Call for Chamber Music
Special Guests and Winning Participants
Simone Gramaglia
Program:
Brahms Piano Quintet Op. 34
Schumann Piano Quintet Op.44
When: 9 May 2023
Where: Trani, Puglia, Italy
Eyal Kless
Special Guest
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Eyal Kless is a violinist, pedagogue and author. He currently teaches in Buchmann Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv and previously taught in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin and Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester as well as seminars and festivals all over the world.
Eyal is an active performer with dozens of concerts per season as a soloist, chamber musician and especially with the Israel Haydn Quartet he had founded.
He studied in Tel Aviv and Vienna under the tutelage of his father, Prof. Yair Kless and Prof. Igor Ozim. His own students won national and international accolades and many continued to successful and satisfying careers.
Eyal’s novel: The Lost Puzzler/Das Schwarze Mal and Puzzler’s War/ Das Schwarze Mask (Random) received international recognition.
Yulia Zakharkina
Winning Participant
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Yulia was born in Russia in 1989. At the age of five, she started receiving her basic music education as a pianist in the studio of Irina Kalinichenko at the Kukuevittskij Music school in Surgut town.
From 2006 to 2010, she studied piano at the Surgut Musical College in the studio of Olga Piletskaya. In 2015, Yulia graduated with high-honors from Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire under the instruction of Vladimir Tropp. After that, she studied at the Accademia dell Ridotto in Stradella with Professor Aquiles Delle Vigne. In 2022 she completed her education in Mozarteum Universitat Salzburg (Master degree Klavier) under the instruction of Rolf Plagge. Yulia has already gained considerable experience in performing with orchestra, playing with such ensembles as the Surgut Philharmonie Orchestra, the National orchestra of Transnistria and the NordDeutche Philarmonie Rostock. She also took the stages such famous concert halls as the Small and the Rachmaninov halls of the Moscow State Conservatory, the Chamber Hall of the Moscow International House of Music.
In 2018, during her performance with violinist Stepan Starikov at the «Académie de Musique Riviera» she was recorded by the Swiss Radio. She has attended masterclasses held by such renowned musicians as Dina Yoffe, Pavel Gililov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Mikhail Voskresenskii, Alexander Mndoyants, Andrey Diev. Still during her studies in Moscow Conservatory, Yulia has started to work since 2011 as an accompanist in the Music school with different kinds of instruments. After graduation she continued to work until 2018. Was guest accompanist at the Summer Academy at the Moscow Conservatoire in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and at the All-Russian Music Competition in 2018.
Yulia is a laureate of numerous international piano and chamber music competitions.
International Music Competition “Amigdala” Italy, Sicily, First prize International Music Competition “Festival Renaissance” Armenia, First prize (chamber music section with the piano trio) International Music Competition “Don Vincenzo Vitti”, First prize Val Tidone International Music Competitions (Chamber music section with Violin-duo), Fifth prize Padova International Music Competition, Fourth prize (Chamber music section Violin-duo) Bursa international piano competition, Second prize Sardoal Young Talent Award, Third prize.
Cecilia Merli
Winning Participant
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Born in Rome in 1999, she graduated with highest marks and mention at the age of 16 at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. In the same year she made her debut as a soloist with orchestra at the Eliseo Theater in Rome and the Sala Nervi in the Vatican. Admitted at the age of 15 in the class of Maestro Salvatore Accardo at the Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, she then continued her studies with Masters Mikhail Gotsdiner at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and Ilya Grubert at the Amsterdam Conservatory.
Winner of numerous prizes and competitions including the Premio delle Arti, Zanuccoli International Competition, Padova International Competition, Premio Crescendo, scholarship from the New Names Foundation in Moscow (pres Denis Mazuev), Gold Medal of the former President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano. She is admitted to the Masterclasses of Masters Pierre Amoyal (Mozarteum Salzburg), Viktor Tretyakov, Zakhar Bron, Uto Ughi, Pavel Berman, Vadim Brodsky, Eugene Sarbu, Krzysztof Wegrzyn, Robert McDuffie, Felice Cusano. Regularly collaborates with orchestras such as the Brussel Philharmonic Orchestra at Flagey, Bozar Concert Halls, the Nederland Philharmonisch Orkest at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Residentie Orkest in The Hague and the Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia at Sala Santa Cecilia, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Elbphilarmonie Hamburg, Tonhalle Dusseldorf, directed by Stephane Deneve, Jaap Van Zweden, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Myung-whun Chung, Juraj Valcuha, Gianandrea Noseda.
She has performed as a soloist and in recitals in Italy and abroad at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, New York, Small Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, La Fortuna Theater in Fano, Gnessin School of Music in Moscow, Sala del Buonumore of the Florence Conservatory, Academic Hall of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, Castello Sforzesco in Milan, Torlonia Theater among many.
