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José Iturbi International Piano Competition
The Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi (also referred to as the José Iturbi International Piano CompetitionWestphal, Matthew (25 June 2007). ''Playbill''. Retrieved 6 February 2012.) is an international piano competition held in Valencia, Spain. It is named after virtuoso José Iturbi, born in Valencia. Created in 1981, it has been held ever since in the month of September and is part of the World Federation of International Music Competitions. After four annual editions, in 1986 it became a biennial competition. In 2004 Valencia's Palau de la Música de València, Palau de la Música replaced the city's Teatro Principal (Valencia), Teatro Principal as the competition's headquarters. In 2013 the competition was changed to a triennial periodicity. The competition consists of five rounds, as shown in the chart below. The prize has always included a cash award, recital and orchestral engagements, and a recording contract. As of 2013, the winner is awarded €18,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playbill
''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's Programme (booklet), program. ''Playbill'' was first printed in 1884 for a single theater on 21st Street in New York City. The magazine is now used at nearly every Broadway theatre as well as many Off-Broadway productions. Outside New York City, ''Playbill'' is used at theaters throughout the United States. its Magazine circulation, circulation was 4,073,680. History What is known today as ''Playbill'' started in 1884, when Frank Vance Strauss founded the New York Theatre Program Corporation specializing in printing theater programs. Strauss reimagined the concept of a theater program, making advertisements a standard feature and thus transforming what was then a leaflet into a fully designed magazine. The new format proved popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Kamenz
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Severin Von Eckardstein
Severin von Eckardstein (born 1 August 1978) is a German classical pianist. He was born in Düsseldorf, and took his first piano lessons when he was six years old. At the age of 12, he was accepted into a young-talent class at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. During his school years, von Eckardstein continued his piano studies in Hannover and in Salzburg with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. After his graduation, he attended the Berlin University of the Arts to take lessons from Klaus Hellwig. In 2000, he made a strong impression at the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition: he was placed third. After receiving his degree in 2002, he continued his studies at the International Piano Academy Lake Como, in Italy. He won the 2003 Queen Elisabeth Competition The Queen Elisabeth Competition (, ) is an international competition for career-starting musicians held in City of Brussels, Brussels. The competition is named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Quee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Sanzo
Ángel Damián Sanzo Herrera (born in Antequera, 1973) is a Spanish pianist. He teaches at Badajoz Badajoz is the capital of the Province of Badajoz in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain. It is situated close to the Portugal, Portuguese Portugal–Spain border, border, on the left bank of the river ...'s Conservatory. Awards Recordings *Rosa Miranda y Ángel Sanzo (Cambayá Records) Notes References Profile at the Asociación de Amigos de la Música de Alcoy External links Personal webpage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Gifford
Duncan George Gifford is an Australian-born concert pianist and teacher. Early life and education Gifford was born in Sydney. He was educated at Newington College (1985–1990), the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and in Russia at the Moscow Conservatory. Career Performances and recordings Gifford has performed with orchestras and in recitals throughout Europe, Russia, Japan, Australasia, and in the United States, where he gave his Carnegie Hall debut recital in 1999. In 1993 he released his first CD featuring the music of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. Teaching From 1996 Gifford was based in Madrid, where he was professor of piano. He has been a professor of piano at the Conservatory of Palma on the island of Majorca, Spain since 2006. Recognition and awards Musica Viva described him as a "major artist of his generation". The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' described him as "a virtuosic and musically eloquent soloist". He was the recipient of a David Paul Landa Memorial Scholarsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Lin
Jenny Lin is a Taiwanese-born American pianist. Biography She was born in Taiwan, and raised in Austria and the United States. She began her piano studies at the age of 4. At age 10, she was accepted into the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, in the studio of Noel Flores. At age 14, she immigrated to the United States, attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, studying with Julian Martin. She received an Artist Diploma from Peabody and also holds a bachelor's degree in German Literature from Johns Hopkins University. After college, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland, to study with the pianist Dominique Weber. She has also worked with Richard Goode and Blanca Uribe in New York, and with Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov and Andreas Staier at the Fondazione Internazionale per il pianoforte in Cadenabbia, Italy. Lin was the Executive Director of the Manchester Music Festival, now currently serving as Dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uta Weyand
