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Knut Jacques

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Pianist and fortepianist Knut Jacques studied at the Paris Conservatory (CNSMD), where he was awarded three degrees (diplômes de formation supérieure).

Mr Jacques continued his studies with Denis Pascal and Ruben Lifschitz (modern piano) and Bart van Oort (fortepiano) at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.

Over the course of his musical life he also worked with renowned musicians Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson, Eric Hoeprich, Alessandro Moccia, and Kenneth Weiss.

Mr Jacques is an active performer both as a soloist and chamber musician. His career has taken him to Japan, Austria, Spain, India, Italy, the Netherlands, and throughout France.

A regular guest at festivals, he has performed at the Kyoto International Festival, the Académies Musicales de Saintes, and the Festival ‘Les Chants de la Dore’, among others.

Mr Jacques tours as a piano soloist, as fortepiano soloist with orchestra, and performs chamber music with the Orchestre des Champs-Elysées. He regularly gives lecture-recitals at the Musée de la Musique in Paris.

In addition to his active performance schedule, Knut Jacques is a dedicated teacher. Having earned the CA, the French nationally accredited teaching certificate, Mr Jacques teaches at several regional conservatories in Paris. He is also Associated Professor at the Pôle Supérieur d’Etudes Musicales in Burgundy.

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Juliana Steinbach

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Praised by the critics for her fiery temperament, exceptional charisma and great command of her instrument in the romantic and modern repertoires, as well as for the elegance, subtlety and intelligence of her classical interpretations, Brazilian-born pianist Juliana Steinbach is considered as one of the most gifted artists of the young generation.

In the past few years, Juliana Steinbach has performed extensively throughout Europe, as well as in North and South America, Israel and Asia. Following her debut in 2002 with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, she has appeared as a soloist with the Rundfunk Blasorchester Leipzig, Budapest Mav Symphony Orchestra, Freiburg Youth Orchestra, Paris Symphony and Lyric Orchestra, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, Paris ConservatoryLaureates Orchestra… collaborating with conductors such as Mendi Rodan, Jan Cober, László Kovács, Théophanis Kapsopoulos, Michael Cousteau, Sergio Monterisi and François-Xavier Roth. Her performances have taken her from Paris (Auditorium du Louvre, Cité de la Musique, Opéra Bastille, Opéra Garnier, Théâtre Mogador,Théâtre Marigny) to several major European venues (Leipzig Gewandhaus, Hamburg Musikhalle, München Gasteig, Budapest Liszt Academy, Prag Rudolfinum, Firenze Teatro della Pergola and Teatro Comunale, LisbonTeatro São Luis), as well as to many distinguished festivals (such as Périgord Noir in France, Salzburg in Austria, Bologna Festival and Lago Maggiore in Italy, Santander in Spain, Farsund in Norway). She has performed at the Tel-Aviv Museum in Israel, Lincoln Center in New York, Calgary’s Rozsa Center in Canada, Sala Cecilia Mereiles in Rio de Janeiro and Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 2005 she made her first tour in Asia, with concerts in major venues of Seoul, Manila, Bangkok, Hong-Kong, Yokohama and Tokyo, alongside with a series of master classes given at different universities. Her performances have been broadcasted on such European radio and television channels as France Musique, France Culture, Radio France Internationale, France 3, Arte, Rai.

Laureate of Cziffra, Natexis, Umberto Micheli, Reinhold and Meyer foundations, Juliana Steinbach has been awarded top prizes in several international piano competitions, such as the Artlivre International Piano Competition in São Paulo (Brazil, 2001), the Tel-Hai Performance Prizes (Israel, 2000 and 2001) and the International Young Pianists Competition in Meknès (Morocco, 1996). In France, she has been awarded the FLAME Prize of the UNESCO, the Zonta International Music Scholarship and the Great and Special Prizes of the Forum Musical de Normandie. An avid chamber music player, she won in 2002 the First Prize at the ‘Premio Vittorio Gui’ International Chamber Music Competition in Firenze (Italy) and in 2005 the Beethoven Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition ‘Trio di Trieste’ (Italy), in a duo with French cellist Guillaume Martigné. She also performed these last years with violinists Marina Chiche, Amaury Coeytaux, Stéphanie-Marie Degand, Ivry Gitlis, Saténik Khourdoian, Nemanja Radulovic, Svetlin Roussev, Sayaka Shoji and Ayako Tanaka, cellists Eric-Maria Couturier, Sol Gabetta, Pavel Gomziakov and Béatrice Reibel, flutists Sarah Louvion, Jaime Martin and Virginie Reibel, clarinettists Jérôme Comte and Tibi Cziger, fagottist Klaus Thunemann, pianist Jonas Vitaud, as well as with the Accord, Bennewitz, Kuss, Psophos and Sine Nomine string quartets.

