„With a passion that is immediately transmitted to the listeners“ the Duo Giussani plays works from five centuries. In their new program „From Brazil to the Baltic States“, the two young artists take their audience on a journey that leads across different continents and through the most diverse musical epochs.
„Listening pleasure, feast for the ears … these words only inadequately describe the sensory delights that listeners can experience at the Duo Giussani’s concerts … The artists offer music as if from another star. The two artists celebrate a musical feast that led through the heights and depths of compositional ingenuity and an almost celebrated art of instrumental mastery.“ (Westfälische Nachrichten)
Pauline Stephan (cello) and Julian Richter (guitar), both natives of the Ruhr area in Germany, met in 2015 while studying at the Musikhochschule Münster. After just a few weeks, they founded the Duo Giussani.
In addition to searching for original pieces for this particular instrumentation, they play various arrangements, their own arrangements and compositions dedicated to the duo itself. And so a repertoire from Antonio Vivaldi to Spain to Enrique Granados as well as from the Brazilian composer Radamés Gnattali to the Estonian composer Ester Mägi was created.
The Duo Giussani has already been able to demonstrate „pure joy of playing“ at several international festivals such as in Seeon Monastery, at the „Celloherbst am Hellweg“, in Italy at the „North Lake Como Festival“, in Levico Terme, at the „Herbst Musicaux Festival“ in Palazzo Giusti Verona, at the „Incontri musicali d’estate“ in Pescara, in France at the „Festival des Heures Musicales“ in Binic, at „Les Clés du Classique“ in Osseja, at „Les Musicales de Saint-Martin“ in Paris, in Spain at the „Festival Aguere“ in Tenerife in the casino of the city of La Laguna, in Mallorca at the „Festival Son Bono“ and in Brazil at the „Festival de Violoncelos de Ouro Branco“ and in the Brucknerhaus in Austria. A Tour in Japan is planned in April 2025.
Since 2018 the two musicians are scholarship holders of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation „Live Music Now“. In 2023, the duo won the second prize in the chamber music category at the eighth „Nilo Peraldo Bert Guitar Competition“ in Italy.