OPEN CELLO SEMINAR
Hillel Zori at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu

October 19th - 23d - 2009

The Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu, Barcelona, announces the first cello seminar open to all students.
This activity will be a meeting point of students of our school, from other parts of Spain and from foreign schools.
Students will participate as active students and/or as listeners in the master classes of renowned Israeli cellist Hillel Zori, professor of the Bachmann-Metha School of Music of Tel Aviv University. Participants will be selected on the base of artistic criteria in order to guarantee the quality of the seminar. Participants will assist all the master classes,
receive individual lessons, play in 2 concerts and attend professor Zori´s  recital.
There is no selection for anybody to listen to all of the master classes, only limited by availability of seats.
Students from other schools will be able to know the new Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu: 9700m² of space dedicated to musical education in the center of Barcelona.

Tim Miller offers a distinctive voice to the world of jazz guitar. He contributes his fiery playing and distinctive sound to a variety of musical statements and can currently be heard on three self-produced CDs, "Sides", "Trio", and "Trio Vol. 2". Guitar Player Magazine characterized his playing as "pure melody consciousness with remarkable control, a breathy, violiny tone [and] bell-like consistency." Miller's music combines explosive raw energy, artistically balanced with soulful melodic compositions. Miller’s career has taken him to Paris, New York and presently, Boston where he is currently an Associate Professor of guitar at Berklee College of Music. While living in Paris, he played extensively with drummer Aldo Romano. This led to recordings and European concerts and jazz festivals. Upon returning to the US, Miller joined the faculty of Berklee College of Music and recorded "Sides" with saxophonist George Garzone. He also played in a quartet with fellow guitarist Mick Goodrick. In 2005, Miller released his first solo recording "Trio" which has received critical acclaim. Recently, Miller has released his most personal recording to date, “Trio Vol. 2” and he is performing his latest music throughout the US and abroad. His recent performances include concerts and festivals with Paul Motian, Randy Brecker, Mark Turner, Terri Lyne Carrington, Gary Thomas, Gary Husband, George Duke, Chris Cheek, Keith Carlock, among others. He is currently co-writing a music harmony book with Mick Goodrick to be released in 2008 and working on new compositions for his next recording.

http://www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail/tim-miller

Kristiina Junttu was trained in Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki, Finland. She studied piano with Liisa Pohjola and Ilmo Ranta, and continued her studies in London with Valeria Szerwansky. She completed her studies on many master classes with Katarina Nummi-Kuisma, Konstantin Bogino and György Kurtág.
Kristiina Junttu has appeared at many festivals in Finland and in most European countries, such as Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Lerchenborg Contemporary Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Festival and IRCAM Paris.  She has performed regularly as a solo pianist and also in several chamber music croups, most within Avanti! -chamber orchestra, which is one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in northern Europe. Kristiina Junttu´s repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary music. She frequently works with living composers, as Antonio Pileggi, Diogones Rivas and György Kurtág. With Kurtág she has worked through the majority of his piano music and also a specific selection of the classic-romantic repertoire. Kristiina has also appeared in several multi-art productions and she is very interested in improvisation.
Kristiina is working as a piano and chamber music teacher in East-Helsinki Institute in Helsinki, Finland. She has specialized in pedagogical training, giving regularly both seminars in continuing education for teachers and master classes for students extensively in music schools and conservatories around Europe. Most notable are the master classes concentrating in Kurtágs piano music collection Játékok. She has also developed innovative teaching and training methods especially directed for instrumental learning at early stages including physical and mental training and use of improvisation as a part of learning process.
At the moment Kristiina is completing her Applied Study Program PhD about György Kurtágs piano music. Her final portfolio is including a report and Internet sites concentrating on Játékok and the pedagogical implication rising from it.

