Date and time:
Friday, April 24, 2026, from 7 p.m.
Venue:
Hall of the Prague Conservatory
Na Rejdišti 1, Praha 1
Program
- V. Ullmann: Piano Sonata No. 3
- K. A. Hartmann: Sonata “April 27, 1945”
- F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations serieuses, Op. 54
Performers
- Annika Treutler (Germany) – piano
For this year’s solo piano recital, we have invited Annika Treutler, an outstanding German pianist of the younger generation, who has been systematically devoting herself to the work of Viktor Ullmann for several years and won the prestigious Opus Klassik award in the “Recording of the Year” category in 2020 for her recording of his Piano Concerto.
At our concert in the inspiring setting of the Prague Conservatory concert hall, she will perform Ullmann’s Piano Sonata No. 3 from 1940 (with a beautiful third movement – variations on a Mozart theme). The second piece will be the extremely impressive sonata by German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann, which he composed under the impression of a shocking experience when, in April 1945, he saw a procession of emaciated prisoners being evacuated from the Dachau concentration camp, and which is one of the most powerful anti-war musical messages. The concert will conclude with the masterful “Serious Variations” for piano, Op. 54, which are considered among the most important works in the world piano literature.
About performers
Annika Treutler – piano
Annika Treutler is one of the most prominent figures of the young German piano generation; RBB has called her “the most interesting German pianist under 30.” In 2020, she won the prestigious Opus Klassik award for her recording of Viktor Ullmann’s Piano Concerto with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Stephan Frucht, released on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Critics praise her technical brilliance, expressive intensity, and stylistic conviction.
Ten years after her debut with Schumann’s Piano Concerto at the Berlin Philharmonic, she has collaborated with a number of leading orchestras, including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Gürzenich Orchester Köln, and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed in venues such as the Elbphilharmonie, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. In addition to her solo career, she is intensely involved in chamber music and collaborates with leading performers of her generation.
She is the initiator and artistic director of the #respondinmusic project, which focuses on music composed during World War II and its significance for contemporary memory culture. Since 2018, she has been teaching at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin.
