Professeurs Festival 2013
Judith Ingolfsson, Violon
En 1998, Judith Ingolfsson a remporté le premier prix du fameux Concours International de Violon d’Indianapolis. Cette victoire a marqué le début de sa carrière internationale de concertiste renommée. Depuis lors, elle ne fait que confirmer sa réputation d’artiste à la maturité musicale irréfutable, aux capacités techniques extraordinaires et au jeu envoûtant.
Outre la médaille d'or à Indianapolis, elle a décroché le premier prix du Concert Artists Guild Competition à New York ainsi que le troisième prix du concours international de violon Premio Paganini à Gênes. En 1999, l’émission américaine Performance Today de la radio publique nationale lui a décerné le titre de « nouvelle artiste de l’année ». En 2001, elle a remporté le Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award pour son premier album comprenant des œuvres de Bloch, Rorem, Bach et Wieniawski. Son enregistrement du concerto de P. Tchaïkovski pour BPO Live a été chaleureusement salué par la critique internationale.
Judith Ingolfsson s’est produite sur de grandes scènes mondiales, parmi lesquelles le Konzerthaus à Berlin, le Tokyo Opera City, le Carnegie Hall à New York et le Kennedy Center à Washington D.C. En tant que soliste, elle s’est produite entre autre avec l’Orchestre symphonique de Philadelphie, l’Orchestre symphonique d’Indianapolis, l’Orchestre symphonique de Saint-Louis, l’Orchestre royal de chambre de Tokyo et l’Orchestre philharmonique de Budapest. Elle a travaillé avec des chefs d’orchestre renommés, tels Wolfgang Sawallisch, Leonard Slatkin et Jesús López-Cobos.
Judith Ingolfsson est aussi volontiers invitée dans les festivals de musique. Elle répond à des invitations pour des festivals aux Etats-Unis, en France, en Pologne, en Finlande, en Allemagne, en Suisse et aux Pays-Bas. Depuis 2008 Judith Ingolfsson est professeur à la Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst à Stuttgart. Son violon est un Lorenzo-Guadagnini de 1750.
Vladimir Stoupel, Piano
Les concerts de Vladimir Stoupel sont qualifiés par la presse internationale comme étant des «feux d’artifice pianistiques» (Washington Post) et une «interprétation hors du commun» (Der Tagesspiegel Berlin). Il a reçu le fameux «Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik» pour son enregistrement de l’œuvre complète pour alto et piano d’Henri Vieuxtemps avec l’altiste Thomas Selditz. En tant que concertiste soliste, Vladimir Stoupel est invité par des orchestres de référence, tels que, entre autres, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Berlin, l’Orchestre du Gewandhaus de Leipzig, l’Orchestre national de Russie et l’Orchestre national de Weimar. Il travaille régulièrement avec des chefs d’orchestre éminents, comme Christian Thielemann et Michail Jurowski, et s’est produit dans les salles de concert les plus célèbres, telles la Philharmonie et le Konzerthaus de Berlin, l’Avery Fisher Hall à New York et la National Gallery à Washington DC. Il est constamment invité à offrir sa contribution dans des festivals internationaux, comme le Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, le Festival Piano en Valois (France) et le Bargemusic Festival New York. En musique de chambre, Vladimir Stoupel joue avec, entre autres, le Quatuor Breuninger, l'altiste Tabea Zimmermann et le violoncelliste Leonid Gorokhov. Il forme également un duo avec la violoniste Judith Ingolfsson. Sa vaste discographie dévoile différents styles et époques, tels que des œuvres de Chostakovitch, Arnold Schönberg, Schumann et Brahms, ainsi que l’intégralité des sonates d’Alexandre Scriabine, pour laquelle il a reçu le prix luxembourgeois « Excellentia ». Vladimir Stoupel a étudié le piano et la direction d’orchestre au Conservatoire de Moscou. Parmi ses professeurs figurent Lazar Berman et Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Ses engagements de chef d’orchestre incluent des concerts avec l’Orchestre de chambre de Reykjavik lors du Festival des Arts de Reykjavik, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, l’opéra « L’Histoire du Pope et de son serviteur Balda » de Chostakovitch au Konzerthaus de Berlin, une collaboration avec l’Orchestre de chambre Mendelssohn de Leipzig, ainsi que des concerts avec l'Orchestre d'État du Land Brandenbourg. Lauréat du Concours International de Genève, citoyen français depuis 1985, Vladimir Stoupel vit actuellement à Berlin.
