TRAXLER, Christoph

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:36
Published in Piano
Since his debut in the Musikverein Vienna in 2008 he has been invited to perform there regularly in chamber music concerts and festivals. His chamber music partners include renowned musicians such as Ernst Ottensamer, Wolfgang Schulz, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Franz Bartolomey, Volkhard Steude, Heinz Zednik, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, as well as the chamber music formations “The Philharmonics” and the “Baole-Quintet”.

Chipak - Kushnir

Wednesday, 08 September 2010 08:18
Published in Piano

When in 1998 Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir met first during their academic studies at the Lviv Music Academy in the Ukraine, it was like magical gravity. A moment later their successful, creative musical collaboration began, they won e.g. the highest award at the international contest “Rome-98”. But this achievement hasn’t been enough for them. They were keen on expanding their artistic horizon and went on studying with the German piano duo Hans-Peter and Volker Stenzl at the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Rostock. In 2005 Olha Chipak and Oleksiy Kushnir completed their studies with a graduate recital.

CARDONE, Francesca

Saturday, 14 August 2010 11:24
Published in Piano

Von ihrem Lehrer J. Achuarro als eines der international vielversprechendsten Klaviertalente bezeichnet, schloss Francesca Cardone ihre Ausbildung in Florenz mit Auszeichnung ab und studierte dann bei H. Graf und J. Achuarro an der Southern Methodist University in Dallas
(Master of Music in Piano Performance).

GRINER, Dorian

Friday, 30 July 2010 06:40
Published in Piano
"...First class Chopin playing..."
Musical Opinion


"...I had the opportunity to hear Dorian Griner on several occasions and was everytime very impressed with his playing... I think that Dorian Griner is a pianist with an outstanding talent..."
- PETER FEUCHTWANGER

BONNIN DE GONGORA, Josue

Saturday, 24 July 2010 18:51
Published in Composer
Josué Bonnín de Góngora was born in Madrid in 1970. At the age of eight he received his first piano lessons from his father. Soon after that, he starts writing his first compositions, like the "Waltz in C minor", a piece where his characteristic expressiveness can already be perceived, and two groups of works that he finishes during the next years: the "Poems" and the "Tales of Solitude".

NIEMCZUK, Grzegorz

Tuesday, 20 July 2010 20:19
Published in Piano
Grzegorz Niemczuk – concert pianist – winner of the 40th National Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2010 - graduated with the highest distinction from the Karol Szymanowski Music Academy in Katowice in the class of Jozef Stompel (with whom he has been working since 2001).

PAZ, Gabriel

Monday, 19 July 2010 06:29
Published in Piano
Argentinean pianist, born in Buenos Aires. He began his musical studies at a very early age with Mercedes Taltabull.

In December 1997, Gabriel Paz obtained his master degree with honours, at the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Musica ”Carlos López Buchardo”, in Buenos Aires, under the guidance of Mercedes Pomilio. Since 1995, he also studied with the noticeable pianist and Russian pedagogue Vera Anosova.

TANIYAMA, Sachika

Friday, 16 July 2010 14:37
Published in Piano
Sachika Taniyama began her musical studies at the age of five in Japan. Since she moved to the UK in 1997, she has studied with Carolyn Tailby, Guy Johnson from Royal Academy of Music, and Robert Markham from Birmingham Conservatoire and she has won many prizes in competitions and music festivals in the Midlands. In 2003, she made her concerto debut by performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Sutton Coldfield Orchestra. In the same year, She continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under the guidance of pianist, Charles Owen.

MURRAY, Janet

Monday, 12 July 2010 09:01
Published in Piano
Janet Murray is a lifetime musician, educated in music from age 6 through college. As a young music student, she performed regularly, playing recitals in the United States: in California, Washington, New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi, and Virginia. She has sudied at Loretta Academy in El Paso, Texas. Mt. St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, California, and at the Sessione de Musica del Arts in Siena, Italy;

FEYEN, Dagmar

Tuesday, 06 July 2010 07:30
Published in Piano
Dagmar Feyen (www.dagmarfeyen.com) is both a pianist and a composer. He has a broad repertoire that also includes improvised music and jazz performance. He studied in Belgium and the Netherlands with distinguished professors as Jacques Detiège (piano) and Piet Swerts (composition) and is currently teaching at the Music Academy of Mol (Belgium) and at the Media and Design Academy in Genk (Belgium). His compositions include small piano miniatures as well as large scale choral works.
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My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it,
and you simply take as much as you require.


~Edward Elgar