Passionate about chamber music, she studied with Dmitri Ferschtman and Frank Van De Laar playing in different groups and festivals such as Rome Chamber Music Festival, Anima Festival, Mani Sapienti. She has recorded for Suonare News and in 2022 for Brilliant Classics and Digitalsound the sonatas of Elgar, Grieg and Franck. Also important for her education were Maestro Marco Fiorini at the Fiesole Music School (scholarship reserved for the best students) and Maestro Maurizio Sciarretta at the Imola Piano Academy.
Mats Lidström
Program:
Fauré Piano Quintet in C minor no1 op. 15
Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor op. 34
Rachmaninoff piano trio G minor no.1
When: 11 June 2023
Where: Trani, Puglia, Italy
Christian de Luca
Winning Participant
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Born in San Giovanni Rotondo in 1993, Christian De Luca’s musical journey took him from a small Apulian town on the Gargano coast –where he grew up and had his first piano lesson at the age of eight– to the cosmopolitan New York City, where he moved to at the age of twenty after having been accepted by the famous Julliard School of Music.
Prior to his experience in America, Christian trained in Italy. At the age of 17 he made his debut with the “U. Giordano Conservatory” Symphony Orchestra in Foggia, performing Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1. The following year, he graduated from the same conservatory with honors, under the guidance of Claudio Trovajoli. It was there that a few later Christian discovered the world of historical keyboards after getting his hands on a newly arrived Viennese fortepiano from Mozart’s era. It was love at “first touch” which endured even after moving overseas. In the aforementioned years, Christian performed in many prestigious Italian concert halls and distinguished himself in numerous piano competitions. Among these, he was awarded an honorable mention at the 9th edition of the “Premio Nazionale delle Arti” –a competition that brings together the best pianists from conservatories around Italy. He was also declared the winner of the International Competition for Piano and Orchestra “Città di Cantù”, during its 24th edition, after competing in the Romantic Concerti category. On that occasion, Christian also won the Audience Award and was praised for his “perfect state of grace” and for the “great passion” with which he faced “the fearsome variations from Franz Liszt’s ‘Totentanz’” during the competition’s final round with the Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, thus proving to be “the competition’s only authentic success” (La provincial di Como).
In 2014, after a highly selective process, Christian enrolled in The Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he earned his master’s degree in Piano Performance in 2018 under the tutelage of Julian Martin and Matti Raekallio. During his studies in America, he continued to pursue his interest in historical instruments with great enthusiasm by taking fortepiano and harpsichord lessons with Audrey Axinn, Robert Levin, and Peter Sykes. Having acquired the skills to play different keyboard instruments, he chose to use a harpsichord and a fortepiano, in addition to modern piano, during his graduation recital. This allowed him to experiment with switching keyboards during a concert, according to the different time periods of the repertoire chosen for the evening. He became the first Julliard student to take such an initiative, which helped him shape his career as a “versatile keyboard player”. While at Juilliard, Christian was a Secondary Piano Teaching Fellow of the Keyboard Skills Department, and worked as Teaching Assistant for Dr. Steven Laitz, the head of the Music Theory and Analysis department. Currently, he continues to collaborate with The Juilliard School through remote teaching activities.
In the summer of 2018, he won the “1st Early Piano Competition” in Berkeley, California. Soon after, he was selected as the only fortepiano apprentice to participate in the prestigious Valley of The Moon Music Festival. Held every year in Sonoma, California, it is renowned for being the only music festival in the United States to focus on performing chamber music from the classical and romantic periods on historical instruments. Since then, he has returned there as a laureate artist to perform regularly, both as a soloist and chamber musician. On September 26th of the same year, Christian made his debut at the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, New York, with the American Classical Orchestra, performing Mozart’s famous piano concerto in C Major K467 “Elvira Madigan”, on fortepiano. Before his performance, the conductor invited him to explain the audience the peculiarities of the historical instruments he was to play, thus enabling a better listening experience.
In the spring of 2020, Christian moved back to Italy. A few months later, he settled in Rome, where he kept pursuing his concert and teaching career. In December of the same year, he was hired by the “Aeroporti di Roma” company to produce a striking and unprecedented short film: a piano performance in the middle of a runway at Fiumicino airport. The video’s purpose was to share a message of hope in the difficult time of the pandemic: ‘we will be flying again soon’.
In the fall of 2022, Christian enrolled in the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome to study chamber music with violinist, Ivan Rabaglia.
As of recently, he was offered a teaching position at his old school in Italy, the “U. Giordano” Conservatory, which he gladly accepted. Therefore, starting from February 2023, Christian has been teaching piano at the Conservatory’s headquarters in Rodi Garganico (FG).
