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Le chef d’orchestre estonien primé aux Grammy Awards, Paavo Järvi, est largement reconnu comme le « musicien des musiciens », et collabore étroitement avec les meilleurs orchestres du monde. Il occupe les postes de chef principal de l’Orchestre Tonhalle de Zurich et de l’Orchestre symphonique NHK de Tokyo, ainsi que directeur artistique de la Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie de Brême et de l’Estonian Festival Orchestra, dont il est également le fondateur. Il est également chef émérite du Frankfurt Radio Symphony, directeur musical émérite du Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra et conseiller artistique de l’Orchestre national d’Estonie.
En dehors de ses postes permanents, Järvi est très sollicité en tant que chef invité, se produisant régulièrement avec le Berliner Philharmoniker, le Philharmonia Orchestra de Londres, le Münchner Philharmoniker, la Staatskapelle de Dresde et l’Orchestre de Paris, dont il fut le directeur musical de 2010 à 2016.
Chaque saison se termine par une semaine de concerts et de masterclasses de direction au Pärnu Music Festival en Estonie, que Paavo Järvi a fondé en 2011 avec son père, Neeme Järvi. Le succès du festival et de son ensemble résident – l’Estonian Festival Orchestra – a valu de nombreuses invitations de prestige, notamment des performances récentes aux BBC Proms, à l’Elbphilharmonie de Hambourg et une tournée au Japon.
Avec une vaste discographie, les récentes publications de Paavo Järvi incluent un album de musique orchestrale méconnue de Messiaen avec l’Orchestre Tonhalle de Zurich ; le troisième et dernier volume du cycle des Symphonies de Brahms avec la Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie de Brême ; et l’enregistrement en première mondiale de la 9e Symphonie d’Erkki-Sven Tüür, Mythos, avec l’Estonian Festival Orchestra.
En 2019, Paavo Järvi a été nommé Chef d’orchestre de l’année par l’Opus Klassik en Allemagne et a reçu le prix de musique du Rheingau pour ses réalisations artistiques avec la Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie de Brême dans le paysage orchestral et culturel allemand. Parmi ses autres récompenses, citons un Grammy Award pour son enregistrement des Cantates de Sibelius avec l’Orchestre national d’Estonie, Artiste de l’année pour Gramophone (Royaume-Uni) et Diapason (France) en 2015, ainsi que le titre de Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres du ministère français de la Culture pour sa contribution musicale en France. Défenseur acharné de la culture estonienne, il a reçu l’Ordre de l’Étoile Blanche par le président de l’Estonie en 2013, et en 2015, il s’est vu décerner la Médaille Sibelius en reconnaissance de son travail pour faire connaître la musique du compositeur finlandais.
Né à Tallinn, en Estonie, Paavo Järvi a étudié les percussions et la direction d’orchestre à l’École de musique de Tallinn. En 1980, il s’est installé aux États-Unis, où il a poursuivi ses études à l’Institut Curtis de Musique et à l’Institut Philharmonique de Los Angeles sous la direction de Leonard Bernstein.
Since founding Bach Collegium Japan in 1990, Masaaki Suzuki has established himself as a leading authority on the works of Bach. He has remained their Music Director ever since, taking them regularly to major venues and festivals in Europe and the USA and building up an outstanding reputation for the expressive refinement and truth of his performances.
In addition to working with renowned period ensembles, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Philharmonia Baroque, Suzuki is invited to conduct repertoire as diverse as Brahms, Britten, Fauré, Mahler, Mendelssohn and Stravinsky, with orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio, Danish National Radio, Gothenburg Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, San Francisco Symphony, Sydney Symphony and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestras. This season he visits the NDR Elbphilharmonie, NHK Symphony, Seattle Symphony and St. Louis Symphony Orchestras, amongst others.
Suzuki’s impressive discography on the BIS label, featuring all Bach’s major choral works as well as complete works for harpsichord, has brought him many critical plaudits – the Times has written: “it would take an iron bar not to be moved by his crispness, sobriety and spiritual vigour”. 2018 marked the triumphant conclusion of Bach Collegium Japan’s epic recording of the complete sacred and secular cantatas initiated in 1995 and comprising sixty-five volumes. The ensemble has now embarked upon extending their repertoire with recent recordings of works by Mozart (Requiem and Mass in C minor) and Beethoven (Missa Solemnis and Symphony No. 9).
