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Letters to My Daughters

Letters to My Daughters is a unique collaboration between cellist Josh Halpern and composer

Scott Ordway. It received its world premiere in June of 2025, and now—ahead of a studio

recording for upcoming album release—Josh is joined by his longtime duo partner, pianist

Yannick Rafalimanana, to bring this program to life.

Josh first met with composer Scott Ordway to discuss this project in November 2024. Like so

many, Scott was reckoning with the uncertainty of the world—in particular, how to discuss it with

his two daughters, four and seven at the time. Their collaboration began to take shape as a love

letter, time capsule, and urgent appeal to decency for his girls.

Scott began by writing five real letters—and generously allowed Josh to serve as his editor.

They shared long calls and essayistic email threads, and their questions increasingly led them

away from defensiveness and toward kindness, generosity, and humility: Can we experience

wonder and optimism in the face of fear and uncertainty? How might we find courage in the face

of failure, injustice, or threat of harm? How do we foster and preserve reservoirs of goodness

and decency in ourselves and each other? How do we tell people that we love them?

A larger program grew around Scott’s new composition, comprising music written at times of

profound sociopolitical uncertainty. Debussy’s Cello Sonata, a vibrant and unexpected suite

composed as the global social order was being redefined by World War I; Bernstein’s Three

Meditations from MASS, wordless reflections on the seed of faith each of us must find when our

ancient rituals unravel under the weight of doubt, dissent, and disillusionment; three songs by

Ilse Weber—a nurse and music teacher at Theresienstadt later sent with the children in her care

to the gas chambers at Auschwitz—gorgeously reimagined by the brilliant pianist Henrique

Eisenmann; and finally, a lament named for the Arabic word for a mother’s grief over her lost

child, composed specially for this project by Bruce Adolphe.

Letters to My Daughters is a stunning, devastating, and ultimately uplifting program about love

and resilience. And by mining this contemporary moment through the lens of Scott’s paternal

love for his daughters, this concert becomes a communal experience simultaneously intensely

intimate and profoundly universal.

Debussy - Cello Sonata in D minor L. 135

Bernstein - 3  Meditations from Mass

Bruce Adolphe - Thakla III

Ilse Weber  - Three Songs

I. Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt

II. Und der Regen rinnt

III. Wiegala

Letters to My Daughters

I. Ring All the Bells

II. I Love Telling You Things

III. Tell the Truth

IV. I Will Always Love You

V. The World is Bright

Schubert-Prokofiev. Walzer für 2 Klaviere

Brahms. Variationen über ein Thema von

Haydn op.56b

Brahms. 6 Phantasien „Souvenir de la

Russie" op.151

Chabrier. „Souvenirs de Munich" - Quadrille über Themen aus Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“

"Ravel reloaded"

Ma Mère l'Oye, Rapsodie espagnole, "Miroirs" und andere.

Chronos Quartett

Olha Chipak

Oleksiy Kushnir

Henrik Schmidt

Francisco Anguas Manuel Rodriguez

Anouchka & Katharina Hack: DNA - Künstlerfamilien

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Songs my mother taught me Op. 55 No. 4

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Liebeslied Op. 83 No. 8

Josef Suk (1874-1935): Liebeslied Op. 7 No. 1

Otilie Sukova (1878-1905): Lullaby

Leos Janacek (1854-1928): Pohádka (Märchen)

Con moto - Andante

Con moto - Adagio

Allegro

Karel Svoboda (1938-2007): Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel

Robert Schumann (1810-1849): Fantasiestücke Op. 73

Zart und mit Ausdruck

Lebhaft, leicht

Rasch und mit Feuer

Hauke Hack (*1967): Mäander I & II für Cello solo

Anouchka & Katharina Hack: Improvisation

Katharina Hack/ Kej. (*1994): Helix

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): Nocturne

Ernest Boulanger (1815-1900): Bonjour mon coeur

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979): Cantique

Marina Baranova (*1981): Auftragskomposition „Fantasy on La Bohème“

Charles Aznavour (1924-2018): La Bohème (Arr. Lucas Brum

Tartini Violin Sonata in G minor ?The Devil?s Trill?

Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 4 in A minor Op. 23

Waxman Carmen Fantasie

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David Greilsammer

Music & Artistic Director, Geneva Camerata

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Signum Quartett bei Dir mal spielen dürften.

Im September kommt unsere neueste CD mit Werken von Janacek und Kapralova

Christoph Croisé - Cello

Oxana Shevchenko - Klavier

Sonaten von Schnittke (1) Weill und Honegger

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Malte Spitz hat Dir bereits zu unserem gemeinsamen Projekt geschrieben. Er ist derjenige, der die umfangreichen Archivrecherchen zu Hermann Grab durchgef?hrt hat und auch das Buch dazu verfasst hat, das im M?rz erscheinen wird. Auf dieser Grundlage m?chten wir nun das historische Konzert von Grab aus dem M?rz 1939 in Paris (?Retrospective du piano durant trois si?cles?) wieder auff?hren.

Ich selbst w?rde in diesem Projekt die Rolle des Pianisten ?bernehmen und das rekonstruierte Programm (oder mindestens Teilen davon) interpretieren. In Kombination mit der Buchvorstellung w?re eine Veranstaltung geplant, in der Musik und kurze kontextuelle Einf?hrungen miteinander verbunden werden

Fanny Fheodoroff - Violine 
Jeremias Fliedl - Cello

Haydn Klaviertrio es-Moll Nr.41

Turina Klaviertrio Nr.2

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Dvorak f-Moll Trio

15.12. klappt.

Annette von Hehn, Violine

Thomas Hoppe, Klavier

Das Beethoven Projekt

Michael Abramovich

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Das Beethoven Projekt

Michael Abramovich

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Das Beethoven Projekt

Michael Abramovich

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tickets 20? incl drinks