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He is conductor Laureate of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Conductor Laureate of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the biennial Santo Domingo Music Festival, which he founded in 1997. He has recently taken on the additional post of Principal Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra His recorded legacy – as pianist, conductor is vast. In addition to the standard piano solo and piano-with-orchestra works of Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Saint-Saëns and other composers, he has recorded most of the piano music of fellow Frenchmen Debussy and Ravel, plus music by such diverse composers as Gershwin, Satie, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Viotti and Tchaikovsky. He is a multiple winner of the Grand Prix du Disque. Philippe Entremont was born in Reims, France, on June 7, 1934. He has also pursued a busy teaching schedule, including currently serving as director of the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, and formerly at the Ravel Academy at Saint Jean de Luz in southern France. Philippe Entremont is an officer of the French
Legion of Honor and was awarded the title of Commander of the Order
of Arts and Letters, the highest decoration bestowed by the French
government in the arts. He also holds, among other decorations,
a first class Cross of Honor for the Arts and Sciences from the
Austrian government. Frédéric Aguessy, Born in Paris in 1956, studied piano with, among others, Yvonne Lefébure and Dominique Merlet at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris. A laureate of the international piano competitions of Naples, Geneva, Santander and Budapest, he won First Prize in the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in 1979 and then began his international career. He performs with the major French orchestras and numerous foreign ones, in Germany, Eastern Europe, Portugal and participates in many festivals such as the International Festival of Yokohama (Japan), International Festival of Montpellier and Radio-France. He has recently toured in Japan and South America. He devotes much of his time to Chamber Music and teaching – first at the Conservatoire National de Paris and currently at the Conservatoire National de Région de Rouen. Philippe Bianconi Winner of the Silver Medal in the Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition, French pianist PHILIPPE BIANCONI has mesmerized audiences and critics throughout the world with his brilliant performances in recital and as soloist with orchestra. Since making his orchestral debut, Philippe Bianconi has appeared in North America with the orchestras of Cleveland, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Minnesota, Dallas, Columbus, Montreal and Vancouver. His international appearances include engagements with the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Melbourne Symphony, the Cape Town Philharmonic, the Orchester der Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Toulouse Orchestra, as well as the Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Paris. He has performed with such distinguished conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, Edo de Waart, Marek Janowski, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Georges Prêtre, James Conlon, Semyon Bychkov, Jeffrey Tate and Gennady Rozdestvensky. During the 2001-2002 season, Philippe Bianconi made his debut with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in Reykjavik. He performed concerts in the United States, France, Spain and Germany. In New York, he performed with the Guarneri String Quartet on their sold out series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and played a recital in Berlin, in the prestigious series " Clavier um Vier" of the Berlin Philharmonic. Philippe Bianconi made an acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987 and has also appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas, New Orleans, Toronto and Vancouver. His international recitals have taken him to London, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Milan, Amsterdam, Madrid, Sydney and Tokyo. His performances in Paris are frequently broadcast on Radio France and his 1998 debut recital in Tokyo was broadcast by N.H.K television. Philippe Bianconi has recorded works of Ravel, Schumann and Schubert on the Lyrinx label. In 1996, his recording featuring the Schumann Symphonic Etudes won a prestigious "Choc de la Musique" award in France. His other recordings include the Brahms' Piano Quintet with the Sine Nomine Quartet on the Claves label, works of Shostakovitch and Prokofiev with cellist Gary Hoffman on Le Chant du Monde label and Schubert Lieder Cycles with Hermann Prey on Denon. A resident of Paris, France, Philippe Bianconi grew up in Nice and attended the Conservatory in Nice where he studied with Simone Delbert-Fevrier. He also studied extensively in Paris with Gaby Casadesus and in Freiburg-in-Breisgau with Vitalij Margulis. In addition to winning the Silver Medal in the Van Cliburn Competition, he was the Gold Medal winner of both the Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland and the "Jeunesses Musicales" International Competition in Belgrade. Noel Lee, American composer and pianist, studied both at Harvard and at the New England Conservatory of Music with a 38 month interruption due to military service during World War II. In 1948, he went to Paris to pursue his education with Nadia Boulanger who wrote of him: he is one of the finest musicians I have met. He has toured on six continents as concert pianist and recorded 198 LPs and CDs, particularly of Debussy, Ravel, Charles Ives, Bartok, Stravinsky, Copland and Elliot Carter. He received numerous awards throughout his career, including from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his creative work; and from France, in 1998, the grade of Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres, and, in 1999, from the city of Paris, the Grand Prix de la Musique. Jay Gottlieb The NEW YORK
