Old Ox chamber music festival

AURORA CHAMBER MUSIC PRESENTERAR
28-30 JUNI 2013
MIDORI
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
ROBY LAKATOS
CAMILLA LUNDBERG
Carl-Johan Söder/SVT
Sju konserter i världsklass
Midori – Violin, Ozgur Aydin - Piano,
Camilla Lundberg – Konferenciär, Pedram Shahlai kvartett
Fabio Bidini – Piano, Alissa Margulis – Violin,
Peter Langgartner – Viola, Per Nyström – Cello,
Roby Lakatos – Violin, Ernesto Bango – Cimbalom,
Laszlo Balogh – Gitarr, Oszkar Nemeth – Kontrabas
Skaraborgs Allehanda
OLD OX CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 2013 - Mariestad
- en helt ny stjärnspäckad musikfestival som startar 2013
Som ett led i Mariestad och Västra Götalandsregionens plan för regional utveckling, kulturkraft och kulturturism presenteras denna nya festival. Syftet är att skapa
en mötesplats för både regionens invånare och tillresta turister, att kunna samlas under en högkvalitativ festival. Ambitionen är att på sikt skall festivalen även bli ett
omtalat och eftersökt event även utanför både regionens och Sveriges gränser. Det skall också vara en injektion och inspirationskälla för kulturlivet i allmänhet i
Mariestadsregionen. Initiativet kommer från Aurora Chamber Music, som tidigare genomfört liknande festivaler i Trollhättan/Vänersborg under flera år. Mariestads
Kommun har gett den ideella föreningen i uppdrag att genomföra festivalen.
Exklusiv och personlig festival
Per Nyström (Konstnärlig ledare), Aurora Chamber Music, beskriver bakgrunden till festivalen. -Det är med en förväntansfull och stolt känsla vi hälsar publiken
välkomna till Mariestad och en helt ny internationell kammarmusikfestival. En inspirerande dröm blir nu verklighet tack vare starka initiativtagare i Mariestad och
Västra Götalandsregionen. Viljan att skapa en exklusiv internationell och personlig musikfestival har varit drivkraften. Mariestad har alla de goda förutsättningarna
som krävs. Exempelvis den fantastiska miljön i närområdet, Vänerns stränder och skärgård. Det är en utvecklad turistort med intressanta och historiska sevärdheter
och karaktärsfulla konsertlokaler. Festivalen blir en juvel och en stor tillgång i det kulturella utbudet både för Mariestadsborna och tillresta turister.
Världsartister
Konceptet går ut på att publiken får en personlig och nära musikupplevelse där världsartister som vanligtvis framför sin musik i stora konserthus nu spelar i en intim
och personlig miljö. Årets artister är välkända namn som Midori, Alissa Margulis, Roby Lakatos. Camilla Lundberg från SVT kommer att vara konferencier.
Ola Larsson (Festivalgeneral), Aurora Chamber Music, lägger till. -Det är faktiskt en sensation att vi redan första året kan presentera en världsstjärna som Midori i
Mariestad. Hon är ofta solist med världsorkestrar som New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic och London Symphony under legendariska dirigenter som
Claudio Abbado och Zubin Mehta. Alla festivalartisterna är av absolut yppersta internationella kvalitet och likaså repertoaren. En drömfestival helt enkelt.
Förväntansfull och stolt känsla
Det är med en förväntansfull och stolt känsla vi hälsar publiken välkomna till Mariestad och en helt ny internationell kammarmusikfestival. En inspirerande dröm blir
nu verklighet tack vare starka initiativtagare i Mariestad och Västra Götalandsregionen. Viljan att skapa en exklusiv internationell och personlig musikfestival har varit
drivkraften.
Old Ox!
Klassisk musik och kulturarv. Symbolen för musikevenemanget – ett tjurhuvud – anspelar på Mariestads kommunvapen, förklarar regionens kulturnämndsordförande Alex Bergström (S). – Alla Mariestadsbor har ju i sitt kommunvapen en röd oxe, då förstår man vad det handlar om – att ta tillvara det gamla kulturarvet som
finns här i staden tillsammans med klassisk musik. Regionen i samarbete med Mariestads kommun siktar riktigt högt – med gemensamma krafter vill man skapa en
intim kammarmusikfestival.