John Holloway, Violon
John Holloway took up baroque violin in the early 1970s. With his first baroque ensemble, L'Ecole d'Orphée, he made the first complete recording on baroque instruments of Handel's instrumental chamber music. Since then his growing chamber music and solo discography has ranged from Castello and Fontana to Vivaldi, Telemann and beyond. His recording of Biber's "Mystery Sonatas" won a Gramophone Award in 1991, and remains the reference recording of this music. He was awarded two Danish Grammys for recordings of music by Buxtehude. Since 1997 he has made a number of acclaimed recordings for ECM New Series, including the Sonatas and Partitas for Violin solo by Bach.
John Holloway is one of the most experienced concertmasters in the 'Early Music' world, having led orchestras for such diverse directors as Christie, Hogwood, Leonhardt, Koopman, Malgoire, McGegan. He was for many years concertmaster of Roger Norrington's London Classical Players and of Andrew Parrott's Taverner Players, leading groundbreaking performances and recordings of repertoire from the Florentine Intermedii to Brahms symphonies. This has in turn led to numerous projects featuring Holloway as conductor and/or director from the violin, in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Britten.
He has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, and in the Early Music Institute of Indiana University in Bloomington. He has given classes and led workshops in most European countries, as well as in Korea, New Zealand and the USA. In 2004 he was Regents' Lecturer at UC Berkeley. In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Violin (modern and baroque) and Chamber Music at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, Germany. Since 2006 he has been Artistic Director of the International Competition and Masterclass "Violin in Dresden".
Alexandre Baev, Violon
Né en 1961 à Kharkov (ex-URSS) Alexandre Baev a commencé ses études de violon à l'âge de cinq ans. Il a poursuivi ses études au collège de musique du Conservatoire de Moscou puis au Conservatoire de Moscou avec le célèbre prof. B. Belenky. Pendant ses études, il a fait ses débuts dans la Grande Salle du Conservatoire de Moscou.
En 1988, il a été nommé premier violon solo à l'Orchestre philharmonique de Sarajevo en ex-Yougoslavie. Depuis, Alexandre Baev se consacre également à sa carrière de soliste et de musicien de chambre, avec des concerts dans des différents festivals de musique : Seattle, le Schleswig-Holstein, Korsholm, Prado, Stavanger, Dubrovnik etc.
Comme soliste, il a joué avec des orchestres tels que l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Zagreb, Ljubljana Philharmonic Orchestra, l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Sarajevo et l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Belgrade, pour n'en citer que quelques-uns. Il a aussi enregistré pour la radio des Sonates et Partitas de Bach, des Sonates pour violon et piano de Beethoven, l'intégrale des Sonates pour violon et piano de Brahms, des Sonates d'Ysaÿe, les Caprices de Paganini, de la musique contemporaine, ainsi que les concertos pour violon de Vivaldi, Bach, Sibelius, Mozart, Wieniawsky, Paganini et Tchaïkovski.
Alexander Baev est l'un des membres fondateurs du NES Chamber Orchestra de Dmitry Sitkovetsky (1990), dont le CD avec les Variations Goldberg de Bach a pris d'assaut l'American «Classic Top Tens».
Depuis 1992, Alexander Baev est deuxième violon solo à l'Orchestre Radio Symphonique des Pays-Bas.
Adrienne Elisha, Alto
Adrienne Elisha and music have an extraordinary relationship. As a creator and a re-creator, she understands music from the inside out and from the outside in.
She is a champion of new music - equally talented as both a skilled violist and as a composer whose voice is distinctly contemporary but whose inspiration is drawn directly from the heart. And for audiences experiencing her compositions, the result is a mesmerizing and emotional ride into an imaginary sound world unlike any other: Mario Davidovsky has described her sextet Anthelion as "a new kind of polyphony".