In addition to concertizing and teaching, Christian is a strong and passionate advocate for the arts. Therefore, he often performs in “unconventional” settings, where he would enrich his audience’s listening experience through contextualized spoken introductions, and sometimes even reciting poetic verses reflecting the music he would perform.
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Bonnie Lee
Winning Participant
Biography coming soon…
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Jeremy Kienbaum
Winning Participant
Biography coming soon…
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Roberta Lioy
Winning Participant
Biography coming soon…
Past Events
Yair Kless
Program:
Chausson Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet Op. 21
When: 4 May 2023
Where: Trani, Puglia, Italy
Megumi Nishimura
Winning Participant
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Biography coming soon…
Aniela Janiak
Winning Participant
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Aniela Janiak, born in 2006, started playing violin at the age of 6 at the
Henryk Wieniawski Music School in Łódź (Poland) in the class of professor
Magdalena Kling-Fender.
Since 2017 she practicipates in various masterclasses held by professors Yair
Kless, Eyal Kless and Magdalena Szczepanowska in Łańcut, Przemyśl,
Bałoszyce, Trzcina, Puławy, Lusławice and Kraków (Poland), in Sindelfingen
and Hamburg (Germany), in Vienna (Austria) and in Dolny Kubin (Slovakia).
Aniela began her journey with solo competitions in 2019. She is laureate of
many national and international competitions.
Strongly focused on her solo work, chamber music also plays a crucial part of
her evolution as a musician. Since 2018 Aniela is member of the Łódzkie
Smyczki Chamber String Orchestra conducted by Ryszard Osmoliński. With a
very wide repertoire they played lots of concerts in Poland, Austria, Hungary
and Slovakia.
She was also member of Violinisti Pazzi Violin Quartet, winner of First Prizes
at competitions in Poland and Italy. At the end of 2022 the quartet gave concerts
in Warsaw, Venice and Padova.
Besides, she regularly takes part in numerous projects, like recording the works
of Brahms and Sibelius in the Orchestra of Grażyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz
Univeristy of Music in Łódź or performing a world premiere of compositions by
Sławomir Tomasik.
Aniela received scholarships form the Voivodship Marshal and from the City of
Łódź in the program Professionals in Łódź – scholarships for the most talented
Simone Sammicheli
Winning Participant
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Simone Sammicheli nasce nel 1993 a Genova, dove si diploma, a diciotto anni, presso il Conservatorio “Niccolò Paganini” con il massimo dei voti e la lode sotto la guida del M° Massimo Paderni. Successivamente studia musica da camera con il M° Massimiliano Damerini, perfezionandosi parallelamente presso l’ “Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo” con il M° Enrico Pace.
Dal 2017 si perfeziona all’interno dell’ “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” a Roma con il M°Benedetto Lupo conseguendo brillantemente il diploma nel 2020. Fondamentale nella sua formazione l’incontro con il M. Alessandro Deljavan con cui sta proseguendo gli studi presso “Opera Masterschool”. Risultato vincitore di numerosi concorsi pianistici nazionali ed internazionali, nel 2022 è tra i 40 selezionati del prestigiosissimo “International Franz Liszt Piano Competition” di Utrecht. A soli diciotto anni riceve il Premio “Alberto Burri“, che gli permette di essere inserito nel cartellone della 46° edizione del ”Festival delle Nazioni“ insieme a grandi artisti internazionali quali Grigory Sokolov.
La sua attività concertistica lo ha portato a esibirsi più volte da solista in numerose città italiane ed europee: Utrecht, Bruxelles, Roma , Genova, Torino, Alessandria,Vicenza ecc. e in importanti rassegne e festival musicali: Genova “I concerti di Primavera“ organizzati dalla GOG, Chiavari “Rassegna Giovani Talenti“, Sori “Festival Internazionale Musica, Torino “25° Stagione Soirees musicali della Nuova Arca“ , Portogruaro “34° Festival Internazionale di Musica”, Sansepolcro “46° edizione del Festival delle Nazioni“, Vicenza “XXVII edizione del Festival Settimane Musicali – MU.VI”,Ischia “Incontri musicali Giardini La Mortella”ecc.
Nel 2014 debutta al Teatro “Carlo suonando il Concerto n. 2 di F. Liszt e nel 2016 al “Teatro Alessandrino” di Alessandria con la Fantasia Corale in do minore op.80 di L.van Beethoven. Suona più volte in formazioni da camera.
Nel 2018 è ambasciatore musicale dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, presso l’ “International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation” Artistic Residency in Belgio.
Biography in English coming soon..