Aurora Chamber Music
Kommunen har gett den ideella föreningen Aurora Chamber Music i uppdrag att skapa denna festival. Aurora är redan idag en i flera avseenden ledande internationell arrangör på området.
Sedan starten 2006 ser Aurora ut i siffror så här:
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20 internationella festivaler och master classes
•
250 offentliga konserter
•
1 900 artister har deltagit från over 40 länder
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50 000 konsertbesökare/publik
Auroras huvudpartners sedan 2006 är: Kulturrådet, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm, Västra Götalandsregionen, Vänersborgs Kommun och Trollhättans stad.
Dessutom en rad partners inom regionalt näringsliv och andra föreningar och nätverk.
Aurora leds av: Ola Larsson – General Manager, Per Nyström – Artistic Director
Mer om Aurora: www.aurorachambermusic.com
Mer om Old Ox: www.oldox.net
På bägge dessa hemsidor finns mer pressmaterial som tex:
Artistbilder och CV´n för publicering
Annan mediebevakning/publicering
Mer bakgrund och historik
Aurora Chamber Music – Mariestads kommun – Västra Götalandsregionen
OLD OX FESTIVAL 2013
PROGRAM
FREDAG 28 JUNI
LÖRDAG 29 JUNI
Välkomstskål!
Salladskonsert – del 1
MARIESTADS TEATER
FREDAG 28 JUNI KL. 17:30
Entré: Gratis
Självklart vill vi tillsammans både publik och artister fira denna invigning lite extra. Vi bjuder alla på lite bubbel och tilltugg och utbringar en
gemensam välkomstskål. Här kommer också en del invigninstal att ske
och lite festivalintroduktion av Camilla Lundberg. En trevlig mingelstund tillsammans med lite mingel och bubbel. Detta är gratis och man
måste visa en biljett från någon av de 7 konserterna eller festivalpasset
för att komma in. Varmt välkomna.
RESIDENSET MARIESTAD
LÖRDAG 29 JUNI KL. 12:00
Entré: 200 kr
Residenset Mariestad är både en fantastiskt vacker byggnad och med dess läge vid
Vänerns strand helt underbar att besöka. Att då dessutom få både en violinsonat
av César Franck och en god och fräsch sommarsallad på terassen kommer att
skapa en härlig upplevelse för alla. Alissa Margulis och Fabio Bidini är bägge
enastående musiker, solister och professorer verksamma i Antwerpen och Berlin.
Musik: César Franck -Violinsonat i A dur
Artister: Alissa Margulis-Violin, Fabio Bidini-Piano
Presentation: Camilla Lundberg
Old Ox – Premiärkonsert
MARIESTADS TEATER
FREDAG 28 JUNI KL. 19:00
Entré: 300 kr
Missa inte chansen att kunna säga kaxigt till grannarna om 10 år att ”jag
var där”. Detta blir kvällen vi alla så länge längtat efter och programmet
kommer att bli några riktiga favoritstycken ur kammarmusikrepertoaren. Musikerna i Aurora Chamber Soloists är alla etablerade på världens
scener och detta kommer att bli en underabar och exklusiv upplevelse
för både publiken, artisterna och musiken att mötas på Mariestads
mycket intima scen
Musik: A. Dvořák – Pianotrio nr 4 i e moll, op 90 ‘Dumky-trion’
Artister: Aurora Chamber Soloists – Alissa Margulis-Violin, Per
Nyström-Cello & Fabio Bidini-Piano /Paus/
J.Brahms – Pianokvartett i g-moll op 25
Artister: Aurora Chamber Soloists – Alissa Margulis-Violin, Peter
Langgartner-Viola, Per Nyström-Cello & Fabio Bidini-Piano
Presentation: Camilla Lundberg
Lakatos – The king of Gipsy music!
OLD OX FESTIVALPUB PÅ KG5
FREDAG 28 JUNI KL. 22:00
Entré: 300
Upplev: Att Lakatos är världsledande i genren råder det inga tvivel om.
