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Masterprize
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B. TOMMY ANDERSSON
B.Tommy Andersson (b.1964) is a Swedish conductor and composer. He is a recurrent guest conductor with the opera houses and orchestras in Sweden, but he has also conducted orchestras in more than ten other countries, like Sinfonia Lahti (Finland), Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Geneva) and ASKO ensemble (Amsterdam). B.Tommy Andersson has a passion for the music from the late romantic era and the early 20th century, but he is also interested in early music as well as contemporary music. In his repertoire you find pieces like Messiaen's 'Turangalila Symphony', Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Lulu, Mozart's 'Magic Flute' and 'Le Nozze di Figaro' , Verdi's 'Un ballo in maschera', Handel's 'Orlando', Mahler's symphonie No. 1, 5, 6 and 10 and about 700 other pieces. He has made the first performance of about 110 compositions, mostly Swedish, of which nine are operas. Andersson was the artistic leader of KammarensembleN (a sinfonietta for new music) 1994-1999, and he is since 1998 the principal conductor of Stockholm Wind Ensemble. He has made numerous recordings of mainly contemporary music, but also Swedish romantic music and overtures by Auber.
B.Tommy Andersson is since 2002 a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, but he is also a member of The Swedish Composers' Association, The Swedish division of ISCM, the 'Samtida Musik' association and he is the secretary of The Swedish Conductors' Association. He has received the 'Crystal Award' (1995), the 'Interpreter's prize of the Swedish Composers' Association' (1998) and several scholarships.
MIKHAIL BIALIK
Prof. Mikhail Bialik, Musicologist, Teacher, Music and Theatre Critic. Born
13 March 1929 in Kiev (Ukraine). Education: Musicologist, 1951, Pianist,
1953, Kiev State Conservatoire; Postgraduate Studentship, Research Institute
of the Theatre and Music, St Petersburg, 1954-57; PhD. Since 1952 Member of
Composers' Association. Since 1968 Teacher, later Professor of St Petersburg
State Conservatoire. 1992 took the lead in revival of Philharmonic Society
of St Petersburg (founded 1802). Publications: "Lev Revutsky", monograph
(Moskow, 1963, Kiev, 1973, Leningrad, 1979), Essays about Composers Dmitry
Shostakovich, Alfred Shnittke, Boris Tishchenko, Sergey Slonimsky, Andrey
Petrov, Valery Gavrilin, Conductors Evgeny Mravinsky, Arvid Jansons, Jury
Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Producer Boris Pokrovsky and others; Articles in
encyclopaedias including Pipers Enzyklopadie des Musiktheatres, New Grove.
Regularly for 50 years contributions to important Russian newspapers and
magazines. Honours: Honoured Master of Arts of Russia, 1982, Honoured of
Arts of Poland, 1989. Secretary of the Composers' Association of Russia,
Member of Boards of Directors of Composers' Association of St Petersburg and
of Theatre Worcers' Association of St Petersburg.
RENÉ BOSC
Following René Bosc's debut as conductor in Montpellier in 1993, René Koering put him in charge of all concerts of contemporary music in the Festival de Radio-France and Montpellier.
He has directed the 'Ensemble Diagonales of the OJLR, the Orchestre Natational de Montpellier, the Strasbourg Percussionists, the Moscow Soloists, the Orchestre National de Jazz (while he was involved in his symphonic project), the Mexican 'Tambucco' Percussionists, the ballet 'Ocean' by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, as well as soloists such as Fazil Say, Didier Lockwoodor F-R Duchable.
In October 2000 the Head of Music at Radio France made him Director of New Music and Artistic Director of the Festival 'Presences'.
In addition to René Bosc's work at Radio France Rene Koering appointed him composer in residence at the Opera National de Montpellier in 2003.
ANDREW CORNALL
Andrew Cornall was educated at Hull Grammar School before studying composition and oboe at the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of Music, and then specialised in electronic music and recording techniques at the University of East Anglia.
After a short spell as a Music Consultant to the Open University, he joined the Decca Record Company as a producer in 1977. He has since worked with most of Decca's exclusive artists and many others in award winning recordings, among them the conductors Riccardo Chailly,Valery Gergiev, Herbert Blomstedt, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Bernard Haitink, Michael Tilson Thomas; the singers Joan Sutherland, Cecilia Bartoli, Renee Fleming, Luciano Pavarotti, Angela Georghiu, Roberto Alagna, Jose Cura, Andreas Scholl, Andrea Bocelli; and the instrumentalists Joshua Bell, Viktoria Mullova, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Mitsuko Uchida. He is now Senior Executive Producer at Decca.
