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Mike Marshall (www.mikemarshall.net)

Caterina Lichtenberg (www.caterinalichtenberg.de)

Don Stiernberg (www.donstiernberg.com)

Trio Vibracao (www.duovibracao.de)

Mando Nuevo

Programm am Samstag - 29.8.2009 - Beginn 19 Uhr

Mando Nuevo

Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg

Don Stiernberg (Trio)

Late Night Session

Programm am Sonntag - 30.08.2009 - Beginn 19 Uhr

Trio Vibracao

Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg

Don Stiernberg (Trio)

Late Night Session

Workshops

Samstag 29.8. - 11 Uhr bis 15 Uhr 

Don Stiernberg

Jazz, Swing & Improvisation auf der Mandoline

Sonntag 30.08. - 12 Uhr bis 16 Uhr

Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg

Klassik - Choro - Jazz - New Acoustic

Two of the finest mandolinists in the world!

Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg will take you on a musical tour of the mandolin. From it's lute like roots of 17th century Europe to its journey to the Americas, picking up strains of melodies from each new place and the many hands that it touched!

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Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg

Two of the finest mandolinists in the world!

A journey of the mandolin from it's 17th century European roots

to the music of the Americas

American mandolinist Mike Marshall continues to build musical bridges with some of the finest mandolinists in the world, this time with German classical mandolin virtuoso Caterina Lichtenberg. Caterina is the head of the mandolin department at the music academy in Wuppertal, Germany. A delight on stage with an elegance and beauty of sound that is only matched by her stunning virtuosity. Two of the worlds greatest mandolinists in the world, join forces in a collaboration of musical styles from around the world. This meeting of musical virtuosos will sure to be one of the sweetest collaborations in the long and colorful history of their chosen instrument.

Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg will take you on a musical tour of the mandolin. From it’s lute like roots of 17^th century Europe to its journey to the Americas, picking up strains of melodies from each new place and the many hands that it touched. This is not the first time Mike Marshall has built musical bridges with mandolinists from around the world. From his early days with the David Grisman Quintet to his founding of the Modern Mandolin Quartet, and his now famous cds with bluegrass wiz kid Chris Thile and Brazilian virtuoso Hamilton de Holanda.

In each of these musical collaborations Mike has surprised and amazed us without a road map. Creating new music and paying homage to the old that closed the gaps between tradition, geography and innovation while creating a seamless and inspired musical vision.

This time he will team up with one of the finest classical virtuosos in the world today. Living in the former East Germany, Caterina Lichtenberg is now at the peak of her recording and performance career with over 10 CD’s to her credit and regular tours of the U.S. Japan, Europe and South America. She was born in Bulgaria and finished her university studies at the Cologne Academy of Music under Prof. Wilden-Husgen and Prof. Eickhoit. She now holds the position of mandolin prof. and director of the Baroque Ensemble at the music academy in Wuppertal, Germany. She is a delight on stage. Captivating and endearring while playing some of the most spectacular virtuoso mandolin playing ever heard. Mike and Caterina first met when Mike ask her to teach at the Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, CA. (a week long gathering of over 150 students and 9 of the best mandolinists from around the world) The two made an instant musical connection and have been building on this relationship ever since. Over the course of the evening, Caterina and Mike will take you on a journey from the early 1700’s Europe through the great 19^th Century Italian mandolin heyday to the shores of the present day Americas.

Caterina plays a traditional European style mandolin but also performs early music on a Baroque Mandolin (an ancient instrument with gut frets and a quill from a bird that she uses for a plectrum) and Mike plays a newer style American, Gibson mandolin but may also play a Bach cello suite on his modern mandocello.

From there they travel to Naples, Italy and play music from the golden age of the mandolin by the great composer Raphael Callace.

As the Italians traveled the world they of course brought their mandolins with them and we now have a long musical history for the instrument everywhere from the British Isles to Venezuela. The music of the America’s has always been about the wonderful collision between all the music’s of the world. From those meetings we have something entirely new and yet somehow familiar.

Whether it’s Old time Bluegrass, Jazz, Brazilian or Columbia folk music, the mandolin has been a part of this musical heritage and Mike and Caterina give us tastes of many of these places as well as some of Mike’s contemporary music.

These two have just completed concerts in Germany this past October where they transformed those halls into magical evenings full of history, musical depth and sensational mandolin playing. The audiences were left spell bound each night by this wonderful combination of intense musical talent, breadth of musical vision and obvious mutual admiration and humor.

Porträt - Prof. Caterina Lichtenberg

in Sofia (Bulgarien) geboren, studierte zunächst in Magdeburg und beendete ihre Studien in Mandoline und Gitarre an der Musikhochschule Köln bei Prof. Wilden-Hüsgen und Prof. Eickholt mit Auszeichnung.

Sie ist erste Preisträgerin verschiedener nationaler und internationaler Musikwettbewerbe und war Stipendiatin der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung

Neben ihrer Duo-Tätigkeit mit Mirko Schrader (Duetto Giocondo) konzertiert sie sowohl solistisch als auch in anderen kammermusikalischen Besetzungen, so mit Thomas Müller-Pering (Gitarre; Deutschland), John Dearman (Gitarre; USA), Mike Marshall (Mandoline; USA), Silke Lisko (Duo Galante), Brigitte Engelhard (Cembalo; Österreich), dem Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (USA) oder mit Orchestern wie den Dresdner Sinfonikern, dem Aachener Kammerorchester, dem Gewandhausorchester zu Leipzig, den Mitgliedern des Ensembles Recherche, dem Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin und dem Bayrischen Rundfunksinfonieorchester. Ein gemeinsamer Auftritt mit Art Garfunkel in einer Fernsehshow ergänzt ihre künstlerische Tätigkeit.

Neben Radio- und Fernsehauftritten führten sie ausgedehnte Konzerttourneen durch nahezu alle Länder Europas, die USA, Kanada, die Mongolei und Japan.

Zahlreiche Kompositionen wurden für Caterina Lichtenberg bzw. das Duetto Giocondo geschrieben. Ihre Notenausgaben sind erschienen bei: Zimmermann, GVH, V&F, Mel Bay.

Caterina Lichtenberg ist gefragte Künstlerin und Dozentin auf nationalen und internationalen Festivals und Meisterkursen. Sie war u.a. Gast bei dem Internationalen Mandolinenfestival in Kobe (Japan), der International Mandolin Convention in Washington und in Minneapolis (USA), der Music and Dance Academy in Domaine Forget (Kanada), mit dem Europäischen Zupforchester in Logroño (Spanien) und in Bologna (Italien) sowie der Gitarrenfestspiele in Nürtingen.

Sie wird regelmäßig als Jurorin zu nationalen und internationalen Musikwettbewerben eingeladen.

Von Caterina Lichtenberg sind derzeit 9 CDs erschienen.

Caterina Lichtenberg leitete seit dem Wintersemester 2002/2003 eine Mandolinenklasse an der Hochschule für Musik Köln, Standort Wuppertal. Zum Wintersemester 2007/2008 wurde sie auf den einzigen Lehrstuhl für das Fach Mandoline in Europa zur Professorin der Hochschule für Musik Köln, Standort Wuppertal berufen.