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Portraits of Artists & Atmosphere...
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| Jussi (Ruissalo, Turku), Kari (Kuhmo) and Andrew (Sydney) |
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| Violinist Priya Mitchell, cellist David Cohen and violist Yuval Gotlibovich. |
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| Cellist David Cohen. |
Born into a musical family i Belgium, David Cohen began his cello studies when
he was seven, and only two years later made his debut as a soloist with the
Belgian National Orchestra. He studied first at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels
and from 1994 he attended the Yehudi Menuhin School, finally going onto
London's Guildhall School of Music as a pupil of Oleg Kagan. Having graduated,
Cohen was awarded that institution's most prestigious token of recognition, the
Gold Medal, which had earlier gone to such musicians as Jacqueline du Pre and Bryn Terfel.
David Cohen embarked on his international career when he was 11, playing as
soloist with the Grenoble Symphony Orchestra, the Brussells Philharmonic - the
Orchestra of Flanders, and the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra, under Yehudi
Menuhin. Later he appeared as soloist with the BBC, St Petersburg and London
Philharmonic Orchestras. He has also made numerous recordings. Cohen also
regularly performs chamber music. He is Artistic Director of the Melchior
Ensemble, which consists of leading young musicians. In 2001 Cohen was
appointed the London Philharmonic Orchestra's youngest principal cello ever.
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| Violist Yuval Gotlibovich. |
Yuval Gotlibovich has won several international competitions, including the 2003
Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the 2004 Fischoff National
Chamber Music Competition. A sought after recitalist, chamber musician and solo
player, Gotlibovich has collaborated with Mischa Maisky, Janos Starker and
Nobuko Imai, among others. He has appeared at the Wigmore Hall in London,
the Kennedy Center in Washington, and at international viola congresses in
Minneapolis and Montreal. Contemporary music is an important part of
Gotlibovich's repertoire and composers such as Alexandre Eisenberg and Justin
Merritt have dedicated concertos to him. Yuval Gotlibovich was professor at
Indiana University from 2004 to 2008 and is now professor at the Concervatorie
della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He also teaches regularly at music academies in
Madrid and Barcelona.
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| Handsome stage hand Kähkönen. |
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| Cellist Dorel Fodereanu. |
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| Violinist Minna Pensola (from string quartet Meta4). |
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| Violist Atte Kilpeläinen (from string quartet Meta4). |
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| Kuhmo locals (stage hands and Salakamari Restaurant staff). |
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| Harpsichordist and organist Francesco Pedrini. |
Italian born Francesco Pedrini studied organ and composition at the musical
academies in Parma and Trento. He then went on to study at the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis, in Basel, under Jean-Claude Zehner and Andrea Marco. He
also attended several masterclasses. He has given numerous recitals playing
various historical organs in Italy, Switzerland and Spain He is also busy as a
chamber musician and regularly appears with Il Proteo and I Virtuosi delle Muse.
Pedrini has also performed with the Arturo Toscanini Orchestra under Lorin
Maazel in the United States, Japan and South America. In 2006 he founded the
Organ Academy in his home town of Parma and later the same year the Parma
International Organ Festival.
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| Flautist Kazunori Seo. |
The Japanese flautist Kazunori Seo has been victorious in several competitions,
including the Carl Nielsen and Jean Pierre Rampal in 1998 and the Geneva
competition in 2001. In demand as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, Seo
has appeared under the baton of Patrick Gallois, Jean-Michel Damase, and
Maurice Bourgue and given concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall and at the Salle
Cortot in Paris. In 2005 he won the Pro Musicis International Award in Paris. Seo
has made several recordings. Later this year he will feature on a disc of flute
music by Paul Hindemith and Siegfried Karg-Elert, and he will also be on a
recording of the complete chamber works of Walter Gieseking.
