Sonntagskonzert im Spiegelsaal

In the organizer's words:

Rilling/Shkrygunova Duo

Rahel Maria Rilling - violin
Olga Shkrygunova - piano

Olga Shkrygunova:

Olga Shkrygunova, born in Tambov, Russia, began piano lessons at the age of five. After her studies at the Sobinov Conservatory in Saratov and post-graduate studies at the Moscow
at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, she moved to the Rostock University of Music and Drama in 2012 to join Prof. Bernd Zack's class. There she received a scholarship from the Horst Rahe Foundation and graduated with distinction in 2014.
Olga has won prizes at various international competitions, including the "Musica classica" festival in Moscow, "XXI Century Art" in Kiev, the international festival for "Ostracized Music" and the "German Piano Competition Poland".
the "German Piano Competition Polish Music". She has performed in renowned concert halls, including the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf and the KKL Luzern.
and the KKL Lucerne. Her concert tours and radio and television appearances with the quartet Salut Salon from 2014-2023 have taken her to numerous countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands, India, Turkey and China.
Olga Shrygunova also delights audiences with her project "Klavieriki", which is specially designed for young audiences and presents classical music in a humorous way. She is actively involved in the Berlin
association AdVita e.V. and regularly organizes benefit concerts for aid projects in Ukraine.

RAHEL MARIA RILLING

Rahel Maria Rilling is an internationally sought-after violinist and versatile artist. She comes from a renowned family of musicians and received her first violin lessons at the age of four. Her father Helmuth Rilling, conductor and Bach specialist, influenced her from an early age.

As a soloist, she plays with various orchestras around the world and is invited to international festivals.
She has been a regular member of the Berliner Philharmoniker since 2001, from 2005-2008 she was 2nd violin section leader in the current Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, later she was deputy concertmaster at the Kom.

In November 2021 her album with all 6 sonatas for violin and piano by J.SBach was released on the Hänssler Classic label with Johannes Roloff at the piano.
Her chamber music partners include Sir Simon Rattle and his wife Magdalena Kožená, among many others. The program 'Soirée' has been released on CD on the Pentatone label.
She regularly tours with both and has performed at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Teatro della Scala in Milan and the Lincoln Center in NY.

In 2006, Rahel Rilling founded the Hohenstaufen Chamber Music Festival, which has been held every fall near Stuttgart ever since. (www.hohenstaufen-festival.de)
The resulting "Hohenstaufen Ensemble" recorded the music of her Jewish great-grandfather Robert Kahn on several CDs on the Hänssler Classic label.
In 2023, the ensemble received the Opus Klassik Award for the best chamber music recording of the year for the album Robert Kahn: Chamber Music.

In addition to so-called serious music, she is also interested in cross-genre projects, jazz, pop and folk. She regularly performs with the internationally renowned group "Salut Salon", in which she also sings and presents in various languages, or plays the singing saw - often in France, Italy or Spain, e.g. in Málaga, in Antonio Banderas' Teatro del Soho.

Rahel Rilling is also very committed to generating young audiences: in a musical reading for children, she set "Momo" and "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende to music with violin, vocals and a loop device.
She performs regularly with her crossover string quartet DIE NIXEN, which she founded in 2006. In 2021, they created the mini-musical OCEANKIDS. In an imaginative way, the environmental theme is combined with classical music, rap and the exchange of cultures. The book and audio book - read by Katharina Thalbach - will be published by Überreuter Verlag in 2024.

Together with actress Vidina Popov, Rahel Rilling is involved in the 2024 production Fremd by Michel Friedman, directed by Lena Brasch, at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
Rahel Rilling also plays with the Toyota Master Players. Viennese Waltzes with musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra, who have visited Japan every year for 20 years, have taken her on a concert tour of Japan, including to Suntory Hall.

Rahel Rilling lives and works in Berlin.
She plays a violin by Tomaso Balestrieri, Cremona, from 1767.