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Michael Heupel

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This is a collection of works for cello and piano based on old styles such as Baroque music, entitled "Continuum". Schnittke's "Suite in Old Style" (originally for violin and piano) is a stunning piece of pseudo-baroque music that is hard to believe that it was written in the 1970s, and is a popular piece played with Stravinsky's "Italian Suite," which probably served as a model. Michalis (or Michael in German) Heupel, born in Athens in 1988, is a cellist who began studying the cello at the age of 8 and immediately showed great talent. 2006 he received a scholarship to study in Germany, in Hanover and Hamburg. Since then, he has performed in his native Greece and Germany, as well as around the world. Mario Hering is a pianist born in 1989 in Hanover. Raised in Berlin, he won the second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018. His mother is Japanese. The fresh performance by the two young musicians is wonderful. Tobu Land Systems