July 16-30, August 2-17, 2013
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ILANA VERED
Ilana Vered was soloist with the orchestras of New-York, She has recorded for Decca London and Connoisseur society, five Beethoven concerti, Brahms, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Tchaikowsky and the complete Chopin Etudes. Has made six musical movies with director Adrian Marthaler, of which the "Rhapsody in Blue" has become a cult movie. Known for her masterclasses in universities and member of important international juries of piano competition Founder of the Rutgers and the |
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The Festival Orchestra:
We welcome Ashdod Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading orchestra of During the festival, the orchestra will accompany several piano concerti and the production of "Il Rigoletto" and will perform orchestral works conducted by Uri Segal, Sergei Babayan, Carlo Palleschi and others. |
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LEA AGMON
Lea Agmon’s musical education began in her native city of Tbilisi, Georgia, where she studied piano from early age, first with her mother, and subsequently in a special school for gifted young musicians affiliated with the Tbilisi Conservatory. After immigrating to Israel in 1973 she studied piano with Yahli Wagman and Sonia Valin at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, on scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Concurrently with graduating the Academy, Lea Agmon began teaching piano professionally. The Mannes College of Music, New York, awarded Lea Agmon a full scholarship to continue her musical studies as a graduate piano student of Edward Aldwell. At Mannes, she studied theory and analysis with Edward Aldwell, Carl Schachter, and Robert Cuckson, and chamber music with Klaus Adams. Starting in her early teens in Tbilisi, and continuing in Jerusalem and New York, she participated in many master-classes, performing for such prominent figures as Stanislav Neuhaus, Claude Frank, Eugene Istomin, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel, and Harold Schoenberg. After returning to Israel Mrs. Agmon joined the piano faculty of the Conservatory of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she also co-chaired the Piano Department. Mrs. Agmon raised a generation of professional musicians. Many of her current and former students are prize winners of national and international competitions, and are active on Israeli and International stages in recitals and as soloists with orchestras. Some of the most prominent young Israeli composers are among her former students. Throughout her teaching career Mrs. Agmon sought to develop innovative methods in piano pedagogy. To this end she studied cognitive and educational psychology at Bar-Ilan University, taking courses with Mario Miculincer and Shlomo Kaniel. She is frequently invited to lecture on her unique piano method, which approaches musical and technical problems from a broad perspective that embraces both music theory and cognitive psychology. Lea Agmon established in 2008 the Edward Aldwell International Center for Piano Performance and Musicianship at the JAMD, and serves as its Artistic Director. Currently Mrs. Agmon serves as the Director of the Conservatory of the JAMD.
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LUIGI ALVA Illustrissimo Tenore. Straordinario interprete di Rossini; la sua incisione Noto insegnante e maestro, molto amato dai suoi alievi. |
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VALENTIN ANIKIN Graduated from the class od Valery Surevich at the Ural State Conservatory in 2010. Since his debut as Bertan in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta in 2005 at the Ekaterinburg Opera House he has appeared in various places in and as well. In 2009 he became the soloist of the St. Petersburg Chamber Opera and enriched his repertoire with world-famous roles as Varlaam from Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, the Commendatore from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Gremin from Tchaikovsky’s Onegin and Raimondo from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. In 2012 he appears as Don Basilio of the festival’s production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini Valentin Anikin has been accepted in the prestigious program of Placido Domingo Opera Workshop in Los Angeles 2013.
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BRUNA BAGLIONI
Ha debuttato nel 1971 al Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto nel ruolo dell`Ostessa nel Boris Goudunov di Modest Mussorgskij, a cui seguirono numerosi successi tra cui si ricorda nel marzo 1972 presso l`Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Roma, l`oratorio di Schumann il Paradiso e la Peri diretta da Vittorio Gui.
Da lì a poco, esattamente il 12 febbraio 1973 Bruna Baglioni debutta al Teatro alla Scala di Milano, sempre nel ruolo dell`Ostessa nel Boris Gudunov diretta da Gianandrea Gavazzeni, e a fianco di Nicolai Ghiaurov, Paolo Washington, Irina Arkipova.
