Founded in 2008, the Chamber Music Forum has given over 30 concerts to date and has established itself as an important and traditional Bruckner University concert series in Linz’s concert life. The central belief of the forum: students and teachers make music together in all chamber music formations with a leitmotif (short, recurring musical phrase) in the program selection.

With the anniversary concert on November 28th, 2023, the Chamber Music Forum looked back on 15 years of diverse and special chamber music concerts. At the same time, the Chamber Music Forum would like to celebrate a new era together with its audience, look forward and pursue exciting paths both musically and personally.

The artistic team was expanded to include two members: Prof. Heidi Luosujärvi (accordion), and Prof. Johanna Dömötör (flute – both pictured above), who will now give the chamber music forum a feminine touch and were present at the anniversary concert on November 28th, 2023, in the Great Hall of the Bruckner University in Linz.

Together with students from Bruckner University, they played dazzling chamber music works by American and Finnish composers such as Leonard Bernstein, George Crumb, Kalevi Aho, Aulis Sallinen and Cecilia Damström.

Program:
George Crumb (1929 – 2022)
An Idyll for the Misbegotten (1985) for amplified flute and percussion (3 players)

Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)
Halil (1981) Nocturne for flute, percussion and piano

Aulis Sallinen (*1935)
Chamber Music V “Barabbas Variations”, Op.80 (2000) for accordion and string quintet

Kalevi Aho (*1949)
Three tangos (1999) for violin, guitar, accordion, piano and double bass

Cecilia Damström (*1988)

Groove, Op. 38 (2015) (Austrian first performance) for flute and accordion