Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra Principal Flute and Harp Duo Concert

Premiere of Works by 19-Year-Old Noted German Composer Widenhofer at Prugio Art Hall, Jung-gu, Seoul on the 19th

Henrik Bije, principal flutist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Magdalena Hofmann, principal harpist, will hold a duo concert on the 19th at 7:30 PM at the Prugio Art Hall in Jung-gu, Seoul.

Works by various composers such as Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Bach's son), Mozart, Reinecke, and Debussy will be performed.

In the first part of the concert, a piece for flute and harp by Johannes Widenhofer, a composer gaining attention in the German music scene, will be premiered. The concert organizer, Seoul Music Management, commissioned the piece through Bije, and Widenhofer dedicated the work to Bije and Hofmann. Born in 2005, Widenhofer's orchestral work "Schnell" (meaning "agile") was premiered on January 27 this year by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simon Rattle.

The second part of the concert, subtitled "Powerful Women," will feature pieces themed around women. Bije, who is also a musicologist and active as a composer and arranger, arranged Reinecke's "Characters from Fairy Tales (op. 147)," composed in 1878, for harp and flute for this performance.

Bije will also perform an arrangement of Mozart's Adagio (KV 540), which will be played in the first part.

There will be a signing session after the concert.

Bije was born in 1971 in Vienna, Austria, and grew up in Hamburg, Germany. He began playing the flute as a self-taught musician and studied under Professor Ingrit Koch-D?rnbrack at the Hamburg Music Academy and Professor Paul Meisen at the Munich National University of Music. In 1995, while studying at the Munich National University of Music, he was selected as the principal flutist of the Bavarian State Opera, and since 2006, he has served as the principal flutist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He won the German Music Competition in 1995 and the Carl Nielsen Competition in 1998. In 2000, he placed second without a first prize at the German ARD International Competition.

Hofmann gained recognition by winning several international competitions, including two special awards at the 2016 German ARD International Competition. Her first album, "Nightscapes," released in 2022, won the Opus Klassik award, and she released her third album, "Fantasia," this August.

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