In the 1990's, as Director of Artists and Repertoire and General Manager of the Argo label, he was able to fulfil his lifelong interest in contemporary music by championing a whole range of composers, most notably Britain's Michael Nyman, Mark Anthony Turnage and Graham Fitkin, Americans Michael Torke, Aaron Kernis and Michael Daugherty, and through ground breaking work with composer/players John Harle and Alexander Balanescu.
His award-winning work in the recording industry makes him one of the most respected Artist and Repertoire executives and producers in the world. In 1994 he was awarded the Grammy for Classical Producer of the Year. He has also sat on the panel for the Schirmer/ Fulbright award for British Composers.
MISCHA DAMEV
The Swiss conductor Mischa Damev, born in 1963 in Sofia, was given his first
music lessons by his grandfather, a well-known conductor. At the age of ten
he moved to Switzerland with his family.
After piano studies in Zurich and Basle, he became pupil of Alexis Weissenberg in Paris and Nikita Magaloff in Geneva. In 1986 he also graduated from the Basle Conservatoire with a soloist's diploma.
Between 1991 and 2000, Mischa Damev was appointed artistic director of the International Orpheum Festival for Young Soloists, and since 1993 he has been running the Lilienberg recitals, as well as the "Art and Culture" section of the Lilienberg Foundation in Ermatingen, Switzerland. In 2002 he became a Trustee of Masterprize.
In 1993 he broke off his career as a pianist, which had taken him to Germany, England, France, Canada, Italy, Bulgaria and Switzerland, and devoted his time to the intensive study of conducting, under Karl Österreicher in Vienna. For several years Mischa Damev worked with the Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons.
Mischa Damev's work as a conductor has brought him together with orchestras such as the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, The Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Niederösterreichische Tonkünstler in Vienna, the North Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic in Ljubljana, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Slovak Philharmonic in Bratislava, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and others.
Mischa Damev's career also includes a wide range of recordings for radio and television (Swiss Radio Channel 2, DRS 2, Swiss Radio International, Bulgarian Radio and Television).
Mischa Damev is regular guest conductor of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra (Principal Conductor: Vladimir Fedosejev) which he conducted also in Zurich in summer 1999, with Truls Mørk as soloist. He is also scheduled to make his debut with the Musikkollegium Winterthur.
JOANN FALLETTA
Hailed
by The New York Times as " ... one of the finest
conductors of her generation", JoAnn Falletta currently
holds the position of Music Director of the Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
An effervescent and exuberant figure on the podium, she has
been praised by the Washington Post as having "Toscanini's
tight control over ensemble, Walter's affectionate balancing
of inner voices, Stokowski's gutsy showmanship, and a
controlled frenzy worthy of Bernstein."
In great demand as a guest conductor, Ms Falletta has been invited to conduct many of the world's finest symphony orchestras. Ms Falletta's guest appearances for this season take her to three continents, including return engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony and the Montreal Symphony, each of which engaged Ms Falletta immediately following her acclaimed appearances with those orchestras last season. Other recent guest engagements include appearances with the London Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the National Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
A strong advocate for partnerships among leading cultural, educational and business institutions and the orchestras she conducts, Maestro Falletta received the 2002 Arts Award for excellence in creating and supporting the arts in Western New York and was recognised as Buffalo's most influential community leader of 2001. Winner of the Stokowski Competition and the Toscanini, Ditson and Bruno Walter Awards for conducting, Ms Falletta has also been recognised as one of America's most gifted programmers. She is the recipient of eight consecutive awards from ASCAP for creative programming, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra League's coveted John S. Edwards Award. As a leading authority on orchestral repertoire and a champion of contemporary music, she has performed nearly 300 works by American composers, including over 60 world premieres.
Her growing discography includes over 25 titles, including one recently released and two upcoming recordings with the Buffalo Philharmonic of American music for "American Classics" on the Naxos label.
A native of New York City, Ms Falletta received her undergraduate degree from the Mannes School of Music and her master's and doctorate degrees from The Juilliard School.