Il suo primo ruolo protagonista è la Leonora di Guzman nella Favorita di Gaetano Donizetti, opera che ha debuttato al Teatro Comunale di Bologna il 5 gennaio 1974 diretta da Francesco Molinari Pradelli, con regia di Pietro Zuffi, e con il cast d`eccezione composto da Luciano Pavarotti e Renato Bruson, l`artista ricorda il maestro Piero Rattalino che notandola nell`audizione, le assegnò il ruolo. A giugno 1974 la Baglioni parte in tournée con la Scala di Milano al Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca, nel ruolo di Adalgisa nella Norma di Vincenzo Bellini, a fianco di Monserrat Caballè e Gianni Raimondi, diretta da Francesco Molinari Pradelli, anche di quell`occasione è disponibile un CD. In seguito, si e’ esibita fra l’ altro al Teatro di Roma, alla Fenice di Venezia, al teatro San Carlo di Napoli, a il Teatro Regio di Torino, al Teatro Regio di Parma, e praticamente in tutte le grandi Sale d’Italia. In America, si e’ esibita al Metropolitan di New York, in Europa al Covent Garden di Londra, L`Operà di Parigi, il Deutsche Oper di Berlino, il National Theater di Monaco di Baviera, l`Opernhaus di Zurigo, eccetera. L`artista oltre ad essere tutt`ora impegnata in opere quali Trovatore, Aida e Cavalleria Rusticana e soprattutto recitals in tutto il mondo, si dedica principalmente all`insegnamento della tecnica vocale, del canto lirico e dell`interpretazione scenica per i giovani. Per questo, oltre all`insegnamento privato e presso importanti Accademie, partecipa a numerosi Master Class professionali in Italia ed in tutto il Mondo. Inoltre molto spesso prende parte alle giurie in importanti concorsi, ultimo il Martinelli Pertile di Montagnana, Padova (8-11 giugno 2011). |
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EVELYNE BRANCART She is currently Professor of Music (Piano) at Indiana University School of Music in
appeared with artists like Joshua Bell, Atar Arad, Jeremy Denk, Miriam Fried, Gary Hoffman, Tony Ross, Arnold Steinhardt and the Orion String Quartet. She has been a regular guest at the Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Da Camera (Houston), Leicester Music Festival in England, Mozart Festival in Lille France, Music at the Red Sea in Israel |
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MARCO BUSSI
Artistic partner of Bruno Pratico in evenings of duets of Opera Buffa in
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ANDREA CAPPELLERI Direttore d’Orchestra, distintosi particolarmente nel repertorio Lirico, ha già diretto “Dido and Aeneas” di H. Purcell, “Mosè” di G. Rossini (Busan, Corea del Sud, 2004), “Le Nozze di Figaro”e “Don Giovanni”, “Il Signor Bruschino”, “Suor Angelica”, “ Ha recentemente diretto il Divertimento Ensemble in “El Retablo de Maese Pedro” di M. De Falla e “Pierrot Lunaire” di A. Schoenberg. Maestro Collaboratore per cantanti, lavorando per importanti festival internazionali tra i quali il “Cantiere internazionale d’arte” di Montepulciano e Garsington Opera (Londra). E’ docente di Lettura della Partitura presso il Conservatorio “J. Tomadini” di Udine. |
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EDUARDO DELGADO International recording and performing pianist. Originally from He is the winner of the Vladimir Horowitz Award and sits on many national and international juries. He has collaborated with Martha Argerich and has just recorded a very special CD to benefit victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in He is full professor at
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MARIA LOMAZOV and JOSEPH RACKERS
The Lomazov/Rackers Piano Duo garnered wide attention as the Second Prize Winners of the Sixth Biennial Ellis Duo Piano Competition, the only national competition for piano duo in the Lomazov and Rackers are Steinway Artists. Recent engagements include performances at the Society of Composers International Conference, the Chernigov Philharmonic ( Praised as a “diva of the piano” (Salt Lake City Tribune), Marina Lomazov has performed throughout the
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NORMA FISHER
Norma Fisher was born in London of Russian-Polish parents. Recognised as ‘a rare musical talent’, she was heard by the celebrated Greek pianist Gina Bachauer who became her mentor, introducing her to the distinguished Hungarian teacher Ilona Kabos, with whom she subsequently studied. A period was also spent in Paris studying French music with Jacques Fevrier.
