SUITE ITALIENNE
CHAMBER STRING ORCHESTRA OF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA
Janez Podlesek – Artistic Director and Concertmaster
Jeremias Fliedl – Cello
PROGRAMME
Aldo Kumar: Istrian Suite
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): Suite italienne for Cello and String Orchestra (arr. Benjamin Wallfisch)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893):
Andante cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11
Pezzo capriccioso for Cello and String Orchestra, Op. 62 (arr. Luca Rizzo)
Edvard Grieg (1843–1907): Holberg Suite for String Orchestra, Op. 40
Jeremias Fliedl is among the leading Austrian cellists of his generation. He performs at prestigious international festivals and in Europe’s foremost concert halls, including the Salzburg Festival, Mozart Week, Ljubljana Festival, the Musikverein, the Elbphilharmonie and the Bozar. As a soloist, he has appeared with renowned orchestras including the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Danish Chamber Orchestra and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn. He has performed under conductors such as Stéphane Denève, Ádám Fischer, Martin Haselböck, Thomas Sanderling and Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.
An accomplished chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with internationally acclaimed artists including Julian Rachlin, Daniel Müller-Schott, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Veronika Eberle, Karen Gomyo and Dominik Wagner.
In 2024, he released his debut album, Transformation, on Berlin Classics, recorded with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn under the direction of Emmanuel Tjeknavorian. The recording received outstanding reviews from the international music press.
Born in Klagenfurt in 1999, Jeremias Fliedl studied first with Igor Mitrović and later with Heinrich Schiff, Clemens Hagen and Julian Steckel. He is a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Liezen, Svirél and Antonio Janigro competitions, and was the first Austrian cellist ever to receive a prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition.
Since 2022, he has performed on the "ex Gendron, Lord Speyer" cello, built by Antonio Stradivari in 1693.
This concert is presented in cooperation with the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana and the Austrian Cultural Forum from Ljubljana.
