Brilliant Chaos String Quartet, BBC New Generationa Artist 2023-2025 nominee, will play the closing concert in Trieste on December 15th 6,00pm at Hotel Savoia of Associazione Chamber Music’s 2024 season. On the menu beautiful Italian string quartets by Boccherini and Verdi.
More info and tickets: https://www.acmtrioditrieste.it/evento/chaos-string-quartet/
DF Artists welcomes in its roster the wonderful clarinetist Alexander Bedenko.
The multi-award-winning Ukrainian-born American clarinetist Alexander Bedenko has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Steinway Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and UNESCO in Paris.
Since graduating from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he has collaborated with artists such as Gautier Capuçon, Christoph Eschenbach, Kirill Gerstein, Daniel Hope, Nobuko Imai, Christiane Karg, Nikolai Lugansky, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Vladimir Spivakov, as well as with the Borodin, Jerusalem, Alma, Ariel, Endellion and Orion string quartets.
He has also made solo appearances with the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Romanian, Uzbekistan and Ukraine National Symphony Orchestras, Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, and Moscow Virtuosi, and taken part in chamber music concerts at the Colmar, Verbier, Spoleto, Malta, Mozaic and Schubertiade festivals.
In 2019, Alexander Bedenko released an acclaimed debut album on Orchid classics with Kyril Zlotnikov and Itamar Golan. This was followed in March 2022 by Finding Home (Sony Classical). His arrangements for clarinet and piano of five works by Tchaikovsky were published worldwide by Muzyka Edition in 2021.
A former Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra principal clarinetist, he has been guest principal clarinetist on a Chicago Symphony Orchestra tour, by invitation of Riccardo Muti, and has also performed as guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra (London), The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra, this last under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst.
Alexander Bedenko is a Selmer Paris and D’Addario Woodwinds artist.
www.alexanderbedenko.com
Anna Kravtchenko will perform again in Cosenza at Teatro Rendano after her successful recital in 2023. An Italian debut for her Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin with ICO Orchestra Sinfonica Brutia on November 23rd 2024 at 7,00pm under the baton of Marco Titotto for Associazione Musicale Maurizio Quintieri.
More info: https://www.associazionequintieri.com/eventi/anna-kravtchenko/
Anna Kravtchenko back soon in Lucca! The unique style of Anna Kravtchenko will fascinate the audience of her concert on Saturday 26 October 2024 at 5:30pm at the Auditorium of the Boccherini Conservatory .
The concert will open with Beethoven piano Sonata No. 7 in D major op. 10 no. 3, a work in which maturity, lightness and pathos are elements perfectly blended together, followed by Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36, a work of great charm and complexity. The concert will end with Liszt Sonata in B minor S.178 that the composer dedicated to Robert Schumann, one of the milestones of the piano repertoire for its depth of thought and richness of writing.
Liszt is one of the elective authors of this pianist who, with her unique style and extraordinary expressive strength, makes every concert an enthralling and enlightening experience.
More info: https://www.associazionemusicalelucchese.it/anna-kravtchenko-protagonista-della-stagione-dei-concerti/
Massimiliano Ferrati will come back to Matera for Viva Verdi Multikulti Festival on September 16th 2024 at 8,30pm. The multi-award-winning Italian pianist will perform a non stop program with music by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven at Fondazione Monacelle’s main hall.
Massimiliano Ferrati reports his note to the program: “The love of a son for his lost mother, the love between two lovers forever divided by fate, the love of man for nature. An ever-present journey with four composers who have touched on deep and fundamental themes of the human being. Mozart’s Sonata K. 310 written in one go upon hearing the news of his mother’s death, Haydn’s Variations in F minor inspired by the myth of Orpheus, Schubert’s Musical Moment no. 1 magically immersed in a bucolic world to rediscover oneself in contact with nature. Closing with Beethoven’s Sonata op. 53 where a dawn of positivity and restorative energy slowly emerges from the deep night, inviting every man to a serene and festive sharing, thanks also to elements of popular taste, alternating with the harmonious and happy inspiration that only nature can sometimes give. Live themes in a fascinating, emotionally dynamic and engaging program.
More info: https://www.arteriamatera.it/vivaverdi/vivaverdi-multikulti
Anna Kravtchenko for the first time at Lerici Music Festival! The renowned Ukrainian-Italian pianist will join Lerici Music festival’s prestigious list of artists of 2024 Edition.
She will perform on August 6th at 9,15pm a thrilling program including works by Haydn, Schumann/Liszt, Schubert/Liszt, Mendelssohn and Chopin. The concert will be held in the beautiful Villa Margola in Lerici.
More info: https://lericimusicfestival.org/00-06-agosto-serenate-romantiche/
Anna Kravtchenko will perform in Barletta (Italy) at Hotel La Terrazza on July 30th at 9,15pm for Barletta Piano Festival.