Shaowen Tan
Winning Participant
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Recognized for his sensitivity and musicality, Malaysian violist Shaowen Tan has given critically acclaimed performances in numerous parts of the globe, and his playing has been praised by masters such as Pablo de Naverán, Adelina Oprean, etc. Currently a student at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM) under Miguel da Silva, Tan’s previous teachers have included Paul Silverthorne, Sophie Renshaw and Scott Dickinson. He has also been coached in numerous occasions by Wilfried Strehle, Alexander Zemtsov, Lars Anders Tomter, Nobuko Imai, Bruno Giuranna, Kim Kashkashian, Antoine Tamestit, Hartmut Rohde, etc. Tan can be seen at several music festivals and academies including Rencontres Musicales Alberto Lysy (Switzerland), Sion Academie (Switzerland), Old Ox Festival (Sweden), Virtuoso and Bel Canto (Italy), Domaine Forget (Canada), etc.
Since 2014, Tan has been a tutti member of Singapore’s award winning Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM) and has worked with conductors such as Okko Kamu, Christopher Adey, Lan Shui, Shao-Chia Lü, etc. He has also appeared in a few of OMM’s recordings, including Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Elgar’s The Music Makers, etc. Tan has also performed with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) and Ensemble Contrechamps Genève, and played under the baton of Péter Eötvös, Sascha Goetzel etc. As a substitute player at Suzhou Symphony Orchestra (SZSO), he worked with Xu Zhong, Daniel Oren etc., and soloists such as Ning Feng. Tan has performed in renowned concert venues such as Esplanade Concert Hall, Victoria Hall Geneva, Taipei National Concert Hall, etc.
Chamber music has brought him to Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mainland China, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland etc. Highlights include a performance with members of the Brodsky Quartet. Tan studied chamber music with Ophélie Gaillard, Noémie Bialobroda, Sandrine Chatron, Antoine Margueir, etc. and has also been coached by Quatuor Ysaÿe, Mivos Quartet, etc.
Equally at home in research and musicology, his academic works include a paper on violoncello da spalla, a lecture recital on the topic of playing basso continuo and realizing figured bass on lone string instrument, etc.
Tan is currently supported by Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, and was previously a recipient of RCS Trust and the prestigious Chinese Government Scholarship. He was awarded 2nd prize in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s String Competition.
Lorraine Campet
Program:
Schubert “Troute” Quintet D.667
Vaughan Williams Piano Quintet in C minor
When: 20 April 2023
Where: Trani, Puglia, Italy
Pierre-Antoine Codron
Special Guest
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Impregnated with classical and traditional music from an early age, Pierre-Antoine combines these two loves in an eclectic musical life. If he started with the violin, it was when he met the violist Claire MERLET that he fall in love with the viola. He then decided to join it by integrating Françoise GNERI’s class at the CNSMD of Lyon, where he completed a Master’s degree in 2019. His career was then enriched with great musicians such as Bruno GIURIANNA, Mikko FRANCK, Tatjana MAZURENCKO… After the hypnotic encounter with Gille APAP, he reconnects with his love for traditional music and immerses himself in the practice of Irish, French and Scandinavian music.
Passionate about chamber music, Pierre-Antoine founded the Confluence quartet with which he won the FNAPEC competition and the Paris Philharmonie competition. In September 2021, the quartet won first prize as well as three special prizes at the international competition in Trondheim. He worked intensively with Mathieu HERZOG from the Ébène quartet, but also with the Alban Berg Quartet, Artemis Quartet, Jerusalem Quartet, Ysaye Quartet and more recently with the great Alfred Brendel.
Pierre-Antoine joined Appasionato Ensemble as principal violist, and give some masterclasses in different places (London, Marseille, Nîmes, Trondheim…). He also has the chance to collaborate with great artists such as Anne Gastinel, Claire Desert, Miguel Da Silva, Nathanaël Gouin…
The Swiss foundation BOUBO-MUSIC generously lends him a magnificent old Italian viola by Giacomo RIVOLTA, as well as a bow by Edwin CLÉMENT.
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Inhee Park
Winning Participant
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Violinist Inhee Park, who is active in performing with fluent techniques and deep music, had been working in the Korean National Symphony Orchestra for eight years after graduating from Sunhwa Arts High School and Seoul National University College of Music. While performing numerous opera, ballet, various symphonic repertoires from baroque to modern period, she had diverse solo, chamber music along with extensive orchestral experiences.
Park was also leader of Ensemble the K, Ètere Quartet and SOL Trio, and leader at Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra.
As well as receiving much praise in the masterclass of various faculty members such as Min Kim, Robert Chen, Ilya Gringolts, Igor Petrushevski, Sergei Kravchenko, Aaron Berofsky and Peter Schuhmayer, Inhee has proven her skills through collaborations with worldwide musicians. She also invited for perform on many European countries. Especially after her performance in Hagen, Germany 2016, Renate Schmoll wrote in the Westfalenpost,”Her
tone was gorgeous and flexible, and all the musical parts were very harmonious. The breathtaking Virtuoso passages were even as soft as velvet.”
