Peter Csaba was born in Cluj (Transylvania, Romania) of a musical Hungarian family in 1952. He studied the violin, composition and conducting, first in his hometown and then in Bucharest. After winning several national and international competitions, such as the Paganini Competition in Italy, he was recognized as an artist of the first order. He has performed as a soloist and conductor with major orchestras from 50 countries around the globe.
Since 1983 Csaba has lived in Lyon, France, where he has made a career as a conductor and soloist of the Orchestre de l'Opera and Orchestre National de Lyon. From the beginning of the 94/95 season Peter Csaba has acted as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Besan‡on Symphony Orchestra in France and the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra in V„xj", Sweden. Csaba has founded two chamber orchestras: Les Soloistes de Lyon and the Virtuosi di Kuhmo. He has played with Krystian Zimerman, Peter Frankl, Ralf Goth¢ni, Maria Tipo and Zoltan Kocsis and conducted performances by Pierre Fournier, James Galway Natalia Gutman and Kyung Wa Chung, to mention a few.
Csaba's master classes in France, Hungary, Finland, Sweden, the United States and Japan have a high reputation. He is a recurrent guest at numerous chamber music festivals all over the world, such as the Kuhmo Festival in Finland and the Lapplands Festspel in Sweden, of which he has been Artistic Director since 1992.
Peter Csaba was also invited the Artistic Director of Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival 2000.
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“This was an entirely engaging piece of
music-drama, but also a revelatory sea-change in our perception of Sibelius’s
music. […] Every note was superbly played.” The Times, 22nd April 2008
John Storgårds is one of the most versatile and respected Finnish musicians of
his generation. He has become one of today’s leading performers and champions
of new and rarely heard works, alongside more familiar repertoire. His creative
flair for programming is an impressive hallmark for him worldwide.
Storgårds is Chief Conductor designate of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra,
taking up the post from the 2008/09 season. He additionally holds the title of
Chief Conductor with the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra (until the end of the
2008/09 season) and Artistic Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland (ongoing
since 1996).
Storgårds made an impressive BBC Proms debut in 2005 with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra; with whom he now works every season. He has also worked with the
Gothenberg Symphony, the Finnish, Swedish and Frankfurt Radio Symphony
Orchestras, Danish National Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra,
MDR Leipzig Orchestra and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Further afield, Storgårds
has conducted the Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand Symphonies, Australian
Chamber Orchestra and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra. He made his Japan debut in
2007 with Kioi Sinfonietta. Soloists with whom he regularly collaborates include
Christian Tetzlaff, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Truls Mørk, Grigory Sokolov, Håkan
Hardenberger, Karita Mattila, and Matti Salminen.
Highlights of the 2008/09 include returns to BBC Symphony Orchestra, Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony (where
Storgårds also is violin soloist), Gothenburg Symphony and MDR Leipzig. He
makes debut appearances with Bremer Philharmoniker, BBC Scottish Symphony,
Mozarteum Salzburg, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and City of
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. One of his last projects as Chief Conductor at
Tampere will be performances of Verdi’s Don Carlos at Tampere Opera. With
Helsinki Philharmonic he opens his first season as Chief Conductor with a
Finnish premiere concert performance of Schtschedrin’s The Enchanted Wanderer.
Also in Storgårds’ first season, the orchestra undertake a tour to China.
Storgårds’ recordings include the award-winning Vasks’ Violin Concerto
Distant Light and Second Symphony (Cannes Classical Disc of the Year Award
2004), Kaija Saariaho’s Graal theatre, works of John Corigliano and the
seldom-heard Busoni Violin Concerto with soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann. His
recording of works by Kalevi Aho, including the mighty Luosto Symphony (which
features both Lahti Symphony and Lapland Chamber Orchestra), has just been
released to great acclaim.
John Storgårds first studied violin and, having played professionally under the
baton of many world-class conductors, returned to the Sibelius Academy from
1993-1997 to study conducting with Jorma Panula and Eri Klas. He received the
Finnish State Prize for Music in 2002
Further information of John Storgårds from www.kdschmid.co.uk
John Storgårds' own web-site: www.johnstorgards.com
In
1996, at the age of 23, Shuntaro Sato was appointed Associate Conductor of the
English Chamber Orchestra after his debut with them at the Barbican,
In
the
Shuntaro
Sato made his debut with the Helsinki Philharmonia Orchestra in 1998 which led
to concerts with practically all the Finnish orchestras, including the Finnish
Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sinfonia Lahti and the Tapiola Sinfonietta.
