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We had our first (and I think the only) cooler day this Friday.
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| Composer Silvia Colasanti. |
From www.silviacolasanti.it:
Silvia Colasanti graduated in piano with Valentino Di Bella and in composition with Luciano Pelosi and Gian Paolo Chiti at
the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia of Rome, where she also studied music history and aesthetics with Claudio Annibaldi. She
then attended master class with Fabio Vacchi and was selected for the atelier de composition held by Wolfgang Rihm and
Pascal Dusapin at the Centre Acanthes (Metz, France). She attended (obtaining a diploma with merit) an advanced
composition course held by Azio Corghi at Accademia Musicale Chigiana. She also got a diploma for a master course in
composition, held by Azio Corghi, at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She received from the President de la
Republique the "Goffredo Petrassi" scholarship as the best graduated.
She has received various awards at national and international competitions, including the Zeitklang – Musikfabrik NÖ –
Wien, the Lopes-Graça – Lisbon, the ICOMS - Turin, the “Valentino Bucchi” - Rome, the “Egidio Carella”, the “Città di
Varese” and the Settimane Musicali of Stresa. The Adkins Chiti: Women in Music Foundation (Rome) has commissioned
her to write a piece of sacred music for the Vatican City. Radio Rai has also selected Silvia Colasanti to be Italy’s
representative at the International Rostrum of Composers. Recently the Civitella Ranieri Foundation of New York awarded
her a grant to support her composing activity.
Her compositions have been played at various festivals, including the Biennale Musica (Venice), Settembre Musica (Turin),
Kuhmon Kamarimusiikki (Kuhmo, Finland), Festival Berio (Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome), Sagra Musicale Umbra
(Perugia), Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa (Cascais, Portogallo), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena), Orchestra
National de Belgique - Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), Orchestra della Toscana (Teatro Verdi – Florence), Orchestra del
Lazio (Parco della Musica – Rome), Unione Musicale (Turin), Accademia Filarmonica Romana (Rome), Fondazione Cini
(Venice), Progetto Musica (Rome), Antidogma Musica (Turin), Compositori a confronto (Reggio Emilia), Teatro Parenti
(Milano), Great Hall (Podgorica), Università “Tor Vergata”(Rome), Palazzo Altemps (Rome), Galleria Comunale d’arte
moderna e contemporanea (Rome), Palazzo della Cancelleria (Rome), Estate Musicale (Portogruaro).
Silvia Colasanti her works are published by Casa Ricordi (Milano).
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| Silvia with Andrew enjoying their chat in Italian. Kaija Saariaho's family in the background: |
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| We were joined by Harry Halbreich - the Belgian musicologist who was giving talks on music every morning on weekdays in Salakamari lecture theatre. |
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| At Kuhmo's Petola wildlife centre. |
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| Cellist Jens Peter Maintz. |
Jens Peter Maintz studied with David Geringas and attended master-classes by Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenshikov and
Siegfried Palm. He won first prize at the Munich Competition in 1994, and in 1995 became principal cellist of the Berlin
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester. He became professor of cello at the University of the Arts in Berlin in 2004. He is also a
member of the Trio Fontenay.
As a soloist and chamber musician, Jens Peter Maintz has given concerts throughout Europe and in the Americas,
appearing with distinguished conductors and colleagues. In December 2003 he was soloist for the first German
performance of Richard Danielpour’s Cello Concerto No. 1 at the Berlin Philharmonic, and at Claudio Abbado’s invitation,
has been the principal cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006. In the 2006–2007 season he performed the
Schumann Cello Concerto with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marek Janowski and the Brahms Double
Concerto with Arabella Steinbacher. His first CD with Sony Classical was awarded the Echo prize. He has also recorded
the Isang Yun Cello Concerto with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin for Capriccio.
Jens Peter Maintz performs on a cello by Vincenzo Ruggeri, 1696, and on a cello by Wolfgang Schnabl, 2005. More
information is available at www.krautheim-concepts.de.
