24th International Festival “The Days of Organ – Dies organorum”: DANIEL RICHTER and MARKO PANTELIĆ
The festival will be closed by German organist Daniel Richter and baritone Marko Pantelić, who has been building a successful career in Germany for several years. They will perform Mahler’s cycle Songs on the Death of Children. Also, Richter will present himself as a soloist, performing works by Durufle, Smetana and Reger.
Concert in Belgrade is supported by the Goethe-Institut in Belgrade.
Program:
Maurice Durufle (1902–1986)
Prelude and Fugue on the name A.L.A.I.N., Op. 7
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Songs on the Death of Children, song cycle on poems by Friedrich Rückert (transcription for voice and organ: Hans-Peter Braun)*
Now the sun wants to rise as brightly
Now I see clearly
When your mama steps in through the door
I often think they have only gone out
In this weather
Bedrich Smetana (1824–1884)
Vlatava (transcription: D. Richter)
Max Reger (1873–1916)
Benedictus, op. 59/9
*The artists dedicate this performance to the memory of the victims of the last year’s tragedies in the Belgrade primary school “Vladislav Ribnikar”, Dubona and Malo Orašje.
Biographies:
Daniel Richter was born in 1993 in Würzburg, Germany. He recieved his first piano lessons at the age of eight years and combined them with organ lessons aged thirteen. After frequent singing in the childrens’ choir and participating in musical productions he took up studies in clerical music in 2011 at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar with lessons in organ literature by Prof. Silvius von Kessel and organ improvisation by Prof. Michael Kapsner. As a member of the chamber choir under Prof. Jürgen Puschbeck, he participated in international concerts in Jerusalem, Sao Paulo and Bratislava. Amidst, he spent the year 2015‑16 in Paris with Christoph Mantoux at the Pôle Supérieur de Paris et Boulogne-Billancourt, studying the french baroque and french romantic way of playing the organ.
2017 followed his second studies in sound engineering at the University of the arts in Berlin, where he also met his later wife Maraike Richter. Nowadays they are sharing an engagement as cantors at the protestant congregation of Hilden, Northrhine-Westfalia.
Il Conte di Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Ford (Falstaff), Marcello (La bohème), the title role in the opera Eugene Onegin, are the most significant of around 30 roles that baritone Marko Pantelić performed at the National Theatres in Belgrade and Sarajevo, the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad, the Opera and Theatre Madlenianum in Belgrade, the State Theatre in Nuremberg, the Theatre in Regensburg, as well as at his home opera house, Theatre in Magdeburg, where he has been a soloist for five seasons. Haydn’s Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem and Messe Cum Jubilo, Schumann’s Dichterliebe, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Antonín Dvořák’s Biblické písně, are part of the concert repertoire he has performed with the Choir of the Radio Television of Serbia, the Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy for Early Music Berlin. Along with viola studies at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, he studied voice at the Music School Kosta Manojlović in Zemun in the studio of Nenad Nenić and then at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the studio of Nikola Mijailović. He has pursued further studies at the International and Canadian Vocal Arts Institutes in New York City and Montreal, the Opera Studio of the National Theatre in Belgrade, several master classes with Ruth Falcon, Mignon Dunn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Sherrill Milnes, David Bižić and Djordje Nesic. He has received numerous awards. The Richard Wagner Association in Magdeburg awarded him a scholarship for the Bayreuth Festival.