Han går också under epitetet ”the devils fiddler” och det är ingen
tillfällighet. Detta är artisteri på högsta nivå och denna konsert kommer
ingen i Mariestad att glömma. KG5 (på kungsgatan 5 i Mariestad) är
stans bästa pub och en självklar scen för festivalen. Här finns all
service, servering, närhet och intimitet som gör upplevelsen maximal.
Virtoust, svettigt, svängigt, passionerat och fullt ös utlovas i härlig
pubmiljö där denna musik passar som allra bäst.
Musik: Traditionell Gipsymusik
Artister: Roby Lakatos, Ernesto Bango, Laszlo Balogh, Oszkar Nemeth
Kammarkonsert
MARIESTADS TEATER
LÖRDAG 29 JUNI KL 19:00
Entré: 300 kr
En rikitig önskekonsert blir det denna afton. Chopin´s pianomusik tillhör något av
den mest älskade musiken de senaste 200 åren. ”The big crowd went crazy and
we were rewarded, by Fabio Bidini, with a stunning, exquisitely quiet Chopin
nocturne” cit The Buffalo News. Schumann´s pianokvartett tillhör de viktigaste och
starkaste verken från romantiken. Här ryms alla tänkliga uttryck och i den långsamma satsen stannar all tid. Igen möter man här Aurora Chamber Soloists i bästa form
och format.
Musik: F. Chopin – Ballader & nocturner
Artister: Fabio Bidini – Piano /Paus/
R. Schumann – Pianokvartett i Ess-dur op 47
Artister: Aurora Chamber Soloists – Alissa Margulis-Violin, Peter Langgartner-Viola, Per Nyström-Cello & Fabio Bidini-Piano
Presentation: Camilla Lundberg
Klezmer Night
OLD OX FESTIVALPUB PÅ KG5
LÖRDAG 29 JUNI KL 22:00
Entré: 200 kr
Pedram Shahlai kvartett levererar musik från all världens hörn. Svettigt balkansväng och Klezmermusik i Old Ox Festivalpub på KG5. KG5 (på kungsgatan 5 i
Mariestad) är stans bästa pub och en självklar scen för festivalen. Här finns all
service, servering, närhet och intimitet som gör upplevelsen maximal. Denna kväll
kommer det att gå hett till kan vi lova. Eldiga melodier blandas med shoppsiga licks.
Förutom härlig musik så garanteras en show med mycket humor och alltid glimten
i ögat.
Musik: Svettigt balkansväng och Klezmermuisk i vår Festivalpub
Artister: Pedram Shahlai kvartett
SÖNDAG 30 JUNI
Salladskonsert – del 2
RESIDENSET MARIESTAD
SÖNDAG 30 JUNI KL. 12:00
Entré: 200 kr
Per Nyström förärades 2013 medaljen Litteris et Artibus av Kungen för sina
betydande instaser som cellist. Vid denna konsert får man lyssna till Per som
solist och kanske känna på medaljen? Per är också Old Ox festivalens
konstnärlige ledare. Peter Langgartner är till vardags professor på Mozarteum University i Salzburg. Men nu är det fest och då är han i Mariestad. Han
är i många avseenden en unik musiker och i musik av Piazolla finns risken att
publiken sätter salladen i halsen, så kom redan kl 11.15 då vi serverar salladen
så inga olyckor inträffar.
Musik: A.Piazolla – Grande Tango, S. Rachmaninov – Cellosonat i g-moll op
19
Artister: Peter Langgartner-Viola, Per Nyström-Cello & Fabio Bidini-Piano
Presentation: Camilla Lundberg
TROLLHÄTTEKONSERTEN
MARIESTADS TEATER
SÖNDAG 30 JUNI
Entré: 300 kr
Det är en stor underdrift att hävda att vi är fasligt stolta över att kunna
presentera Midori redan vid denna festivals första upplaga. Midori är helt
enkelt en av de största i världen och turnerar dagligen som solist och har
spelat in CD skivor med de största orkestrarna som tex: New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic med dirigentlegender
som tex: Claudio Abbado och Zubin Mehta. Tillsammans med den fantastiske pianisten Ozgur Aydin bjuder de på en helaftonskonsert i Mariestads
teater. Det är svårt att föreställa sig ett värdigare avslut på Old Ox första
festivalupplaga.
