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Kurt Masur is well known to orchestras and audiences alike as both a distinguished conductor and a humanist. In September 2002 he became music director of the Orchestre National de France in Paris, and, in September 2008, became that ensemble’s honorary music director for life. From September 2000 to 2007 he was principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1991 to 2002 he was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, and was subsequently named Music Director Emeritus — the first New York Philharmonic music director to receive that title, and only the second (after Leonard Bernstein, who had been named Laureate Conductor) to be so recognized. The New York Philharmonic established the Kurt Masur Fund for the Orchestra, which endows a conductor debut week at the Philharmonic in his honor in perpetuity. From 1970 until 1996 Mr. Masur served as Gewandhaus Kapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, a position of profound historic importance; upon his retirement in 1996 the Gewandhaus named him its first-ever conductor laureate. Mr. Masur is a guest conductor with the world’s leading orchestras and holds the lifetime title of honorary guest conductor of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In July 2007 he celebrated his 80th birthday in a concert at the BBC Proms in London, where he conducted the joint forces of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National de France.
A professor at the Leipzig Academy of Music since 1975, Kurt Masur has received numerous honors, including the Cross of the Order of Merits of the Federal Republic of Germany (1995); Gold Medal of Honor for Music from the National Arts Club (1996); the titles of Commander of the Legion of Honor from the French Government, and of New York City Cultural Ambassador from the City of New York (1997); and the Commander Cross of Merit of the Polish Republic (1999). In March 2002 the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Johannes Rau, bestowed upon him the Cross with Star of the Order of Merits of the Federal Republic of Germany, and in September 2007 he received the Great Cross of the Legion of Honor with Star and Ribbon from the President of Germany, Horst Köhler.
In September 2008 Mr. Masur received the Furtwängler Prize in Bonn, Germany. He is also an honorary citizen of his hometown, Brieg. He has made more than 100 recordings with numerous orchestras, and in 2008 celebrated 60 years as a professional conductor.
Avec une sensibilité musicale innée et une naturalité artistique, le pianiste de 24 ans, Mao Fujita, a déjà impressionné de nombreux musiciens de premier plan en tant que l’un de ces talents exceptionnels qui apparaissent rarement, aussi à l’aise dans Mozart que dans le répertoire romantique majeur.
Né à Tokyo, Fujita était encore étudiant au Tokyo College of Music en 2017 lorsqu’il a remporté le Premier Prix au prestigieux Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil en Suisse, ainsi que le Prix du Public, le Prix Modern Times et le Prix Coup de Cœur, qui l’ont d’abord fait remarquer par la communauté musicale internationale. Il a également remporté la médaille d’argent au Concours Tchaïkovski de Moscou en 2019, où ses qualités musicales spéciales ont attiré une attention exceptionnelle d’un jury de musiciens de premier plan.
Fujita a été invité à se produire en récital dans de grands festivals internationaux, dont le Klavier-Festival Ruhr, les festivals de Tsinandali et de Riga-Jurmala, entre autres, et il fait ses débuts très attendus en récital aux États-Unis au Carnegie Hall en janvier 2023. Parmi ses faits marquants récents et à venir avec des orchestres figurent des performances avec le Gewandhausorchester, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Munich, le Royal Philharmonic, le Royal Concertgebouw, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, le Konzerthaus de Berlin, l’Orchestre symphonique métropolitain de Tokyo, l’Orchestre symphonique métropolitain de Tokyo, l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Israël, la RAI, la Filarmonica della Scala et l’orchestre du Festival de Lucerne, tandis que ses nombreuses relations avec des chefs d’orchestre comprennent Vasily Petrenko, Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly et Andris Nelsons.
En novembre 2021, Fujita a signé un contrat exclusif multi-albums avec Sony Classical International. Ce nouveau partenariat le voit explorer de nombreuses facettes du répertoire à travers plusieurs sorties, commençant par un enregistrement studio très attendu de l’intégrale des sonates pour piano de Mozart, qui devrait être publié en octobre 2022, suite à une série acclamée de performances des sonates complètes au Festival de Verbier en 2021. Fujita a été invité à interpréter le même ensemble d’œuvres, entrecoupé de séries de variations, lors de cinq concerts pour ses débuts au Wigmore Hall de Londres à la fin de la saison 22/23.
Commencant les leçons de piano à l’âge de trois ans, Fujita a remporté son premier prix international en 2010 au World Classic à Taiwan et est devenu lauréat de nombreux concours nationaux et internationaux tels que le Concours International de Piano Rosario Marciano à Vienne (2013), le Concours International Mozart de Zhuhai pour jeunes musiciens (2015) et le Concours International de Piano des jeunes artistes Gina Bachauer (2016). Mao Fujita déménage à Berlin pour poursuivre ses études avec Kirill Gerstein.
