Hungarian pianist János Balázs is keen to demonstrate his improvisation skills in various genres beyond the classical stage, such as jazz, world music, or folk music, which are inspired by classical music values and the 20th century tradition of improvisation.
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Bach Six Partitas - Joseph Fleetwood, piano
Congratulation, dear Natalia!! Wonderful achievement for a Sheva CD: Bach Cello Suites, magically performed by Natalia Khoma, has been dowloaded/streamed 220.215 times in one month (November 2018). Congratulation, dear Natalia!!
This is simply stunning playing! Ondřej Vrabec is one of the world's élite players, becoming solo horn of the Czech Philharmonic at the age of 17. This CD showcases music by Robin Holloway and Peter Seabourne that will readily find a wide audience.
Chinese-born pianist Xiao Chen is currently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University, having served as Lecturer in Piano Performance at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in 2019. Her position as pedagogue saw her founding and directing the Los Angeles Young Virtuoso International Music Festival in 2018 which took place at Azusa Pacific University. She created the festival with the objective of providing performance and educative opportunities for students from all over the world.
Victor Paukstelis was born in Vilnius, into a family of musicians. In 1989-2000 he studied at the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art, and later at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he obtained the degree of the Licentiate of Arts. The artist also enriched his pianistic experience abroad: in 2007, he was a trainee at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, and in 2009-2013 studied at the École Normale de Musique de Paris Conservatoire. The pianist also won a scholarship to study at the
Hölderlinfenster is a monumental two hour song cycle setting the famous German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin (250th anniversary this year). He lived in a tower on the Neckar river for 35 years after suffering from mental illness, cared for by a poem-loving shoemaker.
The great German composer Georg Philipp Telemann (Magdeburg, 1681 – Hamburg, 1767) was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and Friedrich Händel (1685-1759), whom he personally met and to whom he was bound by friendship and esteem.
MARCO ALBRIZIO was born in Rome in 1961, he graduated with highest marks from the Conservatory of S.Cecilia under the guide of Anna Maria Martinelli and then studied with Sergio Cafaro. |