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 Filiz Ali (founder-director)
Filiz Ali, founder and director of the Ayvalık International Music Academy was born in Istanbul. She studied piano at the State Conservatory of Ankara. Receiving a Fulbright scholarship to study in the USA she attended The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and The Mannes College of Music in New York. She also holds the Advanced Musical Studies degree from London University, King's College, Department of Musicology. She worked as piano teacher and accompanist at the Ankara State Conservatory (1962-65), korrepetitor (singing coach) at the City Opera and State Opera of Istanbul (1965-72), piano teacher and korrepetitor at Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory (1972-85). In 1987, after receiving her degree on musicology, she became Professor of Musicology at the Musicology Department of Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory. She was the Head of Musicology Department of Mimar Sinan University from 1990 to 2005. Since 2006 she is giving a course on the Master Works of Western Classical Music at Sabanci University.
Prof. Filiz Ali was the music program producer for the Turkish Radio Television Corporation from 1962 to 1985 and for BBC Turkish section in London from 1985 to 86. She has been the regular music critique of the major daily newspapers like Cumhuriyet, Hurriyet, Yeni Yuzyıl, Radikal and Milliyet and monthly magazines such as Esquire, Marie-Claire, Vizyon, YK Kitaplık, Müzikoloji Dergisi (Musicology Journal).
She was the Artistic Director of the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul from 1989 to 93 and is still the Musical Advisor of the International Eskisehir Festival. She is one of the founders of the Balkan Music Forum and was Turkey's representative at Unesco's 30th General Assembly of the International Music Council at Montevideo, Uruguay in October 2003. She is the Turkish delegate of the European Music Council. Prof. Ali has eight published books to date.
In 1995 she has received the title of Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from The Ministry of Culture and Francophony of the Republic of France.
Prof. Filiz Ali is founder and director of the Ayvalik International Music Academy since 1998. In 2008 she has been the leading figure in the creation of the AIMA Assossiation, being the chairperson of the board. Prof. Ali also leaded the idea of founding the Ayvalik Foundation for culture and art. The foundation was founded in 2011. Prof. Filiz Ali received the 2011 Vehbi Koç Award for her countributions to the cultural life of Ayvalık by founding and develping the Ayvalik International Music Academy. |
Ilke Boran (Academy Secretary)
Ilke Boran was born in Rome in 1972. His primary education started at the Ecole Chernovize in Paris, France in 1978. He came back in Turkey in 1981 where he continued his high school education at the French Lycée Charles de Gaulle in Ankara. During his high school years he took private piano lessons. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the Lycée in 1991 he began his under-graduate studies at Mimar Sinan University's Department of Musicology in Istanbul in 1992. After his graduation from the Department of Musicology in 1996, he began his graduate studies on musicology in the same university under Professor Filiz Ali. In 1998 he went to the Accadémie d’été at IRCAM (Institut de Recherches Acoustique Musique) in Paris. He gave his masters thesis in 1999 and was appointed research assistant at Mimar Sinan University, Department of Musicology. In 2000 he entered the doctorate program in musicology. Beetween 1995-2004, Ilke Boran prepared weekly radio programs on classical music at 94.9 Açık Radyo. He wrote music reviews in newspapers from 1998 to 2000. He organized music seminars at the Osmanli Bank Museum in Istanbul. From 2005, he is working as music advisor at Beşiktaş Municipality Culture and Art Platform in Istanbul. He accomplished his doctoral thesis in 2007 earning the title PhD. In February 2007, the book he wrote in collaboration with Kıvılcım Yıldız Şenürkmez on the history of music has been published by Yapı Kredi Publications. Having become Assistant Professor in 2011, Ilke Boran is still teaching history of music and contemporary music at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, and continuing his academic labors. |
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Masterclass
Faculty |
 Lukas
David (violin)
Born in Austria, David is the son of the distinguished Austrian
composer Johann Nepomuk David.
Studied at the Leipzig Conservatory and Salzburg Mozarteum with
Nathan Milstein and Tibor Varga.
In 1959 he started teaching violin at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.
In 1966 he became a Professor at the North West Germany Musikakademie
in Detmold.
Since 1956 he has a very busy concert career as soloist, chamber
musician and orchestra conductor in all European and Near Eastern
countries, in USA, South America and South Africa.
He has been recording with Deutsche Grammophon, Elektrola and Supraphon.
Lukas David is very much interested in contemporary music. He has
given the first world performances of many new works dedicated to
him. His repertoire includes almost all the classical, romantic
and contemporary works composed for violin. |
 Bohuslav Matousek (violin)
Born in 1949 in Havlickuv Brod, Bohuslav Matousek is a leading representative of contemporary Czech music and violin playing. Between 1967 and 1972 he studied in the classes of Jaroslav Pekelsky and Vaclav Snitil at Prague's Academy of Music. In 1969, he attended for the first time Arthur Grumiaux's master classes in Zurich, completing the course with success that earned him an invitation for training with Nathan Milnstein. In 1970 he received the special prize of the jury at the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition along with a Swiss grant, which he used to sustain himself during a yearlong course of study with Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Lucerne. Another major success was winning first prize at the prestigious Prague Spring International Competition in 1972.
