Musiko Klasika - European Season 2013-2014 http://www.musikoklasika.com/?language=en en COPENHAGUE - Tuesday 5 march 2024 - 19h30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/copenhague-tuesday-5-march-2024-19h30-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Studie%203_0.jpeg" width="275" height="183" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Koncerthuset<br>Studie 3<br>Orestads Boulevard 13</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19<br /><p></p></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">230 dkk</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:<br /></span></b><a href="https://www.drkoncerthuset.dk/kalender/2024/despond-stanev/">https://www.drkoncerthuset.dk/kalender/2024/despond-stanev/</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:14:11 +0000 manon 765 at http://www.musikoklasika.com LAUSANNE - Thursday 7 march 2024 - 20h - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/lausanne-thursday-7-march-2024-20h-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Lausanne_10.jpg" width="267" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Casino de Montbenon<br>Salle Paderewski<br>All. Ernest-Ansermet 3</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">30 CHF<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.fnactickets.ch/event/zoltan-despond-vesselin-stanev-casino-de-montbenon-17110281/">https://www.fnactickets.ch/event/zoltan-despond-vesselin-stanev-casino-de-montbenon-17110281/</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:13:49 +0000 manon 764 at http://www.musikoklasika.com FRANKFURT - Saturday 9 march 2024 - 19h30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/frankfurt-saturday-9-march-2024-19h30-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Frankfurt_2.jpeg" width="298" height="169" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Alte Oper<br>Mozart Saal<br>Opernplatz</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">50€ - 43€ - 36€ - 28€<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:<br /></span></b><a href="https://www.alteoper.de/de/programm/veranstaltung.php?id=522991157">https://www.alteoper.de/de/programm/veranstaltung.php?id=522991157</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:13:26 +0000 manon 763 at http://www.musikoklasika.com LEIPZIG - Monday 11 march 2024 - 19h30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/leipzig-monday-11-march-2024-19h30-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Leipzig_4.jpg" width="295" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Gewandhaus - Mendelssohn-Saal<br>Augustusplatz 8<br>04109 Leipzig</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">20€ - 15€<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://gewandhaus.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/seatmap?eventId=22774">https://gewandhaus.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/seatmap?eventId=22774</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:13:03 +0000 manon 762 at http://www.musikoklasika.com MADRID - Saturday 23 march 2024 - ??? - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/madrid-saturday-23-march-2024-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Madrid%202_6.jpg" width="241" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Auditorio Nacional - Sala de Camara<br>C. del Príncipe de Vergara, 146</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">****<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:</span></b></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:12:37 +0000 manon 761 at http://www.musikoklasika.com BARCELONA - Monday 25 march 2024 - 19h30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/barcelona-monday-25-march-2024-19h30-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Sala%202_Barcelone_4.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Auditori -&nbsp;Sala Oriol Martorell<br>Carrer de Lepant 150</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">25€<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:</span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://entrades.auditori.cat/zoltan_25_03_2024?idioma=ES">https://entrades.auditori.cat/zoltan_25_03_2024?idioma=ES</a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:12:12 +0000 manon 760 at http://www.musikoklasika.com BURGOS - Wednesday 27 march 2024 - ??? - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/burgos-wednesday-27-march-2024-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Burgos_0.jpg" width="108" height="108" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Forum Evolucion -&nbsp;Sala de Congresos<br>Paseo Sierra de Alapuerca</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">****<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:</span></b></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:11:50 +0000 manon 759 at http://www.musikoklasika.com ZURICH - Wednesday 10 april 2024 - 19h30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/zurich-wednesday-10-april-2024-19h30-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Zurich_0.jpg" width="300" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Konservatorium - GroBer Saal<br>Florhofgasse 6</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b><span> <br /></span>Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Price:<br /></span></b><span style="font-family: Times;">****<b><p></p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">To book:</span></b></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:11:28 +0000 manon 758 at http://www.musikoklasika.com EDINBURGH - Wednesday 24 april 2024 - 19h30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/edinburgh-wednesday-24-april-2024-19h30-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/Edinburgh_4.jpg" width="467" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Queen's Hall<br>85-89 Clerk St</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b> <br />Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."<br /><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong>Prices of the ticket:<br /></strong><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">20£- 15£</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">To book:<br /></span></b><a href="https://www.thequeenshall.net/whats-on/eva-oertle-vesselin-stanev"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">https://www.thequeenshall.net/whats-on/eva-oertle-vesselin-stanev</span></a></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:11:07 +0000 manon 757 at http://www.musikoklasika.com LONDON - Friday 26 april 2024 - 7.30 - Zoltan DESPOND, cello & Vesselin STANEV, piano http://www.musikoklasika.com/london-friday-26-april-2024-730-zoltan-despond-cello-vesselin-stanev-piano?language=en <div class="form-item form-type-item"> <label>Language </label> English </div> <div class="field field-name-field-image-panoramique field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.musikoklasika.com/sites/default/files/SSJS_2.jpg" width="356" height="200" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-chapeau field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>St John's Smith Square<br>SW1P 3HA</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Sergei Prokofiev</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> - Sonata for cello and piano op. 119  <br /></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski</span></b> <br />Nocturne op. 19, n°4 <br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br />Valse sentimentale op. 51, n°6<br />(from 6 pieces for piano, set up for cello and piano by David Geringas) <br /><b>Sergei Rachmaninov</b> - Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19</span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">Zoltan Despond </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US">belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia). <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;" xml:lang="EN-US">Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times; color: #090712;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span><p></p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US">Vesselin Stanev</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times;" xml:lang="EN-US"> was born in Varna, Bulgaria. At the age of ten he began his training at the Music Academy of his native city, transferring in 1981 to the Academy of Music in Sofia. Starting in 1983 he studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained his soloist diploma in 1988. He subsequently went to Paris to study with Alexis Weissenberg; from 1992 to 1995 he took classes for advanced students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. In London Peter Feuchtwanger became a mentor from whom he has gained valuable inspiration.Within a short timespan Vesselin Stanev earned an outstanding reputation as a musician, as attested by his distinctions at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long - Jacques Thibaud.Vesselin Stanev’s career has taken him to such major concert venues in Europe as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris, as well as to the Nordic countries, Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has enjoyed successful collaborations with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, David Zinman, and others. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician in a duo with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova.Vesselin Stanev has recorded six CDs for the Bulgarian label Gega New including works by Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff. His first CD for Sony Classical comprises early works by Alexander Scriabin. For the RCA label he has also made two recording projects of music by Franz Liszt: the "Etudes d'exécution transcendante" in 2010 and, in 2014, a program titled "Music and Myth."<br /><br /></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><strong>Prices of the ticket:<br /></strong><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">*****</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;">To book:</span></b></p> </div></div></div> Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:10:46 +0000 manon 756 at http://www.musikoklasika.com