An orchestra that doesn’t fit into any chamber and a soloist who has long since broken the conventional conventions of his instrument: Rudi Zapf and that Augsburg Chamber Orchestra play enchanting compositions by classical masters with dancing ease. Festive works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Philipp Krieger, John Baston, Georg Philipp Telemann, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Hermann Zilcher and world music from Ireland are on the program of a Christmas concert on Saturday, December 17 at 7 p.m. in the Pliening community center , Mongolia and South America. Only every two years (and now after four years because of Corona) do these Christmas concerts by Rudi Zapf together with the Augsburg Chamber Orchestra take place in Munich, Augsburg and Pliening. It is and remains the rare opportunity to experience the dulcimer together with a string orchestra.
The dulcimer virtuoso Rudi Zapf from Pliening has been twirling the strings for more than 35 years, and his tours have taken him around the world. In 1985 he was awarded the City of Munich Promotional Prize and in 1989 the German Record Critics’ Prize. In the meantime around 30 CD recordings have been released, with folk music, classical music, world music, cabaret and cabaret. From 1989 to 2014 Zapf also organized the International Hackbrett Festival in Munich.
The Augsburg Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1986 under the direction of Bernd-Georg Mettke. The members are graduates and students of the music academies in Munich and Würzburg as well as the conservatory and the University of Augsburg. In 1990 the orchestra made recordings for the first time Bavarian radio as well as two Christmas concerts with Rudi Zapf in Munich’s Gasteig. In 1991, three highly acclaimed concerts with the Argentinian guest conductor Fernando Ciraolo were at the center of the work. In 1993 the orchestra produced the CD “Festliche Hackbrettmusik” together with Rudi Zapf.
Advance tickets are available from the Zapf Music Office, which can be reached on (08121) 795 60 or by email [email protected] or via Munich ticket at (089) 54 81 81 81 as well www.muenchenticket.de.