10/28/2012

Violin Prof. Roman Nodel and Cellist Nadege Rochat News











Violin Professor Roman Nodel will teach at the 1st Session in 2013 Euro Music Festival and Academy, Halle, Germany.

_ Teaching Dates : July 22 - 31, 2013
_ Teaching Languages : English, German, Russian



Roman Nodel studied at the Central School of Music for Gifted Children and at the world-famous Tschaikowsky Conservatory in under D. Zyganov (the leader of Beethoven-Quartet Moscow). During the studies, he had successfully taken part in different international competitions, winning the 4th prize and a silver medal at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, the 6th
prize at the 1st Competition in Montreal, Canada and the 4th prize at the Jacques-Tibaud Competition in Paris among others. 
After the studies he was working as soloist and taught at the State Conservatory in Minsk.
He has played far more than 1000 concerts between 1967 and 1980 among others as cycles in this time: The history of the violin concertos(18 concerts, from A. Vivaldi and J. S. Bach till A. Berg and D. Schostakovitsch), all violin concertos by W. A. Mozart, 10 Sonatas for violin and the piano by L. v. Beethoven.
After the emigration in 1980 he was the 1st concertmaster of the State Orchestra of Low Saxony and since 1987 he is a professor at the University of Music Heidelberg-Mannheim. He plays as soloist and chamber musician in Europe, Asia, USA, South America and New Zealand.  He performed as soloist under such conductors as Yuri Aranovich, Rene Defossez, Karl Eliasberg, Kirill Kondrashin, Ferdinand Leitner, Otto Müller, Woldemar Nelsson, Karl Österreicher, Leif Segerstam, George Alexander Albrecht, Juri Temirkanov, Saulus Sondezkis,Douglas Runnicles and many others.
His former students are working in Germany including Berliner Philharmoniker, Bavarian Broadcast Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmony Orchestra and abroad in leading orchestras as soloist, leader of orchestras or orchestra musicians. Among his former students, Stephan Picard is a Professor at the Hanns-Eisler University of Music in Berln. He gives many Master Classes in Europe, Asia, USA  etc.. 



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21-year old cellist Nadege Rochat's album is newly released at the Ars Production:
E. Lalo Cello Concerto in D minor
D. Milhaud Cello Concerto No.1 

Nadege Rochat also has performing actively as Cello-Guitar Duo with guitarist Rafael Aguirre. 



Nadège Rochat, born in Genève in 1991, started studying cello with her aunt Fabienne Dambrini at the age of 4. 
In 2001, aged of 10 then, she became the youngest finalist of the international competition "Jeunes Interprètes", chaired by Pierre Amoyal. In 2003, she won the first prize of "Vatelot-Rampal" competition, and gave her first soloist concerts with the orchestra (at the "Festival cultural pour les jeunes" in Shanghai, then in Chateau d'Oex's festival "Le bois qui chante"). In 2006, Nadège Rochat received the first prize of "Concours des Jeunesses Musicale Suisse" as well as "Prix du Crédit Suisse" and the "prix de la Fondation SUISA" for her interpretation of Heinz Holliger "Trema". 
Since 2006, she is studying with Prof. Maria Kliegel at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne. In 2007 and 2009, she got the first prize at German Competition "Jugend musiziert" and Classic-Price of WDR. She performed in Kölner Philharmonie, Düsseldorfer Tonhalle, Berlin Konzerthall, Beethovenhaus Bonn, Konzerthaus Dortmund (with Dortmund Philharmonics and Jac van Steen).






10/24/2012

Cello Prof. Peter Bruns and Pianist Da Sol Kim's News















   Professor Peter Bruns Cello class will be open during
   the 2nd session in 2013 Euro Music Festival and 
   Academy Halle, Germany. 

