He was born in 1946 in Steingaden in lower Bavaria. He lives in Wildsteig, a picturesque mountain village near the Wieskirche basilica in the province of Weilheim-Schongau. He received his first organ lessons during Gymnasium from the then Kapellmeister of Freising Cathedral Prof. Max Eham. After graduating from high school he was urged to academic…
The Cantori Gregoriani is a male-voice vocal group dedicated exclusively to the study and dissemination of Gregorian chant. Made up entirely of specialists, the ensemble bases its performance proposal on semiological investigation, that is, the study of ancient manuscript sources dating back to the 10th-11th centuries. The interpretative proposal of the group intends to highlight,…
He graduated in singing from the A. Vivaldi Conservatory of Alessandria under the guidance of D.Saccardi and A.Monacò, then studied with F.Mattiucci, G.Valdengo, M.L.Groppi, G.Ravazzi, S.Lowe.He carries out intense concert activity with a repertoire ranging from opera to musicals, from sacred music to chamber music, from the historical twentieth century to contemporary expressions.Awarded and finalist…
Born in Warsaw in 1993, Ryszard Groblewski began his training at the age of 7. He continued his further education under Piotr Reicher at the Warsaw Academy of Music, benefiting from the teachings of Kim Kashkashian, Atar Arad, Pamela Frank, Miriam Fried et Ralf Gothoni. A participant in numerous competitions (Portschach, Essen, Beld), he won…
Leonora Armellini was born in Padua in 1992. At the age of four she began studying piano with Prof. Laura Palmieri, under whose guidance she obtained her Piano Diploma with a grade of ten with honors and honorable mention, in September 2004, when she was only twelve years old.She has participated in master classes with…
Giampaolo Bandini is today considered among the best guitarists of his generation.Brilliantly graduated at only nineteen years old, he owes his musical training to Maestro Giovanni Puddu. On the chamber music side, he trained at the prestigious Imola Piano Academy with musicians such as Pier Narciso Masi, Alexander Lonquich, Dario De Rosa, Maureen Jones and…
Fiorella Benetti Brazzale, born in Asiago in 1934, after graduating in piano with Silvio Omizzolo, organ and organ composition with Wolfango Dalla Vecchia, perfected her skills in Belgium with Flor Peeters and in Paris with Gaston Litaize. She has taken master classes in prepolyphonic music and Gregorian chant, ancient music and instruments, and harpsichord. Animated…
Born in 1954 in Augsburg, he studied at the “Musikhochschule München” with Walter Reichhard and Fritz Kiskalt, then at the “Mozarteum” in Salzburg with Antonio Janigro (from 1979 to 1982 he worked as his assistant).
Born in Seoul, South Korea, she initially studied in Seoul with Prof. Hae-Guen Kang, later with Julius Berger at Musikhochschule des Saarlandes and Musikhoschschule Mainz, and with Thomas Demenga at Musikhochschule Basel.
She graduated from Sunhwa School of Art, Sunhwa High School of Art and Sookmyung Women’s University in Seoul.
Born in Thiene (VI), she began her musical studies at the “E.F. Dall Abaco” Conservatory in Verona and graduated in singing from the ” C. Pollini ” of Padua under the guidance of Ms. Rognoni. She attended master classes with maestros C. Miotello, A.Cicogna, V.Spatola, P. Fornasari . She has collaborated with masters G.Bisanti, P.Comparin,…
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, José Gallardo began piano lessons at the age of five at his hometown conservatory. He then continued his studies with Prof. Poldi Mildner at the Music Department of the University of Mainz, where he graduated.
Christian Bertoncello was born in 1989 in Bolzano in a family of musicians. When he was only 6 years old he began playing the cello under the guidance of Giorgia Postinghel. Four years later he was studying at the conservatory “C. Monteverdi” with Prof. Giuseppe Momo and Nicola Baroni. After graduating at a very young…
Anna Grendene was born in 1989 and began studying cello at the age of 14 with Prof. Stefania Cavedon. He is currently attending the Vicenza Conservatory of Music. His musical and chamber music training refers to M° L. Braga, S. Redaelli, G. Saccari, L. Simoncini, A. Pecelli and F. Sartorelli.He is a member of the…
Alissa Firsova composer, pianist Alissa Firsova is a Russian-English composer, pianist and conductor. After winning the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer Competition in 2001, he received numerous commissions, including a Bach transcription for the 2010 Proms Festival that was performed by Andrew Litton leading the RPO live on BBC 2 and BBC Radio 3.
Meyer Krzysztof 2008 – He was born in Krakow on August 11, 1943. From the age of five he began studying piano, and from 1954 theory and composition with Stanislaw Wiechowicz. After promotion to the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Kraków he entered the Kraków College of Music where he received two honorable mention…
Harada Keiko 2009 – “Tribute to Keiko Harada” Keiko Harada’s career as a composer began as a child when she developed her improvisations on the piano. She studied piano, chamber music and composition at Toho Gauken School of Music where she graduated in 1993 with a thesis in c omposition. She then studied with Brian…
Guillou Jean 2007 – Jean Guillou, titular organist of the great organs of St. Eustache, is first and foremost a composer who was able to considerably stretch the technical limits of instrumental performance, to elaborate and develop, already from his young age, more or less secretly, a singular musical world of great individuality, but which…
