Echo Rising Stars with viola

The French-Dutch violist Sào Soulez Larivière is trained at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin, where he now resides. He has received numerous awards for his brilliant playing and is also praised for his exciting programs. Since 2023, Sào Soulez Larivière has been teaching at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Together with pianist Annika Treutler, Sào Soulez Larivière released his first album, Impressions, in 2021. The concert features, among other works, Robert Schumann’s imaginative Märchenbilder (Fairy Tale Pictures) for viola and piano, as well as Shostakovich’s grand Sonata for Viola and Piano – his very last composition. The concert opens with a newly written piece by the American composer Julia Wolfe, one of the founding members of the almost cult-like music collective Bang on a Can.

Rising Stars is a unique and forward-looking collaboration between 24 of Europe’s leading concert halls, all members of the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO). A handful of young musicians and ensembles from various countries are selected each year and given the opportunity to tour the concert halls and perform before international audiences. Experience shows that those who are selected as Rising Stars also have internationally successful careers.