Marc Bouchkov and David Aaron Carpenter Tour

In November 2024, CMDI organised a multi-stop German tour of classical music concerts featuring the acclaimed artists Marc Bouchkov and David Aaron Carpenter, held in collaboration with the renowned Klassische Philharmonie Bonn from the 16th to the 27th of the month.

First Prize Winner of the 2006 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Viola Competition, US violist David Aaron Carpenter is globally recognised as one of the leading musicians of our time, having performed at distinguished venues with many of the world’s leading orchestras. He is a recipient of the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has released multiple critically-lauded recordings, and has won awards such as the Editor’s Choice Award by Gramophone Magazine and Disc of the Month by The New Yorker, amongst many others. 

Belgian violinist Marc Bouchkov, meanwhile, is himself an awardee of the first prize at the Montreal International Violin Competition, silver medallist of the Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition and recipient of the London Music Masters Award and Kulturstiftung Dortmund music prize. He has similarly appeared at renowned concert halls across the globe, and collaborated with a wide variety of celebrated ensembles, cementing his place as one of the most unique and multifaceted artists of the new generation.

The duo, along with the musicians of the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, took to the stage of 8 famed venues across Germany, starting with the Die Glocke in Bremen on November 16th. This was followed by a stop in Liederhalle in Stuttgart on the 19th of the month, before the musicians travelled to Nürnberg’s Meistersingerhalle on November 20th.

To mark its halfway point, the tour landed at the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden on the 21st of November, after which there was a concert in Karlsruhe’s Konzerthaus on the 22nd, and then another entry at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg on the 24th. For their penultimate stop on November 26th, the musicians travelled to the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld, before the tour came to a close in Berlin’s Konzerthaus on the 27th of the month.

Audiences at each venue were able to enjoy a diverse and varied programme that spanned the gamut of classical music, including pieces from Haydn, Mozart, and Schubert, alongside contemporary offerings.