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French-Korean flutist Mihi Kim is an international and cosmopolitan soloist with almost 1000 concerts to her credit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her album “The Blue Rider” – \u00ab\u00a0Le Cavalier Bleu \u00bb in collaboration with the pianist Bertrand Giraud, published under the label Anima Records has been Internationally acclaimed by the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 1996, she has performed in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Hungary, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Russia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States, in prestigious halls such as Salle Cortot, Salle Gaveau, Op\u00e9ra Comique, UNESCO, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs Elys\u00e9es and Cit\u00e9 de la Musique (Paris), Ballet de Marseille, Radio France, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Strasbourg, (France), Com\u00e9die de Gen\u00e8ve (Switzerland), Villa Medici (Rome), Palazzo Chigi Saracini (Siena), Cagliari Opera House (Sardaige) in Italy, Vienna’s Musikverein in\u00a0Austria, Lodz<\/a>\u00a0Philharmonic and Czestochova Philharmonic in Poland; in the prestigious Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall) in New York (USA), then at Shinagawa Bunka Hall, Musashino Hall (Tokyo) and Kobe Bunka Hall (Kobe) in Japan, Gumho Art Center (Seoul), and at the prestigious Seoul Art Center in Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She collaborates regularly with the pianist Bertrand Giraud with whom she recorded an album “The Blue Rider” (2013, Anima Records), then with Aur\u00e9lien Pontier (recently awarded the “Choc Classica” for his recording of Liszt Paraphrases), Jennifer Fichet and Teresa Janina Czekaj. Among other chamber music partners are Fabrice Pierre, Pierre-Henri Xuereb and Rachel Talitman. She was the founding member of the Ensemble Musica Universalis, and a member of Ensemble Itineraire, Multilaterale, Paris Chamber Orchestra, and the Takemitsu Trio as well as the Xanthos Trio.
Aficionada of contemporary music, she has participated in numerous recordings of creation under the labels of Mandala \/ Harmonia Mundi, Aeon and Musicube. Two recordings were recorded under the Label Harp and co. with harpist Rachel Talitman and violist Pierre-Henri Xuereb on the works of F. Kern (“Frida Kern”), Austrian composer, and contemporaries of Debussy titled “Around Debussy “. Various projects are in progress for 2020-2021, notably at Anima Records and Leitmotiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Always in modernity but in a distinctive style, Mihi Kim is currently collaborating with composers Armando Ghidoni, Martin Kutnowski and Guy-Claude Luypaerts. Works have been dedicated to her and she has created them especially at concerts around the globe.In 2017, Mihi Kim launches a preview of a “Steampunk” concert in Paris, presenting a whole new genre of music, both classical and modern, driven by electronic media. Warmly welcomed by the Parisian public, the final project will be presented through a series of concerts and events starting in autumn 2020.
Since 1998, Mihi Kim has been Professor of Fl\u00fbte in Paris and the Paris region. Nominated Professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and professor at the CRD in Issy-les-Moulineaux (92), she has trained more than 200 professionals from France and abroad. She holds the Certificate of Aptitude of Teacher of Musical Education (PEA). Polyglot and cosmopolitan, she speaks 6 languages and gives Masterclass around the world, often in the language of the country. She is international artist of Miyazawa Flutes, Japan since 2003 and plays on a Platinum fl\u00fbte 900\/000 (0.28) Type II Boston Classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in Seoul, South Korea, Mihi Kim studied in France and Germany, at the National Conservatory of Music of Paris, Hochschule of Cologne, Hochschule of M\u00fcnchen with the teachers Alain Marion, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Andras Adorjan, Aur\u00e8le Nicolet, Paul Meisen and Pierre-Yves Artaud. She holds the equivalent of a DAI (Diploma of Performing Artist, Ph.D. in interpretation from the Conservatoire CNSM in Paris) obtained in 1998. She is laureate of the 5th International Competition Jean-Pierre Rampal in Paris and won the 1st Grand Prize at the International Music Competition in Bayreuth, Germany. Mihi Kim has perfected her art by taking inspiration from masters such as Maxim Vengerov,\u00a0Martha Argerich,\u00a0Shlomo Mintz,\u00a0Hilary Hahn<\/a>, and Master\u00a0James Galway<\/a>, with whom she enjoys a close and friendly relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French-Korean flutist Mihi Kim is an international and cosmopolitan soloist with almost 1000 concerts to her credit. Her album “The Blue Rider” – \u00ab\u00a0Le Cavalier Bleu \u00bb in collaboration with the pianist Bertrand Giraud, published under the label Anima Records has been Internationally acclaimed by the press. Since 1996, she has performed in Germany, Switzerland, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2541","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2530,"date":"2020-02-16T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2530"},"modified":"2020-02-16T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:54:22","slug":"jinhua-lu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/jinhua-lu\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinhua Lu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Belgian-Chinese soprano Jinhua Lu is a master instructor and specially-appointed distinguished foreign professor of the Department of Voice at Xi’an Conservatory of Music, China. Prior to venturing into the Western music world, Ms. Lu had graduated from Xi’an Conservatory of Music in 1982 under Professor Cheng Jiayu. In the same year, she worked as both a soloist and program director in the Xi’an Song and Dance Ensemble. In 1987, she became a lecturer at the Art Department of Shaanxi Normal University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1992, she furthered her study in Belgium and eventually started to work there. In 1998 she graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels where she also received an advanced diploma in Opera Singing (the highest level diploma in European for singing), and a \u201cPremier Prix\u201d in opera art performance and singing. She was under the tutelage of Mr. J. BASTIN, Mrs. C. ARNAUD, and Mrs. M. Urbain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her 24 years of studying, working and living in Belgium, she has worked for both the Royal Opera House of Brussels and the Royal Opera House of Antwerp. She has performed dozens of operas, oratorio, concerts, and has performed as a soloist at many prestigious events such as the European Art Festival, the concert of the Chinese Mission to the European Union, and the concerto of the Chinese Embassy in Belgium. In September 2009, she performed at the “KLARA” International Music Festival in Brussels and cooperated with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra as a soloist. In October 2009, she participated in the Belgian \u201cEuropean Chinese Art Festival\u201d as a soloist. In 2011, she was specially invited to be the official French \u2013 Chinese translator for the master classes of the Queen Elizabeth International Vocal Competition by the competition organizing committee. In 2014, she performed in the “100th Anniversary of Chinese Landing in Belgium” Commemorative Concert as a soloist. In September 2015, upon approval by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) of China, she was invited by Shaanxi Foreign Affairs Office and the Department of Voice of Xi’an Conservatory to join the faculty of Conservatory as a special expert and special-appointed distinguished foreign professor. In June 2017, she was head of organization committee for the departmental concert of French vocal music (including an a cappella chorus). In September 2017, she performed as a soloist in the first concert of Belgian-Chinese musicians at the concert hall of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium. On December 13, 2018, she performed at the Xi’an Concert Hall in a large-scale acoustic symphonic concert singing Margaret’s aria “The Jewel Song” from the FAUST<\/em> by Charles Gounod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belgian-Chinese soprano Jinhua Lu is a master instructor and specially-appointed distinguished foreign professor of the Department of Voice at Xi’an Conservatory of Music, China. Prior to venturing into the Western music world, Ms. Lu had graduated from Xi’an Conservatory of Music in 1982 under Professor Cheng Jiayu. In the same year, she worked as both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2530","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2512,"date":"2020-02-16T06:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2512"},"modified":"2020-02-16T06:37:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:37:24","slug":"dieter-hennings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/dieter-hennings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dieter Hennings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The musical endeavors of Dieter Hennings Yeomans span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo and can be heard on the Nonesuch, Bridge, Parma, Nre Branch,  and Innova recording labels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Hennings has been a soloist with Canada\u2019s New Music Concerts Ensemble, Tito Sccipa Orchestra of Lecce, Italy, Eastman BroadBand Ensemble, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica de la Universidad de Guanajuato, Orquesta Filarm\u00f3nica de Sonora, the University of Arizona Philharmonia, the Orquesta Filarmonica de Monterrey among many others. Mr. Hennings has won first prize in several prestigious competitions including the 2008 Aaron Brock International Guitar Competition (Toronto), 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer, Alicante (Spain) International Young Artists Competition, the 2001 Portland International Guitar Competition, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Hennings is an active proponent of new music, particularly that of Latin America, having recently worked with composers Mario Davidovsky, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Juan Trigos and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon. Mr. Hennings has recently premiered works by composers Jake Bancks, Wes Matthews, John Aylward, Beth Wiemann, Hebert Vazquez, Luca Cori, Juan Trigos and Scott Worthington and many more. Hennings has received grants from the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (M\u00e9xico) and the Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes (Sonora, M\u00e9xico) to commission and premiere contemporary works for guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent engagements include concerts with pop-singer Natalie Merchant and baroque violinist Monica Huggett as well as appearances at the Mexican Embassy in Rome, Festival SpazioMusica of Cagliari, Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, University of Chicago, Festival Internacional de Chihuahua, New York\u2019s Joyce Theater, Julliard\u2019s Paul Hall, and New England Conservatory. Mr. Hennings is a resident artist at the East Coast Composers Ensemble and the Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, with whom he maintains an active performing schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dieter Hennings is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky and curates the UK International Guitar Series, which has brought to Lexington some of the finest guitarists in the world. Some of the artists featured on the series include David Russell, Paul O’Dette, Paul Galbraith, Nicholas Goluses, Adam Holzman, Jorge Caballero, Marcin Dylla, Zoran Dukic, Grisha Goryachev, and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The musical endeavors of Dieter Hennings Yeomans span from new music on guitar to early music for lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo and can be heard on the Nonesuch, Bridge, Parma, Nre Branch,  and Innova recording labels. Mr. Hennings has been a soloist with Canada\u2019s New Music Concerts Ensemble, Tito Sccipa Orchestra of