JOHN FRASER
Graduated BMus (Hons) Edinburgh University 1971
ARCM 1973
Accompanist (1971-77) and member of Glyndebourne music staff (1976-77)
EMI producer from 1977 - Chief Producer and Director Recorded Productions since 1990
Professor Royal College of Music since 2000
PAUL MANN
Since winning the 1998 Donatella Flick Conducting Competition, Paul Mann has
emerged as one of the finest conductors of the younger generation,
conducting many major orchestras in the UK, USA, Europe, Scandinavia,
Russia, Japan, Australia, and South America.
Born on Tyneside, England, in 1965, he was educated at Chetham's School of Music and at the University of York, studying piano with Denis Matthews. After early positions at Northern Ballet Theatre, and at the Royal Northern College of Music, he held two assistant conductorships in the UK, first with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra from 1996-8, and then with the London Symphony Orchestra from 1998. In Bournemouth, he conducted more than eighty concerts, covering a huge repertoire and working with many major soloists. He made his debut with the LSO in June 1999, and has continued to appear regularly with the orchestra, both in concert and the recording studio.
Other recent engagements have included concerts with the Halle Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Manchester Camerata, St Petersburg Philharmonic, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Bergen Philharmonic, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, City of London Sinfonia, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He recently also appeared at Glyndebourne, and has established a regular guest conductorship with the New York City Ballet. He has recorded with the BBC Scottish Symphony, Ulster Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra, for such labels as Decca and Warner Classics.
He conducted the LSO and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in the Duke Ellington Centenary Concert at the Barbican in London, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and also brought together the LSO and legendary rock band Deep Purple in two widely acclaimed performances of Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, the live video and CD of which have become international best sellers. A subsequent tour of this project saw more than forty concerts in South America, Mexico, Japan, and throughout Europe.
During the 2003 season, Paul Mann returned to the London Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, and New York City Ballet. He also made debuts with many other orchestras, including the National Symphony of Ireland, the New Japan Philharmonic, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the Fresno Philharmonic (California), Eugene Symphony (Oregon), New Mexico Symphony, Odense Symphony, London Mozart Players, Britten Sinfonia, the Queensland Orchestra, and an operatic debut in the autumn of 2003 with "The Marriage of Figaro" at Portland Opera. Also in 2003, he undertook a major tour in Australia with the orchestras of Perth, Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne.
MARK MOBLEY
From 1997 to 2002, Mark Mobley was music producer of National Public Radio's "Performance Today," the leading American classical music programme, heard daily on more than 250 stations from Maine to Guam. During his tenure as chief music programmer, the show won its first Peabody Award and developed the largest audience in its 15-year history. He is also the writer and producer of "Peter and the Wolf: A Special Report," an NPR Classics CD featuring NPR News personalities, the Virginia Symphony and conductor JoAnn Falletta.
Before joining NPR, Mobley was a "Performance Today" commentator and editor-in-chief of CD Review Music & The Arts, a monthly classical music and jazz magazine/CD package. During his ten years as music critic of the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star in Norfolk, he won the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award for music journalism and hosted, with Carol Taylor, the weekly alternative music show "Defenestration 895" on WHRV-FM. He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he recently returned to narrate the William Walton/Edith Sitwell "Façade."
ROBERT MOIR
Robert Moir has been the Artistic Administrator of the Pittsburgh Symphony since 1989. In that capacity he has co-ordinated the programming process under Music Directors Mariss Jansons and Lorin Maazel, including the commissioning of over fifty new works.
Prior to joining the Pittsburgh Symphony, he was Manager of Yale's Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Connecticut. He has also produced independent recordings and video documentaries, and written program notes and scripts.
He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the Yale School of Music, and worked for several years as a professional musician in New York and Boston.
RYUSUKE NUMAJIRI
Ryusuke
Numajiri won the 40th Besançon
International Conducting Competition (1990), an honour that
catapulted him to the fore of attention in the classical
music world.
In Japan, Mr Numajiri now holds Principal Conductor posts at the Tokyo Philharmonic (since 1999) and the Nagoya Philharmonic (since 2001). From 1993 until early 1998, as Chief Conductor of the Japan Shinsei Symphony Orchestra, he was the youngest ever to be appointed to the position. During his tenure there, he led them on a most successful tour through Europe (May 1995), and the Asahi Shimbun claimed that "Numajiri's conducting is remarkably refreshing!" In 1995, Mr Numajiri founded the "Tokyo Mozart Players", still performing with them regularly in Tokyo; they are currently recording the complete Beethoven symphonies on the Exton label. Meanwhile, his 1995, 1996 and 1998 recordings of Toru
Takemitsu's works (Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra; Denon) were highly praised as those of a young conductor not to be missed.