   _ Teaching Dates : August 6 - 11, 2013    
   _ Teaching Languages : English, German





"This is one of the best CD recordings of the year - perhaps of the decade... Here we encounter the closest we have witnessed... to a new Casals.." (Early Music Review on the CD Recording of J. S. Bach's 6 Suites for Solo Cello)

"Peter Bruns does what he does best on his Tononi cello from 1730: he declaims, just like Pablo Casals, who also used to own the instrument. Peter Bruns once confirmed the closemess to Casals, saying: 'I also try to speak with the instrument'." (Maja Ellmenreich in Deutschlandradio Cologne, 2006)


The cellist Peter Bruns has established an excellent reputation in the international music world as one of Germany's leading cellists. Born in Berlin, he studied with Professor Peter Vogler at Berlin's "Hanns Eisler" University of Music. 
Peter Bruns has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in renowned concert halls throughout Europe, America and Asia, including in the Berliner Philharmonie, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, in concert halls in Tokyo and Hong Kong, in the Semperoper Dresden, in the Leipziger Gewandhaus as well as at the most important festivals including the Kuhmo, Bergen, Berlin and Dresden music festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival and Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival. 
The artist has also performed as a soloist with many major orchestras, and has toured with the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as with the RAI, MDR and Berlin symphony orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eliahu Inbal, Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Prick, Marc Albrecht and Bruno Weil. His fascination with the language of music and the instrumentation of the various stylistic periods has led to close collaboration with renowned orchestras in this field, in particular with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, with whom Peter Bruns has played for CD productions, concerts and festivals (Bergen, Bruegge, Berlin, Regensburg, Koethen). From 1993-2000, Peter Bruns was the Artistic Director of the Schloss Moritzburg Chamber Music Festival. 
From 1998 to 2005, he was Professor for Cello at the Dresden School of Music and, since 2005, has held the same position at the School of Music in Leipzig. Since September 2006 Peter Bruns has also been Principal Guest Conductor of the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, with whom he performed his own concert series in the Gewandhaus Leipzig during the 2007/2008 season. 
Peter Bruns has recorded a series of awarding winning CDs including Brahm's Cello Sonatas, Bach's Six Suites for Cello Solo, the works of Gabriel Faure, Ernest Bloch and Robert Schumann, a recording of a Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert which won the Cannes Classical Award for "Best CD of the Year", Antonin Dvorak's works for cello and orchestra with the Staatskapelle Dresden and his highly acclaimed recording of Haydn's Cello Concertos with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig. A recently issued CD is devoted to the works of Charles Koechlin. 
Peter Bruns plays on a cello from Carlo Tononi, Venice 1730, which was once owned by the legendary Spanish cellist Pablo Casals


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Pianist Da Sol Kim won the 1st prize (jointly by Magdalena Muellerperth) in 10th Kissinger KlavierOlymp which was held on October 4 - 7, 2012 in Bad Kissingen. 

The first prize winner will perform as soloist in orchestral concerts in the next 'Kissinger Sommer' and also perform with other prize winners at the 28th 'Internationalen Klassikfestival' which will be held June 9 - July 14, 2013. 

In this annual competition since 2003, there are the prize winners like Alice Sara Ott(2004), Peter Ovtscharov(2005), Alexej Gorlatch(2006), Mona Asuka Ott(2006), Michail Lifits(2007), Claire Huangci(2008), who are the Euro Music Festival Alumni. 

Da Sol Kim has been taking part in the Euro Music Festival since 2006 every year until 2011, taking the masterclass from Prof. Gerald Fauth and Prof. Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling and having recitals or chamber music in various concerts. Da Sol Kim also had recital in 2012 Euro Music Festival Halle, Germany.   


10/21/2012

Cello Professor Asier Polo in 2013 EMF Halle and Pianist Danae Doerken's Concert News














Cello Professor Asier Polo's class will be open at the 2nd Session in 2013 Euro Music Festival and Academy Halle. 

