Von Sehnsucht und Leidenschaft Lyuta Kobayashi & Julian Emanuel Becker

• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897): Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier, Nr. 1 in F Minor, op. 120:
• 1 Brahms: Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier, Nr. 1 in F Minor, op. 120: I. Allegro appassionato 08:18
• 2 Brahms: Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier, Nr. 1 in F Minor, op. 120: II. Andante un poco Adagio 04:53
• 3 Brahms: Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier, Nr. 1 in F Minor, op. 120: III. Allegretto grazioso 04:37
• 4 Brahms: Sonate für Klarinette und Klavier, Nr. 1 in F Minor, op. 120: IV. Vivace 05:17
• Jörg Widmann (b. 1973): Fünf Bruchstücke:
• 5 Widmann: Fünf Bruchstücke: I. Äußerst langsam 01:04
• 6 Widmann: Fünf Bruchstücke: II. Presto possibile 01:04
• 7 Widmann: Fünf Bruchstücke: III. Sehr langsam, frei 01:52
• 8 Widmann: Fünf Bruchstücke: IV. Energiegeladen, sehr schnell 01:16
• 9 Widmann: Fünf Bruchstücke: V. langsam beginnen 02:26
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Fantasiestücke für Klarinette und Klavier, op. 73:
• 10 Schumann: Fantasiestücke für Klarinette und Klavier, op. 73: I. Zart und mit Ausdruck 03:36
• 11 Schumann: Fantasiestücke für Klarinette und Klavier, op. 73: II. Lebhaft, leicht 03:21
• 12 Schumann: Fantasiestücke für Klarinette und Klavier, op. 73: III. Rasch und mit Feuer 04:14
• Helmut Eisel (b. 1955): Israeli-Suite-Medley:
• 13 Eisel: Israeli-Suite-Medley 06:38
• Total Runtime 48:36

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This year, GENUIN and the German Music Council, together with Deutschlandfunk Kultur, are once again presenting a prizewinner of the German Music Competition: clarinetist Lyuta Kobayashi. Not only has he been successful in this competition, he has already won several prizes despite his young age. In his program of works by Johannes Brahms, Jörg Widmann, Robert Schumann, and the klezmer clarinetist Helmut Eisel, he will be accompanied by the no less talented pianist Julian Emanuel Becker, who this year was the youngest participant to win a prize at the 32nd St Albans International Organ Competition (UK).

Lyuta Kobayashi, clarinet
Julian Emanuel Becker, piano

Lyuta Kobayashi
born in Detmold in 2003, received his first clarinet lessons when he was seven years old. At the age of eleven, he became a junior student at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with Martin Spangenberg, and from 2018 to 2021 was a junior student at the Institute for the Early Advancement of the Musically Highly Gifted at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media with Johannes Peitz. Since 2021 he has been studying with Norbert Kaiser at the State University of Music and the Performing Arts in Stuttgart. He has received further inspiration from Sabine Meyer, Reiner Wehle, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Wenzel Fuchs, and Johann Hindler.

Lyuta Kobayashi was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Germany and has already performed as a soloist with various orchestras. In numerous competitions such as the national “Jugend musiziert” competition, Carl Schröder Competition Sondershausen, Wetzlar Clarinet Competition, Tiroler Klassik Instrumentalist Award, and Lions European Music Competition, he emerged as the winner or an award recipient. In 2022, he received the GMC Prize, the Audience Prize, and the Special Prize of the Friends of Young Musicians Düsseldorf at the German Music Competition (GMC) in Bonn and was included in the promotion program of the German Music Council.

The clarinetist is a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life, PE Support for Students in Mannheim, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, EVA LIND Music Academy, Thuringian Ministry of Culture and Science for musically gifted people. In 2022 he was accepted into the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Starting with the upcoming season, Lyuta Kobayashi will also hold the position of principal clarinetist of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.

Julian Emanuel Becker
was born in Hanover in 2005. He performs as a pianist, chamber musician, and organist at many international festivals such as the International Organ Week Nuremberg (ION), the Festival International d'Orgue de Dudelange, and the Hitzacker Music Week and also as a soloist with youth and student orchestras.

As a composer he has written commissioned works which have been premiered by renowned soloists and ensembles such as Jeroen Berwaerts, Salaputia Brass, and the Hanover Girls’ Choir.

At the age of seven, he was accepted into the preparatory class of the Institute for the Early Advancement of the Musically Highly Gifted at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. From 2018 to 2021 he studied organ and piano at the Institute with Ulfert Smidt and Elena Levit. He is a junior student in organ with Martin Schmeding and Thomas Lennartz and in piano with Jacques Ammon and Elena Levit at the University of Music and Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig and the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. He has received further inspiration in master classes with Igor Levit, Daniel Roth, and Henry Fairs.

At the national “Jugend musiziert” competition, Julian Emanuel Becker received numerous first prizes for organ and piano in addition to special prizes, within the framework of WESPE, for contemporary music, organ improvisation, and ostracized music both as a soloist and in duo with Lyuta Kobayashi.

In 2019 he won the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition (NIIOC) and in 2020 the first prize at the Grotrian-Steinweg Piano Competition. In 2023 he was awarded Second Prize and Audience Prize as the youngest competitor in the St Albans International Organ Conpetition (UK). He is also a multiple prizewinner in the national “Jugend komponiert” competition.

Julian Emanuel Becker is a scholarship holder of the German Foundation for Musical Life, the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, and the “Jugend musiziert” Foundation Lower Saxony.

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