Uta Weyand (born in Reutlingen) is a German pianist, who started her concert career in 1989. She is the daughter of a chair conductor and an organist. She studied in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), Baltimore (USA) and Madrid (Spain) with Elza Kolodin, Vitaly Margulis, Leon Fleisher and Joaquín Soriano. She has performed with the Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Nuremberg and Bamberg orchestras and with the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the National Orchestra of Brazil. In 2000, she became a professor at Conservatorio Superior de Musica in Madrid, Spain, and, since 2002, she has been teaching at the Madrid Royal Conservatory The Madrid Royal Conservatory () is a music college in Madrid, Spain. History The Royal Conservatory of Music was founded on July 15, 1830, by royal decree, and was originally located in Mostenses Square, Madrid. In 1852 it was moved to the Roy .... In 2007, she founded and is the managing director of the Pianale Piano Academy and Pianale Junior. She created ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atsuko Seki
Atsuko Seki (born 1964 in Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...) is a Japanese pianist. Seki received her education at Musashino School of Music, Tokyo (1983–90). She then continued her education at Music Academy Dortmund. Seki won, ex-aequo with Hideyo Harada, the IV Schubert Competition (1991), and was awarded the IX José Iturbi Competition (1994)'s 3rd prize. She has recorded three CDs. References Citations Vienna's Schubert CompetitionDivox 1964 births José Iturbi International Piano Competition prize-winners Living people Musicians from Tokyo Japanese women classical pianists 21st-century Japanese classical pianists 21st-century Japanese women pianists {{classical-pianist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mauricio Vallina
Mauricio Vallina (born 1970 in Havana,) is a Cuban pianist living in Brussels. teatroabanico.com 6 April 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2011. He has been a top prize-winner of national and international piano competitions. His prizes include Valencia (1994) and Gernika (1996) international piano competitions, and he has also been awarded special prizes for the best performance of Cuban and Spanish Music. Education and debut After graduating in Havana, with a "Gold" Diploma (1988), Vallina achieved a solid formation at the Moscow "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory (Master of Fine Arts in 1996), the |
Miri Yampolsky
Miri Yampolsky (, ) is a Russian pianist and a naturalised Israeli citizen. In 1994, Yampolsky won the IX José Iturbi Competition. A lecturer at the Cornell University's Department of Music, she has organised a Shostakovich Festival at Ithaca. Her relatives include pianists Vladimir Yampolsky and Tatiana Yampolsky, and conductor Victor Yampolsky Victor Yampolsky (born 1942) is a Russian-born conductor and the son of pianist Vladimir Yampolsky. He was most recently director of orchestras at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, a position he had held from 1984 to 2022. He is the .... She is married to Xak Bjerken, and has three children, Misha, Anna, and Maya. References * Russian classical pianists Musicians from Moscow Israeli classical pianists Israeli women pianists José Iturbi International Piano Competition prize-winners Living people 1971 births Jewish classical pianists 21st-century classical pianists Russian women classical pianists 21st-ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Gurkova
Mariana Dimitrova Gurkova-Franco () is a Bulgarian pianist, born in Sofia. Gurkova, who nowadays is a naturalised Spanish citizen, settled in Madrid in 1988. A former head professor at Badajoz's Conservatory, she is a teacher at Madrid's Real Conservatorio Superior. References Review of a performance of Vladiguerov's 3rd Piano Concerto- El País (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in ..., May 3, 1999 Profile at the Fundación Juan March External links Personal webpage Living people Musicians from Sofia Bulgarian women classical pianists Spanish classical pianists Spanish women classical pianists Bulgarian expatriates in Spain Spanish people of Bulgarian descent Academic staff of the Madrid Royal Conservatory José Iturbi International Piano Competition pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Chiantore
Luca Chiantore (born 1966) is an Italian pianist and musicologist, based in Catalonia. He has a PhD in Musicology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; he specializes in the study of piano technique and interpretation and the music of Beethoven. As a scholar, his most important studies are: ''Tone Moves: A History of Piano Technique'' (2019), a revised English version of his ''Historia de la técnica pianística'' (2001) (+250 cites on Google Scholar), where he introduces the new term ''Ur-Technik'' (21 cites on Google Scholar) as corporal correspondent to Ur-Text Urtext (, from ''ur-'' "primordial" and ''text'' "text", ) may refer to: * Urtext (biblical studies), the text that is believed to precede both the Septuagint and the Masoretic text * Urtext edition An urtext edition (from German prefix wikt:u ..., and his thesis ''Beethoven al piano: Improvisación, composición e investigación sonora en sus ejercicios técnicos'' (2010) (30 cites on Google Scholar), where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |