Valerie Fritz – ECHO Rising Star

Name: Valerie Fritz – ECHO Rising Star
Start: 2025-11-23T11:00:00+01:00
Location: Bozar / Palais Des Beaux Arts

Schedule

Sun, 23 Nov, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Bozar / Palais Des Beaux Arts | Brussels, BU

Concert Croissant #04
𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼 & 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 ⟶ www.bozar.be/en/calendar/valerie-fritz-echo-rising-star
𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 :
Robert Schumann
⟶5 Stücke im Volkston, op. 102
Olivier Messiaen
⟶Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus (Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps)
Jennifer Walshe
⟶New work (commissioned by ECHO, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Bozar, Casa da Música Porto, Kölner Philharmonie, Konzerthaus Wien ; Belgian premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina
⟶In croce
Mikolaj Majkusiak
⟶Rhythms of doubt, part III
cello : Valerie Fritz
accordion : Goran Stevanovich
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For the Austrian cellist Valerie Fritz, sound quality is the cornerstone of an accurate interpretation. She explores her instrument with an open mind and thorough precision to serve the piece she is working with as faithfully as possible. Furthermore, she has a captivating artistic personality, as seen from her nomination as ECHO Rising Star of the ’25-’26 season by several European musical bodies, including Bozar. In a world full of contradictions, Valerie Fritz and the Bosnian accordionist Goran Stevanovich present Dialogue of Doubt. The work is a musical investigation of the tension between doubt and belief, at the convergence of the tortured Schumann’s loss of his footing, the hope and despair of Messiaen as a prisoner of war, the spiritual struggle of Goubaïdoulina and doubt as a driving force in Majkusiak’s Rhythms of Doubt.
Valerie Fritz has been named 'Rising Star' for the '25-'26 season by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Bozar, la Casa da Música Porto, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Dortmund and the Musikverein Wien as part of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) network. During her European tour, the artist has been invited to perform at Bozar and to give a private concert for the residents of Petit-Château (refugee arrival centre), in collaboration with the Fedasil and Orfeo associations.