Inspired by Bach : Kati Debretzeni
"Intet nytt under solen", Bach er og har vært inspirasjonskilde for svært mange skapende mennesker - uavhengig av kunstform og sjanger. Albert Schweitzer mente alt fører til Bach, i forståelsen at Bach var et vendepunkt som alt pekte frem mot før, og alt i ettertid pekte tilbake til.
Kati Debretzeni inevitable takes the limelight
Som en verdensledende barokkfiolinist leder hun - eller er - konsertmester for flere av europas beste ensembler. Det er nok å nevne to av de mest berømte English Baroque Soloists og Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Midt i all internasjonal berømmelse og karriere, er hun stadig å leder prosjekter med Barokkanerne - og hun har med dette ensemblet besøkt Moss flere ganger. Denne høsten er hun tilbake i Moss to ganger - først med Christiania strykekvartett på den ukentlige "Rom for håp" og så med Barokkanerne i Moss kirke noen få dager etterpå.
Høsten (2024) var hun tilbake i Moss to ganger - først med Christiania strykekvartett på den ukentlige "Rom for håp" og så med Barokkanerne i Moss kirke noen få dager etterpå. På Rom for håp holdt hun også fredsappel - den kan du lese litt lenger ned i artikkelen!
Et titteskap inn i mange av hennes roller og ensembler
Violinist Kati Debretzeni inevitable takes the limelight, making a strong impression with her free-flowing bow, boldly projected sound.
Gramophone
Bach Violin Concertos
Kati Debretzeni & English Baroque Soloists - John Eliot Gardiner
Debretzeni, Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists come to these works via Bach's cantatas and it shows. Debretzeni's violin weaves its way through Gardiner's cantata recordings, intertwining with voices and instruments and grappling with new acoustics on each outing. This is no different. Everything has been sorted out that needs to be: tempos, tempo relations, balance.
- The Strad, fra kritikk av Bachs fiolinkonserter med Kati Debretzeni English Baroque Soloists
Bach Cantatas Pilgrimage
Tidenes største Bach-prosjekt må det kunne kalles, John Eliot Gardiners "Bach Cantatas Pilgrimage". Et helt år på reise i Europa med solister, kor og orkester - og fremførelser komplett av kantatene på de søndagene og helligdagene de var skrevet for. Alt ble tatt opp LIVE og gitt ut på ensemblets eget plateselskap - med bilder av fotografen Steve McCurry.
Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
The BMSM Orchestra with Kati Debretzeni
Fredsappell under Rom for håp i Moss kirke 6.9-2024
Peace
Good afternoon everyone,
My name is Kati Debretzeni, I'm a musician, and today, before we play to you, I was asked by the wonderful organiser of this concert series Tor Sørby, to say a few words about a subject matter more relevant today than at any time during my life - peace.
As I started preparing what to say, I asked myself - what does this word mean for me here, today?
The first thing that occurred was the different types of peace I can think of. Firstly, in the individual and personal sphere - there are times of turmoil, and times of peace. Times when things seem to fall apart, and times when everything is ticking along nicely, no-one close to me is ill or suffering, life-stress levels are manageable, and life is peaceful. More often than not these are moments or days rather then months or years. But it is something to notice - and to be deeply grateful for.
Then - there is inner peace. I'm an extrovert and I always notice when people around me seem to radiate a sort of glow - a peaceful inner self, at ease with themselves and the world. I have a 15 year old daughter who is more of an introvert . At times I notice her sitting very still, just taking things in, in a quiet and peaceful way. I often feel I need to learn a little bit of that quality from her.
If I leave the personal sphere and reflect on the world around us, peace takes on a different meaning.
I was born in Transylvania, in a part of Romania where Romanians and Hungarians lived together for centuries, in an uneasy peace. I recently visited my birthplace after nearly 3 decades away. I was shocked at how the ethnic tensions present in my childhood are still there, bubbling just beneath the surface. In the personal sphere there is never any trouble - I grew up on the 9th floor of a tower block where 2 Romanian and 2 Hungarian families were friendly neighbours. But go out of your home, and in a post-Communist failing economy historic grievances are everywhere as nationalistic slogans colour every street corner. There is peace there now - but how long will it last? One only has to travel a short distance across the border into Ukraine to realise what can happen.
At the age of 15 I immigrated from Communist Romania to a part of the world where peace has a yet again different meaning - as the antonym of 'war'. I lived for 10 years in Israel, where I still have family and many friends. Some are mothers and fathers of soldiers, and some have lost family and friends in this darkest of years. I have friends who are active in peace organisations for many years, and they are despairing. As I reflect on the senseless deaths of thousands and thousands of Palestinian civilians, of mothers like myself, of children like my child, and on the fate of the hostages and of the hundreds of young soldiers sent to their death by a criminal Israeli government, peace seems like a mirage - a Fata Morgana, a vision more unattainable today then ever before.
As a white middle class woman living in the first world I assuage my guilt for not doing more for bringing peace about the same way most people like me do - by donating a little money to Amnesty International and to an Israeli organisation for human rights , B'Tselem. But I'm under no illusion that this is a very small drop in a vast ocean of need.
However, as a musician, I practice an art where, as we will hopefully demonstrate in our concert, communication and the sharing of ideas happens, as if by magic, without words. Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said's East Western Diwan orchestra as well as the Barenboim-Said Music Academy in Berlin put this idea into practice when Middle Eastern musicians from Arab countries and Israel rehearse, eat, drink and perform together. Can our beloved profession, music, contribute to bringing about peace in this way? It most certainly can. I live in the hope that we may see it in our lifetime.
Thank you very much, and I hope you enjoy the concert.
Violinist Kati Debretzeni is among the few players of Eastern European origin to advance to the highest levels of the historical performance scene. She is one of a group of rotating leaders of the conductorless Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London.
Debretzeni was born in Cluj-Napoca, in the Transylvania region of Romania, on February 24, 1971. She studied violin at the Liceul de Muzica "Sigismund Toduta" in Cluj-Napoca, until she was 15 when she moved to Israel. There she worked with violinist Ora Shiran, and she then went on for Baroque violin lessons at the Royal College of Music in London with Walter Reiter and Catherine Mackintosh. In 1997, she joined two of Britain's leading historical-performance groups: the English Baroque Soloists, led by John Eliot Gardiner, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Within three years, Debretzeni had become the leader of the former, and she participated prominently in Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and its associated series of recordings made in churches with which Bach himself had been associated. In 2008, she was named one of three rotating leaders of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
These ongoing responsibilities did not keep Debretzeni from embarking on a variety of other collaborations. She guest-directed groups in Israel, Canada, Poland, and Iceland, among other countries. Debretzeni conducts many top English and continental European ensembles, including the English Concert, the Akademie für alte Musik, and the Budapest Bach Ensemble. Between 1998 and 2003, she performed with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under Ton Koopman in another complete cycle of Bach's cantatas. Debretzeni is a co-founder of the chamber group Ricordo, which specializes in the so-called stylus phantasticus of the 17th century. With these various groups, she has amassed a substantial discography, and she has also issued several solo albums. In 2019, she was heard as a soloist with the English Baroque Soloists under Gardiner on a recording of Bach's violin concertos. Debretzeni teaches Baroque and Classical violin at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.