Lecce, Italy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2512","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2510,"date":"2020-02-16T06:32:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2510"},"modified":"2020-02-16T06:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:38:27","slug":"eliane-reyes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/eliane-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliane Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Eliane Reyes, pianist prodigy, began performing at a very early age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1988, she was an award winner of the Cziffra Foundation (Senlis, France) and the same year she performed at the Tibor Varga Festival (Sion, Switzerland) and also with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, conducted by Sergiu Comissiona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First trained by her mother, she then went proceeded to study at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels followed by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden\u2019s class. Eliane promoted on to the Hochschule der K\u00fcnste in Berlin, to the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hans Leygraf, the Lemmensinstituut with Alan Weiss and there after to the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique in Paris under the aegis of Michel Beroff, Brigitte Engerer, Hans Leygraf and Jacques Rouvier. Ensuing her studies, she was appointed professor of complementary piano at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the spectrum of international competitions, Eliane has won innumerable awards including 1st prize in Ettlingen, Germany and 1st prize at the Cervantes International Piano Competition in Cuba. Finalist at the Montreal International Musical Competition, the Clara Schumann International Piano Competition in D\u00fcsseldorf, where she was equally rewarded for chamber music, and at the Maria Canals International Music Competition, to mention but a few. Eliane Reyes devotes herself to a career as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician to the unanimous acclaim of the international press and audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through her numerous performances, she has attained the absolute support of the Rheinold Bl\u00fcthner, Nany Philippart, Spes, Solti and Vocatio Foundations. Amongst artists such as Martha Argerich or Vladimir Ashkenazy, Eliane has had the opportunity to be invited to give recitals and to perform alongside Augustin Dumay, Ivry Gitlis, Misha Maisky and Jos\u00e9 van Dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her discography consists of works by Nicolas Bacri, F. Chopin, C. Debussy, Benjamin Godard, F. Liszt, Michel Lysight, D. Milhaud, M. Ravel, A. Tansman, as a consequence she obtained many awards such as \u201cPianiste Maestro\u201d  by the French magazine Pianiste, \u201cRing\u201d by Classic Info, \u201cJoker\u201d by Crescendo Magazine and a \u201cSupersonic\u201d award from Pizzicat and notably from ResMusica, where she was awarded \u201cLa Clef d\u2019or\u201d for her solo recording of the 24 Intermezzi by A. Tansman. Eliane Reyes was nominated three times for the \u201cInternational Classical Music Awards\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliane Reyes is currently Professor of piano at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eliane Reyes, pianist prodigy, began performing at a very early age. In 1988, she was an award winner of the Cziffra Foundation (Senlis, France) and the same year she performed at the Tibor Varga Festival (Sion, Switzerland) and also with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, conducted by Sergiu Comissiona. First trained by her mother, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2506,"date":"2020-02-16T06:25:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2506"},"modified":"2020-02-16T06:28:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:28:50","slug":"dr-xi-zhang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/dr-xi-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Xi Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Dr. Xi Zhang serves as professor of piano at Shanghai Normal University and General Secretary of the Shanghai Professional Pianists Association. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Zhang made her European debut at the age of 19, giving a recital tour of seven cities in Norway. Since then, she has performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and China and has given recitals in venues such as the Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C. and the National Performing Arts Center in Beijing.  She has collaborated with Eugenia Zukerman, Bin Huang, and Hyun-Su Shin, among many others. Pianist George Sandor described her as playing “with superb sensitivity and technique”. Dr. Zhang’s solo album containing works of Haydn and Schumann was released by Shanghai Music Publishing House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Zhang was the chief editor of the Shanghai Piano Exam Anthology with distribution of more than 60000 copies. She has published numerous journal articles and given lectures on the subjects of music analysis and piano pedagogy. Dr. Zhang has been a visiting professor at Shanghai Conservatory and has served as faculty at the Global Summer Institute of Music at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Shanghai International Piano Institute, and the Silk Road International Piano Summer Institute. Many of Dr. Zhang\u2019s students have won top prizes at international piano competitions, including 1st prize at both the Vienna International Piano Competition and Shanghai International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A prizewinner of multiple competitions, Dr. Zhang received the top prize at the Boca Piano Competition and second prize at the Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition. She is a named Liberace Scholar and Shanghai Pujiang Scholar.
