ChristophSietzen
Contact
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Rupert Chandler
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Joy Pidsley
Representation
About Christoph
The 2024-25 season sees Christoph as Artist in Residence at Koelner Philharmonie, where he brings various programmes alongside the Ancient Academy of Music and Bogdan Bacanu, MOTUS percussion, and Tabea Zimmermann and Mahan Esfahani in a programme for percussion, harpsichord and viola. Christoph will bring Johannes Maria Staud’s concerto Whereas the Reality Trembles to Cologne, with WDR Symphonieorchester and Brad Lubman, followed by performances with SWR Sinfonieorchester in Stuttgart and Hamburg and the Bruckner Orchester in Linz. These concerts follow Christoph’s world premiere performance of the work last season with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most, and the Austrian premiere with Vienna Symphony and Andris Poga.
Other orchestral highlights include Christoph’s debut with HR Sinfonieorchester, performing Detlev Glanert’s percussion concerto in its German premiere alongside Andre de Ridder. Christoph will also bring the work to the Euskadiko Orchestra with Christoph-Mathias Meuller, with whom he recently performed the piece’s world premiere with the Arctic Philharmonic. Christoph has collaborated with orchestras such as the Bavarian, Austrian and Polish Radio Symphony Orchestras, Luxembourg Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and conductors such as Francois-Xavier Roth, Ilan Volkov, Marin Alsop, Howard Griffiths, Yutaka Sado, Frank Strobel, Alexander Liebreich and Cristian Mandeal.
Upcoming recital highlights include performances at Konzerthaus Berlin in collaboration with Christian Jost, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg with Sao Soulez Lariviere for the ECHO Rising Star concerts and Heidelberger Fruhling Festival with MOTUS Percussion.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Christoph Sietzen - Staud Concerto
Watch the full production and interview on Adella.live, the digital home of The Cleveland Orchestra Credit: Adella Live / The Cleveland Orchestra
PlayingMaki Ishii, Thirteen Drums
Recorded live at Kloster Isenhagen. Credit: Christoph Sietzen
PlayingBach, Gigue in E minor
Credit: wavequartet
PlayingXenakis, Rebonds B
Recorded live at Weiner Konzerthaus. Credit: Christoph Sietzen
PlayingThomas, Merlin II. Time's Way
Credit: Christoph Sietzen
Playing
Selected Repertoire
Glanert | Percussion Concerto |
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Staud | Whereas Reality Tremebles, Percussion Concerto |
Sample Programmes
Percussion & Organ
Sofia Gubaidulina: Detto I Maki Ishii: Thirteen Drums for percussion solo Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia BWV 582 Andrea Tarrodi: Poseidon (commande Philharmonie, KölnMusik, Bamberger Symphoniker et Wiener Konzerthaus) Toshi Ichiyanagi: The Source Arvo Pärt: Annum per annum Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre (Totentanz) (arr. Christian Schmitt, Christoph Sietzen)
Percussion & Orchestra
Programme IANNIS XENAKIS: Rebonds A LOUISE FARRENC: Symphony No. 3 Interval IANNIS XENAKIS: Rebonds B ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Five pieces for Orchestra PETER EÖTVÖS: Speaking Drums, four poems for solo percussions and orchestra
News
Press
Staud, Percussion Concerto (World Premiere)
Severance Hall, ClevelandPassages that start as just great fun morph into moments of reckoning. Kinetic riffs give way to shimmering clouds of sound made with everything from ethereal bells to the mundane clunks of ceramic flowerpots, or the harsh rasp of a steel barrel used as a kick drum. After the work reaches a transfigured calm, it embarks on an entertaining but unsettling closing section, vigorous to the point of threat. ...the central role of the percussionist, combined with Sietzen’s flamboyant enthusiasm, casts him in a shamanic role in this concerto. An amazing performance of a compelling piece.
- Seen and Heard International
- 13 October 2023
Sietzen is a real showman, given to raising his arms high in the air, aggressively hitting his targets, running to and from instruments, even engaging in some audience banter when building the Frank Gehry-like structure that would be his trap set for the evening. His playing was thrilling, not the least for his obvious commitment to this leviathan of a work, which he collaborated in bringing to life. Also amazing was the coordination of his part with the Orchestra’s percussion section.
- Cleveland Classical
- 09 October 2023