Tram Party

Hernan bids farewell to Berlin, his friends and fellow classmates ...and his party takes place in a streetcar!

Watch video here...

See photos in the photo gallery here...

Micheal O'Suilleabhain having some fun with the bagpipes
Dr. Micheal O'Suilleabhain, director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at Limerick, Ireland, playing an impromptu on the bagpipes at a reception following the Chieftains concert during our bass trio tour of Ireland (see the photo gallery for more...)

Wieland Bachmann staring in "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui"

(original German title: Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui),
a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht

See video excerpts of Wieland's performance here...

New Recordings from the Benefit Concert
at the Neue Synagoge Berlin

Download or listen to MP3 files of the dress rehearsal of the performance of Bottesini's "Passione Amorosa" with Wieland Bachmann (Cb.I), Michael Wolf (Cb.II) and the Julius Stern Chamber Orchestra conducted by Zvi Carmeli:

• Allegro
• Andante
• Allegretto

New video of
Rinat Avisar

performing World Premiere
of the "Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra" by Haim Permont with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra under conductor Yaron Gottfried (More about Rinat here.)

Hear a new recording of Astor Piazzolla's "Kicho" with Rinat and the Pitango Quartet here...

New Video Recordings!!

...of the joint recital of our double bass class in Berlin together with the class from Nuernberg-Augsburg here...

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Here you can watch

"Das
Nusskracher
Ballett"

as performed at the UdK Weihnachtsfeier!

• Real Player version
• Windows Media version

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New Video of Conor MacCarthy playing
Irish Trad music, "the Maid at the Well"