Current programmes:
Eine tiefe Nachtmusik (A deep night music)
The programme “Eine tiefe Nachtmusik” from the serious soirees series consists exclusively of songs that the day does not need. The audience can expect a generously frequented sound therapy with Nonnberg Abbey organist Barbara Schmelz on the piano and ECHO Klassik prize-winner and cabaret artist Andreas Martin Hofmeir on the tuba, supplemented with all sorts of forgettable things from the mouth of the latter. Waste valuable time and let your worst dreams become reality on this evening!
Concertante appropriation – a musical cheekiness
Cheekily stolen masterpieces for tuba and piano including droll poems from Hofmeir’s “Hundsgemeiner Instrumentenkunde”
Every musical instrument is proud of its best solo works. And rightly so. Tubists know this in particular, because they hardly have any. So the most famous of all tuba players, Andreas Martin Hofmeir, accompanied by pianist Barbara Schmelz, steals the best from the competition. An outrageous concertante appropriation! And that’s not all: with diatribes from his brand-new “Hundsgemeine Instrumentenkunde”, he also gives them a linguistic beating. Look forward to a special evening for the laugh muscles and the demanding ear canal.
What the Critics Say
“It seems as if nothing is safe from him. Baroque light-footedness, classical elegance, romantic melancholy: he has it all in his repertoire. Be it a flute fantasy by Telemann, Bach’s famous “Air”, lyrical pieces by Grieg, pieces for French horn or even violin: Hofmeir makes his tuba bounce and sing – brilliantly and gracefully accompanied by Barbara Schmelz – and thus gives all these compositions a completely unheard-of, deeply gentle sound aesthetic. A devil’s tuba player! That is as impressive as it is cheeky.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 18.5.2018
“The audience loved it and the two artists were celebrated with standing ovations.”
inFranken, 23.8.2019