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Anatoly Zatin
Anatoly Zatin (Anatoli Zatine, russian: link=no, Анатолий Борисович Затин) (born 23 March 1954, Uzhhorod, Soviet Ukraine; now Ukraine), is a composer, pianist, orchestral conductor and pedagogue. Born in the USSR, he acquired Mexican citizenship in 1996. Education Born into a musical family, Zatin began his music education at age 3. In 1968 he won first prize at a competition for young composers and pianists in Kiev. In 1979, Zatin joined the USSR Union of Composers and the St Petersburg Union of Composers. Professional career Zatin taught at the Modest Mussorgsky Music College in Leningrad, and upon graduating from the conservatory in 1981 served as faculty of composition, orchestration and chamber music at the Leningrad Conservatory (1981–1983). Since 1992, Zatin lives and works in Mexico. He taught at the University of Guadalajara in 1991–2001 and founded the Anatoly Zatin International Music Academy (AIMAZ) in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1996. Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the Black Sea (650–690 km) making it the most inland city in this part of Europe. It is the administrative center of Zakarpattia Oblast (region), as well as the administrative center of the Uzhhorod Raion (district) within the oblast. Population: Name The city's earliest known name is ''Ungvár'', from Hungarian ''Ung'' ( River Uzh) and ''vár'' "castle, fortress", originally referring to a castle outside the city (probably Nevytske Castle). The name ''Uzhhorod'' was coined in early 19th century Slavophile circles as a literal translation of the name ''Ungvár''. The city officially adopted this name some time after 1920, under Czechoslovak administration. The names of the city also include: en, link=no, Uzhgorod (before 1996); rue, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Department
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger institution), conservatory, conservatorium or conservatoire ( , ). Instruction consists of training in the performance of musical instruments, singing, musical composition, conducting, musicianship, as well as academic and research fields such as musicology, music history and music theory. Music instruction can be provided within the compulsory general education system, or within specialized children's music schools such as the Purcell School. Elementary-school children can access music instruction also in after-school institutions such as music academies or music schools. In Venezuela El Sistema of youth orchestras provides free after-school instrumental instruction through music schools called ''núcleos''. The term "music school" can al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Concerto
A double concerto (Italian: ''Doppio concerto''; German: ''Doppelkonzert'') is a concerto featuring two performers—as opposed to the usual single performer, in the solo role. The two performers' instruments may be of the same type, as in Bach's Double Violin Concerto, or different, as in Brahms's Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra. The term can also refer to the use of a double orchestral body where a work is in concerto grosso form; for example, Martinů's '' Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani'' is commonly known by the title "Double Concerto," where the word "double" refers to the two string bodies rather than to the piano and timpani, who are not soloists in the conventional sense. Triple and quadruple concertos Concertos with more than two solo parts may be known by the terms "triple concerto", "quadruple concerto", etc., but not usually when the instruments are of the same type (for example, Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins in B min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular. A musician who plays a horn is known as a list of horn players, horn player or hornist. Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument (controlled by the player's lungs and thoracic diaphragm); diameter and tension of lip aperture (by the player's lip muscles—the embouchure) in the mouthpiece; plus, in a modern horn, the operation of Brass instrument valve, valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra sections of tubing. Most horns have lever-operated rotary valves, but some, especially older horns, use piston valves (similar to a trumpet's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triple Concerto
A triple concerto (Italian: ''Concerto triplo'', German: ''Tripelkonzert'') is a concerto with three soloists. Such concertos have been composed from the Baroque period, including works by Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann, to the 21st century, such as two works by Dmitri Smirnov. The most famous example is Beethoven's Triple Concerto for violin, cello and piano. His combination of solo instruments, a piano trio, was often used also in later works. History Many works in the genre concerto grosso were composed for three solo instruments, including Corelli's concerti grossi, Op. 6, for a trio (''concertino'') of two violins and cello. 1714. Antonio Vivaldi wrote several concertos for the same combination of instruments, published for example in ''L'estro armonico'' in 1711. Based on Italian models, Johann Sebastian Bach composed concertos for multiple instruments, including his Fourth ''Brandenburg Concerto'', BWV 1049, with solo parts for violin and two recorders, his Fif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Dubé (musician)
Jean Dubé (born December 3, 1981) is a Canadian concert pianist. In 2002 he won the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition. Life and career Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Dubé began playing piano at the age of 3 and played in public at age 4. A child prodigy, he won a Steinway piano at the age of 9 during the national competition "Jeunes Prodiges Mozart à Paris". The same year, he played as a soloist at the Maison de la Radio with the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, live on France Musique. His discography already includes thirty recordings including twenty CDs, especially with Syrius, Bnl and Naxos labels in addition to several DVDs of concertos for French television and other foreign radio and television networks. Very comfortable in all repertoires, including those for the left hand alone, he is one of the few pianists in the world able to play Ligeti's piano concerto and to give in a single recital the "Vingts Regards sur l’Enfant Jésus "of Messiaen. He likes t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitri Bashkirov