_ Teaching Dates : August 2 - 11, 2013
_ Teaching Languages : English, German, Spanish

Asier Polo was born in Bilbao, Spain where he studied at the Conservatory of Music with Professor Elisa Pascu. In 1987-89, he won first prizes in cello and chamber music at the National Young Musicians Competition. Later, he studied at the Queen Sofia School in Madrid, and honed his innate talent with Maria Kliegel at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Cologne and with Ivan Monighetti at the Basel Academy of Music. Mr. Polo has participated in master classes with Natalia Gutman and Mstislav Rostropovich. During his studies in Cologne and Madrid, he also studied chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet and members of the Italian Quartet.
Since then, he has appeared as soloist and in recitals in Europe, Asia and America. He has performed with such artists as Maria Kliegel, J. Colom, Gerard Caussé, Janacek Quartet and the famous Spanish tenor Alfredo Kraus, who, during his last years, invited Asier Polo to appear as soloist in his concerts at Covent Garden in London and Maggio Musicale in Florence, Tonhalle in Zurich, Musikverein in Vienna and Japan. 
Mr. Polo is fast becoming one of the leading cellists of his generation, renowned in his native Spain as well as in other European countries. He has toured South America with the National Orchestra of Spain with Raphael Fruhbeck de Burgos conducting, and has concertized with the Opera Orchestra of Nice, the National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Basel Philharmonic, the Monterey Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, Berliner Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philarmonie, London Philarmonie, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI de Torino, Mineria Symphony Orchestra (México DF), Norway Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orcheste de París (Salle Pleyel), Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra (Brasil) among many others. Some of the conductors, with whom he has appeared as soloist, are Christian Badea, Claus Peter Flor, Gunther Herbig, Anthony Witt, Carlos Miguel Prieto and invited in Festivals like Quincena Musical de San Sebastián (Spain), Ohrid (Yugoslavia), Nantes (France), Omaggio a Roma (Italy), Expo de Lisboa (Portugal),  Festival Internacional de Música de Morelia (México), etc…
In 2004, he has played with great success in his Carnegie Weill Hall debut in New York receiving an excellent musical critic at the Strad Magazine.
Asier Polo has recorded for CLAVES, ET´CETERA, RTVE, MARCO POLO and NAXOS labels playing different music from : S.Gubaidulina , Recitals, and different Spanish cello concertos from Bernaola, Rodrigo, Escudero… Spanish composers G. Ercoreca, Luis de Pablo and Antón García Abril, J. Villarojo have all dedicated works to this outstanding musician.
It has been awarded with diverse prizes in Spain for musical interpretation like: “Ojo crítico” National Radio(2002), Prize Fundation C.E.O.E.(2004).
At present, he teaches at the Superior School of Music of the Basque Country, “Musikene” in San Sebastian, Spain.
Invited for Master class in different countries (Italy, Germany, Holland, México, Venezuela,...) and regular member of Jury in national and international Cello competitions (Carlos Prieto competition, Dotzauer Wettbewerb, Jugend musiziert,...)
Asier Polo plays on a Francesco Rugieri violoncello(Cremona 1689) bought in collaboration with Banesto Foundation.

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Pianist Danae Doerken has concert in Villa Huegel Essen on Ocotober 24(Wed), 2012 and in Berlin on the next day, on the 25th(Thu) of October in Palace Bellevue Berlin.  

Danae Doerken has been taking part in Euro Music Festival since Leipzig 2009, where she had taken the masterclass of Prof. Karl-Heinz Kaemerling and she has been also performing various concerts including duo-recital with her sister Kiveli Doerken in 2012 Euro Music Festival Halle.  

























The detailed information on Danae Doerken at
www.danae-doerken.com


18-year-old Danae Doerken playing J. Brahms op.118, 6. Intermezzo
"Junge Pianisten Elite", Kunstmuseum Baden, Solingen, January 2010





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10/10/2012

Piano Faculty of Session III in 2013 EMFA Halle






2013 Euro Music Festival and Academy will be held on July 22- August 22, 2013 in Halle(Haendel City), Germany in cooperation with The Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 

The Academy will be held divided into 3 sessions for one month.

