Programme:

3:30 p.m.: Lecture

On nomenclature, classification, iconography, construction types, traditional tunings, viewing various instruments, playing positions and repertoire.

5:15 p.m.: Practical instruction
Both on your own instrument (cello) and on the BdV you have brought with you; various playing positions will be tried out together, as well as tonal approximation and comparison.

6:30 p.m.: Chamber music

Peter Trefflinger:

Born in Steyr, Peter Trefflinger studied violoncello, baroque cello and viola da gamba. He received particular inspiration from cellist Philipp Muller (Paris), organist Kurt Neuhauser (Graz) and baroque cellist and gambist Christophe Coin (Basel).
For more than 20 years, he has been intensively involved in historical performance practice and is in international demand as a baroque cellist and continuo specialist. He has numerous engagements in orchestras playing original instruments: Concentus Musicus Wien, L’Orfeo Baroque Orchestra Linz, Les Talens Lyriques, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Collegium Marianum Prague, Wiener Akademie, etc.

Chamber music and solo performances are further important focal points of his work. He has a long-standing musical partnership with Gunar Letzbor and his ensemble Ars Antiqua Austria. In 2019, he founded the ensemble Galimathias musicum with violinist Nina Pohn with the aim of exploring the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries and realising his own projects. Since 2020, he has also been directing the baroque orchestra Neue Hofkapelle Graz together with Lucia Froihofer.
In all these ensembles, Peter plays 17th-century music on either the basse de violon or G-violone and is intensively engaged with questions of posture and playing technique for these instruments.