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| Pianist Roope Gröndahl. |
Roope Gröndahl is studying piano at the Sibelius Academy under Liisa Pohjola and
Antti Siirala. He also used to study under Matti Raekallio at the Sibelius Academy
Youth Department and as a pupil of Matti Oksala at the Helsinki Conservatory. He
has also attended masterclasses given by Andras Schiff, Paul Badura-Skoda, Alain
Planes and Dmitri Bashkirov. In chamber music he has been mentored by Ralf
Gothoni and Emanuel Az. In 2007 Gröndahl took second prize in the Jyväskylä
Piano Competition and in the international Maj Lind piano competition, in whih he
was the youngest entrant. In May 2008 he won second prize in the final of the
Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Vienna, representing Finland.
He has appeared as soloist with most of the Finnish orchestras under many
leading conductors. Abroad he has given concerts in several central European
countries and in the United States. He is well-known in chamber music circles and
has played at several festivals, including the Bergen Festival in Norway, the
Helsinki Festival and the music festivals in Iitti, Nauvo and Turku.
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| Storioni Trio with violinist Svetlin Roussev (Pianist Bart van de Roer facing the camera). |
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| New friends, from left: Marja, Ulla, Jussi and Kari with Andrew. |
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THURSDAY 22.7.
Twin Minds
51 11.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre €19.50/14
Copyright
The charismatic Albinoni and Vivaldi embodied the other angle from which Bach surveyed his era. The seriousness of his northern mentors faded into a colourful combination with the brilliance of his southern colleagues. Copying meant learning. Sometimes even from his own pupils, who were mostly in need and could use this indirect recognition. Bach’s intellectual integrity and supreme knowledge did the rest.
Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1750):
Sonata in A minor, Op. 6/6 for Violin and Basso Continuo
Roussev, Pedrini, Wilson
Johann Gottlieb Goldberg:
Trio Sonata No. 4 in C for two Violins and Basso Continuo
Pensola, Tikkanen, Wilson, Schmidt
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741):
Concerto B minor no. 10 RV 580 for four Violins and Strings
Martin, Vähälä, Mitchell, V. Szigeti, Picard, Zhu, Gotlibovich, Lehto, Lindroos, Schmidt
Intermission
J.S. Bach (1685–1750):
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (arr. for Violin, Viola and Cello by D. Sitkovetsky)
Mitchell, Maijala, Cohen
52 14.30 Kontio School €14.50/10.50
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849):
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March"
Resjan
Prelude in E minor, Op. 28/4 and Nocturne, Op. 72/1 (arr. for Vocal Quartet and Strings)
Hata, Packalén, Katajala, Torikka, Gebert, M. Vossen, Cohen, de Groot
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8
Storioni Trio
53 16.30 Kontio School €14.50/10.50
A Carte Blanche for Meta4 (ended up being Meta3 since the illness of Tomas Djupsjöbacka who had to leave the festival)
Meta4
54 19.00 Kuhmo Arts Centre €14.50/10.50
Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953):
Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94
Seo, Kudritskaya
Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971):
Prelude and Rondo from the Firebird (transcription for Violin and Piano by the composer)
Yang, M. Kärkkäinen
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975):
Romance from the suite The Gadfly, Op. 97a No. 8 for Violin and Piano
Roussev, Rucli
Valentyn Silvestrov (1937–):
Two Serenades for Solo Violin
Kremer
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998):
Hommage à Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Shostakovich for Piano Six Hands
H. Kärkkäinen, Kemppainen, Gröndahl
55 21.15 Kuhmo Arts Centre €19.50/14
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741):
Flute Concerto in D, RV 428 "Il gardellino"
Thomsen, Mitchell, Yang, Deschamps, Wilson, Zahharenkova
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809):
String Quartet in D, Op. 64/5 "Lark"
Chilingirian Quartet
Robert Schumann (1810–1856):
The Prophet Bird, Op. 82/7 (arr. for Violin and Piano by L. Auer )
Vähälä, Rucli
Intermission
Arvo Pärt (1935–):
Es sang vor langen Jahren
Haller, Kremer, Uliona
Béla Bartók (1881–1945):
String Quartet No. 4, BB 95
Chilingirian Quartet
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