Her highly acclaimed early performances for the BBC led to an invitation by RIAS (Berlin) to make her debut with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra - which launched her career in Europe. Success in the Busoni International Piano Competition as a top prize-winner followed and in 1963, when she shared the much-coveted Piano Prize in the Harriet Cohen International Music Awards with Vladimir Ashkenazy, her international reputation was sealed. That same year she made her debut at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall and became a favourite soloist with all the leading British orchestras.
Norma Fisher is known for her versatility as a performer, receiving international acclaim as one of Britains leading pianists. This versatility extends to chamber music, which she plays with leading musicians throughout the world.
Her reputation as a teacher is widely established and many of her prize-winning students are well known on the international concert circuit. She teaches at the Royal College of Music and is invited to give master classes throughout the world. She is also much in demand as an adjudicator and is regularly invited on the Jury of many major international piano competitions.
She is Artistic Director of London Master Classes www.londonmasterclasses.com whose courses at the Royal Academy of Music attract major talent from around the world to work intensively with top performers/teachers in London. London Master Classes celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2013.
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DANNA GLASER - 2014 Danna Glaser began her professional music activities as assistant principal cellist in the Rishon Le Zion Symphony Orchestra. Soon after, her career as a soprano was launched in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra production of Ariadne auf Naxos conducted by Zubin Mehta, in Die Walkure with Sinopoli and the Rome Opera and winning The Maria Callas Competition in Athens. Danna Glaser has sung with Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Daniele Gatti, Asher Fisch, Aldo Ceccato, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Gabor Otvos, Daniel Oren, Daniel Ettinger, Uri Segal, Elyahu Inbal, and others. Her performances include Aida, Suor Angelica, Butterfly, Walkure, Ariadne auf Naxos , La Vestale, Verdi Requiem, Bernstein Kaddish Symphony, Strauss Vier letzte lieder, Beethoven Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9, Mahler Symphony No. 2, Brahms and Faure Requiem, Semlinsky Lyric Symphony, Rossini Stabat Mater, and petit mass etc… Important performances have been with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, New Israeli Opera, Jerusalem Symphony, Rai Orchestra of Torino, Maggio Musicale of Florence, Rome Opera, Gothenburg Opera, Coopenhagen Opera, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro di Messina, Teatro di Palermo, Arena di Verona, Wexford and Cuenca Festivals. In 2006 Danna returned to live in Israel after residing in Italy for 7 years, and joined the faculty of the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at the Tel Aviv University. |
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ENRIQUE GRAF International performing and recording artist Gold Medal, William Kapell International Piano Competition Jury member at many international competitions Professor of Piano at the
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CHENG-FENG HSIEH
Cheng-Feng Hsieh is a Steinway Artist,international performing pianist and the prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions. Since receiving his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in 2008, he has performed and gave masterclasses throughout the Japan, Korea, United States, Europe, China and Taiwan. Active as a solo pianist, chamber musician,teacher and author, Mr. Hsieh has taught as a Foreign Expert in Shenyang Conservatory of Music in Dalian, and now serves as an Associated Professor of Piano in Guizhou Normal University in China.
Website: www.chengfenghsieh.com
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AVNER ITAI Music professor at Tel-Aviv University Buchmann-Mehta academy of music. Well-known for his promoting Israeli composers along with baroque music. |
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MASAHIRO KAWAKAMI Studied in Prize winner at international Leading performer in solo recitals and with orchestras in Edited piano works of Medtner and Nikolao Kapustin Professor at the prestigious Tokyo College of Music. |
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MICHAEL LEWIN Winner of Kapell Competition, Liszt International Competition and American Pianists Association Competition. International concert pianist, recording artist and renowned teacher. Active soloist with orchestras in |
