8pm
Jubliläumskonzert DSM
Heeresmusikkorps Guldakonzert
November 11th 8pm Rheinmosel Halle
Benefizkonzert “Helft uns Leben” RZ with Herresmusikkorps RLP/ Oberstleutnant Schutz-Knospe
Cellokonzert Friedrich Gulda
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USA Tournee
November 27th - December 12th
Las Vegas, Los Angeles , San Francisco, Chicago
Badische Staatskapelle/ Frank Beermann
July 16th/17th/18th Staatstheater
Haydn C-Dur Cello Konzert
Prima la Musica
June 20th Vincennes Paris
Chamber music u.a. with Anna Fedorova
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Tschaikowsky mit Lisa Batiashvili
June 14th Kronberg
“Souvenir de Florence” Streichsextett
Radio 4nl.Live Recording
Amsterdam Concertgebouw
“The Trout” with Anna Fedorova
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First Chamber Music Festival Ede
May 25th 28th Concertzaal Ede
Artistic Directeur Anna Fedorova
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Festkonzert DSM
Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin May 29th
.S.Bach, Brahms und Prokofjew
"SYMPHONYC DIVERSION"
March 17th 9pm Porto/Portugal
Howard Blake “Diversions” Orquestra Sinfonica Porto/Michael Sanderling
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Brahms double concerto
7th-9th.4. Magdeburg, Schönebeck
Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie/Gerald Oskamp
Linus Roth Violine
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Recital with Anna Fedorova
27th March Reutte/Austria
Rachmaninoff and Chopin Cello Sonatas
Wuhan Philharmonic
March 24th7.30pm Wuhan/China
Kabalevsky Cello Concerto No.1
Quintai Concert Hall
Strawinsky. Grieg and Tschaikowsky
22th March 7.30 Lindau Theater
Recital with José Gallardo, Trio with Sebastian Bohren
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Strawinsky, Grieg and Tschaikowsky
21th 7.30 March Liestal (Ch)
Recital with José Gallardo, Trio with Sebastian Bohren
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Strauss /Sir Simon Rattle
March,1st to 3rd Kronberg
Brahms double concerto
24thFebruary Nicosia (Cyprus)
Cyprus national orchestra/ Wolfgang Schneider/ Daniel Raiskin Brahms double concerto
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Brahms double concerto
23thFebruary Limasol (Cyprus)
Cyprus national orchestra/ Wolfgang Schneider/ Daniel Raiskin Brahms double concerto
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Radio Swiss Classic
August 17th
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto a-minor
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"Standing Ovations"
Tonhalle Zürich/Gasteig /Braslien
Live recording follows soon
General Management CLB
Benedict Kloeckner is delighted to announce his signing to global management with CLB management UK
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"Diversions" CD Review
Gapplegate ModernMusicReview 4/2015
“..Benedict Kloeckner takes on the cello role for these works and sounds terrific. Howard Blake himself handles the piano part with dramatic credibility.
, that is Brahmsian…that is Mendelssohnian, etc.” The works hold their own as contemporary music with a pronounced Blakean signature affixed. There is nothing banally “new age” sounding to them either. The music is filled with inventive flourishes that evince a fertile creative mind at work.
The piano parts occasionally step into the spotlight but mostly this is music that gives the cellist a chance to take a singing melodic lead. Kloeckner responds with an extraordinarily vibrant tone and rhapsodic lucidity…”
Grego Applegate Edwards
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WDR 3 Variations Porträt
October 17th 4.05-5.45pm
Benedict Kloeckner im Gespräch
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WDR 3Städtekonzerte
May 25th.25thJune Concertplayer
Schumann Cello Concerto
Wuppertaler Sinfoniker/Toshiyuki Kamioka
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"Delightfully well played"
NDR Kultur CD Kritik
“- daring and intense- Vivacious and effective..
-a terrific conception of remarkably unique pieces.”