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| We had many a meal here at the 'tent' cafe. The staff were amazing. |
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| Violinist Dan Zhu deciding on his lunch. |
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| Violinist Elina Vähälä (r) with trumpeter Pasi Pirinen. |
Violinist Elina Vähälä is one of the most sought-after Finnish instrumentalists in the international music scene. She is the
winner of the 1999 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York and hailed by the international press as
"brilliant", "sensitive" and "luminous". She was recently introduced to a remarkably wide audience when she performed at
the Nobel Peace Prize celebration. The television broadcast of the Nobel concert is distributed to 300 million households in
100 countries.
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| Making new friends: Lovely Helga. |
And the drive 'Home':
FRIDAY 16.7.
Vienna
19 11.00 Kuhmo Church €14.50/10.50
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809):
Notturno No. 6 in G, Hob. II:30 "The King of Naples"
Seo, Gleisner, Joulain, Tapani, Roussev, Zhu, Gotlibovich, Deschamps, Lee, Lindroos
Pieces for Clock Organ, Hob. XIX 27-32
Pedrini
Claude Debussy (1862–1918):
Hommage à Haydn, L. 115 (1909)
Paul Dukas (1865–1935):
Prélude élégique sur le nom de Haydn (1909)
Reynaldo Hahn (1875–1947):
Thème varié sur le nom de Haydn (1909)
Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931):
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn, Op. 65 (1909)
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937):
Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (1909)
Lagerspetz
Joseph Haydn:
Notturno No. 1 in C Hob. II:25 "The King of Naples"
Seo, Gleisner, Joulain, Tapani, Roussev, Zhu, Gotlibovich, Deschamps, Lee, Lindroos
20 13.30 Kuhmo Arts Centre €14.50/10.50
W.A. Mozart (1756–1791):
String Quintet in B flat, K. 174
Ardeo Quartet, Riebl
String Quintet in G minor, K. 516
Danel Quartet, Gotlibovich
21 15.00 Kontio School €14.50/10.50
Viennese Frivolity
Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826):
Minuet for Flute, Guitar and Viola
Adorjan, Mesirca, Riebl
Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
Notturno, D 96 for Flute, Viola, Cello and Guitar
Adorjan, Riebl, Pulkkinen, Mesirca
Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951):
Cabaret Songs
Haller, Wass
Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962):
Music for Violin and Piano
Zhu, Rucli
22 17.00 Kontio School €14.50/10.50
Vienna under Siege
Nicolò Paganini (1782–1840):
Sonata Napoleone in E flat
Zhu, M. Kärkkäinen
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827):
Symphony No. 3 in E flat, Op. 55 "Eroica” (arr. for Piano Quartet by F. Ries)
Roussev, Rohde, Martinez, H. Kärkkäinen
23 19.30 Kuhmo Arts Centre €14.50/10.50
The Last Viennese Composer
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897):
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Shaham, Lagerspetz
String Quintet No. 2 in G, Op. 111
Meta4, Mendelssohn
The Friend of this concert is the S-Group.
24 21.30 Kuhmo Arts Centre €30/20
Schubertiade
Franz Schubert (1797–1828):
String Quartet No. 15 in G, D 887
Meta4
Intermission
String Trio in B flat, D 581
Shaham, Gotlibovich, Cohen
Adagio and Rondo concertante in F, D 487 for Piano Quartet
Vähälä, Maijala, Pulkkinen, Resjan
John Harbison (1938–):
November 19, 1828 for Piano Quartet
Kuusisto, Maijala, Lee, Mikkola
A work based on Schubert fragments including the fugue he did not finish when studying with Zechter in the last three weeks of his life. He wanted to know as much as Beethoven, to equal him (to say the least). He only managed to be a genius.
Intermission
Franz Schubert:
String Quintet in C, D 956
Meta4, Rousi
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