Widely known as a talented pianist and composer, Mr. Numajiri has a particular interest in introducing unfamiliar repertoire to audiences. This passion has led him to conduct the Japan-premieres Busoni's Piano Concerto and Doktor Faust, (Opera Concertante), as well as the contemporary works of Górecki, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, Berio, Dutilleux, and Mathews; each composer praised him for his "impeccable understanding" of their works.
Around the world, Ryusuke Numajiri's performances have gained the attention of audiences, critics and orchestras alike. He has thus far conducted successful engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Odense Byorkester (Denmark), Northern Sinfonia (England), Staadtskapelle Weimar, Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Chambre de Paris, Northern Sinfonia and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra (Israel). In 1998, at the invitation of Elena Rostropovich, Mr Numajiri led the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano "Guiseppe Verdi" in performances at the Evian Festival. And in 1999, EMI recorded his second engagement with the London Symphony Orchestra that included Gubaidulina's Concerto for Cello, 2 Percussion and Chorus with Mstislav Rostropovich as the soloist.
In addition to Rostropovich, with whom Mr Numajiri first performed during the New Japan Philharmonic's Shostakovich Festival, he has collaborated with other such artists as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Zoltan Kocsis, Bruno-Leonardo Gelber, Jean-Philippe Collard, Karl Leister, Michel Béroff, Cyprien Katsaris, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Rune Kollo.
As active as an opera conductor, Mr Numajiri made his Japanese debut in October 1997, with Mozart's Der Entführing aus dem Serail. This was followed by productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Il barbiere de Seviglia, Cinderella, La Bohéme and Hänsel und Gretel, each of which were met with outstanding reviews. In the 2000/01 season he conducted the productions of L'elisir d'amore, Der Geburtstag der Infantin (Zemlinsky), and Le Rossignol (Stravinsky) in Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra's Opera Concertante Series. In addition to these engagements, M. Numajiri conducts the Opera for Young People series at Biwako Hall in Western Japan.
Upcoming in his calendar are subscription concerts with the major Japanese orchestras, and overseas with Berliner Symphoniker, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Darmstadt Staatstheater Orchestra and China Philhamonic. His challenging programming includes Messiaen's Turangalila Symphonie, Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragödie, Idomeneo and Magic Flute.
Born in Tokyo in 1964, Ryusuke Numajiri studied piano and conducting (teachers included Seiji Ozawa and Tadaaki Otaka) at the prestigious Toho Gakuen School of Music. While still a student and until his departure to study with Hans-Martin Rabenstein at the Berlin University of Fine Arts and Music, Mr. Numajiri acted as assistant to Seiji Ozawa at the New Japan Philharmonic.
Ryusuke Numajiri currently resides in Tokyo and Berlin.
NATALIE WHEEN
Born in Shanghai in 1947, Natalie came to the UK at the age of 9. She started music lessons at the age of 3, learning the piano at 4, then the violin and finally began singing at the Royal College of Music.
After university Natalie went straight into radio production, and has been passionate about the medium ever since, and is known as one of the most experienced broadcasters on the classic music scene. Natalie takes particular pleasure in presenting the live programme.
Currently a presenter on national radio station, Classic FM, her career has had many highlights. Natalie presented BBC Radio 3's live evening drivetime programme 'Mainly For Pleasure', which became 'In Tune', and Radio 4's flagship live Arts Review Programme 'Kaleidoscope'. She also regularly introduces live radio broadcasts of operas and concerts, makes documentaries and features, chairs public debates and programmes and is invited to comment on current arts and music issues on a wide range of discussion programmes.
Natalie is also involved in organisations which allow music to be encouraged in areas where it would not be a priority, as a Council Member of ENO's Contemporary Opera Studio at The Works and Trustee of Hackney Music Development Trust.
Natalie also owns an olive grove in Greece and has travelled to the Sahara, Iran, Afghanistan, South African townships, Mexico, Turkey and India amongst others.
She currently presents 'Tonight At 11', Mondays to Thursdays, and also has a weekend show on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, on Classic FM.