Also as an Arte TV’s artist, she awarded at various international competitions, including the Golden Classic Music Awards, Mozart International Competition, and Gwangju International Music Competition. Park had many recitals successfully at the Seoul Arts Center, Perigee Hall, Maria Callas Hall, Banpo Simsan Art Hall and Mozart Hall. Recently, she played the entire J.S.Bach 6 Sonata /Partita series with the Ensemblian Hall’s concert project. From 2020 to 2022, Inhee also played the leading role in the Korean National Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music Series at the Seoul Arts Center and Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. From April 2023, She will study her master’s degree with Sebastian
Hamann at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Kiana Reid
Winning Participant
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Martti Rousi
Program:
Arensky String Quartet No.2
Tchaikovsky Souvenir de Florence
When: 16 April 2023
Where: Trani, Puglia, Italy
Alina Maria Taslavan
Winning Participant
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Alina Maria Taslavan, born in 14th octomber of 1991 in Toplita , Romania. She was a Chamber Music Professor at the Conservatory “L. Canepa “ in Sassari (Italy) for the year 2022.
Alina began studying the violin at the age of six and in a few years she is affirmed winner in various national competitions and in six editions of National Music Olympics obtaining the “Place of Excellence in the Romanian School Olympics Gallery”
In 2010 she moved to Italy where continued her studies with Maestro Francesco Solombrino under the guidance of which she graduated Summa cum laude both bachelor and master music degrees.
She participated in various master-classes held by important and famous violinists as M° Cristiano Rossi, M° Vadim Brodsky, M° Ilya Grubert, M° Stefano Pagliani(was the concertmaster of Scala in Milan), M° Carlo Maria Parazzoli (Concertmaster of Accademi Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome), M° Alessandro Milani (Concertmaster of RAI Orchestra in Torino) and for chamber music with Trio di Parma.
In October 2015 she made her debut as soloist with the “Filarmonica Moldova” orchestra of Iasi (Romania) under the conductor M° A. Morar, playing by C. Saint-Saens the Concert for Violin and Orchestra nr.3, and then with the Chamber Orchestra of the Benevento Conservatory (Italy) with conductor M ° F. D’Ovidio, playing F. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor and recording M. Bruch’s Double Concerto for Violino and Viola . With the Chamber Orchestra “R. Strauss “, conductor M ° M. Petrolo she played Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Since 2013, in duo with the pianist Gianluca Di Donato, she has performed the complete Mozart sonatas for the “Concert Society” of Ravello, “Amici della musica” of Trapani, Mola di Bari and “Associazione Mozart” of Avellino.
She performed as a soloist and in chamber music groups for important musical events such as: “Remember Enescu” Festival (Romania), Concert Season “Sigismund Toduta” Association (Romania), Concert for the Szeged Music Academy (Hungary), at the Court Theater of the Royal Palace of Naples (Italy), Diana Theater of Naples, House of Music of Cosenza, Theater “La Fenice” of Amandola, “Amici della musica” of Arezzo, Festival “Jommelli/Cimarosa” of Aversa, “Autunno Musicale 2014” of the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti.
She established herself as soloist and chamber musician in national and international competitions, obtaining the first prize in: “Napolinova” (Naples), “Sant’Alfonso Maria de ‘Liguori” (Salerno), ” Giovani Musicisti “(Viterbo). The trio is also the winner of the first prize at the “Città di Airola” International Competition (Benevento) and the III ° prize at the International Chamber Music Competition “G. Zinetti “.
She collaborated as orchestral member with famous artists and conductors as : Sir. Antonio Pappano, Marcus Bosch, Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Alexei Baklan Giovanni Sollima, Boris Petrushansky, Vasco Vassilev , Giovanni Gnocchi etc.
Recently she was invited as guest member in the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecili in Roma.
Claudia Cañaveras
Winning Participant
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The Spanish violist Claudia Cañaveras Martínez (20 years old), started playing the viola at 5 years old, in the music academy of her birth town. In 2015, she entered the Ribar-Roja Profesional Conservatory, where she studied her Viola Professional Degree (ages 12 to 18) with professor Tomàs Plaus Durà, finishing this stage of her education with an Honorable Mention. At the same time, she complemented her formation coursing years 1 to 3 of the Piano Professional Degree, with professor Clara Cabrera Doménech. Currently, she is studying the 2nd year of her Bachelor’s Degree in Music at the conservatory Musical Arts Madrid, with professor David Fons. In 2021, she won first prize in the Cultural-sportive Association of Bétera Music Contest.
