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Raphaela Gromes - Interview Fono Forum magazine

In the current issue of Fono Forum magazine, Raphaela Gromes talks about her admiration for great female composers, the tightrope walk between classical music and pop culture, and her vision of giving great female artists a voice:https://www.stereo.de/fonoforum/portraets/interview/raphaela-gromes

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"Femmes" is No. 5 on Amazon Charts, interview in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and ZDF Morgenmagazin

The new SONY album "Femmes" by Raphaela Gromes will be available in stores from 03.02.2023. Now already the album is listed number 5 in the Amazon charts! Congratulations! In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Raphaela Gromes answers "Four Questions" about her very personal inspirations in the field of culture and society. Read the whole, exciting article here: https://m.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/vier-fragen-an-raphaela-gromes-18633662.amp.html You can get an audible and visible foretaste of the new "Femmes" album on ZDF Morgenmagazin. Here Raphaela Gromes tells the background to the making of the album, there are exciting facts about the life and work of brilliant female composers and there is even a reference to pop culture: Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem play their arrangement of Billie Eilish's "No Time To Die" live, which can also be found on the CD. You can watch the whole programme here: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/zdf-morgenmagazin/raphaela-gromes-116.html

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Raphaela Gromes - new SONY album "Femmes"

In close cooperation with the archive "Woman and Music", the "Furore Verlag" - a publishing house that publishes only works by women composers, and Sony Classical, the concept for Raphaela Gromes' new album FEMMES was born and it became a double album. It contains works by 23 female composers from all over the world, with well-known names such as Clara Schumann, Fanny Hensel or Nadia and Lili Boulanger, and real discoveries with music by Princess Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria, the Dutch-Jewish composer Henriette Bosmans, the Swedish composer Laura Netzel, the African-American composers Dolores White and Florence Price or the contemporary composer Victoria Yagling. Several world premiere recordings can also be heard on FEMMES, such as the "Tre Momenti" for cello and string orchestra by Italian composer Matilde Capuis. "With FEMMES, I can finally make the works and life stories of these wonderful women accessible to a wide audience," says Raphaela Gromes about her new album, which will be released by Sony Classical. Raphaela Gromes is accompanied on FEMMES by Festival Strings Lucerne and its artistic director Daniel Dodds, with whom she has a long-standing collaboration, as well as by pianist Julian Riem, who also wrote all the arrangements on the album. If you too do not want to miss this new masterpiece: FEMMES is available for pre-order now and in stores from February 3, 2023.

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Raphaela Gromes receives one of the three cellos by Carlo Bergonzi existing worldwide

Raphaela Gromes now plays one of the three cellos by Carlo Bergonzi from 1740 that still exist worldwide.Her supporters have made this possible. The cello will be heard for the first time at her debut with the Belgian National Orchestra in Brussels on October 28, 2022.She will play the first Cello Concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns and is very excited because, she says, it is in French repertoire that the tonal colors and possibilities of the Bergonzi cello can be very well presented. The Strad and Slipped Disc also report:Slipped Disc/Norman Lebrecht:"[...] that German cellist Raphaela Gromes is in the unique position of playing an authentic Carlo Bergonzi instrument. The 1740 cello is one of three known Bergonzis in the world. One with a value of 10 million pounds is in a London vault. Another is in the Chimei Museum in Taiwan.The third instrument, identified by luthier Dmitri Gindin, was purchased for Raphaela Gromes and will be heard for the first time Friday at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Saint-Saëns' first concert." The Strad:"The cello, made in Antonio Stradivari's workshop, is one of only three known Bergonzi cellos.[...] When I played the first notes on it, I felt like I had come home and knew immediately that my search was over and I had found the perfect instrument for me."

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Raphaela Gromes - Upcoming concerts 2022

In July and August, Raphaela Gromes and Julian Riem toured Central America. In addition to concerts in Mexico, Guatemala and San Salvador, Raphaela Gromes visited the respective SOS Children's Villages, where she was warmly welcomed, and campaigned as a cultural ambassador for the promotion of young talent there. Back in Europe, Raphaela Gromes is now looking forward to an exciting musical fall. Next up is her debut at the Lucerne Festival. There she will present some works from the new SONY CD "Femmes", which will be released in autumn.In 2022/23 Raphaela Gromes will also be Artist in Residence at the Staatsheater Augsburg. Here is a selection of her upcoming concerts: 21.08.2022 Debut Lucerne Festival with Festival Strings Lucerne and Daniel Dodds 25.08.2022 Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg with Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen and Ye-Eun Choi 10.09.2022 Frauenkirche Dresden with Julian Riem 23.10.2022 Baden-Baden Festspielhaus with Gabriella Victoria and Julian Riem 28.10.2022 Debut National Orchestra of Belgium, conductor Roberto Gonzáles-Monjas 10. & 11.12.2022 Tonkünstler Orchestra, conductor Dmitry Liss

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