2025 FESTIVAL | June 8–15, 2025
Ensemble Castor with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Rodolfo Richter, Director & violin
Petra Samhaber-Eckhardt, violin
Inspiring Genius – Precious Friendships: Music of Keiser, Handel, Bach, and Telemann
Stunning soprano Sherezade Panthaki joins forces with the dynamic violin virtuoso Rodolfo Richter and the outstanding Austrian chamber orchestra Ensemble Castor. They offer a program brimming with expressive theatricality featuring arias and instrumental music written for the stage from Handel’s Almira and Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno to Keiser’s Croesus and Theatralische Musik and Telemann’s Orpheus and Miriways. As a special treat, the ensemble will also present Handel’s early Sonata a 5 and Bach’s moving Concerto for Two Violins in D minor.
“These players never fail to find something to say… lovely, imaginative performances on some sweet sounding instruments!”
ARTISTS
Irma Niskanen & Martin Kalista, violin; Hana Hobiger, viola; Philipp Comploi, violoncello; Nathaniel Chase, violone; Sonja Leipold, harpsichord