Shaowen Tan
Winning Participant
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Recognized for his sensitivity and musicality, Malaysian violist Shaowen Tan has given critically acclaimed performances in numerous parts of the globe, and his playing has been praised by masters such as Pablo de Naverán, Adelina Oprean, etc. Currently a student at the Haute école de musique de Genève (HEM) under Miguel da Silva, Tan’s previous teachers have included Paul Silverthorne, Sophie Renshaw and Scott Dickinson. He has also been coached in numerous occasions by Wilfried Strehle, Alexander Zemtsov, Lars Anders Tomter, Nobuko Imai, Bruno Giuranna, Kim Kashkashian, Antoine Tamestit, Hartmut Rohde, etc. Tan can be seen at several music festivals and academies including Rencontres Musicales Alberto Lysy (Switzerland), Sion Academie (Switzerland), Old Ox Festival (Sweden), Virtuoso and Bel Canto (Italy), Domaine Forget (Canada), etc.
Since 2014, Tan has been a tutti member of Singapore’s award winning Orchestra of the Music Makers (OMM) and has worked with conductors such as Okko Kamu, Christopher Adey, Lan Shui, Shao-Chia Lü, etc. He has also appeared in a few of OMM’s recordings, including Mahler’s 8th Symphony, Elgar’s The Music Makers, etc. Tan has also performed with Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) and Ensemble Contrechamps Genève, and played under the baton of Péter Eötvös, Sascha Goetzel etc. As a substitute player at Suzhou Symphony Orchestra (SZSO), he worked with Xu Zhong, Daniel Oren etc., and soloists such as Ning Feng. Tan has performed in renowned concert venues such as Esplanade Concert Hall, Victoria Hall Geneva, Taipei National Concert Hall, etc.
Chamber music has brought him to Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mainland China, Canada, Italy, United Kingdom, Switzerland etc. Highlights include a performance with members of the Brodsky Quartet. Tan studied chamber music with Ophélie Gaillard, Noémie Bialobroda, Sandrine Chatron, Antoine Margueir, etc. and has also been coached by Quatuor Ysaÿe, Mivos Quartet, etc.
Equally at home in research and musicology, his academic works include a paper on violoncello da spalla, a lecture recital on the topic of playing basso continuo and realizing figured bass on lone string instrument, etc.
Tan is currently supported by Fondation Hans Wilsdorf, and was previously a recipient of RCS Trust and the prestigious Chinese Government Scholarship. He was awarded 2nd prize in Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s String Competition.
Eloïse Fagalde
Winning Participant
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Born in Paris in 1997, Eloïse Fagalde began her musical education with piano. She studied with Chantal Riou on piano and Marie-Paule Milone (Janos Starker’s assistant in Bloomington) on cello in Paris.
Driven by her taste for travel and curiousity about others, she went to study abroad with Martti Rousi at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Asier Polo at Musikene in San Sebastián. These encounters throughout Europe have really influenced her musical identity.
Passionate about chamber music, she has performed in various concert halls in France and abroad, including the Musée de la vie romantique in Paris, the Tabakalera contemporary Art Center in San Sebastián, the Topic Centre in Tolosa, Montelparo, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Freiburg, the Les musicales de St Maurice festival, the Philarmonie de Paris, and the Tons Voisins festival in Albi.
In orchestral training, she has played in prestigious halls such as the Zenith in Paris as well as Bercy (Accor Arena), the Salle Métropole in Lausanne, and the Cité de la Musique in Paris.
Currently in François Salque’s class at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Launsanne, she has received guidance from Conradin Brotbek, Lluis Claret, Raphaël Pidoux, Sung Won Yang, Guillaume Sutre, Nadine Pierre, Marko Ylönen, Eric-Maria Couturier during several masterclasses.
The lyricism and richness of the cello’s playing possibilities lead Eloïse to tackle a repertoire ranging from the 17th century to contemporary compositions. She has played in concert works by Ramon Lazkano, Thomas Adès, Olivier Schneller, Conlon Nancarrow, Gabriel Erkoreka, and Peteris Vasks.
Recently, the Swiss radio RTS devoted a program to her in which she presented her project around Finno-Ugric and Basque music.
She is part of the musical show “Anatomy of Joy” by the STEIN-LEIN-CHEN Company, based on Antonio Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus and Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy.
Eloïse plays a Gustave Bernardel cello made in Paris in 1894, which belonged to the famous cellist Louis Feuillard.