Musik:
W. A. Mozart Violin sonat kv 305
S. Prokofiev: Sonat nr 1 i f-moll op 80
Paus
G. Fauré Sonat nr i 1 A-Dur op 13
F. Schubert Rondo h-Moll D.895
Artister: Midori & Ozgur Aydin
Presentation: Camilla Lundberg
MIDORI
The violinist Midori is recognized not only for
the evolution and scope of her 28-year career
as one of the most dazzlingly gifted performers
before the public, but increasingly for the
prescient and innovative community engagement initiatives to which she devotes a
substantial amount of her energies and
resources worldwide on an ongoing basis.
Named a Messenger of Peace by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2007,
she has created a new model for young artists who seek to balance the joys and
demands of a performing career at the highest level with a hands-on investment
in the power of music to change lives.
Midori’s season will begin with performances at such festivals as Ravinia,
Schleswig-Holstein, Caramoor and Edinburgh, and will continue with over 100
concerts in 19 countries throughout the year. She will make her fifth recital tour
devoted entirely to new music, this one culminating in an engagement at Zankel
Hall in New York City. Midori will appear with the BBC Symphony, the Baltimore
Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and many other eminent orchestras in
2010-2011, and in collaborations with such conductors as Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Donald Runnicles, Kent Nagano, Alan Gilbert, and Edo deWaart. In
addition to the new music tour, the season will feature four more recital tours
and one chamber music tour – with cellist Antoine Lederlin, pianist Jonathan
Biss, and violist Nobuko Imai.
Midori’s love of performing is balanced every year with substantial commitments to education and community engagement initiatives. Now in her 7th year
as Jascha Heifetz Chair at the University of Southern California’s Thornton
School of Music and her 4th year as Chair of its Strings Department, Midori
thrives amidst the challenges presented by her full-time career as educator and
administrator at a major university. To these commitments she adds ongoing,
hands-on involvement in the four community engagement organizations she
has founded – Midori & Friends, Partners in Performance, Orchestra Residencies
Program, and Music Sharing.
In 2004, Midori joined the ranks of published authors with the release in Germany of a memoir titled Einfach Midori (Simply Midori), for the publisher Henschel
Verlag.
Midori was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1971 and began studying the violin with her
mother, Setsu Goto, at a very early age. In 1982, when Zubin Mehta first heard
her play, he was so impressed that he invited her to be a surprise guest soloist
for the New York Philharmonic’s traditional New Year’s Eve concert, on which
occasion she received a standing ovation and the impetus to begin a major
career.
Midori lives in Los Angeles. In 2000, she received her bachelor’s degree in
Psychology and Gender Studies at the Gallatin School of New York University,
graduating magna cum laude, and in 2005 received her Master’s degree in
Psychology. Away from school and the concert hall, Midori enjoys reading,
writing and attending the theater.
Her violin is the 1734 Guarnerius del Gesu ”ex-Huberman”, which is on lifetime
loan to her from the Hayashibara Foundation. She uses four bows – two by
Dominique Peccatte, one by François Peccatte, and one by Paul Siefried.
CAMILLA LUNDERBG
Camilla Lundberg är en välkänd kulturprofil från press, radio och tv. Sedan 1999 är hon musikansvarig på SVT Kultur, bland annat
för Veckans konsert om söndagarna. Hennes uppmärksammade bok ”Musikens myter”, som kom 2000, nominerades till Augustpriset. På senare år har hon också tjänstgjort som gästprofessor vid Linköpings universitet, estetiska institutionen.
Camilla Lundberg har en utbildning från Journalisthögskolan och i musikvetenskap. Hon har ett förflutet som producent på
Musikradion P2 och var 1977-98 anställd på Expressens kulturredaktion som musikkritiker.