In
January 2000 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Kuopio Symphony
Orchestra in
Shuntaro
Sato has conducted many orchestras in his native
He
made his US debut with the Boston Chamber Orchestra in 1997 and was subsequently
invited to be a guest conductor at the Tanglewood Festival.
He made his debut in the
He
has worked with many distinguished soloists including Pinchas Zukerman, Gyorgy
Pauk, Augustin Dumay, Sarah Chang, Nigel Kennedy, Anne Akiko Meyers, Tasmin
Little, Gerard Causse, Mischa Maisky, Raphael Wallfisch, Julian Lloyd Webber,
Cristina Ortiz, Peter Donahoe, Emma Johnson, Barbara Hendricks, Magdalena Kozena,
Thomas Allen, Lesley Garrett and Andre Bochelli.
Born
in
In
2003 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (
In
2006 a recording of Bach and Mozart Arias with Hyunah Yu and the Prague
Philharmonia was released from EMI.
Shuntaro
Sato lives in
Already at the age of fifteen
Ylönen
plays a Matteo Goffriller -cello.
Olga Pasichnyk born in Pivne, Ukraine. She has completed pedagogical musical studies in her home town (piano, choral conducting and singing). Subsequently she studied voice at the Kiev Conservatory (with professor Eugenia Miroshnichenko) and at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw (postgraduate studies with professor Alma Bolechowska). Her present vocal consultant is Nadia Safronova, professor of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
In 1992 she became a soloist of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, where she sang major roles in Mozart operas (Rosina in La finta semplice, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro) in Monteverdi operas (Minerva in 11 ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria and Poppea in L'lncoronazione dl Poppea), Dido (in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas), Alceste (in Lully's Alceste with J.C. Malgoire, as a musical director) and also Rosmene (in Haendel's Imeneo), Fiorilla (in Rossinl's 11 Turco in Italia). She performed with the Warsaw Chamber Opera Company at the Dresdner Musik Festspiele (1994), Mozart Festival in Madrid (1994), the Opernfest "Mozart von A-Z" in Vienna (1997), the Polish cultural days in Toronto and Internationales Bodensee-Festival "Kultur aus Polen" in
Friedrichshafen (1998).
Olga Pasichnyk also develops her interest in early music performance, regularly appearing with numerous musicians and ensembles specialising in early music. These include Jean-Claude Malgoire and hes La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy (France), Wladyslaw Klosiewicz (Poland-Austria), Marek Toporowski, Concerto Polacco, Il Tempo (Poland), Les Enemis Confus (Belgium), and The Bortniansky Trio (Ukraine).
She performed at 35th Early Music Festival in Brugge (Belgium), XXII Festival de La-Chaise-Dieu (France), XX Festival Internacional de Musica Antigua in Daroca (Zaragoza, Spain), Tage Alter Musik in Herne (Germany), 54th International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój (Poland), 42nd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn". In December '98 she sang with success role of Pamina (Mozart, The Magic Flute) in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, in October '99 she made her debut with Orchestra Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence, Italy).
Olga Pasichnyk is the Prizewinner of the Intemational Vocal Competition in s'Hertogenbosch (the Netherlands, 1994 - II prize) and Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition in Helsinki (Finland, 1999 - II prize). She was also awarded the Passport from the highly popular monthly "Polityka" in the area of culture in 1997 and the "Orfeus" - the award to the best performer of the polish composer's piece at 42nd International Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn" (1 999).
In her repertoire she pays special attention to the Baroque and Classical operas, music of French impressionism, Ukrainian and Russian songs, oratorios and interpretations of contemporary music.
She has recorded on CD Polish baroque church music, Italian baroque music (solo CD), The Kurpie songs of K. Szymanowski (it was awarded by Fryderyk-97 - Polish Prize for the best solo recording of 1997), Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Nelssonmesse, Bortniansky's opera Alcide (dir. J.-P. Loré) - world premiere, Russian songs to Mickiewicz's poems, G.-F. Telemann's cantates, K. Förster's vocal pieces, ukrainian contemporary music, W. Lutoslawski's songs with Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, (dir. A. Wit) for NAXOS, songs and romances for OPUS 1 1 1.
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