Last season Bach Collegium Japan were invited to participate, as one of three ensembles, in the cantata cycle at Bachfest Leipzig, where they also gave a critically acclaimed performance of Mendelssohn’s Elias; their busy touring schedule also took them to the USA performing at venues including the Alice Tully Hall, New York and San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall. This season in Europe they embark upon their 30th anniversary tour including concerts in Brussels, Dublin, Hamburg, Köln, London, Madrid and Paris, amongst others.
Suzuki combines his conducting career with his work as an organist and harpsichordist; he is currently in the process of recording Bach’s solo works for these instruments. Born in Kobe, he graduated from the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music with a degree in composition and organ performance and went on to study at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam under Ton Koopman and Piet Kee. Founder and Professor Emeritus of the early music department at the Tokyo University of the Arts, he was on the choral conducting faculty at the Yale School of Music and Yale Institute of Sacred Music from 2009 until 2013, where he remains affiliated as the principal guest conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum.
In 2012 Suzuki was awarded with the Leipzig Bach Medal and in 2013 the Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize. In April 2001, he was decorated with ‘Das Verdienstkreuz am Bande des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik’ from Germany.
La direction fluide et la musicalité pénétrante de James Gaffigan fascinent les orchestres (Philharmonique de Los Angeles, Tonhalle de Zurich, Orchestre royal du Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Paris…) et les maisons d’opéra (Metropolitan Opera de New York, Bayerische Staatsoper de Munich, Wiener Staatsoper, Opernhaus de Zurich…) du monde entier. Alors qu’il est Chef assistant du Cleveland Orchestra auprès de Franz Welser-Möst en 2004, il remporte la même année le Premier Prix au concours international Sir Georg Solti. À la direction remarquable d’opus lyriques de Mozart, Rossini, Puccini et Strauss, le chef américain a également contribué à la renommée internationale du Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, dont il a été Chef principal. Il est depuis 2021 Directeur musical du Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra et prendra les mêmes fonctions au Komische Oper Berlin pour quatre saisons à compter de 2023/24.
Over the past decade, Jaap van Zweden has been an international presence on three continents. Currently, he is Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, a post he began in 2018, and Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic since 2012.
Van Zweden has appeared as guest conductor with many other leading orchestras around the globe, among them the Orchestre de Paris, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Jaap van Zweden has made numerous acclaimed recordings, the most recent of which are a 2020 release with the New York Philharmonic of the World Premiere of David Lang’s prisoner of the state, and the 2019 release of the World Premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth, continuing the Philharmonic’s partnership with Decca Gold. In 2018 with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, he completed a four-year project conducting the first-ever performances in Hong Kong of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, which have been recorded and released on Naxos Records as individual recordings as well as a complete set. His highly praised performances of Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger and Parsifal, the latter of which earned Jaap van Zweden the prestigious Edison Award for Best Opera Recording in 2012, are available on CD/DVD.
Born in Amsterdam, Jaap van Zweden was appointed at age nineteen as the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He began his conducting career nearly twenty years later in 1996. He remains Honorary Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic where he served as Chief Conductor from 2005-2013, served as Chief Conductor of the Royal Flanders Orchestra from 2008-11, and was Music Director from 2008-2018 of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra where he currently holds the title Conductor Laureate. Van Zweden was named Musical America’s 2012 Conductor of the Year and was the subject of an October 2018 CBS 60 Minutes profile. Recently, he was awarded the prestigious 2020 Concertgebouw Prize, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden’s leadership was named Gramophone’s 2019 Orchestra of the Year.
