Participants Winter 2012 |
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Naito has studied piano under Eiko Shirota, Masahiro Kawakami, David Korevaar and Viktor Teuflmayr, piano, music theory and chamber music under Nobuyuki Hirose, and conducting under Kazue Kamiya. In 2006, Naito received the Society Volunteer Award from the Soroptimist Japan Foundation for his enthusiastic efforts with charity concerts and visits to retirement homes. In March 2008, he made his debut as a pianist by releasing his first CD "Primavera," which which won the special commendation from the magazine "The Art of Records." In 2008, Naito graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Department of German Studies. While in University, he also studied in Conducting Course at Toho Gakuen School of Music. Currently, he is very active not only in playing the piano, but also in composing, writing and conducting. As a pianist he has appeared in many concerts around Japan, both as a soloist and an accompanist. In 2011, he composed the music of the movie "Kataki-uchi (Revenge)" directed by Mio Taniguchi, which won the Excellence Award of Social Cinema Festival 2012. He edited the newly published editions of Leoš Janáček's Piano Works and Franz Liszt's Transcriptions of Franz Schubert Songs (YAMAHA MUSIC MEDIA), and supervised a translation of Charles Rosen's "Beethoven's Piano Sonatas" (Michi-Shuppan). Since 2008 he has been working as a conductor with PTNA (Piano Teacher's National Association of Japan) for Project "Experiencing Piano Concerto."
Alexey Kirichenko was born on December 29th 1982 in a family of actors. At the age of five the family moved to Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, and the young Alexey was admitted to the violin faculty of a special school for talented children. In 1997 He continued his education at Krasnoyarsk college of arts, studying both music and acting. In 2000 he passed auditions to the Novosibirsk conservatory and studied violin and viola and from 2001 he became member of the Novosibirsk a symphonic orchestra of the Novosibirsk philharmonic society . In 2006 has started to concentrate on developing his conducting skills and studied with teachers: such as Arnold Katz, Boris Rivkin, Vyacheslav Prasolov and Teodor Kurentzis. In 2008 Alexey was granted Master degree of arts.
Ever since he was awarded concert prizes in “Con Brio 2004″ music competition, Estonian violinist and violist Andres Kaljuste has enjoyed a rich musical life both in his homeland and abroad. Hailed in the press as “a soloist with a great sense for character”, Kaljuste is an artist passionately dedicated to communication through music of diverse styles and genres. After studies in Stockholm and Berlin, Kaljuste was a member of the Academy of Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He currently continues his career as freelance. Before pursuing further studies in Germany, Andres worked at the “Lilla Akademien”, recognized as one of the top music schools in Scandinavia, as a teacher of violin and viola. He was also conductor of the school’s string orchestras and coach for a wide variety of ensembles. Since 2007, Andres has been artist in residence at the Nargen Festival in his native Estonia, where his main emphasis lies in chamber music. He frequently appears with pianist Sophia Rahman – a partnership that has taken them on tour for concerts and masterclasses in China, Russia and Estonia.
orn in Lausanne, Switzerland into a musical family, Antoine-Fran?ois López is currently in his 3rd year pursuing a B.M. in composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He studies composition under Miguel Roig-Francoli and orchestral conducting with Leonid Grin in Philadelphia. Antoine has previously studied composition under Joel Hoffman and Michael Fiday, and choral conducting with Brett Scott.Antoine has participated in master classes with Neeme Jarvi as part of his International Summer Academy for Young Conductors in 2007 in Den Hague, Netherlands, and 2010 in Pärnu, Estonia. Most recently, in March 2011 he was invited as one of only 8 conductors to take part in master classes with Leonid Grin in Pärnu, Estonia. In 2009 he participated in master classes with Irwin Hoffman at the Accent 2009 Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a composer, Antoine has participated in master classes with Leonardo Balada, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski and Jack Body. Recently, Antoine has led concerts with the Estonian National Youth Orchestra and Pärnu City Orchestra with Marika Järvi as soloist as part of the 2010 Järvi International Academy for Young Conductors. In July 2011, he conducted Concert:Nova, a chamber orchestra comprised of Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra musicians, in a program including music by Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber. At his conservatory he is founder and music director of the Vita Chamber Orchestra, comprised of fellow students. This ensemble performs in different venues around the Cincinnati area in a variety of repertoire spanning from the Baroque through the 20th-century.
