Konzert mit Flöte und Orgel Greifenstein

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Concert with works for flute and organ and the world premiere of a Ukrainian composition. On Sunday, 26 February, a concert with works for flute and organ will take place in the baroque church at Greifenstein Castle. The concert organist Michael Harry Poths from Bad Camberg and the flutist Christine Theiß from Wetzlar will perform. Christine Theiß received music lessons from the age of 4 (Wetzlar Music School), first recorder and piano, then later flute with Ralph Wiltheiß (student of Aurèle Nicolet). She completed her music studies in Mainz in the flute classes of Herbert Grimm and Mirjam Nastasi, and also in piano with Poldi Mildner. From 1989 onwards she continued her studies as a master student with Philippe Jolivet in Strasbourg. In 1991 Christine Theiß received her diploma in flute. Shortly thereafter, the two artists met and frequently gave concerts together during the 90 years. Michael Harry Poths received piano lessons at the age of 10 and organ lessons at 12 and became a contractual organist at two village churches at the age of 13. He studied church music in Frankfurt am Main and obtained his exams in 1984, the liturgical one on Whit Monday and the artistic one in September. In 2018, Poths received the title of Magister artium (Mag. art.) from the faculty dean of Euraka University in Therwil (Switzerland), Prof. Karl Gottfried Brun Otte, as well as the confirmation of the interdenominational A exam for church music and the state concert exam. The concert includes works from the Baroque as well as the 20th and 21st centuries. Sonatas by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), the Partita in D minor by Johann Wilhelm Hertel (1727-1789) and the Fantasia sopra: "Jesu, meine Freude" by Friedrich Högner (1897-1981) will be performed. Christine Theiß will perform the Partita in A minor in four movements BWV 1020 by Johann Sebastian Bach as a soloist. Michael Poths will play the Fantasia in G minor BWV 542 by J.S. Bach and the premiere of the Prelude and Fugue in G major, composed in 2022 by the composer Irina Grafova (*1990), who lives in Odessa (Ukraine). The concert begins at 5 pm, admission to the church is from 4:30 pm.

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