Tournée avec Golda Schultz et Robin Ticciati
25 août- 7 septembre 2025

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Touring with Robin Ticciati is always a privilege for the COE and this will be our first project together since Robin became Honorary Member of the COE in February this year. On this occasion, we will be joined by South African soprano Golda Schultz who is making her COE debut, and will feature at no less than five European festivals: Helsinki Festival on 28th August, BeethovenFest in Bonn on 30th August, Musikfest in Bremen on 31st August, Settimane Musicali di Ascona on 2nd September and, last but not least, London’s BBC Proms on 6th September. Together we will perform Schreker’s Kammersinfonie, songs by Gershwin, Weill, Stravinsky, Korngold and Bernstein as well as Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (replaced with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 in Bonn).

This will be the COE’s second ever venture to Helsinki where we last performed at the Helsinki Festival in August 1998 with one of the Orchestra dearest friends, the late Paavo Berglund. We keep strong memories of these concerts as we had then performed all of Sibelius’s Symphonies, which were released only recently by ICA Classics and the COE in 2022 on DVD and Blu-Ray. They are also available to watch on medici.tv.

It was in 2023, also with Robin Ticciati, that the COE last performed at the BeethovenFest in Bonn. The programme had included John Luther Adams’ Ten Thousand Birds’ which involved small groups of musicians performing in various spaces in the venue, aiming to replicate different birdsongs. MusikFest Bremen and Settimane Musicali di Ascona were two of the three festivals the COE and Robin Ticciati had visited as part of their tour in September 2022, with pianist Francesco Piemontesi.

Performing at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms in London is always a special event. It has been 8 years since we have featured at the Proms where the COE had appeared a number of times (2011, 2015 and 2017) with the late Bernard Haitink, with whom we had a particularly close relationship and who was one of the COE’s Honorary Members.

That Robin is a kindred spirit was already clear to us at the very start of our relationship 10 years ago, and since this time our association has been able to flourish and grow. The success of our first concert together in December 2015 at the Cologne Philharmonie with Alina Ibragimova was followed by a week’s residency at Dubai’s Opera House in 2017 with Christian Tetzlaff. Since then we have enjoyed a series of wonderful musical adventures together, meeting with Robin several times a year and performing concerts featuring soloists including Lisa Batiashvili, Kirill Gerstein, Augustin Hadelich, Maria Ioudenitch, Bryn Terfel, Christian Tetzlaff, Francesco Piemontesi, Jean-Guihen Queyras, as well as singers Louise Alder, Natalya Boeva, Allan Clayton, Iestyn Davies, Magdalena Kožená and Gerhild Romberger.

On becoming COE Honorary Member Robin said: “Part of being a musician is about the daily necessity to reevaluate the notes we have in front of us, to search with integrity and occasional vulnerability, to quest for the ultimate truth from these wondrous composers in our lives: the COE makes that journey both possible and joyful. This is just the rehearsal… Add the audience and it is then that this magical group flies in concert with unshackled emotional zeal underpinned by a deep wisdom. Technique is never a barrier and the parasitic effect of ‘routine’ simply doesn’t exist. The COE is all about the music. That comes first. Not an easy thing to achieve today. It’s a privilege to work with them and I look forward to our future together.”

Golda was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1983. Her mother is a retired nurse, and her father is a retired university professor of Mathematics. Golda studied journalism at Rhodes University before switching to singing at the University of Cape Town, and then at the Juilliard School in New York.

In 2011, Golda won a place at the Opera Studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, after which her career developed rapidly. From her base in Germany, she has conquered the world’s opera houses and concert halls, from the Vienna State Opera to the Salzburg Festival; and from the Royal Opera House in London to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, to name but four.

Read Golda’s full biography here.