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Poulenc CD list of the best
2014 German Critic
Nominated for the German Critic Award
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Deutschlandfunk Live
October 4th 10.05am
Klassik-Pop-El Cetera
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Soulful lyricism
Pizzicato 3th July 2014
”With an unusual but intelligent compiled program (cello sonatas by Richard Straus, Francis Poulenc, and Wolfgang Rihm), the young cellist Benedict Kloeckner presented together with his experienced companion, José Gallardo, on Genuin. Settled in expression between rousing drive and soulful lyricism, a dialogue-rich, color-varied program is concluded that the cellist as technically well versed and highly musical performer identifies (GEN 14313). “Remy Franck
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CD Review
"Das Orchester" 2/ 2015
Das cellistische Hauptwerk der CD ist allerdings Gaspar Cassadós dreisätzige Suite für Cello solo aus dem Jahr 1925, deren vielschichtigen improvisatorischen wie tänzerischen Impulsen (inklusive Daphnis-Zitat nach Ravel) Benedict Kloeckner mit flexibler Tongebung und großem, risikobereitem Elan voll gerecht wird. Mit subtilem Charme und immer kontrolliertem Geschmack serviert er Piècen wie Isaac Albéniz’ Rumores de la caleta, Rodion Shchedrins Parodie Im Stile von Albéniz oder das im Anfangsgestus an Sibelius’ Valse triste angelehnte Goyescas-Intermezzo von Enrique Granados in der Cello-/Klavier-Fassung von Cassadó. Von dem großen katalanischen Casals-Schüler Cassadó (1897-1966) stammen auch die weniger bekannten, höchst wirkungsvollen Requiebros, deren klangliches und harmonisches Raffinement die frühmoderne Schule von de Falla (wie Ravel Cassadós Lehrer) verrät.Rainer Klaas
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"Young Artist of the week"
The Violin Channel
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"Das Orchester"
Schumann: CD Kritik /M.Sanderling
“next to all the technical mastery Klöckner's game offers a deep understanding between impetuous verve and great tenderness alternating gestures of this music. Very rarely you have heard the transition cycles from 1 to 2 sentence as enchanting as in the game of this cellist: almost like a sudden freezing of the beauty of poetry .. “
Gerhard Anders
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"The Strad"
Schumann CD/M. Sanderling
“… it is the cello quartet version that is especially winning and finds Klöckner playing with a commanding spontaneity to match even the finest orchestral versions.”
Rezension in The Strad, Joanne Talbot,
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"Fanfare"
Schumann CD /M.Sanderling
!..Undoubtedly that is because we are presented with a passionately engaged performance by a young cellist, born in 1989, with a fervid, beautiful sound in front of a lively string orchestra, and equally dramatic string quartet. I have to say that with the latter especially, the climaxes, once supported if not absolutely engendered by the orchestra, sound here a little forced. And of course we should respect the many wonderful performances of the original work, beginning in my collection with the Casals with the Prades Festival Orchestra, and including recordings such as the popular Yo-Yo Ma with Colin Davis, the older Starker, the recent Maisky, and the slightly less satisfactory Rostropovich with the London Symphony. What this new recording offers is a beautifully recorded full sound, and fine, rhythmically powerful, passionate performances in arrangements many listeners will not previously have heard.”
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Deutsche Radiophilharmonie/Simon Gaudenz
"Musikstück der Woche"
Joseph Haydn
Celloconcerto D-major
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CD Produktion
Neuhardenberg
Kremerata Baltica/Heinrich Schiff
Roberto Molinelli: Twinlegends
Carlos Menotti: Suite
"I really loved your playing"
Sir Simon Rattle, März 2017
Regards
" Extremely impressive, fantastic playing!
Exceptionally expressive, beautiful performance and a
daring interpretation"
Christoph Eschenbach, April 2015
Regards
"Fantastic playing, wonderful sound!
He will be one of the best players in the world, better than anybody else!"
Yuri Bashmet, 2013
Regards
" Very moving performance which touched my heart, great gesture and expression, wonderful timbre in the sound!"
Christoph Eschenbach (Elgar Concerto), February 2013
Regards
"Very impressive playing! Beautiful sound, I loved it!"
Gidon Kremer, Kronberg February 2013
Regards
I have had the pleasure of numerous encounters in the recent past with the young cellist Benedict Kloeckner. I instructed him for the Elgar-Concerto during the Cello-Festival in Kronberg, Germany in the Fall of 2007, experienced him with a Dvorak-Concerto in Berlin and accompanied him during the last season in Schumanns Cello Concerto in Poznan.
The evident depth of expression in his interpretation, of course based on a profound command of cello technique in every aspect, his intelligent implementation of dramatic composition, and not least, his very natural and amicable personality, which he exudes on and off stage, compel me from the bottom of my heart to recommend him for concerts of chamber music as well as a soloist.
My experience as cello instructor and conductor allow me to recognize in Benedict not only an exceptional talent with surely a bright future professionally, but also an already very mature and significant artist in spite of his young age.
I am looking forward, meeting him again on stage.
Prof. Michael Sanderling, Berlin 2009
chief conductor "Dresdner Philharmonie"
Regards
"It was wonderful to come to the 'Berliner Philharmonie'. Benedict played the Schumann Concerto magnificently and he, as always when I watched him, appears to be totally add one with the music and the rest of the world ceases to exist and he has, which is really a quality of a great artist, a total concentration."
Howard Blake, Berlin April 2011
Regards
„Benedict Kloeckner is an outstanding young talent, above all he has his own very personal ideas and convictions about the music he performs and the courage to look for ways of expressing these ideas. I admire and applaud this: in an age of a certain homogeneity and sameness in musical performance we need such individual voices.”
Ralph Kirsbaum 2008
Regards
"What distinguishes him as a young musician above all, is that already now, his playing is utmost passionate and inspired, lending his interpretation a distinct individuality testifying to a deep musical knowledge and understanding."
Martin Stadtfeld Düsseldorf 2007
Regards
"Benedict is the most expressively compelling young man I have ever met. His musical talent is absolutely astounding. Already now he fascinates his audiences, even more so than many a 'great artist'. "
Martin Ostertag Baden Baden 2006