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Introduced to the piano by his concert pianist mother, Moscow-born Alexander Braginsky began studying the piano at the age of four. His first teacher, Alexander Goldenweiser, a classmate of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, introduced Braginsky to the 19th century Romantic tradition. Braginsky also studied with Theodore Gutman, another illustrious representative of the Golden Age of Russian piano schools. Offering his audiences a repertoire that extends from Baroque to avant-garde, Braginsky has performed more than 20 world premiers, most of which were commissioned and written for him. Braginsky has performed extensively in USSR, Israel, England, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Spain, France and the United States. He also appeared on stage in collaboration with the variety of renowned artists including Yefim Bronfman and Oleg Kagan. Together with his wife, cellist Tanya Remenikova, the couple was the first artists-in-residence appointed by Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1981. A Professor on the faculty of the International Music Summer Course in Vienna, Austria, Braginsky has given numerous master classes around the world. He was awarded the Josef Dichler Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in 2003. Today, Braginsky teaches at the University of Minnesota School of Music and is the Artistic Director of the Musicians in Debut International (MIDI) as well as the Founding President and the Artistic Director of the Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.

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Ara Malikian began studying the violin at an early age with his father. He gave his first concert at the age of 12 and when he was 14 he was invited to study in Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in Berlin. At 15 he was the youngest student to be admitted in this school. Later he continued his studies in the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, at the same time receiving lessons from professors Franco Gulli, Ruggiero Ricci, Ivry Gitlis, Herman Krebbers and members of the Alban Berg Quartet.
His assimilated the music of other cultures like those of the Middle East (Arab and Jewish), Central Europe (gipsy and Klezmer), Argentina (tango) and Spain (flamenco).
With a wide-ranging repertoire, that includes the majority of all the important pieces written for the violin (concerts with orchestra, sonatas and pieces with piano and chamber music) he has also premiered pieces from modern composers like Franco Danatoni, Malcolm Lipkin, Luciano Chailly, Ladislav Kupkovich, Loris Tjeknavorian, Lawrence Roman and Yervand Yernakian. Malikian also plays recitals for solo violin with programs featuring complete cycles of the “24 Caprices” of Paganini, the “6 Sonatas" of Eugène Ysaÿe and the “Sonatas and Partitas" of J.S. Bach.
He has been recognized in numerous competitions, among which are the First Prizes obtained in the International Competitions “Felix Mendelssohn” (1987, Berlin, Germany) and “Pablo Sarasate” (1995, Pamplona, Spain) besides other prizes like those from the competitions “Niccolo Paganini” (Genoa, Italy), “Zino Francescatti” (Marseille, France), “Rodolfo Lipizer” (Gorizia, Italy), “Jeunesses Musicales” (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), “Rameau” (Le Mans, Francia), “International Artists Guild” (New York, USA), and the “International Music Competition of Japan”. In 1993 he received the “Prize for Artistic Devotion and Achievement” from the German Ministry of Culture.
He has played in more than 40 countries: New York (Carnegie Hall), Paris (Salle Pleyel), Viene (Musikverein), Toronto (Ford Center), Madrid (Auditorio Nacional and Teatro Real), Venice, Los Angeles, Taipei, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Cuba, Barcelona and Bilbao among others. He has also participated in the festivals at Aspen, Colamar, Prades, Schleswig Holstein, Braunschweig, San Sebastian, Segovia, Bergen, Freden, Metlach and Prague. As a soloist he has been invited by the following orchestras: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Zürich Chamber Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra, Genova Opera Orchestra, Sinfónica de Madrid, Sinfónica de Portugal, Chamber Orchestra of Tübingen, Moscu Virtuosi, Belgrade Philharmonic, Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, Armenia Philharmonic and Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, under the direction of such important directors as Mariss Jansons, Peter Maag, Jesús López Cobos, Vladimir Spivakov, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, Luis Antonio García Navarro, Vassili Sinaisky, Edmond de Stoutz, Gudni Emilson, Juan José Mena and Jo Ann Falletta.
He currently lives in Madrid, where he is the concertmaster of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid (resident orchestra of the Madrid Royal Opera), with which he performs as a soloist. In Le Boeuf sur le Toit by D. Milhaud, in the version for violin and orchestra, under the direction of Gómez Martínez; and in the “Concerto for Violín and Orchestra in D minor” by Aram Khachaturian under the baton of Jesús López Cobos.
He plays in duo since 1995 with the pianist Serouj Kradjian, also of Armenian origin, with whom he recorded the complete cycle of Sonatas by Robert Schumann (Hänsler) and the record “Miniatures” (Malkrafon), an exquisite anthology of music for violin and piano written by Armenian composers. He has also recorded numerous discs for record companies such as BMG, Auvidis, Trittico Classics and Elite Music, including among many other compositions, “The Four Seasons” of Vivaldi (more than 80,000 copies sold for UNICEF). He also maintains a close collaboration with José Luis Montón. He has also worked with the Lebanese singer Fairuz, the flamenco dancers Joaquín Cortés and Belén Maya, the Ensamble Nuevo Tango and the jazz pianist Horacio Icasto. He has also worked with film-music composers like Alberto Iglesias, with whom he recorded the soundtrack for “Hable Con Ella”, the last movie by Almodovar, or Pascal Gainge in “Otro Barrio” by the director Salvador García Ruiz.