Le pianiste et entertainer canadien Chilly Gonzales, primé aux Grammy Awards, vivant actuellement en Europe, est aussi bien connu pour son approche intimiste du piano à travers sa trilogie d’albums Solo Piano que pour son sens du spectacle et ses collaborations avec des artistes de renommée internationale.
« Gonzo », tel que son entourage le nomme, vise à être un homme de son temps, abordant le piano avec une formation classique et jazz mais avec l’attitude d’un rappeur. Il interprète et écrit des chansons avec Jarvis Cocker, Feist et Drake, entre autres et détient le record du monde Guinness pour le concert solo le plus long, plus de 27 heures. En 2014, il a remporté un Grammy pour sa collaboration au Meilleur Album de l’année de Daft Punk. 2018 voit la sortie au cinéma de Shut Up and Play the Piano, un documentaire retraçant son parcours, sélectionné à la Berlinale.
Plus récemment, Chilly Gonzales s’est lancé dans une nouvelle forme d’entrepreneuriat en inaugurant sa propre école de musique The Gonzervatory, aboutissement de l’exploration menée ces dernières années dans l’enseignement de la musique.
Son premier livre Enya / Plaisirs (non) coupables est publié en octobre 2020. À travers cet essai autobiographique, l’artiste s’interroge sur son propre enthousiasme pour les musiques souvent considérées d’un « goût » douteux et pose la question : la musique doit-elle être soumise à une appréciation intellectuelle ou peut-elle simplement aller droit au coeur ?
À l’hiver 2020, Chilly Gonzales sort son album de Noël. Des chansons féodales aux canons de la pop, A very chilly christmas passe en revue un large éventail du répertoire de Noël. Il y a de la grandeur et de la gravité, de l’austérité et de la gaieté, et il y a Mariah Carey.
Cette année Chilly Gonzales revient sur scène avec un nouveau programme qui démarre, comme toujours, par des morceaux de la Trilogie Solo Piano . Les hits et les surprises du reste de son répertoire seront agrémentés par de nouvelles Masterclasses, le tout accompagné de ses explications ludiques sur le fonctionnement de la musique.
Il sera rejoint sur scène par Stella Le Page au violoncelle, Joe Flory à la batterie et Marine Goldwaser à la Clarinette.
Clarinettist, conductor and Sony Classical recording artist, Martin Fröst is known for pushing musical boundaries and has been described by the New York Times as having “a virtuosity and a musicianship unsurpassed by any clarinettist — perhaps any instrumentalist — in my memory”. Widely recognised as an artist who constantly seeks new ways to challenge and reshape the classical music arena, his repertoire encompasses mainstream clarinet works, as well as a number of contemporary pieces that he has personally championed. Winner of the 2014 Léonie Sonning Music Prize, one of the world’s highest musical honours, Fröst was the first clarinettist to be given the award and joined a prestigious list of previous recipients including Igor Stravinsky and Sir Simon Rattle. International Classical Music Awards voted him their 2022 Artist of the Year Award for his innovative global career, his impressive discography, and his philanthropy.
Fröst was announced the Artist in Residence with the Royal Concertgebouworkest for the 2022/23 season, the first ever wind player to be given that honour. The residency include season opening concerts with Víkingur Ólafsson and Alain Altinoglu; the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s Clarinet Concert with Jaap van Zweden; and exciting performance of Sally Beamish double concerto with Janine Jansen and Klaus Mäkelä as well as chamber music projects interspersed throughout the season. In 2022/23 Fröst continues to focus on his activities as Chief Conductor of Swedish Chamber Orchestra, including SCO Festival “Fröstivalen”, concerts with international guest artists, recording projects and highly anticipated European tour in early 2023. Other highlights of this season include a residency at Wigmore Hall, returns to the Royal Festival Hall with Philharmonia Orchestra and Pekka Kussisto and to Berlin with RSB Berlin and Lahav Shani as well as a conducting debut with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
His latest album for Sony Classical Night Passages was released on the 22 April 2022. With acclaimed pianist Roland Pöntinen and legendary bassist Sébastien Dubé, it charts a nocturnal journey through the playful and the profound, reimagining favourites from the Baroque, while touching on jazz and folk music.
As a soloist, Fröst has performed with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. He regularly collaborates with prominent international artists, including Yuja Wang, Janine Jansen, Leif Ove Andsnes, Roland Pöntinen and Antoine Tamestit, as well as performs in international events such as Verbier Festival in Switzerland and Mostly Mozart in New York. Fröst has appeared in some of the world’s most important concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Konzerthaus Berlin and he has toured in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia.