After completing his studies, Bohuslav Matousek concentrated on his subsequent career as a concert artist. In 1977 he was invited to Japan, for an engagement as a soloist and orchestra Leader with Tokyo's Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra. Here, he appeared under the batons of such prominent international conductors as Celibidache, Kurt Masur, Zubin Metha, Bernstein and others, performing an extensive violin concerto repertoire. After his return from Japan in 1980, he continued his soloist commitments with work as the Leader of the Stamic Quartet, an ensemble which he helped launch, over the ensuing fifteen years, onto a trajectory lined by many important international triumphs and distinctions. The Quartet has to its credit an impressive list of over 60 CDs recorded both at home and internationally, as well as two Grand Prix du Disque awards.
Since 1995, when he left Stamic Quartet Bohuslav Matousek has focused most of his attention on his solo concert performances. There, his extensive repertoire has encompassed works ranging from the early Baroque period through to contemporary music. In the domain of chamber music, he currently works chiefly with his stable partner, pianist Petr Adamec. In addition, he is a member of the Antonin Dvorak Trio.
Bohuslav Matousek is also a regular guest of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Spring Festival.
www.bohuslavmatousek.cz
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 Cigdem Iyicil (violin)
Born in Istanbul, she started to study the violin with Tahir Sevenay,
followed by Ekrem Zeki Ün, Gönül Gökdogan and Erdogan Saydam at
the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. Graduating both from the Conservatory
and Bogaziçi University, she enrolled in Detmold Music Academy in
Germany and began her studies there with Prof. Lukas David in 1980.
She also became a member of the Tibor Varga Chamber Orchestra. Graduating
from Detmold Music Academy, she returned to Istanbul and started
teaching at the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory. She was
invited to Portugal by the Ministry of Culture to start a new Conservatory
of Music in Lisbon with Prof. Tibor Varga, where she stayed a year.
Çiğdem Iyicil, is currently teaching violin at the Mimar Sinan University
State Conservatory and continues to perform both solo and with orchestras
at home and abroad, at the same time recording for the radio and
TV. |
 Vladimir Bukac (viola)
Vladimir Bukac studied at both the Conservatory and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague , and at the Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg , Germany .
Between 1990 and 1993 he lived in Japan where he was engaged both as a soloist and chamber musician where he appeared at prestigious concerts in Japan , Australia and New Zealand . During this period he started to work actively as a viola player. Since 1993 he is a member of the Talich Quartet and performs also as a viola soloist. He has made a rare recording of the complete Suites for Solo Viola of Max Reger (Calliope).
Since October 2002 he has been the leading viola professor at the Music University Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden . He plays a Lorenzo Guadagnini viola made in 1740.
http://www.talichquartet.cz |
 Peter Bruns (cello)
Acclaimed for his recordings for the French opus 111 label and the German label Berlin Classics, Peter Bruns has established himself as a musician of an international reputation. The American music magazine "Early Music Review" commented on his recent recording of J.S. Bach's 6 Suites for solo cello "This is one of the best CD recordings of the year- possibly of the decade. ... here we encounter the closest we have witnessed....to a new Casals."
Peter Bruns has performed as soloist in nearly every European country, as well as Israel, Asia, South America and the US. He has performed as soloist with many major European orchestras, including the Dresden Staatskapelle under the baton of Giuseppe Sinopoli, with whom he toured Japan, Hong Kong, and Italy. He has also collaborated as soloist with Eliahu Inbal, Hans Vonk, Manuel Fischer-Dieskau, and Arvid Janssons, and performed in such halls as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Berlin Konzerthaus, La Salle Verdi Milan, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Les Halles in Paris, the Metropolitan Art Space Hall in Tokyo, the Wigmore Hall London, The Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall New York and other major halls in Europe, Hong Kong, Israel and Korea.
Born in Berlin, Peter studied with Prof. Peter Vogler at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and took master classes with Heinrich Schiff and Siegfried Palm. Upon completion of his studies, he became principal cellist of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra at age 22. Three years later, he was appointed principal cellist of the Dresden Staatskapelle. He was also principal cellist of the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra from 1989 until 1992.
Mr. Bruns has left his position in the Dresden Staatskapelle in 1998 in order to take up a professorship at the prestigious Musikhochschule of Dresden, and to pursue his career as soloist and chamber musician, for which he is highly in demand.
Peter Bruns is one of the founding members of the Dresden Piano Trio along with Kai Vogler, violin, and Roglit Ishay, piano. In addition to their extensive concerts in Germany, the trio has toured in whole Europe and Brazil. Since 1993, Peter has been Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Festival of Castle Moritzburg, in Saxony, where he collaborates each summer with distinguished soloists and chamber musicians from all over the world, including Heinrich Schiff, the Alban Berg Quartet, Charles Neidich, Scott St. John, Lara St. John and many others.
He has recorded for nearly every German radio station, and now - except recordings for Harmonia Mundi and Berlin Classics - records exclusively for the Opus 111 label.
Peter Bruns plays a cello by Carlo Tononi, Venice, 1730, once owned by Pablo Casals.
Further information on the internet: www.peterbruns.com |
 Idil Biret (Piano)
Idil Biret has made more than seventy records which include the world premiere recording of the nine Beethoven Symphonies' transcriptions by Liszt for EMI (6LP/1986). She also recorded the complete solo piano works and all the concertos of Chopin (15CD/1992), Brahms (12CD/1997), Rachmaninov (10CD/2000) and the three piano sonatas of Pierre Boulez (1995) for Naxos. In 1995 her recording of the complete works of Chopin was awarded a "Grand Prix du Disque Chopin" prize in Poland. The same year, her recording of the Boulez sonatas won the annual Golden Diapason award and was selected among the best recordings of the year by Le Monde newspaper in France. Idil Biret has also recorded for Naxos the Etudes of Ligeti and the Firebird ballet music’s piano transcription by Stravinsky which were released in 2003. The sale of her recordings for Naxos is nearing two million copies worldwide. Biret is presently recording the complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas.
The Idil Biret Archives contains all her professional recordings and aims to bring together as many of the radio/tv recordings as possible. As the copyrights are obtained, those recordings not commercially available will be released under the IBA label. The Beethoven/Liszt Symphonies originally recorded for EMI in 1985/1986 are the first of these (released in January 2004). The 9 LPs recorded for Atlantic/Finnadar in New York will follow. Idil Biret is also recording new works for release under the IBA label including the 32 Sonatas of Beethoven.
Idil Biret has played in cycles the complete piano works of Beethoven and Brahms. In the 1980s she performed in two series of concerts Beethoven’s 32 sonatas and the piano transcription (Liszt) of all the 9 Symphonies, the latter broadcast live by Radio France. In the 1990s she played Beethoven’s five Piano Concertos, the Choral Fantasia, and the Triple Concerto in five concerts. In 1997 she played all the solo piano works of Brahms in a series of five recitals in Germany during the composer’s centennial anniversary and also performed Brahms’ two piano concertos at a single concert the same year. |
 Suna Kan (violin)
Suna Kan was born in Adana, Turkey. She started playing the violin
at the age of five in Ankara. She studied with Gerhardt, Albayrak,
Back and Licco Amar and gave her first public concerts at the age
of nine playing Mozart's A major and Viotti's a minor concertos.
In 1949 she was sent to France, under a special law passed by the
Turkish Grand National Assembly. At the Paris Conservatory, she
studied with Gabriel Bouillon and graduated in 1952, winning the
first prize. Later she took part in international competitions and
receieved the following awards: 1954 Geneva Competition (First Medail),
1955 Viotti Competition (First Prize), 1956 Munich Competition (Second
Prize), 1957 Marguerite Long / Jacques Thibaud Competition (City
of Paris Prize).
She has performed with the leading orchestras. I.e. London Symphony,
Los Angeles Phiharmonic, Bamberger Symphoniker, Moscow Symphonyi,
Residentie Orkest, and Orchestre Nationale ORTF under the direction
of conductors such as Istvan Kertesz, Gotthold E. Lessing, Otto
Matzerath, Zubin Mehta, Iwaki, Hans Rosbaud, Arthur Fiedler, Walter
Susskind, Louis Frémeaux and George Sebastian. She has also collaborated
with celebrated artists as Menuhin, Fournier, Navarra and Frederick
Riddle in performing double-concertos.
She has played in many countries including all European countries,
USSR, Canada, Japan, Iran, China, Ethiopia, United Arab Republic,
Kenya. She also toured South America during the concert season of
1974-75. The Government of France conferred on Suna Kan "Chevalier
dans l'ordre du Mérité", which is the National order of Merit.
Between 1977-86 she has been one of the founders and principal soloist
of the TRT Ankara Chamber Orchestra.
She has been giving summer courses and masterclasses at Bilkent
University Faculty of Music And Dramatic Arts since its foundation
in 1986. Kan has made many recordings including all of Mozart's
violin concertos. |
 Pierre Amoyal (violin)
Pierre Amoyal is well known to music lovers. He has played with the greatest conductors and orchestras in the most prestigious concert halls of the world. This virtuoso is also the lucky owner of the one of the most beautiful violins ever made: the famous "Kochanski," a Stradivarius that was stolen from him in 1987, and which was miraculously recovered four years later by the Italian "Carabinieri".
When Amoyal was only twelve years old, he completed his studies at the Paris Conservatory with a First Prize. The prodigy then left for Los Angeles to study with the legendary Jascha Heifetz. The two spent five intense years together, culminated by chamber music concerts and recordings with the cellist, Gregor Piatigorski.
At the age of 22, he made his European debut with the late Sir Georg Solti and the Orchestre de Paris, followed by appearances in all of the major European capitals, as well as in the USA, Canada, Mexico, South America and in the Far East. Amoyal has played under the most important conductors of the last three decades: von Karajan, Ozawa, Boulez, Maazel, Solti, Pretre, Sanderling, Roshdestvensky, Rattle, and Mung Whun Chung, to name only a few. His first appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic under Maestro von Karajan in Berlin was followed by many further performances with this orchestra, including the German premier of the Dutilleux Concerto under Lorin Maazel. In 1985, he made his recital debut in Carnegie Hall, which received outstanding critical acclaim.
He was the youngest musician ever to be nominated as a professor at the Paris Conservatory. Following his move to Switzerland, he now teaches at the Lausanne Conservatory. Also in Lausanne, he initiated a novel music academy, dedicated to the violin/piano repertoire, which he gives annually with Bruno Canino.
Pierre Amoyal is a very touching example of a virtuoso whose exceptional talents never hindered his love of hard work, nor a development of the most essential human qualities. |
 Maria Kliegel (Cello)
After studying with Janos Starker at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, Maria Kliegel won, amongst others, the 1st Grand Prix of the “Concours Rostropowich Paris” (in 1981). Mstislav Rostropowich thereupon engaged the services of his prize winner as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France for several tours through France and invited her to his orchestra in Washington D.C. He became one of her most important mentors.
Maria Kliegel – La Cellissima – since then an artist in demand throughout the world -started an unusually successful record career on the Naxos label in 1991 alongside her stage triumphs.In this way, her recording of Dvorak’s and Elgar’s cello concertos with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra London has been maintaining its success as a bestseller for many years now. Also, the composer Alfred Schnittke declared her recording of his 1st cello concerto his reference work in 1992. In reviews and essays, the international press is constantly confirming the top quality of the violoncellist and praises many interpretations as exemplary and directional.
Frequent honours followed, including 2 Grammy nominations. In the meantime, Maria Kliegel leads the market in cello literature with some 1 million CDs sold throughout the world. In her multimedia book and DVD project Schott Master Class– Cello With technique and phantasy for artistic expression about cello techniques and “famous – infamous” passages (played and analysed) published in 2006, she pursues completely new paths; and within the shortest time received 2 prestigious prizes for it: in February 2007 in Düsseldorf the special Digita prize (best German educational software) and in June 2007 in Berlin the European Media Prize Comenius EduMedia – Siegel.
Contemporary composers like to dedicate their works to the cellist. Wilhelm Kaiser Lindemann, for example, composed at her request Hommage á Nelson M. for cello and percussion. This musical reference to the civil-rights activist Mandela finds great attention internationally. After the premiere of this work in Capetown, South Africa in 1997,
Since 1986 she has been professor at the Cologne Academy of Music and in 2001 established with Ida Bieler (volin) and Nina Tichman (piano) the Xyrion Trio, which undertook the artistic supervision of the Andernach Music Festival at Namedy Castle in 2007. Maria Kliegel plays the Stradivari cello Ex Gendron from 1693, on loan from the Artistic Endowment of North-Rhine Westphalia.
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 Leontina Vaduva (Soprano)
French soprano of Romanian origin who is an unforgettable performer of roles such as Manon, Mimi, Juliette, Marguerite and Susanna will be in Ayvalik in August 2008.
Since her debut on the stage of the Toulouse Opera House, in 1987, her rise to success was meteoric: she was acclaimed successively at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (1988), at Vienna Staatsoper (1991) and again at Covent Garden in 1994. This followed with her American debut with San Francisco Opera in 1996, adding to the series of her performances on the stages of Munich, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, the Scala of Milano and the New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Her debut at the Metropolitan, in 2000, was in the role of Mimi in La Boheme. This was followed by the Los Angeles Opera (Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust), in the year 2000 and and again at the opera in Baltimore in 2001.
1986 she sang her first Manon (Massenet) under the direction of Michel Plasson at the Théâtre du Capitôle - Toulouse. The protagonist of Massenet became her favorite role that she than sang in Nice, London – Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris – Opéra Comique and Bastille, Vienna –Staatsoper, Tokyo- New National Theatre and Scala di Milano.
In 1995 she made her debut recording for EMI Classics, of Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème. The recording features a formidable cast of international opera stars: Roberto Alagna as Rodolfo, Thomas Hampson as Marcello, Simon Keelyside as Schaunard, Samuel Ramey as Colline and Ruth Ann Swenson as Musetta. The Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Antonio Pappano. Her latest release for EMI Classics is a recital disc of opera arias, conducted by Placido Domingo. Gold and Silver Gala: From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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 Claus Kanngiesser
Klaus Kanngiesser was born in Oldenburg/Germany. He studied with the Feuermann pupil Heinrich Schüchner in Hamburg and with Zara Nelsova in New York. Further artistic inspiration from Gaspar Cassado, Pablo Casals, Lord Yehudi Menuhin and Rudolf Serkin. After winning the highest national competition, winner of the ARD competition Munich (1967), Maurice Loeb New York (1968) and UNESCO competition Paris (1970). Career start with Brahms Double Concerto and Yehudi Menuhin Since then concert performances with many leading orchestras of Europe under well-known conductors including A. Dorati, M. Rossi, H. Schmidt-Isserstedt, St. Skrowaczewski, P. Dervaux, Sir Charles Groves and others. Guest performances at important festivals in Spoleto, Naples, Marlboro, Berlin, Bonn and Schleswig Holstein. 1981-91 Member of Stuttgart Pianotrio. 1992- 97 Member of Trio Paideia (Clarinet, Cello and Piano).
1993-2001 Artistic director of the oldest German chamber-music festival "Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker". 1971 appointed as the youngest German Professor for Violoncello at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken (succeeding Maurice Gendron). 1987 change to the biggest German Musikhochschule in Cologne, since 2002 deputy director of that school. His Students concertize as soloists, chamber-music players, first desk orchestra members all over the world. Some teach as professors and won international prizes (like Gustav Rivinius, first prize Tchaikovsky Competition Moscow). Jury member in international competitions like Tchaikovsky/Moscow, Munich, Geneva, Leipzig, Paris, Scheveningen etc. Claus Kanngiesser enjoys a rich musical life as soloist, chamber-music player, teacher, director, juror and advisor. |
 Mikhail Khomitzer (cello)
Mikhail Khomitzer was born in 1935 in Ukraine. He graduated from
the class of Prof. Knuschevitsky at the Moskow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
He holds the highest awards from the Prague, Hanus Wihan competition
(1955), Budapest, Pablo Casals competition (1963) and Moscow, Tchaikovsky
competition (1962). He is one of the leading cellists of the former
Soviet Union.
He currently teaches at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in
Jerusalem and the Academy of Music in Tel - Aviv University. He
has been a jury member of many prominent international cello competitions
such as Tchaikovsky in Moscow (1978, 1982, 1986, 1990), Geneva in
Switzerland (1986), Scheveningen in Holland (1989, 1991). He has
toured widely all over Europe and America performing with the most
prominent orchestras and conductors. He played chamber music with
great musicians like Oistrakh, Issakadze, Richter, Nikolaeva, Davidovich. |
 Julian Milkis (clarinet)
Julian Milkis has established an international stature as a soloist and chamber musician and has appeared on the principal stages of Europe, the Far East, and the Americas.
Prominent concert appearances include solo and chamber performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Salle Pleyel in Paris, the Hamburg Philharmonic, the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Big Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Roy Thomson Hall and Ford Center in Toronto, The National Concert Hall in Taipei and others.
Julian Milkis has appeared as a soloist with the Toronto Symphony, the Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vivaldi Chamber Orchestra, the Hamburg Mozarteum, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, L’Orchestre Nationale de Lyon, L’Orchestre Symphonique Française, CBC Vancouver Orchestra and others.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Milkis has collaborated with Valery Afanasiev, Yuri Bashmet, Gerard Caussé, Misha Maisky, Alexander Rudin, the Borodin Quartet, the St. Petersburg String Quartet and many others. He has participated in numerous international festivals and events and has been a featured performer on TV and radio broadcasts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Far East. Since 1991, Mr. Milkis regularly performs in “December Evenings,” Sviatoslav Richter’s famous chamber music festival in Moscow.
Dedicated to expanding clarinet repertoire, Mr. Milkis has had numerous works written for him including concertos by Kancheli, Tishenko, Weinberg, Petrova and others.
Mr. Milkis was a full scholarship student at the Juilliard and Manhattan schools where he studied with Leon Russianoff and was the only pupil of Benny Goodman.
Julian Milkis has the honor of being the first North American clarinetist to be named a “Buffet Artist,” representing the famous French Buffet clarinets throughout the world.
He is a Canadian citizen and has been holding master classes since 1987 in countries like Canada, France, United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Estonia, Croatia, Russia and many others. |
 Vieri Bottazzini (flute)
Vieri Bottazzini is one of the most versatile and acclaimed flutists of his generation. His extensive education led him to work under such teachers as James Galway, Maxence Larrieu and Julius Baker, garnered considerable praise for his technical and musical qualities. After graduating with honors in 1993 at the Conservatoire "G. Verdi" in Milan, studying with Raffaele Trevisani, in 1994 he won the competition to enter Maxence Larrieu's class at Geneva Conservatoire, where he completed his high studies graduating in 1996 being awarded the "1st Prize of Virtuosity" for flute. After that, he won a scholarship to study the orchestral solos and repertoire with Glauco Cambursano, former principal flute in La Scala.
Vieri Bottazzini's solo career started after winning several national and international competitions; he played as a soloist with many important orchestras, in recitals with the piano and in chamber groups for various musical and cultural associations worldwide (Italy, USA, Turkey, France, Switzerland, Malaysia, England, Spain and Holland). Vieri is regularly invited to participate in different international festivals and academies, as well as being a juror in many international competitions; in 2003 he performed in various venues during his first USA recital tour and he participated to the Birmingham Festival of Flutes, where he had his concerto debut in the UK. More, in 2003 he has been invited to play at the USA National Flute Association's Flute Convention, where he performed at the Gala Opening Concert.
His recordings on CD includes the whole Sonatas by Philippe Gaubert for flute and piano and the Six Sonatas op. 1/II by Giuseppe Sammartini for flute and basso continuo (for Symposium); Vivaldi Concerto op. X n° I "La tempesta di mare" (for Trasi). In 2003 he recorded, both for the Callisto label, "Virtuoso" (a CD including virtuoso fantasies for flute and piano), and a CD including Franck's and Prokofiev's sonatas for flute and piano.
The last few years have seen Vieri Bottazzini's development enriched by experience and guest-work in a wide range of chamber and orchestral venues. After playing with different chamber music groups, in 2001 he was a founding member of the Toscano quartet (flute and string trio), and in 2002 he was one of the founding members of "The Ensemble" chamber music group, with which he is performing and recording. As Principal flute, he cooperated since 1992 with many orchestras in Italy and abroad. After winning the worldwide competition for the establishment of a new orchestra, he has been one of the founding members of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, where he played as Principal flute from June to December, 1998; since 1999 he has been the Principal Flute with the Akbank Chamber Orchestra; in 2002 he co-operated with Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, always as Principal Flute. During his orchestral career, such conductors as Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Kees Bakels and Eugene Kohn, among others, have directed him. In 2003, the decision of dedicating himself principally to his solo career, besides his teaching, leaded him to stop his orchestral activity.
Besides his work as a performer, he has well established his reputation as a renowned teacher, having given Master Classes in Italy, Turkey, England, and the USA since 1996. In 1998 he has been appointed the flute instructor of The Commonwealth Youth Orchestra for that year; in 2002, he has been invited (first Italian ever) to the Stratford-upon-Avon International Flute Festival. In 2003 he gave Master classes in various American Universities during his first USA recital tour.
His teaching positions include at present those of Flute Professor at Mimar Sinan University - State Conservatoire in Istanbul, Turkey (since 2000), and Flute Professor at the Ayvalik International Music Academy (since 2001).
Vieri Bottazzini plays on a Muramatsu 14K All Gold, N. 54.000.
www.vieribottazzini.com |
 Tatjana Masurenko (viola)
Tatjana Masurenko, born in Russia, received her early training at
the Special Music School and the State Conservatory in St. Petersburg.
While still a student she was performing with the leading orchestras
of Russia. In 1991 she moved to Germany to continue her studies
with Kim Kashkashian and Nobuko Imai at the Hochschule für Musik
in Detmold. Her many encounters with Boris Pergamenschikow, Paul
Baduro-Skoda and György Kurtag had a lasting influence of her artistic
development. She has won prizes and awards at numerous international
competitions, such as the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition
in England, the Markneukirchen International Competition in Germany
and the Juri Bashmet International Viola Competition in Moscow,
that was to seal her position amongst leading violists of the world.
She has been a guest soloist with many orchestras in Europe, USA
and Russia, collaborating with Boris Pergamenschikow, Christian
Tetzlaff, Lars Vogt, Isabelle van Keulen, Jan Vogler and Vogler-Quartett.
Since 1996 she has been a guest of many important festivals such
as the Marlboro Music Festival (USA), as well as Prussia Cove and
Hindemith Festivals (United Kingdom), West Cork Festival (Ireland),
Delft Chamber Music Festival (Holland), “Spannungen” Festival, Schloss
Moritzburg and ECMA in Cologne (Germany), “Schubertiaden” in St.
Petersburg (Russia) and made her debut in West German Radio (WDR),
North German Radio (NDR), Deutschland Radio Berlin, in Wigmore Hall
(London), in Small Hall of the Berlin Philarmonie.
Apart from all these concert tours Tatjana Masurenko is Professor
of Viola at the oldest German Hochschule f ür Musik “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy” in Leipzig and conducts many master classes in Germany, USA, Turkey
and Russia.
“...the young Russian viola-player Tatjana Masurenko is a real
discovery. Her recording is thoroughly convincing, her sound is
beautiful, her technique brilliant...” Fono-Forum
“...Tatjana Masurenko is one of the most creative viola players
around in this time...” Nobulo Imai
“...Great clarity and temperament mark her way of playing the viola,
using all forms of expression...a very special event...” Frankfurter
Allgemeine |
 Sirin Pancaroglu (harp)
Born in Ankara, Þirin Pancaroglu started playing the piano at an
early age, later she discovered the magic world of the harp through
well-known harpist Sevin Berk. What started as a childs love affair
with this heavenly instrument, later became a serious musical journey.
She had her basic training in Istanbul starting in 1980 and continued
her studies at the Geneva Conservatory. She received her Masters
Degree at the University of Indiana, Faculty of Music in 1992, studying
with and assisting the world famous harpist and pedagogue Susann
McDonald.
She worked and lived in Washington D.C. during 1992-96 and in
Istanbul during 1996-98. She made her first CD in the USA under
the title of "A String of Longing".
Pancaroglu has been very active in chamber music and since 1992
she is part of a duo with violinist Ignaz Jang with whom she had
made a CD called "Under a Comet" for the Doublemoon Records Company.
She is currently living and performing in Istanbul, teaching at
the Yildiz Technical University as well. |
 Mariana
Sirbu (violin)
Born
in Romania, Mrs.Sirbu received her musical training from her parents.
She completed her musical education in Bucharest at the National
Academy of Music under the guidance of Prof. Stefan Gheorghiu.
Her concert career started at a very early age, and brought her
virtually to every country in Europe and overseas. Mrs. Sirbu has
been prizewinner at International Competitions such as "George
Enescu" (Romania), "Carl Flesch" (London), "Maria
Canals" (Barcelona), "Vittorio Gui" (Florence).
Mariana Sirbu has appeared as soloist in all the most important
concert halls in the world:
Berlin Philharmonic, Opera House-Sydney, Musikverein-Viena, Concertgebow-Amsterdam,
Teatro Colon-Buenos Aires, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center-New
York, Teatro La Scala-Milan, Suntory Hall-Tokyo, etc.
She has recorded extensively for various Radio and Television Broadcasting
in Europe, including the complete series of Beethoven's Violin sonatas
for the Irish National T.V. network, and in U.S.A., Japan, Canada
and Australia.
In 1968 Mariana Sirbu founded and led the Academica String Quartet,
which won major competitions in Liege (1972), Munchen (1973), Geneva
(1974) and Belgrad (1975), followed by tours troughout the world.
For seven years (from 1978 to 1984) the "Academica" was
R.T.E.`s String Quartet.
In 1985 she became the violonist of "Trio di Milano" with pianist Bruno Canino and cellist Rocco Filippini, with whom
she performes frequently in Europe, North and South America and
Australia.
She is regular guest at famous International Chamber Music Festivals,
where she collaborates with important musicians such as Bruno Giuranna,
Richard Stoltzman, Antony Pay, Boris Pergamenscikov, Menahem Pressler,
Franco Petracchi, Klaus Kangiesser, Reiner Kussmaul, Michel Portal,
Peter Lukas Graf, Arnold Steinhardt, Pepe Romero, Irish Chamber
Orchestra, etc.
Between 1992-2003 as leader and soloist of the celebrated italian
chamber music group "I Musici" she performed regularly
all over the world and she recorded numerous CDs for Philips.
At present she is the Soloist and Principal Guest Director of the
Irish Chamber Orchestra with whom she performs extensively in Europe,
China, Korea and USA.
Since 1994 she is also founder member and leader of the "Quartetto
Stradivari", group which is frequent guest of numerous Concert
Societies and International Music Festivals world wide.
After her graduation, she has been assistant teacher at the violin
class of Stefan Gheorghiu at the National Music Academy in Bucharest;
she has held numerous Master Classes in Spain, Ireland, Holland,
Canada "Banf School of Arts", France, China, Switzerland,
Japan and Italy. She tought violin and chamber music to post graduate
students in the "Scuola di Musica di Fiesole"- Florence
- Italy and she is also Guest Professor at the University of Limerick-Ireland.
Since 2002 Mariana Sirbu has been appointed Professor of Violin
at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy" in Leipzig. Mrs. Sirbu was jury member in various
International Competitions such as :
" Concorso Internazionale Trienale di Liuteria " Cremona,
"Vittorio Gui" Competition in Florence, International
Chamber Music Competition "Lorenzi" in Trieste, International
String Quartet Competition in Evian-France and International String
Quartet Competition in Bordeaux, " George Enescu" International
Competition-Bucharest
She has made several LPs and CDs for: PHILIPS, DECCA, Schwan Harmonia
Mundi, Dynamic and UNICEF. Among the most recent CD releases are
her complete series of the Violin Concertos and Capriccios "L`Arte
del Violino" by Locatelli, the Twelve Violin Concertos from
"Il Cimento dell`Armonia e dell`Invenzione" and the "Concerti
per Anna Maria" by Vivaldi, for Philips; the Triple Concerto
by Beethoven with the Zürcher Kammerorchester conducted by
Howard Griffiths and the two Piano Trios by Mendelsohn with Trio
di Milano.
Mariana plays the "Conte di Fontana" Stradivarius used
by David Oistrakh for much of his career. |
 Jan Talich (violin)
Jan Talich Jr. comes from a musical family. His father Jan Talich Sr. has founded the Talich Quartet in 1964. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra’s famous chief conductor Vaslav Talich was his uncle.
Young Jan Talich studied both at the Prague Conservatory and the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. After graduation he continued his studies in the United States and England . He is the winner of the International Violin Competition in Zagreb and has been honoured throughout Europe both as a soloist and chamber musician, winning numerous distinctions and prizes. He is the founder and artistic director of the Talich Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Talich Quartet since 1997. He plays a Joseph Gagliano violin of 1780.
http://www.talichquartet.cz |
 Ulrich Eichenauer (viola)
A native
of Germany, Mr. Eichenauer has performed at the most prestigious
concert venues in the US and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, the
Berlin Philharmonie, Theatro alla Scala in Milan, the National
Gallery Washington and many others. He is in demand at many international
festivals such as the Seattle, Kuhmo, Cologne, Moritzburg, Da Camera,
Fürstenberg, and the Berlin festivals. After graduating with
highest honors from the Conservatory in Detmold, Germany, where
he had been a student of Nobuko Imai, Mr. Eichenauer was appointed
principal violist of the Dresden Philharmonic by its then chief
conductor Michel Plasson. With its history of over 130 years the
orchestra ranks among Germany's oldest and finest symphony orchestras.
