“It is not called playing the violin for nothing” - In discussion with Alexander Hohenthal

By Chris Billingham 

Next Friday audiences at 1pm in the Corn Exchange Newbury will be treated to Mozart and Mendelssohn at the latest Southern Sinfonia Café Concert. The pieces will be performed by The Hohenthal Trio, a combination of our Leader Alexander Hohenthal on violin, Nick Stringfellow on cello and Eleanor Hodgkinson playing piano.

To celebrate we are posting an interview that Richard and I conducted with Alexander at the end of last year. Alexander, who performs internationally as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and concertmaster, studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg with Ruggiero Ricci and Paul Roczek. His performances are critically acclaimed; Graham Caldbeck quite rightly described him as “outstanding – as a soloist, as a leader and as an all-round nice guy”.

In the video below you can hear Alex discuss musical inspirations, classical instruments, venues, audiences, family and more:

Thank you to Alexander for given us the opportunity to sit down with him, it was a wonderful afternoon and gave us some fascinating insights into life as a classical musician.

Don’t forget you can buy tickets for The Hohenthal Trio which takes place on Friday 27^th Febuary at 1pm here.

You can also find out more about our March concert ‘Classical Celebration II’ by visiting our events page or the main Corn Exchange website.

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