Leandro Carvalho is Assistant Conductor at Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, in Rio de Janeiro, and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor at Mato Grosso State Orchestra, in Brazil. In 2008, he was voted as one of the ten most important classical music artists of the decade in Brazil by "Anuário Viva Música", the country's most important and widely read music industry publication. Still only 35 years of age Leandro is the youngest artist to be nominated for such an accolade. Leandro Carvalho is a founder member of "The Mato Grosso State Orchestra" and has been the Artistic Director since 2005. Under his direction, the Orchestra performed more than five hundred concertos all over Brazil and abroad. They have recorded several CDs and DVDs featuring the symphonic music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and others. Leandro Carvalho develop himself as a conductor under the supervision of many distinguished artists such as Jurgen Hempel and Valery Gergiev, in Holland, George Hurst, Denise Ham and Rodolfo Saglimbeni, in England, Roberto Minczuk and Kurt Masur, in Brazil.
started his violin studies at Tallinn Music High School (class of Tiiu Peäske).In 1992,he graduated from Tallinn State
Curriculum Vitae Marco Bellasi has studied violin, composition and conducting at the Conservatorium G. Verdi of Milan and lyric singing as a bass-baritone privately. As a conductor he studied with teacher Daniele Agiman; later, after graduating, he became Agiman's assistant for many opera productions including Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly and La Boheme, Verdi's La Traviata, L'Elisir d'Amore by Gaetano Donizetti, and Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini. He made his debut conducting a full stage production of Puccini's La Boheme at the final concert of the lyric opera laboratory at the Conservatorium of Milan obtaining good reviews in the national Italian magazine Panorama. In 2010 he took part in the well known Italian Siena course of the "Accademia Chigiana" as an active participant studying under Gianluigi Gelmetti. As a singer he has sang as a soloist in many productions in northen Italy including Schubert's Mass in G major D167 with the Orchestra Cantelli of Milan and the role of Uberto in La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi with the Orchestra Nuova Cameristica of Milan. He is now in his first year of a two year Master of Music in conducting at the RNCM in Manchester, under the guidance of teachers Clark Rundell and Mark Heron.
2011 sees the British/New Zealand conductor Rachael Young conducting The English Sinfonia in a series of three concerts at central London's St John's Smith Square. The first includes BBC Young Musician winner 2010 Lara Melda playing the Greig piano concerto. In September she conducts Shostokovich and collaborates with Victoria Postnikova in Scnittke's Piano Concerto. Miss Postnikova was the first soloist to record this work with the London Sinfionetta, conducted by her husband Gennady Rozhdestvensky In October Rachael takes up an invitation to guest conduct the Kharkov Philharmonic Orchestra in The Ukraine in a programme to include Beethoven and Dvorak. In 2010 Rachael returned to take part in Neeme Jarvi's Summer Academy in Estonia when she conducted in concerts broadcast live on Klassika Raadio Estonia with Parnu City Orchestra and Estonian National Youth Chamber Orchestra.Ch National. In 2008 Rachael also participated in this Academy with Maestri Neeme Jarvi and Paavo Jarvi and consequently for the last two years Rachael has been under the tutelage of renowned conducting teacher Maestro Leonid Grin, Paavo Jarvi's former teacher. Rachael has also participated in Masterclasses with Jorma Panula, in the Celebidache Foundation Masterclass held the Czech Republic and in 'The London Masterclasses' at The Royal Academy of Music. Rachael's conducting appointments have included conductor of several London based orchestra's. Other ensembles she has worked with include, The St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, The London Soloists Chamber Orchestra and The South Bohemian Chamber Orchestra Rachael began her musical studies at 13 and went on to take her B. Mus at Victoria University, Wellington. A scholarship from The Boston Conservatory, Massachusetts enabled her to pursue post graduate studies in America. In 1994 Rachael came to England and with the help of a New Zealand Arts Council grant studied cello with William Pleeth (teacher of Jaqueline Du Pre) and later Moray Welsh.