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MIN JUNG KIM Currently serving as the leader of the An die Musik Philarmonia Orchestra, violinist Min Jung Kim has performed at the Daejeon New Music Festival, Daejeon International Chamber Music Festival, Korea Expo Music Festival at the Seoul Arts Center and as a soloist with the Sofia Soloist Chamber Ensemble. Mrs. Kim has been a featured artist for the CBS radio channel in An avid chamber musician, Mrs. Kim was one of the founding members of the Daejeon Chamber Music Society in 2008. Over the years, Mrs. Kim has participated in festivals such as Heifetz Institute, During her studies, she was a recipient of the J.C. Hulsteyn Award at the Peabody Institute and the Dorothy Herimann Scholarship at the Jacobs School of Music of Presently, she serves as a lecturer at the
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PIL KYUN PAUL KIM Praised as a “brilliant young violinist” by Ensemble-Music & Vision Magazine, Mr. Kim was the recipient of the Jascha Heifetz Scholarship from the Indiana University School of Music, the J. C. Hulsteyn award from the Peabody Conservatory, and the Hulvik Development Fund from the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. In 2003, he was featured in the WQXR radio station in Mr. Kim started his violin studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Over the years, Mr. Kim has participated at various festivals including the Sarasota Music Festival, Banff Chamber Music Festival and the National Arts Center Young Artist Program with Pinchas Zukerman. Mostly recently he was invited to the Euro Music Festival in As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists such as Kolja Blacher, Wolfram Christ, Ilan Rechtman, Dang Thai Son and Ik Kwan Bae and also has appeared as a soloist under the direction of Edmon Colomer, Lutz Koehler, Nicolas Milton, and Uriel Segal. In 2010, he made his debut with the philharmonic orchestras of Bucheon and Cheongju in
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YANINA KUDLIK - 2014 Russian-Israeli Pianist Yanina Kudilik was the winner of the National Soviet Union piano competition. Yanina received her musical education at the Special Stolyarsky Music School in Odessa with prof. Kovalenko, Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow with Professors Brumberg and Tropp and postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory with renowned pianist Dimitri Bashkirov. Her repertoire includes more than 25 piano concertos which she played under conductors Neemi Järvi, Vasily Sinaisky, Arnold Katz, Peter Lilie and Valery Raevsky. In 1990, Kudlik immigrated to Israel with her family where she established herself as one of Israel’s most active concert pianists. She performs with such orchestras as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Raanana Symphony and Haifa Symphony. She has made numerous Broadcast Radio and Television recordings and regularly gives solo recitals in Israel and abroad. Ms. Kudlik is the founder of a regional piano competition in Israel “Sounds of Excellence” and of the Millennium Festival with world renowned violinist Maxim Vengerov. Yanina Kudlik is a member of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society, and coordinator to Jury at the 10th, 11th, 12 and 13 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv. She is the chair of the piano department at Ashdod Conservatory in Israel. Yanina Kudlik is the artistic director of annual Israel National Piano competition “Piano Forever” since 2009. She is a member of different committees and juries: Cultural Board of Ministry of Culture and Sport of Israel and also an editor of classical music programs of the new Performance Art Center in Ashdod.
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GREGG PAULEY (leave of absence) American recording artist, former student of Ilana Vered. Professor of piano at |
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NINO MERABISHVILI A native of Debut venues include Great Hall of Tbilisi State Conservatory, Tbilisi Opera House, Small Hall of Moscow State Conservatory, Great Hall of Sverdlovsk Conservatory, Symphony Hall in In 1994 Nino made her home in the She is a board member of Russian Chamber Music Foundation in Merabishvili is in frequent demand as a presenter and adjudicator, serving as a distinguished member of the piano faculty at Music Works Northwest. Nino also maintains a large piano studio of private students in
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VAG PAPIAN
VAG PAPIAN began his career as a pianist in 1979 after winning the Lisbon Viana da Motta International competition. He was immediately invited to perform in all major concert halls in the former Soviet Union, including recitals in St. Petersburg and Moscow Mr Papian is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where he studied under the direction of the well known professor Michael Voskresensky
