Violin Road Stories

Interpreters

Florian Willeitner . Direction & Violin
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester

Programme

Ireland
Willeitner . #thewind & Valentinair

Bulgaria
Traditionell . Kopanitsa (arr. Willeitner)

France
Willeitner . lydian rose (Musette)

Spain
Sarasate/Willeitner . Zigeunerweisen Reloaded

Austria
Willeitner . #jodler

Bavaria
Willeitner . Niederbayerische Integrationssuite

Florian Willeitner, first violinist of the vision string quartet, presents his ‘Violin Road Stories’ for the first time in collaboration with the SKO: created in various corners of Europe, inspired by sounds, places and people. A declaration of love for a free, diverse and open Europe, packaged in an evening full of stories, wanderlust and groove with a good dose of virtuosity.

Even as an 18-year-old, Willeitner spent months travelling across Europe with his backpack and violin, fascinated then as now by the countless musical languages and dialects that our continent has to offer and which have influenced classical music for so many centuries. Today, the composer and violinist, born in Passau in 1991, is known as a colourful bird of paradise on the music scene, a singer/songwriter of classical music, a tireless creator and surprising innovator within the otherwise often dusty practice of classical music. For many years, he has been a guest on major international stages, whether with the world-renowned vision string quartet, as composer and violinist of the New Piano Trio, or as composer of a ‘silent opera’ for live performers and marionettes commissioned by Rolando Villazón for the Salzburg Mozart Week.