The Swiss conductor Antoine Rebstein first studied the piano in Lausanne. He furthers his pianistic and musical education at the Music Academy Hanns Eisler Berlin (Prof. Iwanzowa) and afterwards at the Mozarteum Salzburg (Prof. Leygraf). He is laureate of many international piano competitions and distinctions. His recordings, the CD dedicated to contemporary Swiss composers with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the CD "Piano Left Hand Recital" (5-Diapason Award) obtained enthusiastic international press reviews. He has regularly given concerts as a soloist in leading places such as Wigmore Hall London, Concertgebow Amsterdam, and Tonhalle Zurich. In 2003, he gave his debut recital at the Lucerne Festival. He has been invited to perform with numerous orchestras and famous conductors such as Jesus Lopez Cobos, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, and David Zinman. Since 2007, Antoine Rebstein has concentrated his career on orchestral conducting. After his studies with Rolf Reuter, he achieved admission to the prestigious class of Prof. Ehwald at the Hanns Eisler Academy Berlin. In Berlin, he has been a distinguished musical director of numerous projects, including several collaborations with the Komische Oper Berlin. He has also conducted in famous concert halls such as the Philharmonie Berlin and the Konzerthaus. Antoine Rebstein has taken part in masterclasses given by Maestro Lopez Cobos, Maestro Nicotra, Maestro Polyanichko, and Maestro Zinman. He has conducted and rehearsed with various orchestras, amongst others the Tonhalle Zürich Orchestra, Magdeburger Philharmoniker, Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne, and the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra. He co-founded the chamber orchestra Ensemble "Cully Classique," which he conducted several times as the musical director at the festival «Cully Classique» in Switzerland and Germany. Since 2009, Antoine Rebstein has been the chief conductor of the Junges Orchester der Freien Universität Berlin.
After conducting the Kammerphilharmonie Graz and the National Orchestra of Moldova, Marek Štilec on 26th September opened his 2011/2012 concert season in Prague more specifically with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and with the Quattro Chamber Orchestra. In this new season Marek Štilec will appear as a guest with most of the important Czech symphony orchestras: there will be concerts with the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonia, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Zlín, the Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice, the Philharmonic Hradec Králové and other orchestras. As to opera, Marek Štilec will make his debut with Leo Delibes’s Lakmé at the Ústí nad Labem Opera. His season will feature substantial performances, including Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Schubert’s Fourth Symphony ‘The Tragic’, Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and Poulenc’s Sinfonietta. At Christmas he will be touring with the Quattro Chamber Orchestra. As to recordings, he will be conducting the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra and there are plans for his conducting the Kammerorchester Europera and the Orfej Orchestra.
Ville Matvejeff is one of the most interesting Finnish musical talents. Born in 1986 in Finland and trained at the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Matvejeff has established himself successfully as a composer, conductor and pianist with an exceptional range of styles and repertoire. At 18, Matvejeff made his acclaimed soloist debut with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Susanna Mälkki, and has since then been invited to visit numerous festivals and orchestras in Finland and abroad, most regularly Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Helsinki Festival as well as Avanti! and Helsinki Philharmonic. He is regular piano partner for soprano Karita Mattila, with whom he has performed around the world at e. g. Salle Pleyel, Gulbenkian Foundation and Hong Kong Arts Festival. Matvejeff made his conducting debut in 2011 at Pori Opera with Purcell's "Fairy Queen", and has recently worked with e.g. Finnish National Opera and Turku Philharmonic. Future conducting engagements include "Don Giovanni" directed from the harpsichord and "Samson et Dalila". Matvejeff has been music staff member for Finnish National Opera and Royal Opera in Stockholm. He has also worked as assistant conductor to Esa-Pekka Salonen and Leif Segerstam. Recently, Matvejeff has established an up-and-rising career as a composer. His breakthrough work, "Ad Astra" (2009) for orchestra, was greeted as "Finnish orchestral hit of the 21st century" by leading newspapers in Finland. In September 2011, Matvejeff's "Violin Concerto" (commissioned by the Finnish RSO) was celebrated as the first orchestral world premiere in the new Helsinki Music Centre designed by Yasuhisa Toyota. Matvejeff has also written a substantial amount of choral and vocal music, and currently prepares his first opera for Turku Music Festival. |
Akira Naito
Alexey Kirichenko
Andres Kaljuste
Antoine-François López
Leandro Carvalho
Maano Männi
Marco Bellasi
Rachael Young
Antoine Rebstein
Marek Štilec
Ville Matvejeff