In 1982 Mr Papian went to study conducting at the St Petersburg Conservatory. He was one of the elite groupe who studied with the legendary Professor Ilia Musin. In 1984 Valery Gergiev invited him to become Associate Conductor of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra where three years later he became Artistic Director and Principle Conductor. In this position he conducted more than two hundred performances in a vast variety of compositions and styles, including contemporary music by Russian and Western composers. He has made guest appearances with most of the major symphony orchestras as well as continuing to perform as a pianist. Mr Papian also collaborated with the Armenian National Opera from 1988 until he immigrated to Israel in 1990. Since then he has taken the post of associate conductor with the Beer Sheva Symphony Orchestra. He has also been guest conductor with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. His international tours as a pianist include concerts in Basel, Barcelona, Geneva, Toronto Ottawa, New York, as well as tours in South America and Far East
Mr Papian has conducted the English Chamber Orchestra at the Barbican Centre in London, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem, Moscow, Belgrade and Trondheim Symphony Orchestras and, for the 2001 Enesco Festival, the Vienna Boys Choir. Recent engagements have included the Houston Festival Orchestra Texas, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra as conductor and soloist, and the Suwon Festival in Korea, to an acclaiming audience of four thousand. In June of 2003 Mr Papian conducted the Moscow New Russian Symphony Orchestra with a special 100 years anniversary program dedicated to the birth of legendary Russian-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian In 2005 Vag Papian made his debut with Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra as a recital partner to Maxim Vengerov, Mr Papian has toured in Europe, the USA and the Far East, he has made a recording with Maxim Vengerov for EMI Classic. Mr Papian’s opera productions have included Carl Neilsen’s Saul and David, Bizet’s Carmen, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Bellini’s Norma. He is Guest Conductor at the National Opera Theatre of Armenia, and professor at the Tel Aviv Samuel Rubin Academy of Music |
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JOHN PERRY Legendary pedagogue and Chair of the Piano Division at the Colburn Conservatory, Los Angeles, Professor of Piano at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles and visiting artist teacher at The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. International recording and performing pianist. Leading master classes in all the major conservatories, Universities and festivals in the world. Guest artist at |
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ANTONIO PETRIS Titolare di una cattedra al conservatorio Morlacchi di Perugia. Regista di molte produzioni in famosi teatri d` opera in Italia. Regista della produzione `le Nozze di Figaro` al Teatro Della Rocca, Castiglione del Lago 2011. Ha diretto il Barbiere di Siviglia per il Musicfest Perugia del 2012. Sara` regista per la produzione del Rigoletto al Teatro Morlacchi, Signorelli e Castiglione del Lago 2013 |
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BORIS PETRUSHANSKY
Boris Petrushansky was born in 1949 in Moscow into a family of musicians. He started playing piano at the age of five and had among his teachers the eminent Heinrich Neuhaus. After studying with Lev Naumov, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1975, having already distinguished himself in major international competitions, for example at Leeds in 1969, Munich in 1971, and Terni in 1975, where he won first prize.
M° Petrushansky’s highly original creativity and vivacious personality have gained him wide recognition as a concert pianist. Ever since the summer of 1975, when he gave two unforgettable recitals at the “Festival dei due Mondi” at Spoleto and the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” Festival (substituting Richter), Petrushansky has not looked back. His performances have taken him to Italy, Finland, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the USA, Hungary, Japan, Israel, Egypt, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Africa and Australia. He has made numerous recordings with Melodia (Russia), Art & Electronics (Russia - U.S.A.), Symposium (U.K.), Fone, Agora, Dynamic and Stradivarius (Italy). The many orchestras that he has played with include: the S. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Czech Philharmonic, the Berlin Staatskapelle, the Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, the “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino” Festival Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the European Community Chamber Orchestra, the “New European Strings”, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, etc. He has played with many renowned conductors, such as J. Ferencik, M. Atzmon, V. Fedoseev, E.-P. Salonen, V. Gergiev, A. Lazarev, P. Bellugi, S. Sondezkis, A. Nanut, R. Abbado, M. Shostakovich, Lu Jia, V. Jurowsky. Among his partners in chamber music, to name but a few, feature the legendary Leonid Kogan, Misha Maisky, Dmitri Sitkovetskiy, Valeriy Afanassiev, Cecilia Gasdia, Borodin Quartet, Philharmonia Quartett Berlin.
