Maximilian and Adrian Kleemann from Eching crowned their participation in “Jugend musiziert” with the “Platz in der Sonne” award.
The brothers used the "home advantage".
Eching
- collective fingers crossed, great musical talent and even greater training diligence helped to bring the two music students Maximilian (16 years old - violin) and Adrian Kleemann (14 - piano) first place in the national competition "Jugend musiziert".
With 24 points they achieved the best result in Bavaria in their category in age group IV.
"We are all overwhelmed that everything went so well despite Corona, and we are very happy for both of them," said the music school director Katrin Masius from Echingen.
Musical parental home
The high school students come from a musical family that promotes them as best as possible, and have been playing their respective instruments since they were five years old, making house music together with their father.
Both already knew how to convince with the same number of points in the previous state competition and thus actually bought a ticket to Bremen and Bremerhaven, where the 58th national competition was to take place.
But this year the competition for Maximilian and Adrian, as well as for around 2,250 other instrumentalists and singers, was limited to the home office.
This was in the living room of the Kleemann family, where the “competition music video” was recorded.
The choice was not easy for the brothers
It was not easy to choose which of the numerous recordings would be most suitable. After a public audition in attendance was not responsible for corona-related reasons, unfortunately it was not the most talented young musicians from all over Germany that gathered at the specified venue in northern Germany, but instead exclusively the 140 jurors from May 20 to 26. They were entrusted with the demanding task of viewing and evaluating 1730 videos under strict hygiene requirements that had been submitted by 2250 participants in the solo and duo categories who had qualified for the national competition - completely new framework conditions and challenges.
The preparation for “Jugend musiziert” was special and unusual for the participating young talents, their teachers and their parents.
The brothers had the invaluable advantage, especially in Corona times, of being able to practice together at home at all times.
This year, together with their teachers, they had worked out a challenging selection of pieces from the Viennese classic, late romantic and modern and presented compositions by Beethoven, Brahms and Prokofiew in the competition.
With their precise and skilful dialogue between violin and piano, deliberately designed and varying rhythms and melodies, the two up-and-coming talents from Echingen knew how to convince across the board.
An achievement that is no accident
This top performance is of course not “flown to” by accident, but has been developed over many years of childhood and adolescence. Maximilian has been taking violin lessons at the Echinger Music School since 2012, seven years with Martha Sternicky, who retired in 2019, and since then with Marcellin Aker-Borsarello. Brother Adrian has been attending piano lessons with piano teacher Zara Jerbashyan in Unterschleißheim for nine years, who is also employed at the Eching Music School.
The first public interplay between the two young “Kleemen”, as Masius recalls, was in 2014 at the music school's summer concert.
Two years later, at the parish's festive New Year's concert in 2016 in the fully occupied community center, the audience was just as enthusiastic about the virtuoso performance of the youngest performers Maximilian and Adrian Kleemann, who, at the age of eleven and nine, performed Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in A minor as the figureheads of the music school demonstrated their concert skills - as in the following years.
Music schools made common cause
Masius positively underlines the good cooperation between Eching and neighboring music schools, which this year specifically provided three duos across institutions and communities for “Jugend musiziert”.
The music schools Freising, Garching and, as described, Unterschleißheim also took part in this interaction.
Masius hopes that after the positive experiences and successes so far, this cooperation can be expanded.
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