Wei-Ting Sun
Winning Participant
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A versatile performer of solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire, cellist Weiting Sun has been a top prize winner of National ASTA(American String Teacher Association) Solo competition and the Eastman Honors Chamber Music Competition. She has made solo appearances with Rockland Symphony Orchestra and Boston Conservatory String Ensemble, and has performed solo recitals in prestigious venues such as the National Concert Hall in Taiwan as well as chamber music appearances in Jordan Hall in Boston, and Hatch Recital Hall in Rochester, NY. As an orchestra musician, she has performed as a section cello member with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for their 2014-15 season, and was an associate member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. She has also performed in Carnegie Hall as a member of Scheherazade Initiative Orchestra alongside principals from Metropolitan Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Sun has participated in music festivals as a scholarship recipient, including, Banff Arts Center, Domaine Forget, Weimar Meisterkurs and Texas Music Festival where she served as the principal cellist. Her passion for chamber music and teaching has led her to become a substitute chamber music coach at the preparatory school of New England Conservatory. Her masterclass experiences span through Europe and North America with David Geringas, Martti Rousi and Jian Wang.
Born in Taipei, Sun attended the Middle School Affiliated with Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of 13. She attended Boston Conservatory(BM) as a full scholarship recipient, Eastman School of Music(MM), Manhattan school of music(Orchestra Performance Program and Professional Studies in Solo), and New England Conservatory(Graduate Diploma.) She is now a DMA(Doctoral of Musical Arts) studies in cello performance under the tutelage of Colin Carr.
Inhee Park
Winning Participant
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Violinist Inhee Park, who is active in performing with fluent techniques and deep music, had been working in the Korean National Symphony Orchestra for eight years after graduating from Sunhwa Arts High School and Seoul National University College of Music. While performing numerous opera, ballet, various symphonic repertoires from baroque to modern period, she had diverse solo, chamber music along with extensive orchestral experiences.
Park was also leader of Ensemble the K, Ètere Quartet and SOL Trio, and leader at Gangneung Philharmonic Orchestra.
As well as receiving much praise in the masterclass of various faculty members such as Min Kim, Robert Chen, Ilya Gringolts, Igor Petrushevski, Sergei Kravchenko, Aaron Berofsky and Peter Schuhmayer, Inhee has proven her skills through collaborations with worldwide musicians. She also invited for perform on many European countries. Especially after her performance in Hagen, Germany 2016, Renate Schmoll wrote in the Westfalenpost,”Her
tone was gorgeous and flexible, and all the musical parts were very harmonious. The breathtaking Virtuoso passages were even as soft as velvet.”
Also as an Arte TV’s artist, she awarded at various international competitions, including the Golden Classic Music Awards, Mozart International Competition, and Gwangju International Music Competition. Park had many recitals successfully at the Seoul Arts Center, Perigee Hall, Maria Callas Hall, Banpo Simsan Art Hall and Mozart Hall. Recently, she played the entire J.S.Bach 6 Sonata /Partita series with the Ensemblian Hall’s concert project. From 2020 to 2022, Inhee also played the leading role in the Korean National Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Music Series at the Seoul Arts Center and Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. From April 2023, She will study her master’s degree with Sebastian
Hamann at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Alessandro Deljavan
Program:
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major No. 2 Op. 81
Mozart Piano Quartet K.478
When: 25 March 2023
Where: Trani, Puglia, Italy
Carmine Caniani
Special Guest
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Carmine graduated with honors in the class of Andrea Maini at the
Conservatory “Gesualdo da Venosa” in Potenza on viola.
He furthered his education by attending the Fiesole Music School with Antonello Farulli, the Stauffer Academy of Cremona in the class of M. Bruno Giuranna and Milano Music Masters with Simonide Braconi.
He was part of the Italian Youth Orchestra directed by Gianandrea Noseda, Gabriele Ferro, John Axelroad and the “Luigi Cherubini” orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti.
He is part of the Mitja Quartet with which he perfected himself at the ProQuartet in Paris, the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland, the Music School of Fiesole, the Stauffer Academy of Cremona and the Imola Academy.
In 2007 he won the merit scholarship offered by the “G. from Venosa”
of Power. In April 2008 he was the winner of the 8th Musical Performance Competition City of Matera “Rosa Ponselle” Award for the Soloist Strings category.
For the great passion in music teaching he achieved in the year 2013/2014 a First level master’s degree for musical operators for children’s and youth choirs and orchestras at the University of Florence.
Since 2022 he has been teaching chamber music at the “Umberto
Giordano” headquarters in Rodi Garganico.
He recorded for the TACTUS record label the Quartets n.1 “Rispetti e Strambotti” and n.8 “Per Elisabetta” by G.F.Malipiero reviewed with 5/5 stars by MUSICA magazine.
In 2020 for Urania Records with the Mitja Quartet he created the first volume of the complete dei 18 quartets by Gaetano Donizetti – Baltazar Zùñiga producer – receiving the prestigious nomination at the International Classical Music Awards 2022 (chamber music).