In 1997, Jaap van Zweden and his wife Aaltje established the Papageno Foundation, the objective being to support families of children with autism. Now, over 20 years later, the Foundation has grown into a multi-faceted organization which, through various initiatives and activities, focuses on the development of children and young adults with autism. The Foundation provides in-home music therapy to children through a national network of qualified music therapists in the Netherlands; opened the Papageno House in August 2015 (with Her Majesty Queen Maxima in attendance) for young adults with autism to live, work and participate in the community; created a research center at the Papageno House for early diagnosis and treatment of autism and for analyzing the effects of music therapy on autism; develops funding opportunities to support autism programs; and launched the app, TEAMPapageno, which allows children with autism to communicate with each other through music composition.
Universally acclaimed as both conductor and pianist, and renowned for the breadth of his repertoire and the depth of his interpretations, Christoph Eschenbach belongs firmly to his native Germany’s intellectual line of tradition, yet combines this with a rare emotional intensity. Currently Musical Director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, his previous appointments include musical directorships at the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and the Philadelphia Orchestra. His tireless support of young talent includes being Artistic Advisor and lecturer at the Kronberg Academy. Among his awards garnered over five decades of recording are the German Record Critics’ Prize, the MIDEM Classical Award and a GRAMMY. He has been awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and is a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, a holder of the German Federal Cross of Merit and a winner of the Leonard Bernstein Award.
Leonardo García-Alarcón, argentin d’origine, s’est installé en Europe en 1997 pour étudier au Conservatoire de Genève auprès de la claveciniste Christiane Jaccottet. Son parcours dans la musique baroque a commencé avec Gabriel Garrido, et peu après, il a fondé son ensemble Cappella Mediterranea. En 2010, il devient directeur artistique du Chœur de chambre de Namur et forme le Millenium Orchestra pour accompagner le chœur. Leonardo García-Alarcón partage son temps entre Genève, où il enseigne à la Haute Ecole de Musique, et diverses villes européennes, dont la France, où il est une figure emblématique du Festival d’Ambronay et artiste en résidence à l’Opéra de Dijon. Il retourne également occasionnellement en Amérique du Sud.
Leonardo García-Alarcón est reconnu pour avoir fait revivre les opéras de Cavalli, notamment Elena et Erismena au Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Eliogabalo lors de l’ouverture de la saison 2016 de l’Opéra de Paris, Il Giasone à Genève et La Finta Pazza à Dijon. Il a également dirigé la redécouverte d’El Prometeo d’Antonio Draghi en 2018. En tant que chef d’orchestre et claveciniste, Leonardo García-Alarcón est invité dans de prestigieux festivals et salles de concert du monde entier. En 2018, il a dirigé l’Orfeo de Monteverdi au Staatsoper de Berlin, et en 2019, il a triomphé avec Les Indes Galantes de Rameau à l’Opéra Bastille, à l’occasion du 350e anniversaire de la Royal Academy of Music. Il a été reconnu comme le meilleur chef d’orchestre dans le Palmarès 2019 de Forum Opéra.
En 2020, malgré les perturbations dues à la pandémie, Leonardo García-Alarcón a adapté ses programmes de concerts et a participé à des festivals virtuels. Il a dirigé Il Palazzo Incantato de Rossi dans un enregistrement vidéo qui a été amplement loué. Sa discographie encensée comprend I 7 Peccati Capitali (2016), De vez en cuando la vida (2018) et El Prometeo (2018). En 2021, il a enregistré Rebirth avec la soprano Sonya Yoncheva, Lamenti & Sospiri avec les sopranos Mariana Flores et Julie Roset, Orfeo de Monteverdi et Le violon selon Bach avec la violoniste Chouchane Siranossian.
Leonardo García-Alarcón est un Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Salvatore Accardo made his debut in recital at the age of 13 playing Paganini’s Capricci.Two years later he won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 the Paganini Competition in Genoa.
His repertoire ranges from pre-Bach to post-Berg; composers like Sciarrino, Donatoni, Piston, Piazzolla, Colasanti and Xenakis wrote for him.
In addition to playing with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, Accardo performs in recital and particularly loves chamber music.
In 1992 he founded the Accardo Quartet and in 1986 the Walter Stauffer Academy together with Giuranna, Filippini and Petracchi in Cremona, where they regularly give master classes. In 1971 he founded the Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Naples, where rehearsals were open to the audience, and the Cremona String Festival.