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Bashkirov (russian: Дми́трий Алекса́ндрович Башки́ров; November 1, 1931 – March 7, 2021) was a Russian pianist and academic teacher. Trained in his hometown Tbilisi and Moscow, he began an international career as a soloist when he won the Marguerite Long Piano Competition in Paris in 1955. He taught at the Moscow Conservatory from 1957 to 1991, and at the Queen Sofia College of Music in Madrid from 1991 to 2021. He taught also as a guest at other international conservatories and he is regarded as a representative of the Russian piano school. Life and career Bashkirov was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. His great-aunt Lina Stern, a biochemist, physiologist and humanist, was the first female member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He studied at the Tbilisi Conservatory for ten years with Anastasia Virsaladze, then at the Moscow Conservatory with Alexander Goldenweiser. Pianist He achieved a first prize at the Marguerite L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Viardo
Vladimir Viardo (born 1949 in Krasnaya Polyana, Soviet Union), is a Russian pianist. Career The first steps in music were taken with his mother, the classical singer, voice teacher and pianist Nathalia Viardo. Viardo studied with Irina Naumova at the Gnessin State Musical College and later studied with Lev Naumov at the Moscow Conservatory, where he remained as a student for six years. Naumov would describe him as "my number one pupil". During this time, he was tenured as a soloist by Moscow Philharmonia (the primary music organization of the USSR). After obtaining a doctorate, he was immediately engaged as assistant professor with Naumov at the Conservatory. At the age of 21 Viardo took the third prize and the Prix du Prince Rainier at the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition, and in 1973 first prize at the Van Cliburn International Competition. He had already launched an impressive world career when his travel visa was mysteriously revoked. For nearly thirteen years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Buyanovsky
Vitaly Mikhailovich Bujanovsky or Buyanovsky (russian: link=no, Виталий Михайлович Буяновский; 27 August 1928, in Leningrad – 5 May 1993, in Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet Russian classical horn player, music teacher and composer. He was the principal horn player at the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra under Yevgeny Mravinsky and professor at the Leningrad Conservatory. In 1985 he was elected an IHS IHS may refer to: Religious * Christogram IHS or ΙΗΣ, a monogram symbolizing Jesus Christ * ''In hoc signo'', used by Roman emperor Constantine the Great Organizations * Indian Health Service, an operating division of the US Department of Hea ... Honorary Member. External links Vitaly Bujanovsky's IHS Biography References * 1928 births 1993 deaths Russian classical horn players Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni Academic staff of Saint Petersburg Conservatory Russian music educators Russian male composers 20th-century classical musicia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timofei Dokschitzer
Timofei Aleksandrovich Dokschitzer (russian: Тимофей Александрович Докшицер, 13 December 1921, Nizhyn, Ukraine — 16 March 2005, Vilnius) was a Soviet Russian trumpeter, and a professor in Gnesins Musical College. He was the solo trumpeter of the Bolshoi Theater. He started to play when he was 10 years old. He finished the Central Musical School and Gnesins Musical College. In 1947 he won the International Competition in Prague. In 1957 he finished the Moscow State Conservatory. He became one of the outstanding trumpeters of the world, who proved that trumpet can be a solo instrument, as the violin or piano. He played both classical musical compositions and modern concertos by Alexander Arutiunian and others. Some of his records were re-issued on CD. His very distinctive style and sound was born out of a love of opera, and that operatic influence remained a permanent element of his playing. At the International Trumpet Days Bremen, Germany he gave ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrof
Petrof is a Czech piano manufacturer founded in 1864. It is the leading European piano manufacturer, exporting to more than 60 countries. History The company was founded in 1864 in Hradec Králové, Kingdom of Bohemia, by Antonín Petrof (d. 1915), who had apprenticed at Viennese companies such as Heintzman & Co., Friedrich Ehrbar and Schweighofer. The owner Antonín Petrof was awarded an imperial and royal warrant of appointment to the court of Austria-Hungary. In 1924 the company was exporting its pianos to Europe, Japan, China, Australia and South America. At the World Exhibition 1934 in Brussels, the Petrof instruments won the gold medal. At that time, approximately 400 people worked at their factory. In 1948, Petrof was nationalized. The company was returned to the Petrof family in 1991. Petrof is currently led by two sisters from the fifth generation of the Petrof family and produces annually approximately 2,000 grand pianos and 12,000 upright pianos. Petrof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo Petrof
Duo Petrof is a piano duet, piano-duo composed of Anatoly Zatin (born 23 March 1954, in Uzhhorod) and Vlada Vassilieva (born 10 July 1985, in Moscow). Anatoly Zatin is a pianist, composer and conductor graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory, member of the St Petersburg Union of Composers, professor and Dean (education), Dean of the Fine Arts Institute at the University of Colima in Mexico. Vlada Vassilieva studied with Anatoly Zatin at the University of Colima and later with Pavlina Dokovska at Mannes College of Music in New York City as a Fulbright grantee. She currently teaches at the University of Colima. Both pianists currently reside in Mexico. The duo was formed in 2003 in cooperation with the University of Colima and Petrof Pianos of Mexico. Since 2008 both pianists are Petrof Artists representing Petrof, Petrof Pianos worldwide. Performing career The ensemble's first appearance under the name of Duo Petrof took place in December 2003 at the National Auditory in Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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