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Dr. Xi Zhang serves as professor of piano at Shanghai Normal University and General Secretary of the Shanghai Professional Pianists Association. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music.  Dr. Zhang made her European debut at the age of 19, giving a recital tour of seven cities in Norway. Since then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2502,"date":"2020-02-16T06:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2502"},"modified":"2020-02-16T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:02:34","slug":"solomia-soroka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/solomia-soroka\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomia Soroka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Violinist Solomia Soroka, born in L’viv, Ukraine, made her solo debut at age 10, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the L\u2019viv Philharmonic Orchestra. Her playing combines the powerful background of the Ukrainian system with a passionate exploration of lesser played music, especially American and Ukrainian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has appeared as soloist and as chamber musician at concerts and festivals in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Ukraine, USA, Canada, China, Korea, and Taiwan. She is praised for being \u201ca truly wonderful musician\u201d (The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand), her \u201ctechnical mastery…ferocity, light and mystic lyricism\u201d (Daily Freeman, New York), and as one who \u201cplays with great warmth and authority\u201d (BBC Music Magazine). She has performed with orchestras in Ukraine, Australia, and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Soroka has performed premieres of a number of important contemporary Ukrainian compositions for violin, including works by Borys Lyatoshynsky, Myroslav Skoryk and Yevhen Stankovych.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since her U.S. debut in 1997, she has performed throughout the United States. Her recitals in Washington DC were part of the Smithsonian Institute performing arts series and she received the following review in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSoroka is a superbly equipped violinist, at ease with the technical challenges<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of Sarasate or of Jeno Hubay\u2019s Czardas No. 2, but even more impressive in the gentler moments…. Her tone is warm and mellow on the low strings, brilliant on the high strings, perfectly controlled and expressively used.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomia Soroka has toured and recorded extensively with her husband, the pianist Arthur Greene. Their Naxos recording of Four Violin Sonatas by William Bolcom was selected as Recording of the Month with the highest ranking for both artistry and sound quality by Classics Today, and received reviews in various distinguished journals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnother virtuoso piece…confidently delivered by this brilliant duo\u201d (Gramophone)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their recording of the violin sonatas of Nikolai Roslavets, also for Naxos, has received international attention. \u201cSoroka seemed utterly confident, catching a haunting, languid quality within Roslavets\u2019s elusive harmonic idiom……\u201d (The Strad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past eight years Soroka has been recording for Toccata Records, based in London, where she made six premier recordings, of music by American composer Arthur Hartmann, Ukrainian Myroslav Skoryk, Mykola Lysenko, and Yevhen Stankovych, and Holocaust composers Leone Sinigaglia and Bernhard Sekles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Soroka\u2019s current passion is for unknown American music from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 20th. She has gathered a substantial collection of rare scores of American sonatas from that period by lesser-known American composers, and is in a process of recording and releasing them online. She will tour US universities with lecture-recitals introducing this unknown music to American students, academia and a general audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solomia Soroka is currently a violin professor at Goshen College, Indiana, and is on the faculty of Music Fest in Perugia, Italy. Ms. Soroka has taught at the Castleman Quartet Program, Pilsen Summer Academy, and Schlern Music Festival. She is active giving masterclasses in her native Ukraine, USA, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, Czech Republic, and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She studied with Hersh Heifetz, Bohodar Kotorovych, Liudmyla Zvirko and Charles Castleman. Website information:www.solomiasoroka.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Violinist Solomia Soroka, born in L’viv, Ukraine, made her solo debut at age 10, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the L\u2019viv Philharmonic Orchestra. Her playing combines the powerful background of the Ukrainian system with a passionate exploration of lesser played music, especially American and Ukrainian. She has appeared as soloist and as chamber musician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2502","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2498,"date":"2020-02-16T06:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2498"},"modified":"2020-02-16T06:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:22:04","slug":"raffaele-mascolo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/raffaele-mascolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Raffaele Mascolo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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He studied music at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan, earning degrees in Conducting Composition, Piano, he studied at ‘” Music Academy of Pescara “achieving the” Certificate of High Triennale “in Conducting under the guidance of M \u00b0 Donato Renzetti, with whom he has also deepened the operatic repertoire, becoming assistant for several productions at major international organizations and institutions Lyrical , and the “Fondazione Arturo Toscanini” in Parma, after selection for the “Course for Young Conductors” organized by the European Community and the region of Emilia Romagna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embarks on a brilliant artistic career being appointed, following competition, “Assistant