STARS OF TOMORROW
CONCERT II
Maria Pogolski – Female and Male Composers in Dialogue
Nadja Floder – “Grenzenlos – Ad Infinitum”: New and Contemporary Music in Dialogue with Original Compositions
Maria Pogolski – Female and Male Composers in Dialogue
1. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) – Sonata in D Minor K.213
2. Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) – Impromptu-Caprice Op.9 (1901)
3. Henriette Renié (1875-1956) – Pièce symphonique (1907)
4. Maria-Luisa Giannuzzi (-) Huayno: danza peruviana su tema originale
Nadja Floder – “Grenzenlos – Ad Infinitum”: New and Contemporary Music in Dialogue with Original Compositions
1. Marcel Grandjany (1891-1975) – Rhapsodie, op. 10 (1921)
2. Uri Brener (*1974) – Northern Wind. Improvisation and Raga for Harp solo, op. 84 (2017)
3. Nadja Floder (*2003) – Longing for Eternity, op. 22 (2022)
Maria Pogolski
Maria Pogolski, born on August 17, 2007, into a family of musicians, showed her dedication to music at an early age. Enthralled by Mozart and Bach, she began piano lessons at the age of six. At ten, she discovered her deep passion for the harp. She was taught by Elena Faynberg, former solo harpist of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. After just two years, she achieved her first successes in the Jugend Musiziert competition, earning numerous first prizes both as a soloist and in a duet.
Maria has also participated in various online competitions, such as the International Music Competition Belgrade, where she won first prize, and the Glowing Harp Competition, where she recently secured first prize (AG 3) in April 2024. That same year, she won second prize at the Verband deutscher Harfenisten (VdH) competition. Among Maria’s special awards are a prize from the Berthold Hummel Foundation (2023), the German Music Life Foundation (Stiftung Deutsches Musikleben, 2023), and an EMCY Prize in 2024.
Maria gained her first professional experience in 2022 when she performed in the Stars im Prinze concert with the VOLTA Ensemble of the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Enthusiastic about playing in orchestras, she became a member of the Bavarian State Youth Orchestra (Bayerisches Landesjugendorchester) in 2024. Her solo debut took place in October 2023 at a prizewinner’s concert of the Upper Bavaria district, where she performed with the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic Orchestra. She completed her first masterclass at the Detmold Summer Academy in 2024 with Prof. Godelieve Schrama and Helene Schütz.
Currently, Maria is a young student (Jungstudentin) of Prof. Cristina Bianchi and is in the final phase of her secondary education at high school (Gymnasium).
Maria has a deep passion for music and the arts. She eagerly attends concerts, art exhibitions, theater performances, and film screenings in Munich. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in nature with her two dogs, reading, crocheting, and engaging in sports.
Deborah Haag
Soloist, Composer, Educator – Nadja Lydia Floder is much more than “just” a classical harpist:
Nadja Lydia Floder received her first music lessons at the age of four from her mother, Mag. Nora Arpa-Floder, on the violin. At the age of eight, she also began learning the harp with Mag. Alicja Wojciechowska-Zapata, later adding classical singing and piano to her studies. From 2015 to 2017, she took private lessons with Mag. Rahel Pießlinger, Bakk.art. Bakk.art. Since 2017, she has been studying with Univ.-Prof. Mirjam Schröder-Feldhoff at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, initially as a pre-college student and, since 2021, in the concert performance program. She graduated with distinction from the Oberstufenrealgymnasium Bogenhofen in 2021.
Concerts and performances have taken her to Nürnberg, Augsburg, Lund (Sweden), Salzburg, the Klagenfurt Concert Hall, and even the Austrian Parliament before the Bundesrat. Nadja Floder has won multiple awards at Prima la Musica, where she was the regional winner in 2020 with a perfect score of 100 points. She gained her first studio experience through ORF radio recordings and video projects by Bibelstream.
Floder is also highly active in chamber music: she regularly performs with her sister, Corina Floder, Bakk.art., in various instrumental combinations, including harp duo, guitar-violin, cello-piano, violin-harp, harp-guitar, and harp-cello. At the 2019 Prima la Musica national competition, they won two first prizes as Duo Vielsaitig (harp-cello) and Duo CONA con affetto (violin-guitar). As a soloist with orchestra, Nadja Floder has performed multiple harp concertos by composers such as Georg Friedrich Händel, Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, François-Adrien Boieldieu, and Marcel Grandjany (Aria in Classic Style).
Additionally, Floder has attended masterclasses with renowned professors such as Catherine Michel, Isabelle Perrin, Nicoletta Sanzin, Mag. Elisabeth Plank, Veronika Lemishenko, and Manja Smits. Since the age of 15, she has also been teaching harp and violin. From 2023 to 2024, she worked as a substitute teacher at the Musikschulverband Oberes Mostviertel and the Regionalmusikschule Amstetten.
Floder places a personal focus on composition: in 2021, she performed her piece Rhapsodie dans la Nuit at the Vienna Harp Days, followed by performances of Longing for Eternity and Passacaglia or Élegie in C minor. Since the summer of 2024, she has been working on a new multi-movement orchestral work featuring an obbligato harp.
She is currently preparing for two solo concerts in Joji Hattori’s concert series Stars of the Future in cooperation with Musica Juventutis, where she will present another new composition, Impromptu for Solo Harp.