SESSION I      July 21(arrival) - August 1(departure)
SESSION II     August 1(arrival) - August 12(departure)
SESSION III    August 12(arrival) - August 23(departure)








  • PIANO 
  • VIOLIN 
  • VIOLA 
  • CELLO 
  • GUITAR
  • SINGING
  • FLUTE
  • CHAMBER MUSIC


  • [SESSION III(Teaching Dates August 13(/14) - August 22) PIANO PROFESSORS]




    *In addition to these 3 professors, more new professors' name will be added later. 


    Prof. Akiko Ebi, Tokyo JAPAN
    Prof. Markus Bellheim, Munich GERMANY
    Prof. Takahiro Hoshino, Tokyo, JAPAN



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    Prof. Akiko Ebi
    As a performing musician, Akiko Ebi has actively taken part in music festivals and recording for TV and racio stations and for CD labels all over the world, including her native Japan, Europe, USA, Canada, Latin America, Russia, China, Middle East and Egypt, over the past 30 years.
    She won the 41st Music Competition of Japan as a freshman at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. After graduating from the Paris Conservatoire as the top student, she continued her studies in graduate school of the Conservatoire. Her achievements in competitions include the Grand Prix at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition, where she was also awarded four special prizes by A. Rubinstein and others, and the International Chopin Piano Competition and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition where she won high-ranking prizes. She has received numerous awards and official commendations, including the Frederic Chopin Society of Japan Award, two of the Japan Gold Disc Award, Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Government, a medal of honorary citizen of Paris and the Exxon-Mobile Music Prize (Japan). 
    She has performed under the baton of Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Vassily Sinaisky, Marek Janowski, Jean Fournet, Zdeněk Košler, Theodor Guschlbauer, Lawrence Foster, Erich Bergel, Rani Calderon, Inoue Michiyoshi, Sado Yutaka, Kobayashi Kenichiro and many other eminent conductors and with orchestras, such as NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra and local symphony orchestras in Sapporo, Kansai, Hiroshima and Kyushu, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic and Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Argentine National Symphony Orchestra as well as orchestras in Latvia, UK and other countries. In the field of chamber music, she has played a number of times with Ivry Gitlis, Augustin Dumay, Regis Pasquier, Arto Noras, Gautier Capucon, Toyoda Yumino, Angela Hewitt, Michel Dalberto, the Moragues Quintet, the Parisii Quartet and Quatuor Via Nova.
    Her recent 2-piano recitals with Martha Argerich have been repeatedly broadcast all over the world. She has taken active part in music festivals, such as Verbier, La Roque d'Anthéron, Lugano, Menton, Cannes, New York IKIF, Texas, Salt Lake City, Duszniki, Enescu, Echternach, La Folle Journée (Nantes, Tokyo, Niigata, Lisbon), Buenos Aires, Toledo, Madrid, Tokyo and Beppu. She has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious music halls, such as Berliner Philharmonie, Gewandhaus, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Salle Pleyel, Wigmore Hall, Teatro Colón and Suntory Hall.
    In spring 2012, EBI completed recording in Warsaw for a CD of Chopin’s complete preludes and impromptus on an Erard of 1838. She has released 11 CD albums, including works of Dynam-Victor Fumet (world’s first performance), Anton von Webern, César Franck, Gabriel  Pierné’s Quartet for Piano and Strings and Hikari Oe’s works for piano. Her publications include sheet music, “Ravel: Complete Piano Works” (3 volumes), and a book, “Aldo Ciccolini - Je Suis Un Lirico Spinto” (Japanese translation) (published by Zen-On Music Company Ltd.).
    Enjoying the full confidence of pianistic circles worldwide as one of the most distinguished pianists representing Japan, EBI has been asked to teach master classes and to serve on the jury of international piano competitions in different parts of the world.
    As a music educator, she formerly served as Visiting Professor at Department of Instrumental Music (Piano), Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and is currently Professor at Graduate School, Nihon University College of Art. She is trustee of the Frederic Chopin Society of Japan and chairperson of the Planning Committee of Yokohama International Piano Concert. She studied with Endo Hisako, Kojima Junko, Okamura Rie, Nagai Susumu, Matsuura Toyoaki, Yasukawa Kazuko, Aldo Ciccolini,  Marie – Claire Laroche, Louis Kentner, Conrad Hansen, Colette Zerah and Vlado Perlemuter.