Director” Orchestra G. Cantelli of Milan, a position he held from 1997 to 2001 and sees him debut at the “Great Hall G. Verdi” Conservatory of Milan, as part of the Fourth Symphony Season. In 2003 he was invited by the Opera House in Mexico City, as assistant to the realization of “Das Rheingold” R.Wagner. In 2005, following a successful edition of Rossini’s Barber of Seville, was appointed “Chief Guest” at the “State Theatre of Opera and Ballet M.Glinka” Chelyabinsk, creating numerous opera productions including the, of P.J.Cajkovskij, N.Rimsky M.Glinka-Korsakov and, in 2009 he was invited to play the same role at the “State Theatre of Opera and Ballet” M.Glinka Magnitogorsk, where he among other numerous performances of “Carmen” “Rigoletto,” “La Traviata” as well as numerous opera galaconcert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has performed internationally and has participated in prestigious festivals such as: “Festival Cervantino” (Mexico City), “Settembre Musica” of Turin, “Brooklyn Academy of Music” in New York, “Mozart and Milan” in Milan, manifestations of “Puccini Festival” in Torre del Lago, the “Opera National du Rhin” in Strasbourg, “Twentieth Century Music” in Milan, Suntory Hall “in Tokyo,” Altin Portakali Film Festivals “in Antalya (Turkey)” Festival International de Diputaci\u00f3n Cordoba “Spain” Rive Gauche “of Turin,” Philharmonic Academy “in Bologna (Mozart Hall),” Toledo Gallery “of Naples,” Season of the GOG of Genoa, 150 th birth anniversary of Puccini’s City of Lucca, the “Tonhalle” in Zurich, the “Konzerthouse” of Freiburg, the “Smolny Sobor” of St.Pettersburg, Studio 4 Radio Danisch of Copenhagen. A number of the theaters in which he performed, among them: “Theatre of Ghelikon Opera” in Moscow, the Teatro Regio “Puccini” of Turin, “Magnitogorsk State Opera,” “Teatro Sociale di Como” “Teatro alle Vigne” Lodi, “Teatro Alfieri” Asti, “Civic Theatre” Vercelli, “Teatro Rossini” of Lugo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nAmong the many orchestras directed include: “Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra”, “Regional Orchestra of Emilia Romagna,”  Philharmonic  Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin 900 “,” Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, ” ” Orchestra da Camera Milano Classica ” “Orchestra G. Cantelli” of Milan, “Philharmonic Orchestra of Mexico City”  Symphony Orchestra of Italy “,” Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra “Sofia,” the Danish National Radio Orchestra of the “Chamber Orchestra of St.Pettersburg” ,\u201dWest Bohemian Symphony Orchestra\u201d in Repubblica Ceca, Piedmont  Youth Symphony Orchestra, “Ghelikon Opera Orchestra” Moscow, “Chelyabinsk Philharmonic Orchestra”, “Orchestra of Opera Magnitogorsk”, “Italian Philharmonic Orchestra” in Piacenza, “Symphony Orchestra Valle d’Aosta “,” Orchestra of the Teatro Municipal of Vercelli, “Philharmonic Orchestra of Lodi”,\u201d National  Opera Theater of Komi Republic\u201d, “Opera-Symphony Orchestra of the Province of  Lecco”, “Old Soul Orchestra” in Bologna, “L.Boccherini Orchestra” of Lucca. Director attentive and sensitive to the production of new music, has directed more than fifty passages in “world premiere” with the European Antidogma Music Ensemble “,” Ensemble Music \/ Reality “,” Imaginary Places Ensemble “,” Ensemble Code 602 “,” G. Cantelli Ensemble “,” Trajectories Ensemble Scores “and Mdi Ensemble of Milan. He also directed the first performance of” Promenade “dans l’ile de la libert\u00e9 A. Corghi, at the Piccolo Teatro Regio in Turin.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the field of opera has a vast repertoire ranging from 600 to 900, with works like “Orpheus” C.Monteverdi, “The Barber of Seville” by Rossini, “” L\u2019Elisir d\u2019amore “G.Donizetti, and Don Pasquale\u201d, “La Traviata”, “Rigoletto” by Verdi, “” La Boheme “by Puccini,” Cavalleria Rusticana,  ” Pagliacci “R.Leoncavallo,” Carmen “G.Bizet,” Das Rheingold “R . Wagner, shares up dramatically – musical G.Ligeti “Aventures” and “Nouvelles Aventure.” His performances have been  broadcast on network television of Mexican culture (Channel 22), the “Canal Culture” of the Russian State Television and Vatican Radio. In 2010 he debuted in Denmark with the Danish National Radio Orchestra in Copenhagen and has developed the first performance of Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi in Russia at the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg. It has been recently invited by the “Fondazione Arturo Tosanini” to conduct a concert entirely devoted to Verdi on  the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italy in Parma at the headquarters of the Foundation. Coming soon will be the guest of the season Stefano Tempia  Choral Academy of Turin where he directs the “Carmina Burana” by  Carl Orff. In May2014 he debuted in Hermitager Nationale Opera Thestre in St Pettersburg in the Italian Opera  \u201c I Giochi di  Agrigento\u201d of G.Paisiello.In the next 2015 he has recentrly invited  to debuted in National  Opera Theatre and in National Opera Theatre ok Komi Republic in Don Pasquele and in l\u2019Elisir d\u2019Amore of G.Donizetti.In October 2015 he is visiting professor whit one Masterclass about the \u201cItalian Opera\u201d by G.Verdi Traviata and Rigoletto at The National Hight Conservatory of Music Nicolay Rymsky-Korsakov of St.Petersburg,  and in October 2016 conduct the Opera by Giuseppe Verdi \u201c La Forza del destino\u201d for the Italian Institute of Culture in St Petersburg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actualy he is Theacher full time at the famous Conservatory of Music \u201cG.Verdi\u201d in Milano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conductor He studied music at the Conservatorio “G. Verdi” in Milan, earning degrees in Conducting Composition, Piano, he studied at ‘” Music Academy of Pescara “achieving the” Certificate of High Triennale “in Conducting under the guidance of M \u00b0 Donato Renzetti, with whom he has also deepened the operatic repertoire, becoming assistant for several