All About Eve

All About Eve: A program that offers women and their musical creations a stage: Their stories, experiences, motivations. And first and foremost their music: lively, diverse, creative and courageous!

Sophie Heinrich (violin) and Maria Radutu (piano) have one thing in common in addition to their mastery of the instrument and their passion for music: they are storytellers. In their solo programs, they have created their own ways of bringing known and unknown music to the audience in a very individual way: Radutu in her PianoBox, Heinrich with Alma's Musiksalon. Maria invites them into the worlds of the most diverse musical styles and uses her voice to help them find their very own, contemporary, modern approach to the music presented. Sophie uses texts and stories to whisk the audience away to past eras and the emotional worlds of their composers. She uses quotes from diaries or letters to show the audience the composers as people, making the works more approachable and understandable.

The two power women combine the best of both in their joint program "All About Eve". This program offers women and their musical works a stage, regardless of the era. It is about their stories, experiences, motivations and, first and foremost, their music: like that of the two Boulanger sisters - both award-winning for their work - who shared a touching and intimate relationship beyond death, the seething, unshakeable power of the music of African-American Florence Price, who was not allowed to attend a concert hall during her lifetime because of her skin color, the spirited, harmonically highly complex sonata by the Croatian-Hungarian composer Dora Pejačevic, a highly educated, modern woman of the 1920s, or the imaginative, mystical music of her contemporary Lera Auerbach.

All the women have liveliness, creative diversity, quality and courage in common. Today, the exceptional female artists pick "Eve's ripe apples" and use music and lyrics to tempt us to eat from the fruit of the tree that women courageously planted in the past despite all resistance and that can no longer be overlooked in its lush splendor today!