Her music, as Leonard Bernstein put it, is "excitingly unpredictable, yet inevitable in retrospect." Adrienne is a 2007 winner of the Thayer Award in Music Composition, she received her Ph.D in Composition from the University of Buffalo, working with David Felder as a Presidential Doctoral Fellow. Also a graduate of the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana, Ms. Elisha's grants and commissions include those from Meet the Composer, the National Music Teachers' Association (naming her the 1997 "Ohio Composer of the Year"), Fortnightly Music of Cleveland, Cleveland Chamber Music Society, newEar Ensemble (Kansas City) and the American Music Center. In addition to solo and chamber appearances at new music festivals, Dr. Elisha is currently principal violist with The Center for 21st Century Music Ensemble and the June in Buffalo Chamber Ensemble. She also performs frequently with Boston Modern Orchestra Project. During the Warsaw Autumn Festival, she was featured as soloist and composer on Polish Radio broadcasts, performing new works for solo viola including her own. Both of her talents were on display in Bern, Switzerland, where her composition —inspired by Paul Klee's painting "Once Emerged from the Grey of Night"—was featured. As guest violist, Dr. Elisha also performed with the Ensemble Paul Klee in the premiere of Liber Fulguralis by Tristan Murail.
In 2009, nominated by Peter Eötvös, Ms. Elisha was the recipient of the Herrenhaus Composer Residency in Edenkoben, Germany, where she spent five months as resident composer. She also was named a Composer Fellow of the 2011 Wellesley Composers Conference (Mario Davidovsky, director) and was awarded a 2011 Outer Cape Cod Artist's Residency. She is also a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Leonid Gorokhov, Violoncelle
Leonid Gorokhov a étudié au Conservatoire de Saint-Pétersbourg et a gagné plusieurs prix au cours de compétitions internationales majeures. En 1995, l'Association Européenne pour la Promotion des Arts lui a décerné le Prix de l'Accomplissement Culturel pour son «talent exceptionnel et sa remarquable réussite artistique».
En 1991, Leonid Gorokhov s'est produit comme soliste avec l'Orchestre philharmonique de Saint-Pétersbourg, dirigé par Lord Menuhin. Leurs fortes affinités musicales les ont conduits à de longues années de collaboration dans de nombreux pays. Leonid Gorokhov a joué en tant que soliste avec des orchestres tels que le Royal Philharmonic, l'Orchestre Philharmonia, l'Orchestre de la Chapelle de Saint-Pétersbourg, l'Orchestre symphonique national de Moscou, le Philharmonique de Prague, l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande et plusieurs orchestres de la BBC. Il a également fait une apparition au Megaron à Athènes, au Barge Music à New York, ainsi que lors de nombreux festivals internationaux prestigieux, entre autres à Kuhmo, Munich, Perth (Écosse), Schleswig-Holstein et Spoleto. Il effectue aussi régulièrement des tournées de récitals et concerts en Extrême-Orient. Il fait partie des membres fondateurs du Hermitage String Trio, ensemble qui a reçu une excellente critique et qui a joué dans des lieux tels qu le Wigmore Hall et lors du Lincoln Festival.
En plus de sa carrière de soliste et de musicien de chambre, Leonid Gorokhov enseigne à la Guildhall School of Music and Drama ainsi qu'à la Hochschule für Musik und Theater à Hanovre. Il possède à son actif une vaste discographie comprenant deux enregistrements du répertoire russe et de Schubert avec Nikolai Demidenko.
Marko Ylönen, Violoncelle
Already at the age of fifteen Marko Ylönen was one of the finalists in a national cello competition in Finland. In 1990 he was awarded 2nd prize at the Turku Scandinavian Cello Competition and later that year he became a finalist and a prizewinner in the Tchaikowsky Competition in Moscow. 1996 he won the first prize at the Concert Artist Guild Competition in New York.
Marko Ylönen has performed as soloist and chamber musician in Finland and other European countries as well as in Japan, Australia, New Zealand and North-America. He plays regurarly as soloist with all major Finnish orchestras. He has also played with such leading orchestras as Camerata Salzburg, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Among the conductors he has worked with Leif Segerstam, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Juha Kangas, John Storgårds, Sakari Oramo, Okko Kamu, James de Priest, Mosche Atzmon, Alexander Vedernikov, Heinrich Schiff, Ben Wallfish, Jean-Jacques Kantorow,Olli Mustonen and Hannu Lintu.
He has given recitals in major halls like the Weill Recital Hall at the Garnegie Hall and at the Kleine Zaal at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. As chamber musician, mr. Ylönen has played with a great number of worlds leading musicians in various ensembles at many music festivals. He has been invited Artistic Director of the Korsholm Music Festival in 2003, 2008 and 2010-2012.
Marko Ylönen is currently working as professor for chamber music at the Sibelius-Academy in Helsinki. He has held master classes in Finland, Sweden , Austria, United States, Australia, Egypt and Azerbaijan.
Marko Ylönen’s discography is mainly on four labels, ONDINE, BIS, ALBA and FINLANDIA, and it includes both modern concertos and traditional repertoire. The latest releases are Two Serious Melodies op. 77 for cello and orchestra by Sibelius (Lahti Symphony/dir. OsmoVänskä, BIS), Cello Concerto by Peteris Vasks (Tampere Filharmonia/dir. John Storgårds, ONDINE), Cello Concerto by Joonas Kokkonen( Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/dir. Sakari Oramo, Ondine) and Cello Sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninov (Arto Satukangas, piano, Alba)
Marko Ylönen has studied with Csaba Szilvay, Erkki Rautio, Heikki Rautasalo and Heinrich Schiff.
He plays a David Tecchler cello (year 1707)owned by Finnish Culture Foundation.
James VanDemark, Contrebasse
One of the most brilliant virtuosi ever to perform on the double bass, James VanDemark was hailed by the New York Times at his Lincoln Center recital debut as "an exceptionally gifted string player and a musician of taste, intelligence and the best spontaneous musical instincts, with an unerring sense for exact intonation." The San Francisco Chronicle praised his "wonderful facility for making really musical phrases, relaxing, building, shading with unlimited subtleties – and a capacity to dig into whole pages of rip-roaring coloratura and make every note count." VanDemark's duo recitals with André Watts, including one on Lincoln Center's Great Performer Series, and also with Samuel Sanders, Anthony Newman, Barry Snyder, and Robert Spillman have won him great acclaim. Chamber music collaborations with the Guarneri, Cleveland, Colorado, Muir, Ying, and Audubon Quartets, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, Vienna Schubert Trio, Kandinsky Trio, Gryphon Trio and pianists Gary Graffman, Alfred Brendel, Anton Nel, Anton Kuerti, and Jeffrey Kahane highlight VanDemark's versatility. The recipient of numerous commissioned works, including those by three Pulitzer Prize winners – Gian-Carlo Menotti, Joseph Schwantner, and Christopher Rouse – VanDemark also performed the American premieres of Nino Rota's Divertimento Concertante (Charlotte Symphony) and Edvard Tubin's Double Bass Concerto (Queens Symphony). VanDemark's most recent commission is a solo double bass work by the noted composer/violist Adrienne Elisha. VanDemark recently premiered and recorded the recital work Dana la Colora by composer/cellist Emilio Colon. He also recently premiered the concerto Shiva Shakti by composer Todd Coleman, winner of the Scorch Music Competition, and performed and recorded Jerod Sheffer Tate's Iyaaknasha' (The Medicine Man and His Helper) with the Columbus (OH) Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. As a sought-after guest artist at summer festivals, VanDemark performs at the Mostly Mozart, Spoleto, Seattle Chamber Music, Montreal Chamber Music, Round Top, Maverick, Norfolk, South Bank (London), and Newport festivals. Appointed Professor of Double Bass at the Eastman School in 1976, at age 23, VanDemark became the youngest person ever to hold such a position at a major music school. VanDemark is recognized as a renowned teacher; his students hold positions with many of the world's major orchestras – Cleveland, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Minnesota, San Francisco, Singapore, Taiwan, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Rochester Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and the orchestras of Syracuse, Buffalo and Wichita. Currently, VanDemark serves as Co-Chair of the String Department at the Eastman School, and Chair of the Musical Arts Major, Eastman's interdisciplinary academic honors program. As a recording artist, VanDemark can be heard on d'Note Records, Philips, Telarc, Vox, Pantheon, and NEXUS. VanDemark graduated in 1976 from SUNY Buffalo (BFA, Magna cum Laude). His principal teachers include bassist James Clute and cellist Paul Katz, with additional study with bassist Gary Karr and cellists Gabor Rejto and Leonard Rose.