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The Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival 2025
9-13 September 2025
Early booking for Festival Friends commences 16 July 2025.
Ticket sales to the general public commence 20 July 2025.
Tickets can also be purchased on the Festival website starting 20 July 2025.
The 2025 Festival programme is currently being updated on the Festival website and will appear shortly.
See you this September!
The festival team






























Dear friends,
As our festival enters its twenty-seventh year, we want to thank you, our loyal, cherished audience, and the many wonderful artists who will give us musical experiences which, particularly this year, demonstrate how music can be a succour and a refuge at difficult times. Delighting in artistic beauty and a constant search for new musical discoveries provide a sanctuary which gives strength and calm.
This year we are celebrating the quintet ensemble in many of its myriad forms, whether strings, or combinations of strings or wind ensembles with piano. Through some of the great works in this genre, by composers including Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Franck and Shostakovich, we will explore the rich and varied sonorities of various combinations of five instruments. In addition, almost every concert will feature lieder, and we will be celebrating two centenaries: the birth of Ravel 150 years ago, and 100 years since the birth of Johann Strauss II.
With a roster of outstanding instrumentalists and singers, we welcome both familiar friends and new faces.
Looking forward to a beautiful, exhilarating and fulfilling time together.
PROGRAMME
Franz Schubert
An die Musik, D. 547
- Thomas E. Bauer baritone
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte, op. 98
- Thomas E. Bauer baritone
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet in G minor, K. 516
- Christoph Poppen, Nitzan Bartana violins
- Noga Shaham, Katrin Spiegel violas
- Astrig Siranossian clarinet
Intermission
Maurice Ravel
Ma mère l’Oye, M. 62
- Elena Bashkirova, Yulianna Avdeeva piano
Johannes Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34
- Fedor Rudin, Madeleine Carruzzo violins
- Roman Spitzer viola
- Ivan Karizna cello
- Alexander Melnikov piano
Johann Strauss II – Arnold Schoenberg
Kaiser-Walzer, op. 437
- Roy Amotz flute
- Pablo Barragán clarinet
- Tatiana Samouil, Uri Dror violins
- Matan Noussimovitch viola
- Astrig Siranossian cello
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Béla Bartók
Piano Quintet in C major, Sz. 23
- Tatiana Samouil, Mark Karlinsky violins
- Roman Spitzer viola
- Tim Park cello
- Plamena Mangova piano
Intermission
Gustav Mahler
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
- Thomas E. Bauer baritone
- Alexander Melnikov piano
Anton Bruckner
String Quintet in F major, WAB 112
- Christoph Poppen, Madeleine Carruzzo violins
- Roman Spitzer, Katrin Spiegel violas
- Ivan Karizna cello
Johann Strauss II-Anton Webern
Schatz-Walzer, op. 418
- Nitzan Bartana, Madeleine Carruzzo violins
- Matan Noussimovitch viola
- Kaori Yamagami cello
- Alexander Melnikov piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K. 581
- Pablo Barragán clarinet
- Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Madeleine Carruzzo violin
- Roman Spitzer viola
- Kaori Yamagami cello
Intermission
Hugo Wolf
Lieder
- Thomas Hampson baritone
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Felix Mendelssohn
String Quintet no. 2 in B flat major, op. 87
- Christoph Poppen, Mark Karlinsky violins
- Matan Noussimovitch, Noga Shaham violas
- Haran Meltzer cello
Samuel Barber
Dover Beach, op. 3
- Thomas Hampson baritone
- Nitzan Bartana, Mark Karlinsky violins
- Katrin Spiegel viola
- Tim Park cello
Robert Schumann
Andante & Variations, WoO 10
- Bar Zemach horn
- Ivan Karizna, Haran Meltzer cellos
- Plamena Mangova, Yulianna Avdeeva pianos
Armenian Songs (arr. Astrig Siranossian)
- Astrig Siranossian voice & cello
Intermission
César Franck
Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 14
- Tatiana Samouil, Latica Honda-Rosenberg violins
- Noga Shaham viola
- Astrig Siranossian cello
- Yulianna Avdeeva piano
Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio in A minor
- Latica Honda-Rosenberg violin
- Tim Park cello
- Itamar Carmeli piano
Franz Liszt
Lieder
- Thomas Hampson baritone
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Arnold Schoenberg
Chamber Symphony no. 1 in E major, op. 9 (arr. Webern)
- Roy Amotz flute
- Pablo Barragán clarinet
- Tatiana Samouil violin
- Astrig Siranossian cello
- Itamar Carmeli piano
Intermission
Maurice Ravel
La valse, M. 72
- Itamar Carmeli, Plamena Mangova piano
Johannes Brahms
String Quintet no. 1 in F major, op. 88
- Fedor Rudin, Nitzan Bartana violins
- Roman Spitzer, Katrin Spiegel viola
- Ivan Karizna cello
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano & Wind Quintet in E flat major, op. 16
- Pablo Barragán clarinet
- Nick Deutsch oboe
- Mor Biron basson
- Bar Zemach horn
- Yulianna Avdeeva paino
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet no. 6 in E flat major, K. 614
- Latica Honda-Rosenberg, Tatiana Samouil violins
- Roman Spitzer, Noga Shaham violas
- Astrig Siranossian cello
Intermission
Paul Hindemith
Kleine Kammermusik for Wind Quintet, op. 24/2
- Tel Aviv Wind Quintet
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57
- Boris Brovtsyn, Mark Karlinsky violins
- Noga Shaham viola
- Tim Park cello
- Plamena Mangova piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintet for Piano & Winds in E flat major, K. 452
- Pablo Barragán clarinet
- Nick Deutsch oboe
- Mor Biron bassoon
- Bar Zemach horn
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, op. 49
- Fedor Rudin violin
- Ivan Karizna cello
- Elena Bashkirova piano
Intermission
György Ligeti
Five Songs on Poems by János Arany
- Thomas E. Bauer baritone
- Itamar Carmeli piano
Felix Mendelssohn
String Octet in E flat major, op. 20
- Boris Brovtsyn, Nitzan Bartana,
Madeleine Carruzzo, Mark Karlinsky
violins - Noga Shaham, Katrin Spiegel violas
- Haran Melzer, Tim Park cellos
SPECIAL CONCERT: Friday 6 September 2024 at 12:00
Franz Schubert
Winterreise, D. 911
Thomas Hampson baritone
Elena Bashkirova piano
Participants
Piano
Yulianna Avdeeva
Elena Bashkirova
Itamar Carmeli
Plamena Mangova
Alexander Melnikov
Violin
Nitzan Bartana
Boris Brovtsyn
Madeleine Carruzzo
Latica Honda-Rosenberg
Mark Karlinsky
Christoph Poppen
Fedor Rudin
Tatiana Samouil
Viola
Matan Noussimovitch
Noga Shaham
Katrin Spiegel
Roman Spitzer
Cello
Ivan Karizna
Haran Meltzer
Tim Park
Astrig Siranossian
Kaori Yamagami
Flute
Roy Amotz
Oboe
Nick Deutsch
Clarinet
Pablo Barragán
Horn
Bar Zemach
Bassoon
Mor Biron
Tel Aviv Wind Quintet
Roy Amotz flute
Dmitry Malkin oboe
Danny Erdman clarinet
Itamar Leshem horn
Nadav Cohen bassoon
Baritone
Thomas E. Bauer
Thomas Hampson
Gaby Shefler will perform on the YMCA carillon
before the concerts on the following dates:
Tuesday 3.9.2024 | at 19:30 |
Wednesday 4.9.2024 | at 19:30 |
Thursday 5.9.2024 | at 19:30 |
Friday 6.9.2024 | at 11:30 |
Friday 6.9.2024 | at 19:30 |
Saturday 7.9.2024 | at 11:30 |
Saturday 7.9.2024 | at 19:30 |