Boris Petrushansky is a member of jury of many international competitions, such as Busoni (Bolzano), Viotti (Vercelli), Casagrande (Terni), Chopin (Warsaw), Tongyeong, Orlèans, Paris, etc. In addition to his activity as a concert pianist, M° Petrushansky is very active as a teacher. From 1975 to 1979 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory, and over the years has given Masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Dublin, Royal Academy and Royal College of London, Rowan University of U.S.A (New Jersey), in Japan and at many other institutions in Germany and Italy. He lives in Italy, and has been a Professor at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col Maestro” since 1990. |
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MIKHAIL PETUKHOV International recording and performing Russian composer and pianist. Professor at the internationally famous Moscow Conservatory where he has collaborated with Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter. Winner of the 7th Queen Elisabeth Competition. Has played with most leading orchestras of the world. |
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ANTONIO POMPA BALDI Born and raised in Foggia, Italy, Antonio Pompa-Baldi won the First Prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999, and embarked on a career that continues to extend across five continents. A top prize winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition of Paris, France, Antonio Pompa-Baldi also won a silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, as well as the Award for the Best Performance of a New Work. Mr. Pompa-Baldi appears regularly at the world`s major concert venues including Cleveland`s Severance Hall, Milan`s Sala Verdi, New York`s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall (both Isaac Stern Auditorium and Zankel Hall), Boston`s Symphony Hall, and Paris` Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Salle Pleyel, Theatre des Champs-Elysees and Théâtre du Châtelet. He has collaborated with leading conductors including Hans Graf, James Conlon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Keith Lockhart, Christopher Seaman, Louis Lane, Pascal Rophé, Grant Llewellyn, and Stefan Sanderling, performing with the Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Auckland Philharmonia (New Zealand), Boston Pops, Orchestre National de Paris-Radio France, National Orchestra of Ukraine, and Fort Worth Symphony, among many others. Since 2002, he has recorded 15 CDs for Centaur Records: the Josef Rheinberger Piano Sonatas; the entire solo piano and chamber music output of Edward Grieg, in 11 volumes; an all-Rachmaninoff CD; an all-Schumann album; and the first volume of the Hummel Piano Sonatas. Soon-to-be-released are the second volume of the Hummel Sonatas, the Grieg Piano Concerto, and a live recital with works of Czerny, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, also for Centaur. Mr. Pompa-Baldi has been seen and heard many times on French National Television, Radio-France, Ukrainian National Television, Cleveland`s WCLV, Boston`s WGBH, and National Public Radio`s "Performance Today". He was featured in the PBS documentary on the Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition "Playing on the Edge", which premiered in October 2001 in USA and Canada. He appeared again on PBS in the documentary "Concerto: A sense of Self", featuring his performance of Prokofiev`s Third Piano Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and James Conlon. This performance was also seen on French National Television in May, 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Prokofiev`s death, as well as throughout Europe. Antonio Pompa-Baldi is a Steinway Artist. He serves as Distinguished Professor of Piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and gives master-classes around the world. Mr. Pompa-Baldi is often invited to judge international piano competitions, and has served as president of the jury for the International Russian Piano Music Competition in San Jose, CA since 2006. His students have been prizewinners in important competitions such as Marguerite Long, Hilton Head, Isang Yun, and Gina Bachauer. Mr. Pompa-Baldi maintains an active social media profile, and invites his audience to interact with him and "like" his page: www.facebook.com/pompabaldipiano |
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BRUNO PRATICO Originating from Aosta in the north of Bruno Pratico will appear in our production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia on the 11th of August at Teatro Signorelli in Cortona. |
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TAMAR RACHUM - 2014 Soprano, Voice Professor Born in Tel Aviv, Professor Tamar Rachum graduated cum laude her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the
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PASCAL ROGE` Pascal Rogé exemplifies the finest in French pianism. As the last student to be mentored by the great Nadia Boulanger, his playing of Poulenc, Satie, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Ravel and especially Debussy, is characterized by its elegance, beauty and stylistically perfect phrasing. A native of Paris, Mr. Rogé became an exclusive Decca recording artist at the age of seventeen. Since then, he has won many prestigious awards, including two Gramophone Awards, a Grand Prix du Disque and an Edison Award for his interpretations of Ravel, Saint-Säens and Poulenc. In recent years Mr. Rogé began a new and ambitious recording project for Onyx called the Rogé Edition. This includes five CDs of his first complete Debussy piano music cycle. Pascal has enjoyed playing recitals for four-hands/two-pianos with his partner in life and in music Ami Rogé. Together, they have travelled the world appearing at prestigious festivals and concert halls. In 2011, they have given the premiere of a newly commissioned Concerto for Two Pianos by composer Matthew Hindson with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. Their first CD ,“Wedding Cake” was released in 2009, celebrating their wedding in |