På fritiden är Camilla själv en hängiven kammarmusikamatör, och spelar cello i stråkkvartetter m fl ensembler. Foto: Carl-Johan
SöderSVT
ROBY LAKATOS
Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos is not only a scorching virtuoso, but a musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Equally
comfortable performing classical music as he is playing jazz and in his own Hungarian folk idiom, Lakatos is the rare musician
who defies definition. He is eferred to as a gypsy violinist or “devil’s fiddler”, a classical virtuoso, a jazz improviser, a composer
and arranger, and a 19th-century throwback, and he is actually all of these things at once. He is the kind of universal musician
so rarely encountered in our time—a player whose strength as an interpreter derives from his activities as an improviser and
composer. He has performed at the great halls and festivals of Europe, Asia and America.
rBorn in 1965 into the legendary family of gypsy violinists descended from Janos Bihari, “King of Gypsy Violinists”, Roby Lakatos was introduced to music as a child
and at age nine he made his public debut as first violin in a gypsy band. His musicianship evolved not only within his own family but also at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Budapest, where he won the first prize for classical violin in 1984. Between 1986 and 1996, he and his ensemble delighted audiences at ”Les Atéliers de la
grande Ille” in Brussels, their musical home throughout this period. He has collaborated with Vadim Repin and Stéphane Grappelli, and his playing was greatly
admired by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, who always made a point of visiting the club in Brussels to hear Lakatos. In March 2004, Lakatos appeared to great acclaim with
the London Symphony Orchestra in the orchestra’s “Genius of the Violin” festival alongside Maxim Vengerov.
When Roby Lakatos mixes the so-called ”classical music” with the magic of the Hungarian-gypsy vitality, it does not turn into a disrespectful attitude toward the
higher cultural heritage, but it more reflects the deep tradition rooted in the cultural heritage of the Gypsy people and offers new, refreshing pleasures to the listener
and music lover. And just as Liszt, Brahms and others used the Hungarian overtones in their compositions, so now the public profits from the confrontation of these
classics with the gypsy roots. This enlivens all those men and women in whose veins still pulses at least a little bit of the blood of the wandering spirit.
ALISSA MARGULIS
The Guardian” describes Alissa Margulis’s playing as „exceptional”, Ivry Gitlis praises it as ”a revelation”.
Appreciated for her expressive and very emotional performances, Alissa Margulis regularly plays in important concert halls
such as the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Cologne Philharmony, the Vienna Musikverein, the Herkulessaal in Munich,
the Izumi Hall in Osaka, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, the
Tel-Aviv Art Center, Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Walton Arts Center Chicago, the Schönberg Hall in Los Angeles or the Vienna
Konzerthaus.
Born in Germany into a family of Russian musicians, Alissa Margulis studied in Cologne with Zakhar Bron, in Brussels with
Augustin Dumay and in Vienna with Pavel Vernikov.
She made her first public appearance at the age of seven with the Budapest Soloists and has performed since then with numerous orchestras such as the Kremerata
Baltica, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Beethovenorchester Bonn, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR and the WDR Rundfunkorchester, the Oxford Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lorraine and the Israel Chamber Orchestra.
Her many prizes at international music competitions include those at the Wieniawski Competition in Poland, the Spohr Youth Competition, the Novosibirsk Violin
Competition, Viotti Vercelli Competition in Italy, the Osaka Chamber Music Competition, the UNISA String Competition in Pretoria, the Vittorio Gui Competition in
Florence, Alissa Margulis received the Award for Young Artists by the European Foundation for Culture.
Alissa Margulis is an enthusiastic chamber music player and collaborates with artists such as Martha Argerich, Yuri Bashmet, David Geringas, Ivry Gitlis, Gidon
Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Lilya Zilberstein and Paul Badura-Skoda.
She appeared further at the Davos Festival, the Wiener Festwochen, the Encuentro di Musica Santander, the Gstaad Festival Yehudi Menuhin, the Oleg Kagan
Festival Kreuth, the Kronberg Festival, the Lockenhaus Festival, the Martha Argerich Presents: Odyssey in Ljubljana, the Progetto Martha Argerich Festival of
Lugano, the Radio France Festival in Menton at Côte d’Azur, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Tours Festival, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Herbstfestspiele
Baden-Baden and the Verbier Festival.
EMI Classics released several CDs of the „Martha Argerich and Friends” cycle with Alissa Margulis’s participation on which she can be heared performing chamber
music works and sonatas by Schnittke, Messiaen, Shostakovich, Piazzolla among others.
