Música y danza española, latinoamericana, oriental y clásica
“DIE mit DER WOLF TANZT” is the dancer Yamuna Henriques and the pianist and organist Kerstin Wolf. The vision of the work is the connection of both artistic roots, which for Yamuna Henriques lie in flamenco dance and for Kerstin Wolf in classical music.
They interpret, among other things, Spanish, Latin American, Saiyydic and Turkish music of the Romantic and contemporary eras. The expansion of her repertoire with Bach, Beethoven and Chopin is improvisational, which enables the dance to discover new movement qualities by incorporating different dance styles. Their intuitive ability to communicate with one another in particular shapes their personal style and brings their shared art to life.
The artists develop a comprehensive repertoire in the interplay between classical music and dance, with Yamuna Henriques breaking away from traditional flamenco and incorporating and further developing new elements from modern, folkloric and classical dance.
Repertoire: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Ad Wammes, Jehan Alain, Louis Vierne, Mozart, Albéniz, Turina, Surinach, Gurdjieff/de Hoffmann, Gulda, Debussy, Rutter, Rodrigo, Fazil Say and others.
Kerstin Wolf
Kerstin Wolf works as a soloist and chamber music pianist and concert organist at home and abroad. Her concert activities have taken her to Russia, Spain, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and Denmark. She studied organ and piano at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg.
After completing her organ diploma with Prof. Gerhard Dickel, St. Michaelis, Hamburg, she completed her concert exam with Prof. Wolfgang Zerer with distinction. After studying piano with Prof. August Leopolder, Frankfurt, she completed her studies with a piano diploma with Prof. Marian Migdal at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg.
She was a scholarship holder of the Hamburg Patriotic Society and the Budge and Beitstiftung. She intensified her training in master classes with Prof. Graf, Vienna and Prof. Wolf, Salzburg at the Salzburg Mozarteum and with Ben van Oosten, Thierry Escaich and Peter Planyavsky at the Haarlem Organ Academy. She deepened her studies in organ improvisation with Manuel Gera, Wolfgang Seifen, Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet-Hakim, Jos van der Kooy, Hayo Boerema, Philippe Lefebvre and others.
She has a teaching position in organ at the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg and is a regular guest with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at symphony concerts as a pianist, celesta player and organist.
In February 2017 a CD “Play it cool!” was released. with works by the Dutch composer Ad Wammes on the Querstand label, which Kerstin Wolf recorded with Joost de Nooijer, Rotterdam at the Mühleisen/Marcussen organ in St. Johannis in Hamburg-Harvestehude.
From 2017-2020 she worked as second organist at the main church of St. Jacobi in Hamburg and leads the organ tours at the Arp Schnitger organ every Thursday at 12 p.m.
Yamuna Henriques
The German-Portuguese Yamuna Henriques was born and raised in Hamburg and began dancing flamenco in her early years. In 2010 she moved to Seville (Spain), where she began her dance training at the “Fundación Christina Heeren”. From 2011 she worked there on an annual scholarship as a “monitora” (temporary assistant), teacher (beginners) and in the accompaniment courses for singing and guitar, with, among others, Pedro Sierra, La Divi, Pedro Sánchez and Paco Cortés. She took lessons with Milagros Mejíbar, Javier Barón, Ursula Lopez, Antonio Molina “El Choro”, Ana Morales, José Galván, Ramón Martínez and many more.
In 2011/2012 she had her first international teaching and concert experiences in Japan, where she played on two tours with guitarists Kentaro and Kojiro Tokunaga and taught in various flamenco studios.
From 2012 she became a dancer with the “Compañia Flamenco Ruta”, led by the Chilean Gabriel Aragú, with whom she performed in Melilla, Granada, Seville and Murcia, among others. At the same time she danced in tablaos and concerts as a soloist in the “Compañia José Galván”, e.g. in the Teatro Alameda” and “La Caja Negra”.
In 2013/2014/2015 she also worked in the tablao “La Casa de la Memoria” and in “Milangritos”. During these years she played many concerts nationally and internationally in Lithuania (Brigita Bublyte's project “Flamenco & sutartines”), France, Germany, Palestina (Festival 100 Years of Jericho), Portugal, Japan and Spain. In 2015 she returned to Germany, where she began teaching in Hamburg and throughout Germany.
The focus of her work is participating in various festivals, e.g. “Small Festival in the Big Garden” (Hannover), “Night of the Churches” and concerts. Since 2018 she has been working with the pianist and organist Kerstin Wolf in the duo “Die mit der Wolf dances”, which expands her dance style and incorporates new elements from classical dance, jazz and modern dance.