The program will range from XVIII Century with Haydn’s Sonata in E major Hob. XVI:13 to the XIX Century with Liszt transcribing Schumann’s «Widmung» and the lieder «Standchen von Shakespeare» and «Standchen» by Schubert, up to Mendelssohn with the Rondo’ Capriccioso and Chopin ‘s Nocturne op. 9 no. 3 and Sonata n.3 in b minor op.58. A program dedicated mainly to Liszt and Chopin particularly cherished by Anna Kravtchenko who celebrated them in two distinct recordings for the Decca record label, consecrated by critics.
More info: https://www.barlettapianofestival.it/edizioni/2024
Simone Zanchini’s SOLO (QUASI ACUSTICO) thrilling solo concert will be performed on Sunday, July 14th at 6pm in San Marino’smMulini Canepa in the 2024 ATER’s Macinare Cultura Summer Festival.
Simone Zanchini, one of the most interesting and innovative accordionists on the international scene, moves his research between the boundaries of contemporary, acoustic and electronic music, undertaking extra-cultured experiments and contaminations without forgetting tradition, thus resulting in a very personal approach to improvisational material.
SOLO (QUASI ACUSTICO) is the most representative project of Simone Zanchini’s great ability and artistry to create music and is configured as one of the most unforgettable musical journeys for the audience who loves accordion, improvisation and jazz.
more info: https://www.ater.emr.it/it/festival-e-rassegne/macinare-cultura-2024/1613
Simone Zanchini on tour in Monza and in Varese (Italy) with Orchestra Canova and Enrico Saverio Pagano, conductor.
Canova Orchestra conducted by Enrico Saverio Pagano, one of the best Italian groups under 35, and the accordionist Simone Zanchini, one of the greatest virtuosos of the accordion, at ease with musicians and projects of different backgrounds, from classical to jazz, will be the protagonists of a program focused on the music of Astor Piazzolla and Ennio Morricone. The program is completed by the Suite Four Colors by Roberto Di Marino, written for Zanchini himself.
Friday July 12th 8.00 pm MONZA, VILLA REALE
Saturday July 13th 6.00 pm VARESE, VILLA TOEPLITZ
ASTRAL ASTOR
Simone Zanchini accordion Orchestra Canova Enrico Saverio Pagano conductor
Astor Piazzolla
Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas
Ennio Morricone
Suite from Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Roberto Di Marino
Four Colors
MORE INFO: www.orchestracanova.com
DF Artists is proud to announce Pavel Berman as a new artist in its roster.
Pavel Berman was born in Moscow in 1970. He studied in the Centrai School of Music and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Igor Bezrodniy and then went to the Juilliard School in New York to study with Dorothy Delay and later with lsaac Stern.
Mr. Berman attracted international attention when he won the Second Prize int the 1987 Paganini Competition at the age of 17 and received First Prize and the Gold Medal at the 1990 lndianapolis lnternational Violin Competition.
He has appeared as a soloist and/or conductor with orchestras such as the Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestra RAI di Torino, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berliner Symphoniker, Tokyo Philharmonic, lndianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra and others.
He has performed in prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Théatre des Champs Elysées, Herkulessaal in Munich, Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, Bunkakaikan in Tokyo, Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 1998, Mr. Berman founded the Kaunas Chamber Orchestra in Lithuania and was its artistic director until 2005.
Pavel Berman has collaborated with musicians such as Lazar Berman, Andras Schiff, Bruno Canino, Alexander Rudin, Eliahu lnbal, Daniel Oren, Shlomo Mintz, Alban Gerhardt, Donald Weilerstein. Additionally, he has recorded for Koch lnternational, Audiofon, Discover, Phoenix Classics, Dynamic. His latest record, ‘Passacaglia’, together with the pianist Maria Meerovitch, released by Orchid Classics, has been released in October of 2023.
He currently gives masterclasses in numerous academies and is regularly invited to participate in the juries of the Paganini lnternational Competition, the George Enescu lnternational Competition, the lsang Yun Competition, Classical Strings and many others.
In 2021, Mr. Berman became the cofounder and artistic director for the Monteverdi Circle Online Centre for the Performing Arts. Pavel Berman is currently a professor in Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, and in Accademia Perosi in Biella, ltaly. Among his former students are such artists as the 2021 winner of Paganini competition Giuseppe Gibboni, the 2023 Paganini competition second prize winner Jingzhi Zhang, granted the Audience Online Vote Award, the concertmaster of La Scala orchestra Laura Marzadori, the winner of ICMA 2022 prize Gennaro Cardaropoli and many other violinists who have taken leading positions in orchestras.
He plays an Antonio Stradivari violin, Cremona 1702 ‘ex David Oistrakh’, kindly lent to him by the Fondazione Pro Canale in Milan.