Alissa Margulis has been presented in numerous productions for international radio stations and is also featured on a TV broadcast of Arte devoted to the Chamber
Music Connects the World project.She plays a Guadagnini Violin dated 1754, a private loan from Jonathan Moulds.
PER NYSTRÖM
Per Nyström is a Swedish cellist, co-founder & artistic director of Aurora Chamber Music.
Mr. Nystrom runs ACM together with project manager Ola Larsson.
ACM has in seven years become one of the world’s biggest platforms for classical festivals & master classes, attracting the most
sought- after classical artists and professors.
ACMis an active influence in the international chamber music life by its extensive production of concerts, festivals, network
building, and master classes for young artists from all over the world.
Over 1600 young artists from 5 continents, master-students and artists in the early stage of their careers, have performed and received master classes at Aurora
since the start in 2006.
In the three annual Aurora festivals & master classes, Mr. Nystrom gives approximately 150 chamber music lessons a year as teacher and playing leader.
Mr. Nystrom is also co-founder of The Yggdrasil String Quartet,1990 – 2001, Sweden’s most internationally acclaimed and successful string quartet.
The Yggdrasil Quartet emerged as one of the most exciting new string quartets in the 1990s and became a champion of new quartet music in Europe.
After intense studying with György Kurtág and Norbert Brainin the quartet were prizewinners in the major string quartet competitions in London and Melbourne.
With several award winning recordings the Yggdrasil Quartet made international career with about 100 concerts a year worldwide, playing string quartet on a
full-time basis with a repertoire embracing some 250 works.
Contemporary composers were attracted by their virtuosity and sympathy for modern style. The leading British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote a Quintet
for Trumpet and Strings for the Yggdrasil and trumpeter John Wallace. Yggdrasil Quartet collaborated with Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie in the premiere of
Haflidi Hallgrimsson’s Quintet for Percussion and string quartet.
When the Yggdrasil stopped playing in 2001, they were just chosen to become Quartet in residence at the Wigmore Hall in the next three years to come.
Mr. Nystrom is also principal cellist of Camerata Nordica, one of Sweden’s foremost chamber orchestras.
With Camerata Nordica Mr. Nystrom has toured all over the world and made numerous recordings and appearances as a leader and soloist.
Mr. Nystrom is also engaged as principal cellist in several Nordic chamber – and symphony orchestras, and frequently invited as a guest at chambermusic festivals.
Mr. Nystrom is playing on a Giuseppe & Antonio Gagliano of Naples from 1796 on which he recently started to record all the Bach suites for solo cello.
Mr. Nystrom is born 1968 and lives today in Gothenburg.After several years of study with Guido Vecchi in Gothenburg Mr. Nystrom studied at the Royal College of
Music in Stockholm for Ola Karlsson.After that back to Gothenburg and the two-year soloist diploma for Torleif Thedéen. During these years, Mr. Nystrom studied
with William Pleeth in London.Debut recital 1993, and debut with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra the following year.
Per lifts 200 kg in the dead-lift, and was 2013 awarded by Swedish King the medal ‘Litteris et Artibus’ for his achievements as cellist.
FABIO BIDINI
Fabio Bidini is one of the top-flight younger-generation pianists.
At the age of five he was given his first piano lessons and already half year later he played his first public concert. In the following
years he won eleven of the most important Italian piano competitions, including always the Audience Prize as well as all the
special prizes.
He made his final graduation with “Magna cum Laude” and was one of the youngest graduates ever of the prestigious “Conservatorio Santa Cecilia” in Rome.
Pianists who made a significant contribution to his artistic development are Orazio Frugoni and Maria Tipo.
After winning top prizes in the most famous international piano competitions his sensational success at the Busoni and at the Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition opened him the door to a constantly growing international career. Fabio Bidini now is recognized as one of the foremost young pianist to have emerged
from Italy since the days of Michelangeli.
His outstanding piano playing that combines technical wizardry with poetic lyricism and his fascinating culture of the attack of the keyboard brought him to have
a glowing London debut in the Barbican Center with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas in the presence of Sir Georg Solti,
Barbara Hendricks and James Galway in 1992. Shortly after, he had his highly acclaimed North American debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under Joel
Levi.