In recent years he has made successful conducting steps with the most important being his appointment as Chief Conductor of Swedish Chamber Orchestra from the 2019/20 season. Together they have embarked on a music journey that explores Mozart’s historic footprint in Europe through his travels. The project, set to be recorded by Sony Classical over a period of four years, is the orchestra’s first comprehensive green tour initiative, making extensive use of rail travel across Europe.
Renowned for his multimedia performing projects in collaboration with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, in recent years Fröst has presented Dollhouse, Genesis and most recently Retrotopia – his latest project to perform both as soloist and conductor in a musical journey that explores new repertoire and challenges the traditional conventions of the classical concert.
A keen advocate of the importance of music education, in 2019 Fröst launched the Martin Fröst Foundation with the support of the world’s largest manufacturer of wind instruments, Buffet Crampon. The purpose of the organisation is to provide resources that can improve and enable children’s and young people’s access to music education and instruments. The Foundation aims to join forces with non-profit organisations and various sponsors across the world, having already established presence in Kenya and Madagascar.
The multi-award-winning clarinetist Alexander Bedenko is one of the most prolific artists of his generation and has performed with major conductors of leading orchestras, ensembles and festivals in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Born in Ukraine, into a family of musicians, Alexander Bedenko graduated from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied clarinet with Donald Montanaro and chamber music with Pamela Frank, Peter Wiley and Joseph Silverstein.
Alexander Bedenko has won first prizes at the || Moscow International Young Artist’s Competition in 1994, the Interlochen Center for the Arts “Concerto Competition” (1995-1996), the Grand-Prix and Laureate at the International Selmer Clarinet Competition in Kiev, (1999) and was a recipient scholarship of the « New Names » Charity Foundation, Vladimir Spivakov’s Foundation and the named scholarship of The President of Ukraine, from (1997-1999).
In the past seasons, Alexander Bedenko has appeared in such recital venues as the Carnegie’s Weill recital Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Steinway Hall in New York City, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, the Great Hall at Moscow Conservatory and UNESCO in Paris. He has collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Vladimir Spivakov, Christoph Eschenbach, Nikolai Lugansky, Elena Bashkirova, Kirill Gernstein, Itamar Golan, Daniel Hope, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai, Eugenia Zukerman, Maxim Rysanov, Gautier Capucon and worked with the Borodin, Jerusalem, Ying, Alma, Endellion and Orion string quartets.
Alexander Bedenko has also performed as a soloist with Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Romanian National Radio Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Ukraine, the Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and appearanced at the Colmar, Verbier, Spoleto, Sarasota, Miami and Schubertiade music festivals.
Mr. Bedenko has also been broadcast on television in France, Sweden, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and has been featured on RAI Radio Classica, on WQXR Radio (New York), WRTI Radio (Philadelphia), and the “Voice of America” in Washington D.C.
In 2007, Alexander Bedenko appeared together with Richard Stoltzman on a recording of the music of J.S. Bach for the RCA/BMG Japan label.
As an orchestra musician, Mr. Bedenko was invited by Riccardo Muti to perform as principal clarinet on a highly acclaimed European tour with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (in 2014) and has also performed as guest principal clarinet with the London Symphony Orchestra, both at the Barbican Centre and on tour in Germany under the baton of Daniel Harding, with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London) and with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Franz Welser Most.
From (2008 – 2018) Alexander Bedenko has served as a co-principal clarinetist with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, directed by Gabor Takacs-Nagy.
Alexander Bedenko plays on Selmer Signature clarinets and became Selmer Paris Artist in 2015, as well as D’Addario woodwinds Artist in 2019.
Nelson Freire has long been seen as a connoisseur’s pianist, but a series of superb recordings have raised his profile to the extent that he is now thought of as one of today’s universally recognised great musicians. Whether playing the great warhorses of the repertoire or the gentlest miniatures, he brings to his performances a level of quiet thoughtfulness that puts him in a class of his own.
Born in Boa Esperança, Brazil, he began piano lessons at the age of three with Nise Obino and Lucia Branco, who had worked with a pupil of Liszt. He made his first public appearance at the age of five playing Mozart’s Sonata K. 331. In 1957, after winning a grant at the Rio de Janeiro International Piano Competition with Beethoven’s Emperor concerto, he went to Vienna to study with Bruno Seidlhofer, teacher of Friedrich Gulda. Seven years later he won the Dinu Lipatti Medal in London and first prize at the International Vianna da Motta Competition in Lisbon.
Since his international career began in 1959, Freire has appeared at virtually every important musical centre, in recital and working with countless distinguished conductors and orchestras. A great musical collaborator, he has toured extensively with Martha Argerich, with whom he shares a long-time musical collaboration and friendship. They have recorded several discs together, including a live recital from the Salzburg Festival.