Federica Severini
Winning Participant
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Federica Severini was born in 1996 and is actually professor of chamber music at Pergolesi Conservatory in Fermo. She was before Professor of chamber music at G. Martucci Conservatory in Salerno and violin professor at P. Mascagni Conservatory in Livorno. She was student of Maestro Salvatore Accardo at W. Stauffer International Academy in Cremona and graduated in violin and chamber music at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She obtained the final diploma MAS (Master Advanced Studies) with M. Klaidi Sahatci at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. She is also a student of M. Accardo at W.Stauffer Academy in Cremona. She obtained a scholarship as one of the best students of Stauffer Academy in Cremona and she played as soloist in Teatro Eliseo in Rome with Orchestra da Camera Italiana directed by M. Salvatore Accardo. She studies currently with Marco Rizzi at the Musikhochschule Mannheim for the course Orchestersolist and attends masterclasses with Tomasz Tomaszewski and Guy Braunstein. She played with several Orchestras in Italy and abroad: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, RAI Symphony Orchestra in Turin, Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, Cameristi of La Scala Orchestra, Solisti Aquilani Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera Italiana of Salvatore Accardo, La Fenice in Venice and Regio Theatre in Turin, San Carlo Theatre in Naples, Tiroler Festspiele Orchesterakademie. She performed as Concertmaster of Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in 2021 and was selected as Concertmaster of La Scala Academy Orchestra for the years 2017-19 and was 1st Violin Tutti at La Verdi Symphony Orchestra in Milan and she won also the audition for Tutti Violin at Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI in Turin. She has won the Praktikum for Göttinger Symphonieorchester. In 2019 She recorded the CD “Romantic Echoes” with the pianist Pier Carmine Garzillo for the label Corrado Productions.
She was chosen by the Brazilian choreographer Ismael Ivo to play at his contemporary ballet show “Mishima” during the “Ravello Festival”. She has recently won the first prize at the “American Protégé” international concerto competition and she played at the famous Weill Hall of the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Dinu Lipatti International Competition in Rome. As violinist of Trio Pragma she won the second prize at the first edition of the International Competition Antonelli in Latina, first prize at Magliano Sabina International Competition, first prize at Jacopo Napoli International Competition and first prize at Leopoldo Mugnone International Competition.
A strong interest in contemporary music led her to play at the Biennale Festival in Venice with an international ensemble and she won two scholarships at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for the project “La Nuova Musica”, all dedicated to contemporary music. She participated in the Festival “Assoli” in Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome and at the Festival Play It in Florence all dedicated to contemporary music. She is also member since 2018 of Divertimento Ensemble in Milan, specialized in contemporary music, and of Syntax Ensemble. She was also selected as first violin of the Ensemble 900 of the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland for the concert “Polifonie” that took part in Auditorium Stelio Molo of Radio Svizzera Italiana.
She plays a Romeo Antoniazzi violin made in 1912.
Samuele Preda
Winning Participant
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Samuele Preda began studying the violin at the age of 8. At the age of 14 he began attending the pre-academic courses of the Guido Cantelli Conservatory of Novara, studying with Maria Ronchini. Subsequently he continued with academic courses under the guidance of Leonardo Boero. At the same time, he perfected himself with Greta Mullaj and Suela Mullaj, Sawa Kuninobu, taking part in various masterclasses with violinists such as Yuri Revich and Peter Szanto (concertmaster of the Verona Arena)
Strongly focused on chamber music, he regularly participates in the quartet and chamber music master classes held by the Xenia ensemble, where he had the opportunity to study the quartet repertoire in detail. He was selected to participate in the Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy, an intensive chamber orchestra course taught by the head members of the ICO, based in Limerick, Ireland. Since 2021 he has been a student of Adrian Pinzaru (first violin of the Delian Quartet).
He graduated in July 2022 from the Novara Conservatory, with a monographic thesis dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach.
In the same month, he is one of the two violinst selected to participate in the “Eos” chamber music festival, held on the island of Ventotene, playing Tchaikowsky’s string sextet “Souvenir de Florence“, Schumann’s piano quintet, and some of Bach’s three part inventions arranged for string trio, with musicians of the caliber of: Miriam Prandi (formerly assistant cello added to Musicaeterna), Ivan Pochekin, Alexey Zhilin (cellist of the David Oistrakh quartet and principal cellist of Musicaeterna), Adrian Pinzaru.
He was invited on 30 July 2022 at the Fenestrelle Fort, to play at the concert for the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the “Xenia Ensemble” association, playing alongside musicians such as Daniel Roberts, (second violin of the Castalian Quartet), Eilish Cranitch, Elizabeth Wilson (student of Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory) Andre Swanepoel (leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra), Igor Polesitsky (first viola of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He is now the second violinist of the Winston Quartet, a string quartet based in Turin.
With an undergraduate performance degree from I.S.S.M. Guido Cantelli, he is currently earning his postgraduate degree in performance at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin.