| Name:
| Wiebke Hoogklimmer
| | Skills:
| Singer (Contralto)
| | Address:
| Berlin D-12051, Germany
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| | Wiebke Hoogklimmer was born in Hannover, Germany, and began her musical education at the age of eight as a member of the "Girls Choir Hannover". She continued her education at the Academy of Music and Acting in Hamburg where she studied opera direction on the course initiated by Prof. Goetz Friedrich, and graduated with distinction. She has worked as assistant director, stage manager, and substitute in the artistic management office at the Niedersaechsischen Opera in Hannover, the Hamburg State Opera, the German Opera Berlin and the International Summer Course at Schloss Weikersheim. During this time she worked with the following directors and stage designers: Guenter Roth, Stephan Mettin, Martin Rupprecht, Hans-Peter Lehmann, John Cox, John Dew, Erhard Fischer, Herbert Wernicke, Goetz Friedrich, Andreas Reinhardt.
After finishing her studies she started private vocal tuition with Elisabeth Umierski (Berlin) and continued with Prof. Annie Schoonus (Academy of Music and Acting in Hamburg) and with Christiane Bach-Roehr (Comic Opera Berlin). In 1988 to 1991 she sang with the RIAS chamber choir and had her first solo stage appearance in the role of Arnalta in Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea" at the Junges Theater Goettingen. She went on to sing the parts of both the king and queen in Toovey's "Ubu" at the opera stabile of the State Opera in Hamburg and then the parts of the Third Lady in Mozart's "Magic Flute" and Orfeo in Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice". Wiebke Hoogklimmer mainly works as a solo contralto, giving concerts and recitals. Her repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. She equally enjoys singing well known and lesser known and unusual works.
Wiebke Hoogklimmer and the pianist Prof. Patrick Walliser have been working together since 1998. So far they have performed recitals with songs by Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Luise Adolpha Le Beau, Clara and Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hugo Wolf, Arthur Honegger, Alban Berg, C. René Hirschfeld, Gustav Mahler and Lili Boulanger. In 2003 her CD "Clairières dans le ciel" was published with the so named song cycle by Lili Boulanger - transposed for contralto - and with selected songs by Schubert and Mahler, and at the piano Patrick Walliser. The Label is THOROFON (order-nr. CTH 2477). 2006 her CD "Franz Schubert: Winterreise" was released with a live recording of a Lieder Recital (on the Piano again Patrick Walliser) with her own Label.
Through her huge interest in film she has worked as assistant to costume design and props management in the ZDF Television film production of "Superbia" (1986) by Ulrike Ottinger. 2005 she has worked as assistent producer for the filmproduction "18.15 Uhr ab Ostkreuz", which has the world première at the Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale 2006. In April/May 2007 Wiebke Hoogklimmer has worked for the newest film by Bruce LaBruce "OTTO; or, Up with Dead People", which had the world première at the Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale 2008.
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| Name:
| Graeme Hopson
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Teacher, Music Copyist
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)7715 933077
| | Fax:
| +44 (0)161 928 8020
| | Address:
| 5 Woodfield Road, Altrincham WA14 4ET, United Kingdom
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| | Born in Middlesbrough in 1980, Graeme began composing from the age of 12. His music soon attracted local attention, where he won several competitions.
Wider aclaim was to come in 1996 when he was a finalist in the St. Mary’s Young Composer of the Year Competition and in 1999 when two of his pieces were performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London, as part of the National Music for Youth Festival, and broadcast on BBC Radio Cleveland. He was a finalist in the Ensemble 11 international Young Composers’ Competition 2002.
Graeme studied at the University of Huddersfield with Patric Standford and at the Royal Northern College of Music under Paul Patterson, where he graduated with a Masters' Degree in Composition. Graeme lives and works in North-West England as a freelance musician.
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| Name:
| Nigel John Horne
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Typesetter
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)870 705 9334
| | Fax:
| +44 (0)1226 241048
| | Address:
| United Kingdom
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| | My background covers both choral and band music. You can see my on-line CV at http://www.bandsman.co.uk/njh.htm
Arranger, composer, conductor, typesetter
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| Name:
| Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist, Teacher (mezzo-soprano/alto soloist and ensemble singer, voice teacher, workshop facilitator.)
| | Address:
| New York City, United States
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| | Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano, was born in Belfast, N. Ireland. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London before moving to the U.S. She is a member of the vocal quartet Anonymous 4.
She is also a soloist specializing in early and new music and was featured on the Grammy award-winning album 'Calling All Dawns'
She has been a guest soloist with many ensembles including The Washington Bach Consort DC, Bach Sinfonia DC, Carmel Bach Festival, Sonnambula, Parthenia, Ensemble Modern Frankurt, Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris, Continuum and American Opera Projects.
Jacqueline is also a voice teacher. She holds an M.A. in Music from Columbia University Teachers College and is currently a Doctoral candidate and a Teaching Fellow at The Juilliard School New York.
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| Name:
| Barry Paul Horrell
| | Skills:
| Composer
| | Address:
| United Kingdom
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| | please check the offical webpage at: http://barrypaulhorrell.tripod.com
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| Name:
| Lynn Houghton
| | Skills:
| Singer, Soloist
| | Phone:
| +44 20 7261 1676
| | Address:
| 1 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST, United Kingdom
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| | Born in Calgary, Canada and educated in California, Lynn trained at California State University, Fullerton with Jane Paul, whose notable students also include Deborah Voight and Rodney Gilfrey. There she won the University’s Concerto Competition (1994) and was awarded a scholarship to attend the Aspen Opera Theatre Centre. While at University she sang Lucia (Rape of Lucretia), Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring) Clara (Signor Deluso by Thomas Pasatieri). She has recently performed in Masterclasses with Sir Thomas Allen, Rodney Gilfrey and Jane Manning.
Lynn has sung with Opera Pacific, Long Beach Grand Opera, Santa Barbara Grand Opera, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival in performances of Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Aida, Carmen, L’Orfeo and Die Jacob’s Leiter and sang recently in a televised performance of the St John Passion with ENO. Operatic roles include: Electra (Idomeneo), Königen die Nacht (Magic Flute), Nanetta (Falstaff) Palace Opera at Holland Park, Pamina (Magic Flute), Micaëla and Frasquita (Carmen), Dew Fairy (Hansel and Gretel), ), Blönde (Die Entführung aus Dem Serail), Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Suzel (L’Amico Frtiz) and Contessa (Le Comte Ory).
Performances on the concert stage have included: the 3rd UK Performance of the Bernstein Songfest with the Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra, Professional Solo Recital Debut at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre and also many opera galas and charity concerts. She performs regularly with Tenor Robert Watson in a concert series that takes her to Copenhagen (Garnison’s Kirke and St Alban’s Church), NYC and Washington D.C.
Oratorio experience includes, most notably, a performance of the Bach b minor Mass under the baton of Helmut Rilling at the Oregon Bach Festival, Elijah, Seven Oaks Festival and St Matthews Passion with the Orange County Master Chorale. Other works include Carmina Burana, Haydn’s Harmonimesse and Bach Magnificat. Lynn studies with Paul Farrington and Jane Manning.
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| Name:
| Robert Howard
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Player, Teacher (Bassoonist)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 7328 4220 / +44 (0)7790 516167
| | Address:
| 8 Wells Court Cambridge Avenue Kilburn Park, LONDON NW6 5TH, United Kingdom
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| | ROBERT HOWARD (b. 1977) is a composer from Merseyside, England, now living in London. Robert studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, Birmingham University and currently at Goldsmiths College, University of London (PhD) with Philip Cashian. He has composed a wide variety of (primarily) instrumental works, from solo pieces to orchestral works. Robert's music has been played by various ensembles including BCMG, Gemini (Family of Man, Dual Form), City of London Sinfonia (The Island, SPNM shortlisted 2000), Goldsmiths Sinfonia (Promenade, SPNM shortlisted 2001), the Kreutzer Quartet, Concillium Brass Ensemble, IXION (Lines on A Walk II conducted by Michael Finnissy) and by soloists such as Simon Limbrick and Stephen Gutman. In 1999 his String Quartet No.1. won the Gregynog Young Composers' Award of Wales and his piano music has won first prizes at several music festivals.
Robert also has a keen interest in composing for amateurs; he has composed extensively for fellow students, for several youth orchestras on Merseyside and most recently in the series of pieces titled Promenade and Lines on A Walk. These have been widely performed and recorded by several COMA ensembles. Robert is also a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths College, and bassoonist and conductor. He is currently Chair of the Forum London Composers Group. Robert's Promenade IV was published and recorded by Forum as part of their Re:Sound pack and his music is distributed by Incalcando Contemporary Music Publishing (www.incalcando.com). Future projects include a work for large orchestra inspired by the John Piper Baptistry Window in Coventry Cathedral.
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| Name:
| Gregory William Hubert
| | Skills:
| conductor
| | Phone:
| +31-20-770-43-94
| | Fax:
| +31-20-770-43-94
| | Address:
| Tidorestraat 183, Amsterdam 1095 kv, Netherlands
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| | Gregory Hubert was born in Toronto Canada and began his musical studies at the age of four. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto and the Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica de Madrid, Spain. His cello teachers have included David Hethrington (Toronto Symphony) Desmond Hoebig and Denis Brott.
Gregory began his conducting studies in Canada, with David Miller and the Oakville Symphony Orchestra. In 1990 he decided to leave Canada and was accepted to study with Enrique Garcia-Asensio in Madrid, where he conducted the Spanish Radio Television Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica de Madrid and other ensembles comprised of musicians from the Orquesta Nacional de Espana. From 1990-1993 he was a participant in master- classes with Sergui Celibidache.
In 1994 Mr. Hubert went to Holland where he recieved his Dutch Nationality and currently resides in Amsterdam
Since 1994 he has been the conductor of the Haarlems Symfonie Orkest and in 1996 he founded the baroque orchestra, the Colenso Consort. In addition to these duties he works regularly as guest conductor with many Dutch orchestras, including the Helikon Orkest Eindhoven, and the Mozart Capelle in Amsterdam
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| Name:
| Robert Charles Hugill
| | Skills:
| Composer
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)20 7274 3600
| | Address:
| 36 Torrens Road, London SW2 5BT, United Kingdom
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| | London-based composer. Recent London performances have included the premiere of Requiem mass at the Chelsea Festival and The Black Dragon, sung by London Concord Singers to celebrate the Millennium Year of the Dragon.
International performances include the motet Gaude, Gaude Maria which was premiered in Paris by Cambridge Voices, conductor Ian de Massini. The song cycle Songs of Love and Loss received its USA premiere in November at CMU in Pittsburgh.
Passion, premiered by The Burgundian Cadence in 1999, is published by Bardic Edition. All other music is available direct from the composer. A CD of Passion is also available direct from the composer.
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| Name:
| Louisa Hunter-Bradley
| | Skills:
| Player, Publisher, Singer, Soloist, Teacher
| | Phone:
| +61 (0) 417 344 828
| | Fax:
| +61 3 9572 4313
| | Address:
| PO Box 19, Chadstone Shopping Centre 3148, Australia
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| | Louisa Hunter-Bradley has performed extensively in Australia with groups such as the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australia Classical Players, Melbourne Chorale Ensemble, St Michael's Uniting Church Choir, Baroquerie and most predominantly as the Artistic Director of Past Echoes. While studying at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Louisa studied voice with Emma Kirkby, Celeste Gattai, Paul Esswood and Ian Partridge and recorder with Peter Holtslag and Daniel Bruggen. Louisa is currently studying with Stephen Grant and is a guest artist with e21, Q Vocal Ensemble, Gloriana and The Palestrina Project. Oratorio performances include, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Faure’s Requiem, Purcell’s The Tempest, Mozart’s Vesperae Solemnis, Coronation Mass and Mass in C minor.
Louisa is the Artistic Director of Past Echoes, a Melbourne based group of specialist early musicians performing music mostly of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Programs and venues for their concerts are wide ranging, and festival performances include: Melbourne Autumn Music Festival, Ballarat Organs of the Goldfields, Ballarat Winter Festival, Melbourne Proms, Sacred Heart Early Music Festival and Monash Lunchtime Concerts.
Louisa is also a leading performer of Australian contemporary music for recorder and voice alike. Her debut cd, Ephemera (and other works written by Robin Bradley) has been praised by many, both for her incredible musicianship and interpretation. This cd and sheet music of the same music is available through themusicsource@pastechoes.com.
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| Name:
| Chris Michael Hutchings
| | Skills:
| Composer
| | Phone:
| 01315619513 / 07811395488
| | Fax:
| 01315619513
| | Address:
| 11 Eskview Grove, Dalkeith, Midlothian EH22 1JW, United Kingdom
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| | Award-winning composer (Temple Church Composition Prize 2001, John McLeod Composition Award 2002), MMus from University of Hull, specialising in choral works but will do commissions for other forces on request.
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| Name:
| Chris Michael Hutchings
| | Skills:
| Administrator,Manager,Tour organiser
| | Phone:
| 01315619513 / 07811395488
| | Fax:
| 01315619513
| | Address:
| 11 Eskview Grove, Dalkeith, Midlothian EH22 1JW, United Kingdom
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| | Ensemble Tours is a tour company specialising in performance tours for music and drama groups. We can organize tours within the UK or abroad- all sorts of groups are welcome. See our website for more details.
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| Name:
| John Hutchinson
| | Skills:
| Arranger, Composer, Player, Producer
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)7767 084508
| | Address:
| 27 Ventnor Road, Stockport SK4 4EL, United Kingdom
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| | John Hutchinson is one of the UK's most versatile arrangers and producers. Equally at home in classical, jazz, commercial and pop sectors he has a diverse client list including Channel 4, BBC and Granada TV, Nick Cave, The Lighthouse Family, BBC Big Band, Locrian Ensemble, BK Audio Books, McFarlane String Quartet, Thorne Trio and Alberti Brass.
Also running his own music production company and record label, The Audio Concept, John is able to manage all aspects of a musical project from initial conception to its final performance or release.
Graduating from the Royal College of Music in 1999, John forged a successful career as a London-based freelance trumpet player and arranger before relocating to Manchester in 2005.
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| Name:
| I Fiati Italiani
| | Skills:
| Ensemble, Orchestra
| | Phone:
| +39 0871401373
| | Fax:
| +39 0871401373
| | Address:
| via colazilli, Italy
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| | I Fiati Italiani, (versatile formation from the Trio to Decimino), are born in March 1992 to initiative of the Italian Society of Music and the Theatre, with the attempt to re-unite some between better coming from Italian musicians from important institutions which Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro S.Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra RAI Roma, O.R.T., Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, etc.) therefore life to a society has been given that in little years of activity has assumed a prominent role in the Italian and European musical panorama. Invited from the best Italian and international musical institutions (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, RAI Roma, A.g.i.m.u.s.,T.S.A., St. Martin in the Fields, Blakheat, St. James in Piccadilly, Ottawa University, Melba Hall, Royal College of the Arts, Settimane Musicali, Slovenian Summer Festival, Salieri International Music Festival, they have held concerts in the greater Italian cities (Alessandria, Brescia, Bergamo, Bari, Chieti, Monza, Milano, L'Aquila, Cagliari, Roma, Bologna, Sassari, Palermo, Napoli, Firenze, Genova) and in all the world (Quito, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit, Miami, Londra, Parigi, Francoforte, Lubiana), They collaborate stablily with musicians of recognized reputation and value, the Italian Breaths have recorded for record houses IKTIUS of Milan and MONDO MUSIC VERLAGS of Monaco di Baviera, editions Dummy. They have between the other recorded various television programs and wireless for RAI, Radio 3, TV Italy, Canada NTV. From 2000 they have begun one profitable artistic collaboration with the Solisti of the Scala Milan "insieme affascinante......con spunti virtuosistici" (il Centro 29.02.96). "Thank you for giving an excellent concert" (A.G.C. Londra 04.05.93). "succeso strepitoso de i Fiati Italiani" (l'Eco di Bergamo 04.08.95). "strabiliante successo in Canada de i Fiati Italiani" (la Voce 10.11.95). "la bacchetta di Antony Pay per I fiati Italiani ........ l'ottetto si è confermato gruppo composto da i migliori musicisti italiani" (il Tempo18.04.96). "L'ottetto in dom ci ha rivelato una dote ancora sconosciuta del gruppo teatino. La perfezione. Raramente ci è capitato di ascoltare un gruppo di fiati così ben equilibrato, con una intonazione così precisa, che si ascolta solo nei dischi e nemmeno in tutti ............ hanno mostrato doti musicali fuori dal comune." (Musica e Scuola AnnoX n°12), ... "Il loro programma .... ha incantato ... sempre affiatati al massimo, sempre puntuali nell'interpretazione (Il Cittadino di Monza 20 marzo 97). "Mi consenta di fare i più sinceri complimenti al gruppo de I Fiati Italiani-solisti teatini per il loro altissimo livello di preparazione...mi auguro di poter ancora suonare con loro....(Maxence Larrieu Musica e Scuola Anno XI n° 15." un eccellente gruppo di musicisti di talento" la Hora 5.5.2001 Quito. In 2001 they have in program one tournee in Mexico, Venezuela and Ecuador. The recording of the integral for breaths of J. Triebensee and of the concerts for breaths of Weber and Kotzeluch with the record house WORLD MUSIC VERLAGS of Monaco di Baviera. They have been invited from the TV rede Globe to record a program on Italian music of the ' 900. The Italian Breaths have moreover in program first absolute executions of works to they dedicated from contemporanei authors for RAI, Radio 3, TV Italy, Canada NTV
I Fiati Italiani, (formazione versatile dal Trio al Decimino), nascono nel Marzo 1992 ad iniziativa della Società Italiana della Musica e del Teatro, con l'intento di riunire alcuni tra migliori musicisti italiani provenienti da importanti istituzioni quali (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma,Teatro S.Carlo di Napoli, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese,Orchestra RAI Roma,O.R.T., Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, ecc.) si è così dato vita ad un sodalizio che in pochi anni di attività ha assunto un ruolo di primo piano nel panorama musicale Italiano ed Europeo. Invitati dalle migliori istituzioni musicali italiane ed internazionali, (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, RAI Roma, A.g.i.m.u.s.,T.S.A., St. Martin in the Fields, Blakheat, St. James in Piccadilly, Ottawa University, Melba Hall, Royal College of the Arts,Settimane Musicali, Slovenian Summer Festival, Salieri International Music Festival,) i Fiati Italiani hanno tenuto concerti nelle maggiori città italiane (Alessandria, Brescia, Bergamo, Bari, Chieti, Monza, Milano, L'Aquila, Cagliari,Roma,Bologna, Sassari,Palermo, Napoli,Firenze, Genova) e in tutto il mondo (Quito, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney,Ottawa, Toronto, Detroit, Miami, Londra, Parigi, Francoforte, Lubiana), effettuando tra l'altro numerose tournèe in Svizzera, Inghilterra,Canada, Stati Uniti, Australia, Ecuador, MessicoCollaborano stabilmente con musicisti di riconosciuta fama e valore, I Fiati Italiani hanno inciso per le case discografiche IKTIUS di Milano e MONDO MUSICA VERLAGS di Monaco di Baviera, edizioni Menab\'f2. Hanno tra l'altro registrato diversi programmi televisivi e radiofonici per la RAI, Radio 3, TV Italia, Canada NTV. dal 2000 hanno iniziato una proficua collaborazione artistica con I Solisti della Scala LA CRITICA La critica specializzata non ha mancato di accogliere I Fiati Italiani in maniera favorevole sin dai primi concerti, esaltandone le peculiari qualit\'e0 individuali nonch\'e8 la notevole ed affascinante intesa musicale;"insieme affascinante......con spunti virtuosistici"(il Centro 29.02.96). "Thank you for giving an excellent concert"(A.G.C. Londra 04.05.93). "succeso strepitoso de i Fiati Italiani" (l'Eco di Bergamo 04.08.95). "strabiliante successo in Canada de i Fiati Italiani" (la Voce 10.11.95). "la bacchetta di Antony Pay per I fiati Italiani ........ l'ottetto si \'e8 confermato gruppo composto da i migliori musicisti italiani" (il Tempo 18.04.96). "L'ottetto in dom ci ha rivelato una dote ancora sconosciuta del gruppo teatino. La perfezione. Raramente ci \'e8 capitato di ascoltare un gruppo di fiati cos\'ec ben equilibrato,con una intonazione cos\'ec precisa, che si ascolta solo nei dischi e nemmeno in tutti ............ hanno mostrato doti musicali fuori dal comune." (Musica e Scuola AnnoX n12), ... "Il loro programma .... ha incantato ... sempre affiatati al massimo, sempre puntuali nell'interpretazione (Il Cittadino di Monza 20 marzo 97). "Mi consenta di fare i pi\'f9 sinceri complimenti al gruppo de I Fiati Italiani-solisti teatini per il loro altissimo livello di preparazione ... mi auguro di poter ancora suonare con loro .... (Maxence Larrieu Musica e Scuola Anno XI " un eccellente gruppo di musicisti di talento" la Hora 5.5.2001 Quito PROGRAMMI E TOURNEE Nel 2001 hanno in programma una tournee in Messico, Venezuela ed Ecuador. La registrazione dell'integrale per fiati di J. Triebensee e dei concerti per fiati di Weber e di Kotzeluch con la casa discografica MONDO MUSICA VERLAGS di Monaco di Baviera. Sono stati invitati dalla TV rede Globo a registrare un programma sulla musica italiana del '900.\par I Fiati Italiani hanno inoltre in programma prime esecuzioni assolute di opere a loro dedicate da autori contemporanei
Components oboe: Claudio Di Bucchianico, Carlo Colasante Clarinetto :Antonello Pellegrini, Manuele Filoso Corno: Marcello Martella, Donato di Martile Fabotto: Massimo Data, Deborah Luciani Cbasso: Claudio Marzolo CDirettore: Maurizio Colasanti
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| Name:
| Milan Ignjatovic
| | Skills:
| Composer,duo (guitar-cello)
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| Name:
| Image Ensemble
| | Skills:
| Ensemble (IMAGE ensemble chamber music)
| | Phone:
| 971721809
| | Fax:
| 971718291
| | Address:
| C/ Vicari Joaquim Fuster, 237-b, Palma de Mallorca 07007, Spain
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| | IMAGE Ensemble is a stable group that was created in 1999 by the soloists of the Balearic Symphony Orchestra and- together with the pianist Yuko Mizutani- they intend to promote and share with the public the chamber music for woodwinds and piano.
The repertoire of the group includes from the classic to the most important composers of the XXth Century like Mozart, Danzi, Beethoven, Jean Francoix, Poulenc, Barber,...without leaving a part the contemporary composers.
IMAGE Ensemble has played at various music festivals of the Balearic Islands (Spain), including the International Music Festival of Deià (Mallorca) where they played the sextets of L. Thuille y F. Poulenc, the Corpus a Palma or the Concerts of Bendinat
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| Name:
| Judith Ingolfsson
| | Skills:
| Soloist
| | Phone:
| +1 212 245 3530
| | Fax:
| +1 212 397 5860
| | Address:
| 266 W 37th St. 20th floor, New York NY, United States
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| | Icelandic violinist Judith Ingolfsson commands a distinguished position among the world's foremost young musicians. Her artistry is "effortless; her tone ravishingly beautiful, pure and adaptable; her sense of style unerring; and her expressiveness simple, direct and strongly felt (Strings)." Ms. Ingolfsson catapulted to international attention in 1998 when she won the gold medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Also a prize winner at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Paganini International Violin Competition, Ms. Ingolfsson was awarded the 2001 Chamber Music America / WQXR Record Award for her debut CD on Catalpa Classics. Of this recording, Fanfare Magazine noted "the violinist's unique poetry" and declared the performance "ardent and impassioned. This first collection deserves more thoughtful attention than that almost automatically accorded to the megahyped debuts of hot housed prodigies."
Ms. Ingolfsson made her solo orchestral debut in Germany at the age of eight, and has subsequently been a guest soloist with some of the finest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the National Symphony. Of her performance of the Barber Violin Concerto with the National Symphony, The Washington Post declared "she played with just the right mixture of easy grace, sonic luster and patrician refinement." In October 2000, Ms. Ingolfsson embarked on a critically acclaimed 15-city North American tour with the Iceland Symphony that included the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. In reaction to her performance of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto, the Los Angeles Times noted "...an individuality one cannot ignore." She has collaborated with many renowned conductors, including Leonard Slatkin, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Gerard Schwarz.