    Prof. Markus Bellheim
    Markus Bellheim sprang into prominence after winning the 2000 International Messiaen
    Competition in Paris, thus securing a position as one of the most interesting and
    multifaceted  pianists of his generation. Extensive concert activities have taken him
    throughout Europe, to America and the Far East. He has also been a guest in many important festivals and concert series, including the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, Kassel Music Days, La Roque d'Anthéron, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, and the Shanghai Music Spring Festival.
    Bellheim has been invited to perform the standard concerto repertoire with the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestras of Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Munich Radio Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra. He also performs contemporary music and has appeared with Ensemble Modern, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. In recent years, he has played under the batons of Sylvain Cambreling, Jonathan Nott, Karl Anton Rickenbacher and has worked with composers Steve Reich, György Kurtág and Wolfgang Rihm. Bellheim is also a valued chamber music partner of Ingolf Turban, Eduard Brunner, Marisol Montalvo and the Minguet Quartet. 
    Stylistic versatility is one of the main aspects of Bellheim's playing, and his particular interest in contemporary music is balanced by his intensive engagement with the works of the classical and romantic periods. In his concerts, he seeks to place modern works alongside the standard repertoire, creating new connections between them and questioning the perceived boundaries that have long separated them.
    Markus Bellheim's performances of the complete piano music of Olivier Messiaen have repeatedly drawn an enthusiastic response from international audiences, and he has performed the composer's most important work for piano and orchestra, the Turangalîla Symphony, throughout the world.
    Following his critically acclaimed 2008 recording of the solo piano music of Wolfgang Rihm, Bellheim is now busy recording the complete piano works of Messiaen for the NEOS label, in co-operation with Hessen Radio. The first volume, Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus was released in September of 2009, and the remaining installments will be following in due course over the next three years. For NEOS, he has also recorded the piano concerto by 
    Bruno Maderna with the Hessen Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    Bellheim is active as a piano teacher at the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, and became Professor for Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich in 2011. He regularly gives masterclasses both in Germany and throughout the rest of the world.

    Prof. Takahiro Hoshino
    At the age of 4, Takahiro Hoshino began to learn the piano and improvised and played his own music. The following year, he gave his first piano performance. When he was 12, he won The 1st prize in All Japan Youth Music Competition of Hokkaido and 3rd prize in All Japan Youth Music Competition of Tokyo, Japan. From the Following year he studied at 
    International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum Music Academy, Salzburg, Austria for 3 years and was chosen to be one of the best pianist for the Gala concert every year. 
    Since 1985 He had studied at the TOHO Gakuen High school of Music, Tokyo, TOHO Gakuen College of Music, and research student, Tokyo. During his musical studies in Tokyo, he won many national prizes, Japan-Austria Culture Society New Artist Audition / All Japan Soloist Contest, Tokyo / Hokkaido International Music Exchange Society “HIMES” Competition, Sapporo / IENAGA MUSIC Office Piano Audition, Tokyo and he had many piano recitals and Gala concerts in Japan. After guraduating from TOHO Gakuen College Of Music, he studied abroad at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest in 1994 . From 1998 he received scholarship for his studies from Hungarian State. 
    During his musical studies in Europe, he won many International prizes. Maria Canals International Competition, Barcelona (Special Medalist 4th prize) / Viotti Valsesia ValsesiaMusica International Music Competition, Italy(2nd prize) / Cantu International Piano and Orchestra Competition, (1st prize and Public prize ) / Masterplayers International Music & Conductor Competition, Poland & Switzerland (Masterplayers Grand Prize and Honor prize) / TIM ROMA, Italy(Special Honor prize).
    He has given many concerts as a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and Hungarian symphony Orchestra, Hungarian MAV Symphony Orchestra, Hungary Szolnok Symphony Orchestra, Romanian National State Philharmonic Orchestra, Romanian Craiova Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish Sudeteka Philharmonic Orchestra, Lugano Festival Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Chamber Philharmonic orchestra. In addition to cities in Japan he has had piano recitals and Gala concerts in several European towns including Salzburg, Lugano, Milan, Florence, Paris, Prague as well as Budapest.
    He was invited from at “7th Yong Prague International Music Festival” at Rudolfinum-Dvorak Hall, Prague and “Hungarian 5 Lyra International Music Festival”. And he was given “Hungarian 5 Lyra Prize” for the best talented musicians in 2000, his official debut recital in Tokyo was a great success and highly evaluated by music journals and musicians. One of the journals, “OngakuGendai” appreciated highly his performances and talent on the top page as “One of the best 10 pianists in Japan”.
    After that he has given some recitals and joint concerts in Sapporo, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Gifu, Fukuoka as well as Tokyo. Last Autumn he has invited as a soloist with the Sapporo Symphonic Orchestra and Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra.
    His CD Albums “LISZT-SCHUBERT”,”Apassionata-Kreisleriana”,”LISZT I”were released by AURORA CLASSICAL and Octavia Record.It was appreciated highly by many Music Magazines.
    Until now he had taken lessons from Hiroyasu KAWAHARA, Noriyuki Miyazawa, Sadako MATSUOKA, Etsko TAZAKI, Gyorgy NADOR, Ferenc RADOS, Vincenzo BALZANI, Eric HEIDSIECK.
    At present, he performs in concerts and also teaches at UENO Gakuen College of Music,Tokyo and TOHO Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo, Guest Professor of the Sapporo Conservatoire.








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    10/07/2012

    Piano Faculty of Session I in 2013 EMFA Halle






    2013 Euro Music Festival and Academy will be held on July 22- August 22, 2013 in Halle (Haendel's City), Germany in cooperation with The Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 

    The Academy will be held divided into 3 sessions for one month.

    SESSION I      July 21(arrival) - August 1(departure)
    SESSION II     August 1(arrival) - August 12(departure)
    SESSION III    August 12(arrival) - August 23(departure)








  • PIANO 
  • VIOLIN 
  • VIOLA 
  • CELLO 
  • GUITAR
  • SINGING 
  • FLUTE
  • CHAMBER MUSIC




  • [SESSION I(Teaching Dates July 22 - 31) PIANO PROFESSORS]











    Prof. Bernd Goetzke, Hanover GERMANY 
    Prof. Jochen Koehler, Halle GERMANY
    Prof. Murray McLachlan, Manchester UK
    Prof. Peter Nagy, Stuttgart GERMANY/Budapest HUNGARY


    *Prof. Bernd Goetzke's class will be open in both Session I and II. 

    *Prof. Jochen Koeherl's class will be open in both Session I and II. 





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    Prof. Bernd Goetzke
    At the age of 13, he was already accepted as a student at the Hanover University of Music and Drama, where he studied Piano with Prof. Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling until obtaining his Concert Soloist Diploma in 1975. Another important phase in his pianistic development was his long association with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, who regarded him as his last pupil. He was also participated in Beethoven courses given by Wilhelm Kempff and Claudio Arrau.Bernd Goetzke was awarded prizes in several international competitions(Paris, Milan, Epinal, Athens, Brussels, amongst others). Already at the age of 25 he was appointed Lecturer at the Hanover University of Music and Drama and became professor in 1982. Today, Bernd Goetzke is one of Germany's most sought-after teachers and musicians. He teaches a class of young pianists from all over the world, and many of them have become prize winners international competitions. He is Head of the Concert Soloist Programme in Hanover and he holds numerous masterclasses in Germany and worldwide. He is also involved in the training of soloists and the development of young talents outside of the University environment: as jury member of many international competitions (Moscow, Munich, Bolzano, Orlians, Oslo, London, St. Petersburg, Kharkov, Salt Lake City, Shenzhen, Shanghai and many others), for example, or as Artistic Advisor of the Braunschweig Classix Festival and as Chair of a society supporting young artists. Since 2000, he is Director of a newly-founded Institute for highly-gifted children. This Institute, conceived by him, is attached to the Hanover University of Music and Drama and the only one of its kind in Germany. In his concert repertoire the names Bach, Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy appear frequently, but also works of 20th century, reflecting his fascination with the stylistic richness and diversity of the period between Late Romanticism and Avantgarde. In the realm of chamber music or concerto repertoire respectively one could mention Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, Scheonberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Bartok Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, the German premiere of Bartok's Piano Quintet, the two Rhapsodies by Gershwin or Skryabin's Prometheus. Bernd Goetzke has also published several articles on subject-related matters (Freedom in Interpretation, Pedal Technique, Bach's Melodic Characteristics, Articulation and Phrasing in Classical Music, etc.). He is a piano faculty member in Euro Music Festival and Academy since 2009 (Leipzig/Klosterneuburg/Wuppertal/Halle). 



    Prof. Jochen Koehler
    was born in Bremen, Germany. His teachers include Luciano Ortis, Alovs Kontarsky and Leonid Brumberg in Bermen, Cologne and Vienna. He was awarde honours for his final exams in piano performance in Germany (Hochschule fuer Music und Tanz Koeln) and in Austria (Konservatorium Wien). In the course of his training he took part in masterclasses given by such well-known pianist as Oleg Maisenberg, Pavel Gililov, Alexander Jenner and Claude Helffer. In addition to his musical education he studied German and European literature, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Hagen.
    Jochen Koehler has performed as a soloiist, chamber music partner and lied accompanist in many European countries and in Asia(Korea and Japan) and has appeared in important music festivals including Wien modern and Wiener Musiksommer. 
    His numerous radio and TV recordings include the complete works for solo piano of Arnold Schoenberg and many compositions of Prokofiev, Webern, Schnittke, Zimmermann, Stockhausen as well as piano pieces of contemporary composers. 
    In 1991 Koehler played Olivier Messiaens demanding cycle 'Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus' in Vienna's Musikverein. This performance was acclaimed by the Neue Musik Zeitung as an outstanding highlight of the 'Wien modern' festival. 
    At the age of 23, Jochen Koehler became a lecturer at the University of Arts Bremen. From 1988 to 2003, he taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. In 2000, he was appointed as Professor at the Otto-von-Guericke-University in Magdeburg, where he had been Chair of the Institute of Music in 2002 - 2004. Since 2010, he holds a professorship at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. 
    Koehler gives numerous masterclasses in Europe and the Far East. Highly regarded as an expert for 20th century music. He was invited to teach at the Arnold Schoenberg Center during the first Schoenberg Academy in Vienna 2009. 
    With his students, Jochen Koehler regularly organizes extradordinary musical projects. Members of his piano classes performed in series of special recitals such as the entire Well-Tempered Clavier, the Preludes and Fugues op.87 of Shostakovich, the complete sonatas of Prokofiev and nearly all major works of the impressionist masters. 
    In addition to his tasks as a pianist and pedagogue, Koehler's main research interests are theory and the history of musical performances.
    Koehler's piano repertoire consists of music from Baroque era to compositions of our time. 



    Prof. Murray McLachlan
    'Murray McLachlan is a pianist with a virtuoso technique and a sure sense of line. His timing and phrasing are impeccable, and his tone-full but unforced in the powerful passages, gentle and restrained in the more lyrical- is a perpetual delight' (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE)
    Since making his professional debut in 1986 at the age of 21 under the baton of Sir Alexander Gibson, Murray McLachlan has consistently received outstanding critical acclaim. Educated at Chetham's School of Music and Cambridge University, his mentor included Ronald Stevenson, David Hartigan, Ryszard Bakst, Peter Katin and Norma Fisher. His recording career began in 1988 and immediately attracted international attention. Recordings of contemporary music have won numerous accolades, including full star ratings, as well as 'rosette' and 'key recording' status in the Penguin Guide to CDs, and 'Disc of the month' and 'Record of the month' in 'Music on the Web' and 'The Herald'. MaLachlan's discography now includes over forty commercial recordings, including the complete sonatas of Beethoven, Myaskovsky and Prokofiev, the Six concertos of Alexander Tcherepnin, the 24 Preludes and Fugues of Rodion Shchedrin, Ronald Stevenson's 'Passacaglia on DSCH' the major works of Kabaleysky, Khatchaturian and the complete solo piano music of Erik Chisholm. McLachlan's repertoire includes over 40 concertos and 25 recital programmes. He has performed the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle four times, as well as the complete piano music of Brahms. He has given first performances of works by many composers, including Martin Butler, Ronald Stevenson, Charles Camilleri, Michael Parkin and even Beethoven! He has appeared as soloist with most of the leading UK orchestras. His recognition has been far-reaching, bringing invitations to perform on all five continents. At the same time he continues to give numerous concerts and masterclasses in the UK. McLachlan teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music and at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester where he has been Head of Keyboard since 1997. He is the founder of the Manchester International Concerto Competition for young pianists as well as the Founder/Artistic Director of the world famous Chetham's International Summer school and festival for Pianists, Europe's largest summer school devoted exclusively to the piano. As a teacher McLachlan continues to be very busy and in demand. Many of his students have won prizes in competitions and continued with their own successful careers as performers.Murray McLachlan is editor of 'Piano Professional' Magazine, as well as Chair of the UK section of the European Piano Teachers' Association(EPTA UK). As well as performing and teaching, he is well known internationally for his numerous articles on Piano technique and repertoire. This includes extended columns which have appeared in 'International Piano', 'Pianist', and 'Piano' magazines.In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Dundee for outstanding services to music and education. This follows on from a knighthood awarded in 1997 by the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in recognition of his services to music in Malta. 


    Prof. Péter Nagy
    The first prize in the 1979 Hungarian Radio Competition launched virtuosic pianist Péter Nagy into a remarkable international career at a young age. Nagy had been admitted at age eight to the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, and at age eleven he won second prize of the International Concours in Usti nad Labem (Czechoslovakia). In 1980, he was acclaimed at the Bordeaux Festival of Young Soloists and on the Bratislava International Rostrum for Young Interpreters.
    Nagy’s concerts include tours throughout Europe, performing concertos and solo recitals in Finland, Yugoslavia, Germany, Greece, Russia, throughout former Soviet Union, France,where he has performed at the Louvre in Paris, and London at the Wigmore Hall, as well as many other engagements. His worldwide concert tours include recitals in New York at the 92nd Street Y, in Australia at the Sydney Opera House, in New Zealand and throughout Japan. Among his concerto engagements in Japan were appearances as a soloist with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician he has performed at major music festivals in Europe, the United States, Japan and in China: among these are Llandoff, Kilkenny, Athens, Bastad, Blonay, Beijing International Piano Festival,Divonne, Edinburgh, Eisenach, Fayetteville, Turku, Helsinki, Kuhmo, Nelson, Moritzburg, Dresden, Aix-en-Provence, Stresa, Stockholm, Syros, Davos, Ojai and the Marlboro Music Festival.
    Nagy regularly performs as a chamber musician, including concerts with partners such as the New Zealand String Quartet, Biava String Quartet, Chiara String Quartet, Zoltán Kocsis, László Polgár, Miklós Perényi, Leonidas Kavakos, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, Boris Pergamenschikow, Charles Neidich, Nobuko Imai, Nathalian Rosen,Jan Vogler, Tanja Becker–Bender, Hakan Rosengren, Ruggiero Ricci, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, and Colin Carr, to name a few.
    He is also active as a teacher, holding a position as Professor of Piano at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he was the head of the Department from 2006 to 2011 as well as Professor of Piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart. He has been regularly invited to give masterclasses at the Liszt Hochschule für Musik in Weimar and at the Tokyo Toho Gaugen College . Recent achievements include a performance of the Ligeti piano concerto in Budapest. Nagy has recorded for Hungaroton, Delos, Naxos, BIS and ECM labels. In 2001 he received the prestigious Liszt Award.