Martina Consonni & Tomoki Park by Scarlatti, D., Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Bach, J. S., Holliger, Balch, K., Yun, Isang, Od (2024/2024), Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany

Even when young musicians have graduated from the best music colleges in the world and won prizes in renowned competitions, sponsors like Sir András Schiff can give their careers the right boost. In 2014, the master pianist therefore launched the “Building Bridges” program. Every year he promotes great talents by coaching them intensively and enabling them to perform in major concert halls. The Italian Martina Consonni and the Korean Tomoki Park have this luck in 2024. András Schiff worked out the concert programs together with them, which he regards as business cards. »You show musically who you are, what you are curious about, which extra-musical ideas are important to you.« The pianist Martina Consonni, who comes from Como in Italy and also trained at the Music Academy in Hanover, devotes herself primarily to German-Austrian Romanticism (including Schubert and Schumann). Tomoki Park, who is currently studying at the Berlin University of the Arts, underscores his passion for modernism with works by Isang Yun and Heinz Holliger.