Since then Fabio Bidini is a frequent guest of the best orchestras worldwide (San Francisco Sympony, Dallas Symphony, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Chamber
Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Philharmonia Orchestra of London, BBC Orchestra Wales) playing in the world´s most famous halls (Carnegie Hall, Kimmel Center
Philadelphia, Kennedy-Center Washington, Royal Festival Hall, Davies Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Rudolfinum, Auditorio Nacionál-Madrid, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, among others).
He was repeatedly invited to perform at prestigious festivals (Tuscan Sun Festival Cortona/ Napa, Festival Radio France Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, La
Roque d’Anthéron International Piano Festival, Stern Grove Festival, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli International Piano Festival/ Brescia and Bergamo, Festival dei
due Mondi).
His repertory is tremendously vast, it contains 84 piano concerti and the piano works from the baroque to the modern era.
Fabio Bidini´s discography comprises thirteen CDs of leading recording companies like BMG, Classichord, Musikstrasse, EPR, True Sounds, among others. CDs can
be found directly on this homepage under the chapter “CDs” and can be purchased in internet on Amazon.
In 2005 Fabio Bidini accepted a professorship in the piano departement of the “Universität der Künste – Berlin”.
In 2009 he got appointed one of the few highest chairs for piano in Germany at the world-renown ”Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler” in Berlin and teaches as a
professor at this prestigious university since then.
He is an official Steinway Artist.
PETER LANGGARTNER
Peter Langgartner är född i Steyr - Österrike, och var förste violast i Teatro La Fenice i Venedig 1982-1983, därefter i Camerata
Salzburg fram till 1999.
Peter är för närvarande professor i viola vid universitetet Mozarteum i Salzburg. Med Pro Arte Quartet har Peter konserterat på de
stora internationella scenerna.
Som solist har han framträtt konserter i konserter av Telemann, Mozart, Paganini, Hindemith och Feldman i Österrike, Tyskland,
Italien, Spanien, USA, Kanada, Japan.
Som kammarmusiker har han spelat med t ex Thomas Zehetmair, Benjamin Schmid, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Alois Brandhofer, Wolfgang Meyer, med "Hyperion
Ensemble och Okoun Ensemble.
Peter Langgartner har också fått musik tillägnad sig från olika musik-genrer; kabaré musik, latinamerikansk musik, tango.
Han har spelat in konserter för viola och träblås av Zaininger, Eder och Hindemith. Bach (Kromatisk Fantasia, Suite BWV 995 och 1012), fullständiga kvartetter av
Mozart, Telemann viola konsert.
Peter är även författare till boken "Ein Menü für Herrn Brahms."
Pedram Shahlai
In addition to being a violinist Pedram Shahlai also composes music, mostly for films and documentaries but also for other artists.
In his compositions he uses his knowledge in Folk music but gladly experiments with jazzy tones. Beside concerts and compositions he has also had the possibility to show his acting talents in a few productions, most recently in the popular Katitizi at
Folkteatern in Gothenburg.
Improvisation is an important component in Pedrams music, as noted in the latest CD release. Rebaz Duo, which was released in
January 2012, mixes melodies and tunes from all around the world - a journey starting in Sweden and ending in the Far East.
Mats Einarsson
Pedram was born 1984 in the small town Saqiz situated in the Kurdish parts of Iran. At the age of 10 Pedram and his family moved to Sweden. Playing the violin was
not a matter of course. However at the age of 13, with some influence from his father Pedram started to take violin lessons in classical music. After studying music
in high school Pedrams interest for folklore became stronger and in 2008 he began at the World Music Master Program at the Music Academy in Gothenburg.
During the course of the training he covered everything from classical music to Balkan and Indian folklore. It was also during this period that Pedram improved his
knowledge and technique on instruments such as Kamacheh (Persian spiked fiddle) and Oud.
Pedram has mixed elements from his year at the Music Academy together with influences from his background in his compositions as well as in his play. With an
impeccable technique he performs his self composed pieces as well as famous folk melodies with an incredible sense - a musical storyteller.
Pedram Shahlai: Violin/ Ud, Mazdak Khosravi : kontrabas, Passi Passanen: Dragspel, Marcello Nunez: Trummor