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GRAHAM SCOTT Sought after teacher, performer and artistic director. Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal Northern Winner of numerous awards including the YCA (
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URI SEGAL 1st prize Dimitri Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in New York in 1969 Served as Leonard Bernstein`s assistant with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra from 1969 to 1970 Conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, London Symphony Orchestra, and L`Orchestre de |
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BORIS SLUTSKY Consistently acclaimed for his exquisite tonal beauty and superb artistry, Boris Slutsky emerged on the international music scene when he captured the First Prize—along with every major prize, including the Audience Prize and Wilhelm Backhaus Award—at the 1981 William Kapell International (University of Maryland) Piano Competition. His other accomplishments include first prizes at the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition and San Antonio International Keyboard Competition, and major prizes at the International Bach Competition in Memory of Glenn Gould, Busoni, Rina Sala Gallo, and Ettore Pozzoli International Piano Competitions. Since his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Youth Symphony in 1980, Mr. Slutsky has appeared on nearly every continent as soloist and recitalist, collaborating with such eminent conductors as Dimitri Kitaenko and Valery Gergiev. He has performed with the London Philharmonic, Stuttgart State Orchestra and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Neuss am Rhein in Germany, Bem Symphony Orchestra in Switzerland, Bergen Philharmonic in Norway, RAI Orchestra in Milan, KBS Symphony Orchestra in Korea, and major orchestras in Spain, Russia, Columbia, and Brazil. In South Africa, he has been soloist with the orchestras of Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. His North American engagements have included concerts with the Baltimore, Florida, Utah, and Toronto Symphonies. Mr. Slutsky has presented master classes throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, and served as a jury member for many international piano competitions. Born in Moscow into a family of musicians, Mr. Slutsky received his early training at Moscow`s Gnessin School for Gifted Children as a student of Anna Kantor, and completed his formal studies at the Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music, studying with Nadia Reisenberg, Nina Svetlanova, John Browning, and Joseph Seiger. In addition, he has worked for many years with his mentor Alexander Eydleman. In 1993, Mr. Slutsky joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory, where he currently serves as chair of the Piano Department. |
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SASHA STARCEVICH Starcevich has given recitals at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, Windsor Castle, and in London’s Wigmore Hall. His solo recital there in May of 2002 was met with much critical acclaim, and a review in the Musical Opinion wrote: “The repertoire was brilliantly conceived; a thoroughly enjoyable recital at every level”. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, China and also toured Russia with the Samara Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed at several international festivals such as the Henley Festival in England and Holder’s Season in Barbados. Starcevich has recorded for CBS Television in the United States and has released two CD’s under the Britstar label in the United States and the Jacques Samuel Label in London, England. His principal teachers have included Ilana Vered, Peter Frankl, Jane Allen and Boris Berman. Dr. Starcevich has been affiliate professor of piano at the State University of New York, and department chair of music and professor of piano at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts. He currently maintains an active private studio in Bellevue, Washington, and is Artistic Director of the Showcase Piano Academy in Richmond, BC. In August of 2011, Dr. Starcevich joined the faculty of Musicfest Perugia, in Italy. He is currently an active faculty member and director of programs for the Festival. His students have been prizewinners of local, national and international awards, and have gone on to study music at prestigious schools such as the Eastman School of Music, the Yale School of Music, the Mannes School, the Juilliard School in New York and the Peabody Conservatory. Dr. Starcevich is in frequent demand as a performer, adjudicator and presenter of Master Classes throughout North America, Russia and China.
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ALEX SOKOLOV International recording and performing pianist. graduate of the famous Moscow Conservatory of Music. Soloist with leading orchestras of the world. Member of jury of international piano competitions. Professor of piano at the Tainjin Conservatory in |
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STEVEN SPOONER Steven has performed around the world and is quickly becoming one of the more noted American pianists of his generation. He has given solo recitals at prestigious venues such as the Salle Cortot in Dr. Spooner has released 14 recordings on the EMR Classics, Everythingmusic and IUrecording labels. He has studied at Paris Conservatory, Steven currently serves on the piano faculty at the |
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MICHAL TAL
International performing artist. She is invited frequently for recitals, chamber music concerts and masterclasses in the Dr. Michal Tal is on the faculty of the |
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DAN WEN WEI
Dan-Wen Wei, a native of the People’s Republic of |
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YUKIO YOKOYAMA
Has performed with major orchestras of the word including the Berlin Philharmonic. 1989: Prizes at the Busconi International Concours and the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibeaud Concours. 1990: 3rd prize and the Sonata prize at a Chopin International Piano Competition.
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ZHE TANG
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