productions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2495,"date":"2020-02-16T06:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2495"},"modified":"2020-02-16T06:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:18:19","slug":"denia-mazzola","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/denia-mazzola\/","title":{"rendered":"Denia Mazzola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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DENIA MAZZOLA GAVAZZENI<\/strong>, is an italian soprano, founder and president of “AB HARMONIAE ONLUS” association. From 1982, she sing all over the world, performing over 174 operas, oratorio, and sinfonico vocale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She sang in the major national and international theaters, such as, Teatro della Scala, Milan; Accademia S.Cecilia, Rome; Teatro comunale, Florence; La Fenice, Venice; Carlo  Felice Theater, Genoa; S. Carlo, Naples; Teatro Massimo, Palermo; Bellini, Catania; Festpielhaus, Salzburg; Deutsche Opera, Berlin; Bregenz Festival; Frankfurt Opera; Wiesbaden Festival; Wiener Staatsoper; Opernhaus Zurich; Opera de Geneve; Montecarlo Theatre; Radio France; Radio France Festival in Montpellier; West Deutsche Rudfunk, Osterreicherundfunk, Berliner Sinfoniker, Liceu de Barcelona, Maestranza in Seville, Massimo Theatre in Santiago del Cile; Comunal, Rio de Janeiro; Opera, Athens; Houston Opera; Metropolitan, NY, London, Oslo; Cape Town Opera; Joannesburg SABC; Pretoria State Theater, Praga Smetana Theater, Massenet Festival; Luzern “Festival di Pasqua”, “Torre del lago Puccini” Festival, Taormina Festival; Euskalduna, Bilbao; Rai, Milan, Turin; Bellas Artes, Mexico City; Nhk Tokio. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1991 she met Maestro Gianandrea Gavazzeni for an audition in Teatro Comunale in Florence for the role of “Lucia di Lammermoor” for Scala. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1995 she has been appointed Artistic Director of “Bicentenario Donizetti” in Bergamo, but, the day after the passing of her consort, Maestro Gavazzeni, she chose to give up the role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni, published her first book as author, “Ritratti”, edited by Thetron Milan. The book is the collection of 21+3 forgotten operas, that she performed and recovered, through iconographic, textual and musicological documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was awarded with the V edition of “Premio Donizetti” from the city of Bergamo, and she was honored with “Premio Euterpe” by Accademia delle Muse of Florence, “Platinum” by Accademie Lyrique de Paris, “Premio Alfieri” by Fondazione Alfieri, and other awards such as “Siola d’Oro”, “Citt\u00e0 di Varese”, “Citt\u00e0 di Modena”, “Giuseppina Strepponi”, “Gigli”, and “Mascagni d’Oro”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2005, she found in Italy the cultural association “Ab Harmoniae Onlus – musica per la solideriet\u00e0”, in 2008, she established the association also in Nizza, France and in 2009 in Montecarlo, Monaco. Thanks to the three associations, and in collaboration with Lombardia Region, City of Bergamo, City of Florence, Vicariato of Rome, City of Nice, Principality of Monaco, City of Milan, Episcopal Conference of Brazil, and Cariplo Foundation, she produced over 300 concert, managing artistic and organizational aspect too, for national and international production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She recorded her album with Universal, Ricordi, Fonit Cetra, Ariston, Nuova Era, Bongiovanni, Kikko Music, Koch Schwann, West Deutsche Runfunk, Agora, OsterreicheRundfunk, SABC, Actes Sud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In collaboration with  French Justice Ministry, she organized educational musical activities for the french detainee. She worked together with Kansai Nikikai, Osaka, for direction and production courses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently she curated interpretative and technical aspect and the direction of Donizetti “L’Elisir d’Amore”, in Osaka, Japan, and she will direct “Don Pasquale” next summer in Calabria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni taughts Scenic Art for Conservatorio P.PI da Palestrina in Cagliari, voice in Conservatorio A.Vivaldi in Alessandria and Bomporti di Trento in Riva del Garda. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She always put effort into rediscover and broadcast operas unfairly forgotten, and with that purpose, last november she performed and recorded “Cecilia” opera by Licinio Refice, in Monte Carlo Cathedral, and she was rewarded with “Ponchielli d’Oro – una vita per la musica”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She regularly collaborate with piano player Francois Ren\u00e8 Duchable; She was director of “Don Pasquale”, “Cavalleria rusticana”, “La Traviata”, “L’Elisir d’Amore”, “Suor Angelica”, for italian training center and international theaters, and she is author of musical theater text (Voce di Donna). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For three seasons She was participating at Favelas St Isabel in Viamao, Porto Alegre (Brasil) with a program entitled “Singing voice, soul therapy” She was invited by the Mutirao da Comunicacao of the Brazilian Episcopal Congregation, to testify on the “mission of the voice and artist in the treatment of moral and psychological suffering”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She founded and directs the “Chorale St Devote” and “La Chorale du Center Hopitalier Princesse Grace” in Montecarlo (Monaco Principality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awarded with the “Medaille d’Or” by the Ville de Nice for cultural and supportive merits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist regularly collaborates with “Musical Evenings of Milan” and recently, she rediscovered three unjustly forgotten works: “L’enfant prodigue” by Claude Debussy and “L’Incantesimo” by Italo Montemezzi, Gypsies of Leoncavallo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next October she will be involved in the production, in the world premiere of Antonio Smareglia’s Vassallo di Szighet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denia was  professor of stage performance and voice at the conservatories of Cagliari, Alessandria, Trento, Riva del Garda,  now She is professor and chair at the Brescia State Conservatory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DENIA MAZZOLA GAVAZZENI, is an italian soprano, founder and president of “AB HARMONIAE ONLUS” association. From 1982, she sing all over the world, performing over 174 operas, oratorio, and sinfonico vocale.  She sang in the major national and international theaters, such as, Teatro della Scala, Milan; Accademia S.Cecilia, Rome; Teatro comunale, Florence; La Fenice, Venice; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2492,"date":"2020-02-16T06:14:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2492"},"modified":"2020-02-16T15:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T15:59:22","slug":"arthur-greene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/arthur-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\u201cIncomparable master-pianist\u201d (Upper Austria Krone News, 2019) Arthur Greene was born in New York. He went to Yale College, studying with Ward Davenny, and then Juilliard and Stony Brook, where he studied with Martin Canin. He now teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and in the summer lives in L’viv, Ukraine.  These are some of the press accolades he has received: “A profound musician” – The Washington Post; “A masterful pianist” \u2013 The New York Times; “Intoxicating appeal” – Mainichi Daily News, Japan; “A romantic splendor of sound-colors” – Ruhr Nachrichten; “Stellar Scriabinist” – American Record Guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Greene was first prize winner in two major international competitions, the William Kapell and Gina Bachauer, and he was a top laureate at the Busoni International Competition. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Utah, and National Symphonies, the Ukraine National Symphony, the Czech National Symphony, the Tokyo Symphony, and many others. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Moscow Rachmaninov Hall, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Lisbon Sao Paulo Opera House, Hong Kong City Hall and concert houses in Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul, and all the major cities in Japan. He was an Artistic Ambassador to Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia for the United States Information Agency. Mr. Greene recorded the complete Etudes of Alexander Scriabin for Supraphon. He has performed the 10 Sonata Cycle of Alexander Scriabin in many important international venues, including multi-media presentations with Symbolist artworks. He has performed mazurkas with the Janusz Prusinowski Kompania, a Polish folk ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Greene has made many recordings together with his wife, the violinist Solomia Soroka, for Naxos and Toccata Classics, including the Violin-Piano Sonatas of William Bolcom.  His recording for Toccata of piano works of the Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko has recently been released on Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur Greene is a member of the piano faculty of the  University of Michigan. There he has won the Harold Haugh Award for Excellence in Studio Teaching, and he and his students presented a recital series of the complete solo works of Chopin in nine concerts.  He is a frequent judge of piano competitions, most recently the Isangyun Competition in Korea and the Teresa Carre\u00f1o International Competition in Miami. His current and former students include prizewinners in international competitions, and his former students hold important teaching posts throughout the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIncomparable master-pianist\u201d (Upper Austria Krone News, 2019) Arthur Greene was born in New York. He went to Yale College, studying with Ward Davenny, and then Juilliard and Stony Brook, where he studied with Martin Canin. He now teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and in the summer lives in L’viv, Ukraine.  These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":954,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2492","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":2489,"date":"2020-02-16T06:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T06:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/?page_id=2489"},"modified":"2020-02-16T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:01:26","slug":"elena-bakanova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vcu.edu\/gsim\/elena-bakanova\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Bakanova"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Elena Bakanova began studying singing at a very young age, training at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in Milan where she obtained the Diploma of Singing and the II Level Academic Diploma with full marks and honors, perfecting later with Mirella Freni, Carlo Bergonzi and with Renata Scotto at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome with scholarship award. Finalist at the Competition of the Teatro alla Scala Academy in Milan in 2000, she was invited to a tour in South Africa where she made her debut with Maestro Umberto Finazzi at the Opera Huose in Cape Town; in 2004 he was a Finalist with Eligibility for the roles at the XXVII As.Li.Co Competition after which he made his debut in “Don\u2019s Elixir of Love” at the Teatro Sociale in Como.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2006 she was the winner of the audition organized by the Opera National du Rhin de Strasbourg followed by her debut at the Theater National de l’Opera de Strasbourg, highlighting the attention of critics and the public, leading her to carry out a brilliant international artistic activity in Italy , France Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Austria, Malta, Portugal, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Luxembourg, Norway, Ireland, Canada, Argentina, China and South Africa. He has played leading roles at prestigious institutions and theaters including the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Regio di Parma, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale di Bolzano, Teatro Sociale di Como, Teatro G. Donizetti in Bergamo, Teatro G. Verdi in Florence , Romolo Valli Theater of Reggio Emilia, Municipal Theater of Piacenza, A. Ponchielli Theater of Cremona, Grande Theater of Brescia, Fraschini Theater of Pavia, Donizetti Theater of Bergamo, Ariston Theater of Sanremo, G. Verdi Theater of Busseto, Ancient Theater of Taormina, G. Rossini Theater of Lugo, Bibiena Theater of Mantua, Rovigo Municipal Theater, G. Verdi Theater of Pisa, Splendor Theater of Aosta, Social Theater of Trento, as well as the theaters of the Op\u00e9ra National de Lyon, Bilbao Opera ( Opera ABAO), Murcia Theater, Op\u00e9ra de Monte-Carlo, Op\u00e9ra Nice C\u00f4te d’Azur, Th\u00e8atr du Mulhouse, Coliseo Theater of Buenos Aires, National Theater of Hermitage in St. Petersburg, National Opera Theater of Namibia, Opera National Windhoek Theater, Theater Royal of Wexford Opera Festival, National Opera Theater of Komi Republic, National Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Flensburg Stadttheater, Opera Obliqua Theater in Stand de Moutier, The Royal Danish Opera of Denmark, Tianjin Grand Theater (Beijing), Harbin Grand Theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the most significant roles played by her are Adina in “L’Elisir d’amore, Norina in” Don Pasquale “, Ines in” La Favorite “(in the original language), and Rita by G. Donizetti, Rosina in” Il Barber of Seville “, The Countess of Folleville in” The Journey to Reims “, Guild in” Rigoletto “, Violetta in” La Traviata “, Nannetta in” Falstaff “, Oscar in” A masked ball “, the Lady of Lady Macbeth in G. Verdi’s “Macbeth”, Fanni in G. Rossini’s “The wedding bill”, The Countess in “The Marriage of Figaro”, Despina in “Cosi fan tutte”, Madama Silberklang in “Der Schauspieldirektor”, Pamina in WA Die Zauberfl\u00f6te Mozart, Eurydice and Music in C. Monteverdi’s “L’Orfeo”, Aspasia in G. Paisiello’s “The games of Agrigento”, Merlina in D. Cimarosa’s “The impresario in Angustie”, Leena in “La Belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne” “By J. Offenbach,” Iolanta “by PITchajkovskij, Liusia in the” Moskva Cheremushki “by D. \u0160ostakovi\u010d, Gretel in” H\u00e4nsel und Gretel “by E.Humperdinck, Mim\u00ec in” La Boh\u00e8me “by G. Puccini, The Blue Fairy in “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” by O. Respighi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has collaborated with important directors such as Daniele Abbado, Davide Livermore, Walter Pagliaro, Jerom Deschamps, Rosetta Cucchi, Dario Argento, Enrico Stinchelli, and conductors including Maurizio Benini, Kazushi Ono, Michel Plasson, Donato Renzetti, Gianandrea Noseda, Paolo Arrivabeni, Alexander Lazarev, Arnold \u00d6stman alongside internationally renowned artists such as Sumi Jo, Giovanna Casolla, Svetla Vassileva, Desiree Rancatore, Gemma Bertagnolli, Sonia Ganassi, Sergio Bologna, Giuseppe Filianotti, Marckus Werba, Ildar Abdrazakov, Luca Salsi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ductility of her voice together with an extensive expressiveness and experience in the multiple aspects of vocal music allowed her to range in the various repertoires also from the chamber up to the twentieth century singing in German, Russian, French, Italian and English with the execution of liederistic cycles by WA Mozart, F.J. Haydn, L. van Beethoven F. Schubert, R. Schumann, J. Brahms, G. Mahler, G. Faur\u00e9, C. Debussy, R.Hahn, F.Poulenc, P.I.Tchajkovskij, E.Grieg, B.Britten. The partnership with artists such as Bruno Canino, Renad Capu\u00e7on and Francesco Manara (Primo Violin of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan) is particularly intense with whom he has collaborated in numerous concerts at seasons and festivals such as the Musical Evenings in Milan, the GOG Season in Genoa, 77th Chigiana Summer of Siena, Circolo dei Litori of Turin, Friends of the Music of Gressoney, XXV Festival Internacional de Musica de Gaia, Winter Reise Festival of Moscow, XIX International Festival of Colmar, XV edition of the ContempoartFestival in Florence, Fundaci\u00f2n Andr\u00e9s Segovia of Linares, Goethe Insitut at Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, Mezin\u00e0rodni hidebni Festival in Prague, Grieg Festival in Bergen, Ost-West Musikfest in Vienna, MITO Settembre Musica Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The symphonic repertoire plays a significant role in which the IX symphony of L.van Beethoven, the IV symphony of G. Mahler, the Lobgesang Symphony op.52 of F. Mendelshonn, the Carmina Burana of C. Orff, Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 61 by Felix Mendelssohn, next to the sacred repertoire with A. Scarlatti’s Dixit Dominus, Antonio Lotti’s Missa Sapientiae, L. Janacek’s Glagolitische Messe, JS Bach’s Great Mass in B minor, GBPergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Gloria by A. Vivaldi, Petite Messe Solemnelle by G. Rossini, Die Schopfung by FJ Haydn la Kr\u00f6nungsmesse in C major K 317, Requiem by WA Mozart, Ein Deutsches Requiem op. 45 by J.Brahms, performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Philharmonic Arturo Toscanini of Parma, ORT Regional Orchestra of Tuscany, Oxford Philomusica Orchestra, ORER Regional Orchestra of Emilia-Romagna, Orchestra of Europe (members of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra of Claudio Abbado), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Anima Antica Orchestra of Bologna, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Akademie Orchestra, Symphonique du Jura Orchestras, Symphony Orchestra of Savona, Orchestra of the Accademia Stefano Tempia in Turin, I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan. He has made recordings for Amadeus, Fon\u00e8, Bongiovanni and his performances have been broadcast by RAI Radio3 also in live radio as in the first absolute performance of the Monodrama “Else” by Alberto Colla in which he was the protagonist at the “G. Verdi” Theater in Florence. She has been invited to lecture at the University of Udine, the Polytechnic of Turin and to perform numerous master classes at the Royal Philharmonic Academy of Bologna for CIDIM, at the Accademia Chigiana of Siena as Assistant and Soprano Master in residence, at the North East University of Shenyang in China and at the L. Cherubini Conservatory in Florence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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