TIMES has hailed Jay Gottlieb's "adventurous brilliance" Beverley Julie Lunt studied at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam where she reseived her degree with honors in 1986. Since 1988 she has been the principal soloist of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. She also performs as a soloist in theNetherlands, Europe, Asia and North America. She is a soloist in the "Johannes Brahms Quartet" and the "Schubert Consort of Amsterdam". She often joins her husband, Herre-Jan Stegenga, in performing works for violin and cello. She is a recording artist and teaches in Netherlands and Spain. Gerard Poulet - Gerard Poulet started as a child prodigy. His father, the violinist and conductor Gaston Poulet had the privilege of giving the first performance of Debussy’s Sonata in 1917, with the author at the piano. Gérard entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris at the age of eleven, and left the following two years with a unanimously awarded first prize. Aged eighteen, he carried off the first prize at the Paganini Competition in Genoa. Alexis Galperine - Violinist Aexis Galperine’s performing career, both as soloist and chamber musician, takes him all over Europe, the Middle East, Japan and the U.S. He has been invited to perform by the most prestigious festivals in France and is associated with the ensembles Musicavanti and 2E2M. After studies at the Conservatoire National in Paris and at the Juilliard School, he was a prizewinner of the Carl Flesh (London) and Paganini (Genoa) competitions, and First Prize winner of the International Belgrade Competition. His main teachers were Ivan Galamian and Henryk Szering. He also has a Masters of Philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris. Alexis Galperine now teaches at the Conservatoire in Strasbourg (France) and at the CNSMDP in pedagogy. Students worldwide come to study with him. He recently gave master classes at Indiana University in Bloomington. He also adjudicates many international competitions and has written several acclaimed articles on musicology.
Richard Wolfe, born in New York in 1953, pursued his violin studies with Aaron Shapinsky and Dorothy Delay and graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he studied with Walter Levin (La Salle Quartet). He then spent five years in Israel as a member of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and during that period became interested in the viola. He settled in the Netherlands in 1983 and has been principal viola soloist for the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra since 1986. He often performs as a soloist with this orchestra. He is also very fond of Chamber Music and is a member of the Sergiu Luca Ensemble “Music in Context” in the U.S., the “Explorations” Ensemble in Belgium and other ensembles in the Netherlands. CELLO Herre-Jan Stegenga, born in Holland, was awarded First Prize at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris at age 17, after having studied with Paul Tortelier and with Joseph Calvet for chamber music. He began touring early on in his career as a soloist in France, Switzerland, England (where he records regularly for the BBC), the United States, South America and the Far-East. He currently teaches at the Rotterdam Conservatory and is first chair cellist for the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. He is also a member of the string Ludwig Trio with Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Vladimir Mendelssohn. He has recorded for the CBS, Phillips, and Arion labels. Diana Ligeti After her musical studies in
Romania, Diana Ligeti passed the ParisConservatoire where she
attended a proficiency course in cello in Klaus Heitz’s class, and
in Christian Ivaldi’s class of chamber music. Noticed by Sir Yehudi
Menuhin, she was admitted to the International Menuhin Music Academy
in 1994 and 1995 in Gstaad, Switzerland. Allain Gaussin studied composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris. He also studied conducting, electro-acoustic music, then computer-assisted composition at IRCAM. He was a resident at the Villa Medicis in Rome, at the DAAD in Berlin, and in Kyoto (Japan). He has been involved with several French television and video productions. A winner of several composition prizes, he was awarded in 1995 the Grand Prix du Disque for the following works: Irisation-Rituel, Camaieux, Arcane (Salabert/Harmonia Mundi label). His experience as a teacher is extensive in various conservatories in France, the Schola Cantorum in Paris, and seminars and lectures in Germany and Japan. François PARIS Born in
Valenciennes in 1961, the french composer François Paris studied
both orchestration and composition. At the Conservatoire National
Supérieur de Paris, he studied with Ivo Malec, Betsy Jolas and
Gérard Grisey and received the first prize of composition. Before
long he was noticed: in 1993, he was awarded a prize by Luciano
Berio at the International Competition of Besançon. At the same
time, he received a commission from the reading committee of the
Ircam and he was scholarship student at the Villa Médicis in Rome
(from 1993 to 1995). Back in France, he obtained his musical
teaching certificate (CA). In 1999, after winning “the extra-muros
Villa Médicis” from the AFAA programme, the French Association for
the Artistic Action, he became a resident in the Asturias, Spain. He
won the Claude Arrieu prize from the SACEM in 2001. Isabelle Duha studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where she obtained four First Prizes. She is now a faculty member at the same school, and she teaches a number of techniques of musical expression, including harmony, counterpoint, and fugue. She will conduct exercises on all instruments: harmonization, figured bass, memory, transposition work, and sight-reading. *The list of faculty is subject to change. Please check back for updates.
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