Ara Malikian is currently an exclusive artist of Warner Music Spain, where he has released “Manantial” and "De la felicidad" accompanied by the flamenco guitarist José Luis Montón. This last CD has been nominated by the Spanish Academy of Music for the best New Music CD of the year. With Warner Malikian has also recorded a double CD with some of the most significant works of Paganini, including his "24 Caprices for Violin Solo", an album with some compositions by Sarasate accompanied by the Armenian pianist Serouj Kradjian, the "Six Sonatas" for violin by Ysaÿe and the "Sonatas and Partitas" by J. S. Bach.
Ara Malikian has been nominated twice for the best classical performance in the 2007 Music Prizes in Spain given by the Spanish Academy for his recording of the Poema Concertante by Xavier Montsalvatge, along with the Castilla y León Symphonic Orchestra; as well as for a piece with Joan Valent, Suso Sáiz and Marc Blanes.

Information source: wikipedia

Paco Varoch va rebre la seva educació musical a Alzira, València, París i La Haya, on va estudia amb María Angeles Grau, Jaime Martín, Andrés Adorján i Marianne Henkel-Ajordán.

Lunes 22 y martes 23 de marzo
ámara y de orquesta

Lupa Santiago – Guitarra
Graduado en el Berklee College OfOff Music (1998) y en el Musicians Institute (GIT/Los Angelas, USA- 95) y Master del Boston Conservatory y Berklee College OfOff Music. Lupa Santiago ha tocado y grabado (7 cds como lider). En los Estados Unidos, Europa y Sur América), ha actuado con artistas de la talla de Fernando Brando, Banda Mantiqueira, Nelson Haría, Fernando Corrêa, Sizo Machado, Vinicius Dorim, Bob Wyatt, Daniel D´Alcântara, Rogério Bocato y Nenê . Es invitado a menudo a ofrecer clases magistrales en varios países y ha publicado dos DVDs y tres libros de Improvisación Moderna.

Marcelo Coelho– Saxofón
Saxofonista, arreglista y compositor graduado el 1997 en música popular en la Universidade Estadual de Campinas - UNICAMP, Máster de Jazz Performance por la Universidad de Miami y doctor por la UNICAMP.  Marcelo Coelho acumula una extensa carrera artística con calidades de instrumentista e investigador en el área musical. Ha participado en cursos y máster class de profesores como David Liebman, Gary Campbell, Gary Keller, Ron Miller, Whit Sidener, Joe Lovano, entre otros. Ha actuado con artistas como Caetano Veloso, Chico César, Johnny Conga Jazz Byte, Rick Harris Big Band, Michel Friedson Quarteto, entre otros. Autor de dos libros de armonía y música popular brasileña: “As concepçoes harmônicas don Bebop” y “Análise da linguagem saxofonística brasileira”. Marcelo Coelho es “endorser” de los filtros BN y los microfonos JTS.

Sizão Machado – Contrabajo
Artista, autodidacta, el contrabajista Sizo Machado es reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los músicos brasileños más importantes. actuó durante mucho tiempos con artistas de la talla Chet Baker, Herbie Mann, Elis Regina, Jim Hall, Chico Buarque, Dori Caymmi, Djavan, Milton Nascimento, Dionne Warwick, Joyce, Flora Purim y Airto Moreira, Roberto Menescal, Noite Illustrada, Jean & Paul Garfunkel, Familia Jobim, Paulo César Pinheiro, Hendrick Merkins entre otros. Ha participado en la grabación de más de una centena de discos de los más variados artistas. Dirige su propio estudio “In Sonoris”. Ha ganado el León de Bronce, categoría Radio, en el Festival de Cannes con el jingle “Pergunte por quê”, pieza institucional anti-tabaco del Ministerio de Salud en 2005.

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