Ms. Ingolfsson's Carnegie Hall debut recital in April 2000 affirmed her ascendancy as a rising star. The New York Times declared "Judith Ingolfsson gave a technically assured and interpretively astute recital...and made her performance a journey to the soulful core. She gave a sizzling account, producing both fireworks and a singing tone." As a recitalist, she has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Grand Teton Music Festival, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Reykjavík Arts Festival in Iceland, Pro Arte Musicale in Puerto Rico, and Macau Cultural Center. Her festival appearances include the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, the Khumo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands. Beginning in the 2002 - 2003 season, she has been invited to become a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two.
Ms. Ingolfsson made her first appearance on Icelandic television at the age of five. Since then her notable performances have been seen on PBS, CBS Sunday Morning, and NHK of Japan and broadcast on WQXR and WNYC of New York, WFYI of Indianapolis, WCLV of Cleveland. In 1999, National Public Radio's Performance Today named her Debut Artist of the Year praising her "remarkable intelligence, musicality, and sense of insight." Ms. Ingolfsson was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 15, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky, legendary first violinist of the Curtis String Quartet and pupil of Eugene Ysaye and Efrem Zimbalist. She received her Master's degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a pupil of David Cerone and continued her graduate studies at the same institution as a student of Donald Weilerstein, first violinist of the Cleveland String Quartet. Other esteemed violinists Ms. Ingolfsson has studied with include Guila Bustabo, Ruggiero Ricci and Nathan Milstein. Her chamber music coaches include Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle and Peter Salaff.
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| Name:
| Milena Injac
| | Skills:
| Conductor (Symphonic, Opera, Chamber music repertoire)
| | Phone:
| +381-18-588-944 and +381-63-478-906
| | Address:
| bul.Nikole Tesle 51/5, Nis 18 000, Serbia, Yugoslavia
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| | Milena Injac was born in Nis, Serbia in 1969. She took her Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in Orchestra, Opera and Choir Conducting at the Belgrade University of Arts Faculty of Music and perfected her skills working with Jorma Panula, Peter Eotvos (Bartok Seminar) and Salvador Mas Conde (Vienna Master class - as one of best participants). With the Nis Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Milena Injac won First Prize on the Chamber Orchestra Competition at the Third International "Music World Festival" in Italia (Fivizzano)2000, and First Prize with the Nis Chamber Choir at the Christmas Choir Festival in Greece (Katerini), 1999. She performed as conductor in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Sweden, Spain and United Kingdom. Some of the orchestras she conducted include: Belgrade Philharmonic, Belgrade Opera, RTV Belgrade Symphony Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic, Macedonian Opera, Sarajevo Philharmonic,Montenegro Symphony Orchestra, Nis Symphony Orchestra, Vidin, Vratza and Plovdiv Philharmonic, St.Albans Symphony Orchestra (UK), Musica Experimento (Roma-Italy),etc. Currently, she works as Associate Professor on the Faculty of Art, University of Nis, Serbia and is engaged as Music Director and Conductor of Symphony Orchestra Faculty of Art, University of Nis and Academic Chamber Orchestra SKC, Nis. Milena Injac is Vicepresident of Artistic Council, Nis International Choir Festival. She is awarded with Gold Badge - prestigious award of 20. International Choir Festival, Nis 2004, for high level of vocal-instrumental performances and world premieres. Her premiere performance of opera buffa G.B.Pergolesi "La Serva Padrona", was nominated for "top cultural event of the year in Nis,Serbia, 2008".
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| Madoka Inui
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| Soloist (Classical pianist (solo recitals and chamber music))
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| 0043 1 715 16 54
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| Salesianergasse 10, Vienna 1030, Austria
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| | Biography Born in Kobe, Japan. Living in Vienna since 1990. Studied at conservatory with Dianko Iliew and Roland Batik. Diploma examination with full honors. Won international competition "Citta di Stresa" (Italy). Intensive concert activities in Austria, Spain and Japan. Chamber music performances since 1995 e. g. with members of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. CDs, series for Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF). Curator and performer at chamber music and talk show series. Literary-musical soirees e. g. with Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco and António Lobo Antunes.
CDs Works for cello and piano by Brahms, Richard Strauss and JohannStrauß II with Franz Bartolomey, first cello of Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (BMG/RCA Red Seal) Works for clarinet and piano by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Alban Berg (NAXOS) Works for horn an piano by Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann and Dukas (NAXOS, spring 2004). Series will be continued
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| Michael Lee Ippolito
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| Arranger, Composer, Writer
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