Touring extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the US and South America,
Mr. Eichenauer performed under such conductors as Carlo Maria Giulini,
Yuri Temirkanov, Kurt Masur, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Philip
Entremont, Michel Plasson, Yansug Kachidse, Gerd Albrecht, Günther
Herbig and many others. On numerous occasions Mr. Eichenauer played
as soloist with the orchestra and gave the world premiere of a
concerto by Rainer Lischka, which had been commissioned by the
Dresden Philharmonic. Since his days at the Detmold conservatory,
Ulrich Eichenauer has always been deeply interested in chamber
music. At a young age he was invited to Rudolf Serkin's Marlboro
Festival in Vermont. He returned to Marlboro for several summers
and appeared subsequently on many tours with Musicians from Marlboro
throughout the US and Europe. During his tenure with the Dresden
Philharmonic Mr. Eichenauer maintained a steady presence on the
chamber music podiums of the US. When the opportunity arose to
join the renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet in New York, he decided
to take the job and moved to America where he has lived since.
In addition to his active schedule as a performer, Mr. Eichenauer
has also been a dedicated educator for almost twenty years. He
is currently on the faculty of the North Carolina School of the
Arts and has previously taught at Harvard University, the Detmold
Conservatory and the Dresden Orchestra Academy. Mr. Eichenauer
was recently appointed Professor of Viola at the Tibor Varga Conservatory
in Sion/Switzerland.
www.ulricheichenauer.de |
 Özkan Manav (Composer)
Born
in 1967 in Mersin, Turkey. During his secondary school years
he studied piano. In 1984, he became a composition student at
Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory, Istanbul, where he
studied harmony and counterpoint with Ercivan Saydam, fugue,
composition and modal music with Adnan Saygun, history of thinking
aesthetics with Afşar Timuçin. Following his graduation, he was
appointed as an instructor in the Theory Department of the same
institution. Between 1991-96 he pursued his Master’s and
Proficiency in Arts studies in the composition class of İlhan
Usmanbas. Between 1996-99 he studied composition with Lukas Foss
and Marjorie Merryman at Boston University. Upon receiving a
DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) degree from BU, returned to Istanbul
and began to teach composition in his native institution, MSU
State Conservatory. Became an associate professor of composition
in 2001 and has been the chairperson of Composition Division
at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory since
2004. His works have been performed in Moldavia, Turkey, Netherlands,
Germany, USA, England, Australia and Greece by ensembles such
as Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow New Music Ensemble,
members of the Moldavian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Eastman
School Of Music Percussion Ensemble, Boston University Percussion
Ensemble, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 10:10
Ensemble and ALEA III. He was the recipient of Malloy Miller
Memorial Composition Prize (1997, Boston University); Nejat F.
Eczacıbaşı National Composition Competition, 1st Prize
(1998, İzmir); The BMW musica viva Composition Prize, 2nd
prize (1998, Munich); Deutsche Welle Composition Prize (2002,
Cologne) and various academical honors in the Composition Department
of Boston University (1998-1999). His articles on music and education
have appeared in several art journals in Turkey and his orchestral
music has been recorded for Bilkent Music Production (Ankara,
2001) and Deutsche Welle (Cologne, 2002). |
 Klaus Ager (Composer)
Born
in 1946 in Salzburg, he studied at the MOZARTEUM and the University
in Salzburg, later on the Conservatoire National et Supérieur
in Paris with Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Schaeffer. Between
1975 - 1986 he was the artistic director of the “ÖSTERREICHISCHEN
ENSEMBLES FÜR NEUE MUSIK“ (Austrian New music Ensemble)
and had many concerts in Austria and abroad. Since 1977, Ager
is the artistic director of the New-Music-Festival “ASPEKTE
SALZBURG” in Salzburg. At the moment Klaus Ager is professor
for music Analysis at the MOZARTEUM and was from 1995 until 2000
Rector of this Institution. In the last years he is into many
activities as composer in residence or lecturer at different
Universities in North and South America. Klaus Ager is composer
of Chamber music, orchestral music, electronic and computer music.
Since April 2004 he is the President of the Austrian Composers
Association. Performances of his works take place at many important
festivals of new music.
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 Hasan Uçarsu (Composer)
Hasan Uçarsu was born in Istanbul in 1965. He began his musical education while he was n he 4th grade of elementary school playing the flute at the Municipal Conservatory of Istanbul. At the last year of his high school education, he took private lesson from Muammer Sun and with Sun’s suggestion, he entered the Composition program at Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory. He made his undergraduate studies with Ahmet Adnan Saygun and graduate studies with Cengiz Tanç. Meanwhile he had classes with Cemal Reşit Rey, Bülent Tarcan, İlhan Usmanbaş, Afşar Timuçin and Ahmet Yürür. In 1994, he went to the United States where he studied under George Crumb and Richard Wernick and completed his PhD studies in 1997, receiving his PhD from Pennsylvania University Composition program. He became Associate Professor in 1998. Hasan Uçarsu is still teaching composition at the Mimar Sinan University State Conservatory’s Composition program. His works won prizes in Turkey and abroad, were performed in concerts and festivals and recorded as CD’s. |
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