Very interested in contemporary music, she gave various premieres and collaborated with composers Jean-Louis Agobet, Yves Chauris, Guillaume Connesson, Thierry Escaich, Balázs Horváth, Fabio Nieder, Matan Daniel Porat and François Sarhan. In 2010, the French festival ‘Aspects des Musiques d’Aujourd’hui’ in Caen entrusted her the performance of Philippe Manoury’s Chryptophonos and Pierre Boulez’s Structures.

In 2003 and 2004 she made two chamber music debut recordings produced by Cultures France, Radio Franceand the BNP-Paribas Foundation, and she has been supported since then by the French Ministery of Foreign Affairs’ program for the promotion of French musicians around the world. Her discography – which includes three other recordings made for German and French labels between 2001 and 2009 – features various works by Schumann, Brahms, Franck, Ravel, Shostakovich and Messiaen. Her new solo album, ‘Tableaux’, wasreleased in May 2010 by French label Paraty/Integral and presents piano works by Mussorgsky (Pictures at an Exhibition) and Debussy (Estampes, L’Isle Joyeuse). In August 2005, Juliana Steinbach launched the ‘Musique en Brionnais’ piano and chamber music festival in France (www.musique-en-brionnais.com). An annual event,it draws an international audience to the exquisite Romanesque churches of Southern Burgundy. A full week of performances and workshops, the festival allows the young pianist to build original programs and to present new projects, in recital and with some of her finest music partners.

Juliana Steinbach began her piano studies in France, having left Brazil when she was only three years old. Following her first years at Lyon Conservatory (CNR), she became a private student of Greek-American pianist Christine Paraschos. After earning a Litterature Baccalaureate, she studied at Paris Conservatory (CNSM), where she graduated with First Prize in piano (2000) and chamber music (2003). In 2002 she was admitted by unanimity into the post-graduate program (Troisième Cycle) as a student of Jacques Rouvier. At this occasion, the Alfred Reinhold Foundation awarded her a Blüthner grand piano. Following her studies in France, she worked regularly with Franco Scala at the Accademia Internazionale del Pianoforte ‘Incontri col Maestro’ in Imola (Italy), with Maria João Pires at her home in Belgais (Portugal), and Pnina Salzman in Tel-Aviv (Israel), besides attending master classes with musicians such as Dmitri Bashkirov, Christoph Eschenbach, Emanuel Krasovsky and Alicia de Larrocha. In May 2007 she graduated from The Juilliard School in New York, where she had been a piano student of Joseph Kalichstein, also receiving regular chamber music coaching from clarinettist Charles Neidich and the members of the Juilliard String Quartet. She currently resides in Paris

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Nicolas Stavy

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In his native France and around the world, audiences are moved by the sensitivity of the playing of this artist who “makes the piano sing so wonderfully” (La Lettre du Musicien). Nicolas Stavy performs in prestigious international contexts such as the Festival de la Roque d’Anthéron, the Festival Piano aux Jacobins, the Chopin festivals at Nohant and Bagatelle, the Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux, the Piano(s) Festival of Lille, the Festival Berlioz, the Musée d’Orsay, the Salle Pleyel, the EuroArt Praha Festival, the International Granada “Fex” Festival, the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Casals Hall (Tokyo), ), the Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest), Victoria Hall (Geneva), the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, 92nd Street Y (New York), etc. He has performed with major orchestras such as the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Sinfonietta de Lausanne, the Bucharest Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, etc.

Ever avid for discovery, Nicolas Stavy performs chamber music with such colleagues as Patrick Messina, Tatiana Vassilieva, Daniel Hope, Cédric Tiberghien, Tedi Papavrami, Karine Deshayes, the Quatuor Ebène, the Quatuor Psophos, etc. He alternated with Mikhail Rudy performing for the stage play “The Pianist” (after the book by Wladyslaw Szpilman), featuring actor Robin Renucci. He has also participated in other projects with well-known actors, including Didier Sandre, Brigitte Fossey and Eric-Emmanuel Schmidt.