He has an extensive discography and was included by Philips in its historic series Great Pianists of the 20th Century, released in 1999. He has been an exclusive Decca artist since 2001, his releases including major works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Liszt, as well as the two Brahms Concertos with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly. The Chopin bicentenary year of 2010 saw two new releases by Freire: his recording of the complete Nocturnes and a recital album. In the Liszt bicentenary year of 2011 Decca released his recital album Harmonies du Soir. An album of his compatriot Villa-Lobos, Brasileiro, was released in summer 2012.
In October 2014 he celebrated his 70th birthday with the first release in a Beethoven concerto cycle with Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, coupling the Emperor concerto with the Sonata Op 111. It was followed by a recording of the Chopin F minor concerto with the Gurzenich Orchestra Köln under Lionel Bringuier, prompting BBC Music Magazine to say: “. . . it would be a rare connoisseur not to recognise a major master in the lyrical, rhythmically buoyant, spiritually abundant playing here”. Radio Days, a two-CD collection of concerto radio broadcasts from 1968 to 1979, included repertoire Freire had never recorded commercially, as well as his legendary Paris debut in Tchaikovsky’s first concerto with Masur in 1969. In March 2016 comes his first recorded recital of the music of Bach, featuring four great keyboard works and a collection of shorter pieces and arrangements.
Freire will be including Bach in recitals during spring 2016 in Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Perugia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Vancouver. His diary also has two recitals in his native Brazil and dates in Finland, Luxembourg, France and Germany, with Beethoven and Brahms concertos featuring prominently.
In March 2007, Nelson Freire was appointed a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and in January 2011 he was made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion de’Honneur, the French government’s highest award to a foreigner.
“Few pianists alive convey the sheer joy and exhilaration of being masters of their craft more vividly and uncomplicatedly than Nelson Freire.” – The Guardian
source : https://www.deccaclassics.com/fr/artist/freire/biography
En tant que soliste, la violoniste Pamela Frank a joué avec des orchestres de premier plan. En tant que chambriste, elle a notamment enregistré un album dédié à Schubert et le cycle des sonates de Beethoven, tous deux avec son père Claude Frank. Professeur au Curtis Institute of Music, l’Américaine donne régulièrement des masterclasses dans les festivals de Tanglewood, Ravinia et Verbier. Depuis 2008, elle est Directrice artistique des Evnin Rising
Stars, un programme d’enseignement pour les jeunes artistes au Caramoor Center. On lui doit la création du programme Fit as a Fiddle Inc., avec le physiothérapeute Howard Nelson dans lequel ils utilisent leur expertise mutuelle pour la prévention des blessures et le soin des musiciens.
Le Financial Times a décrit la soprano chinoise Ying Fang dans le rôle d’Ilia dans la production de Peter Sellars d’Idomeneo de Mozart au Festival de Salzbourg 2019, comme étant : « Une voix qui peut arrêter le temps, pure, riche, ouverte et d’une expressivité consommée ». Mozart sera également au cœur de sa saison 2020/21, puisqu’elle fera ses débuts au Dutch National Opera et au Santa Fe Opera dans le rôle de Susanna dans Le nozze di Figaro. Ancien membre du Lindemann Young Artist Development Program du Metropolitan Opera, Fang s’est produite avec des chefs d’orchestre tels que James Levine, Alan Gilbert, William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm et Manfred Honeck, et des maisons telles que l’Opernhaus Zürich, l’Opéra de Lille, l’Opéra de Vancouver et la Juilliard School, dont elle est titulaire d’une maîtrise et d’un diplôme d’artiste. Elle a notamment reçu le prix Martin E. Segal du Lincoln Center et le prestigieux China Golden Bell Award for Music en Chine.
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.
Après des études avec le Quatuor Ysaÿe à Paris et auprès de Gábor Takács-Nagy, Eberhard Feltz et György Kurtág, le Quatuor Ébène se fait connaître en 2004 en gagnant l’ARD Music Competition. Il construit sa réputation sur un jeu singulier et charismatique, et sur la complexité d’un répertoire osant même des improvisations jazz et pop devenues leur marque de fabrique. En 2019 et 2020, à l’occasion de ses 20 ans de scène, il enregistre les 16 quatuors à cordes de Beethoven pour son label Erato, lors d’un projet « Beethoven Around the World » mené sur six continents. Au-delà des nombreuses récompenses dont il a fait l’objet – incluant celles de Gramophone et du BBC Music Magazine, et le Midem Classical Award -, le Quatuor Ébène est le premier ensemble de l’histoire à avoir reçu le Frankfurt Music Prize.
Les membres du groupe sont d’anciens étudiants de la Verbier Festival Academy.