Accardo has also dedicated part of his activities to conducting important European and American Orchestras. He recorded as conductor with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. Since 1987 he conducts also opera (Rossini Festival with Ponnelle, Rome Opera House, Monte Carlo Opera, Lille and Naples Opera House).
In 1992 for the 200th anniversary of Rossini’s birth, he conducted in Pesaro Festival and in Rome the first modern edition of the Messa di Gloria (recorded live by Warner Fonit), that did again in 1995 in Vienna with the Wiener Symphoniker.
He recorded for DGG Paganini Capricci and Concertos for violin with Charles Dutoit , for Philips several recordings (Bach Sonatas and Partitas, Max Bruch works for violin and orchestra with Kurt Masur, Čajkovskij, Dvořák and Sibelius Concerts with Colin Davis, Mendelssohn Concert with Charles Dutoit, Brahms and Beethoven Concerts with Kurt Masur). He also recorded for ASV, Dynamic, EMI, Sony Classical, Collins Classic and Foné. Among these recordings are: Beethoven Concerto in D major and 2 Romances with Accademia della Scala Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini for Sony Classical; Brahms Sonatas for violin and piano, Schubert Quartets, Paganini Capricci and Homage to Heifetz and Homage to Kreisler for FONÉ playing the legendary violins from the Cremona collection; for Dynamic Accardo played Paganini’s violin. Recently Foné re-masterised the Mozart Complete works for violin in 13 CDs in high quality technology.
Accardo has been awarded in Italy with Abbiati Prize by the Italian Musical Critics in recognition of the exceptional standard of his playing and interpretation and with the Italian highest honour “Cavaliere di Gran Croce”. In 1996 the Beijing Conservatoire named him « most honourable Professor », in 1999 he was named »Commandeur dans l’ordre du mérit culturel » in Monaco and in 2002 he received « A Life for the Music » Award, and this year he was awarded by the Kennedy Center of New York with the Gold Medal in the Arts.
In 1996 Accardo recreated the Orchestra da Camera Italiana (OCI), whose members are the best pupils of Cremona « Walter Stauffer Academy” and recorded two CDs with them: The virtuoso violin in Italy and Masterpieces for violin and strings for Warner Fonit Cetra. In 1999 Accardo and OCI recorded the complete Paganini Concerti for violin and orchestra for EMI Classics, the “Concerto per la Costituzione” and in 2003 the complete Astor Piazzolla works for violin in 3 SACDs for Foné.
Accardo and OCI do every year many concerts together especially in Italy, where they play every season for the most important concert Societies and Theaters.
Starting in 2007 he realized until now for Foné the second recording of J. S. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, the third recording of Paganini’s 24 Capricci (Urtext) and the third recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with OCI (Urtext).
Salvatore Accardo plays a violin Guarneri del Gesù “Reade”- 1734.
Violinist, violist and conductor Julian Rachlin is one of the most exciting and respected musicians of our time. In the first thirty years of his career, he has performed as soloist with the world’s leading conductors and orchestras. Mr. Rachlin is Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. He also leads the « Julian Rachlin & Friends Festival » in Palma de Mallorca.
Highlights of Mr. Rachlin’s 2018/19 season include performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Mariss Jansons, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Juanjo Mena, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, as well as the KBS Symphony Orchestra and Myung-Whun Chung. Alongside soloist Sarah McElravy and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, he will perform the UK premiere of Penderecki’s Double Concerto for Violin and Viola, which is dedicated to him. Additionally, Mr. Rachlin will conduct among others the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Konzerthaus Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Symphony, Essen Philharmonic, Strasbourg Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, Zagreb Philharmonic and Trondheim Symphony Orchestra.
Julian Rachlin’s recent highlights include a residency at the Prague Spring Festival and his own cycle at the Vienna Musikverein. He also performed with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Yuri Temirkanov, Filarmonica della Scala and Riccardo Chailly, Munich Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, Philharmonia Orchestra and Jakub Hrůša, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale and Vladimir Ashkenazy, as well as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Lahav Shani. As conductor, he toured Europe with the English Chamber Orchestra, and led the Royal Northern Sinfonia across South America and Japan. Additionally, he conducted the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, and made his USA conducting debut at the Grand Teton Music Festival.
In recital and chamber music, Mr. Rachlin performs regularly with Itamar Golan, Denis Kozhukhin, Denis Matsuev, Mischa Maisky, Sarah McElravy, Vilde Frang and Janine Jansen.
Born in Lithuania, Mr. Rachlin immigrated to Vienna in 1978. He studied violin with Boris Kuschnir at the Vienna Conservatory and with Pinchas Zukerman. After winning the « Young Musician of the Year » Award at the Eurovision Competition in 1988, he became the youngest soloist ever to play with the Vienna Philharmonic, debuting under Riccardo Muti. At the recommendation of Mariss Jansons, Mr. Rachlin studied conducting with Sophie Rachlin. Since September 1999, he is on the violin faculty at the Music and Arts University of Vienna. His recordings for Sony Classical, Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon have been met with great acclaim. Mr. Rachlin, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is committed to educational outreach and charity work.
Julian Rachlin plays the 1704 « ex Liebig » Stradivari and a 1785 Lorenzo Storioni viola, on loan to him courtesy of the Dkfm. Angelika Prokopp Privatstiftung. His strings are kindly sponsored by Thomastik-Infeld.
Teodor Currentzis est né en Grèce, où il débute ses études musicales. En 1994, il entre au Conservatoire d’État de Saint-Pétersbourg pour étudier avec le légendaire professeur Ilya Musin.
Avec ses ensembles, Teodor Currentzis effectue régulièrement des tournées en Europe et dans le monde, se produisant dans de nombreuses salles prestigieuses telles que le Konzerthaus de Vienne, la Philharmonie de Berlin, l’Elbphilharmonie de Hambourg, la Philharmonie de Munich, la Philharmonie de Paris, la Kölner Philharmonie, l’Auditorio Nacional, le Festspielhaus de Baden-Baden et la Scala de Milan. En tant que chef d’orchestre et directeur musical, Teodor Currentzis a travaillé avec les plus grandes maisons d’opéra, notamment l’Opéra de Paris, le Bayerische Staatsoper, l’Opernhaus Zürich, le Teatro Real et le Théâtre Bolchoï.
Il a également collaboré avec les figures clés du théâtre occidental moderne : Robert Wilson, Romeo Castellucci, Peter Sellars, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Theodoros Terzopoulos, etc. Teodor Currentzis est artiste résident au festival de Salzbourg ainsi qu’au festival RUHRtriennale, aux festivals de Lucerne et d’Aix-en-Provence.
Les œuvres de Mozart, Mahler, Beethoven, Tchaïkovski, Rameau et Stravinsky publiées par Teodor Currentzis sous le label Sony Classical ont reçu de nombreuses récompenses musicales internationales : ECHO Klassik, Edison Klassiek, Japanese Record Academy Award et BBC Music Magazine’s Opera Award. Teodor Currentzis a reçu le prestigieux prix KAIROS de la Fondation Toepfer. Il a également été décoré de l’Ordre grec du Phénix et du prix international Musikfest Bremen.
Kent Nagano figure parmi les chefs d’orchestre les plus remarquables, tant dans le répertoire lyrique qu’orchestral. Il a connu ses premiers grands succès avec le Boston Symphony Orchestra en 1984, lorsque Messiaen l’a nommé assistant du chef d’orchestre Seiji Ozawa pour la première de son opéra Saint François d’Assise. Les nominations européennes ne tardent pas à suivre : Directeur musical de l’Opéra national de Lyon (1988-1998) et Directeur musical du Hallé Orchestra (1991-2000). Nagano est devenu le premier directeur musical de l’Opéra de Los Angeles en 2003, après avoir déjà occupé le poste de Premier Chef d’orchestre pendant deux ans. Depuis 2015, il est Directeur musical général de l’Opéra d’État de Hambourg et Chef d’orchestre principal du Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg et, de 2006 à 2020, il a été directeur musical de l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, dont il a été nommé Conductor Emeritus en 2021. Kent Nagano s’est produit pour la dernière fois au Verbier Festival en 2022