After studies with Gérard Frémy and Christian Ivaldi at the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Musique in Paris, where he won 1st prizes for Piano and Chamber Music, Nicolas Stavy went on to study with Dominique Merlet at the Geneva Conservatoire (where he was awarded a 1st prize with distinction) and participated in master classes with György Sebök. He has also received guidance from Alfred Brendel. He is a prizewinner of several international competitions: the Special Prize at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 2000, 2nd Prize in the Geneva International Competition in 2001, 4th Prize in the Gina Bachauer Competition in the U.S. in 2002, 2nd Prize in the Young Concert Artists competition in New York in 2003, etc.

His two recent CDs published by Hortus, dedicated to Brahms and Liszt, were both greeted with an FFFF rating by France’s Télérama magazine. The Liszt CD was also rated **** by Classica magazine. This year, 2015, sees the release of two new discs: the Concertos for left hand by Britten and Korngold, with the Orchestre Nationale de Lille, conducted by Paul Polivnick (Hortus) and Boris Tishchenko’s Sonatas nos. 7 and 8, under the Bis label.

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Maxence Pilchen

Maxence Pilchen

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 Maxence Pilchen

Beginning piano at a very early age, Maxence Pilchen won his first prize when he was eleven, at the televised RTBF Young Soloists competition in Brussels. He went on to study with well-known pianists Bernard Ringeissen and Janusz Olejniczack, and benefitted in particular from the teaching of the renowned Byron Janis in the United States, with whom he has a great affinity, performing with him in New York in early 2015. Already in 2010, Maxence had presented the European première of the film The Byron Janis Story. His vast repertoire for solo piano and piano and orchestra takes him from Bach to Rachmaninov, and from Mozart to Debussy, Beethoven, and Prokofiev, not forgetting contemporary music, whilst his painstaking approach has prompted him to delve deeper into his conception of the works of Chopin, with whom he nurtures a close relationship and to whom he is devoting his first CD. The winner of the Prix Maurice Lefranc for young musicians in Brussels and a prize laureate at international competitions in Oporto, Barcelona, Rome, and Épinal, this young Franco-Belgian musician, hailed by international critics, and much in demand in France and elsewhere, has performed with leading orchestras including the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Liège Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,  and the Oporto National Orchestra, under the baton of prestigious conductors and in the some of the world’s great concert halls, from the Salzbourg Mozarteum to the Théâtre de la Monnaie and Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Maxence Pilchen’s performances have also been broadcast in the media from France to the United States and Asia.

In 2012, he also took part in a feature film by Philippe Claudel, Before the Winter Chill. Open to all types of music, his varied tastes have made him a popular performer at leading music festivals, including the Festival Chopin in Nohant, where he has been a regular guest since 2004. Maxence Pilchen has also worked with original 19th century pianos, exploring the subtlety of their nuances and their rich colours in order to develop them subsequently on modern instruments. He is supported by the Safran Foundation, where he was a prize laureate in 2014.

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La Camera delle Lacrime

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Grouped together around Bruno Bonhoure and Khaï-dong Luong as of 2004, the members of La Camera delle Lacrime are committed to showcasing and rediscovering heritage works while renewing them through their creative interpretative choices.

With the assistance of specialists and scholars who gravitate around the group, La Camera delle Lacrime offers historically-based programmes that dramatize the musical repertoire with the aim of making it more intelligible.

The ensemble’s name is an homage to Dante Alighieri, poet and friend to troubadours. Dante spoke of this ‘Chamber of Tears’ as a place where he would overcome distress and return to his roots, re-emerging with newfound energy.
Bruno Bonhoure – Musical Director, Solo Voice

Born in 1971 in Aurillac, Bruno Bonhoure carries with him the heritage of the songs and tales that punctuated the peasants’ daily life in the Haute Auvergne. Dedicating himself first to art history, his need for and love of the stage led him to Paris.

Compared to the ‘Bildung’ by Carlo Ossola (Professor at the Collège de France) and to Giovanna Marini by Lionel Esparza (Radio France), the quality of Bruno Bonhoure’s voice, his stage presence and his personality make him one of the most captivating of French tenors.

As the ensemble’s musical director, Bruno Bonhoure promotes the Occitan language through multidisciplinary shows. His creations offer a new interpretation of this historical-musical repertoire and have been praised by the Languedoc Academy of Arts, Letters and Sciences.

Khaï-dong Luong – Staging, Scenography, Artistic Co-Producer

Born in Cambodia in 1971, Khaï-dong Luong arrived in France after fleeing the Khmer Rouge. With a degree from the Agrégation des mathématiques and a Master’s in film studies, his main focus is the creation of alternatives to pre-established styles. Thus Khaï-dong Luong restructures the usual formats and brushes aside convention in order to surprise and innovate. His contemporary vision of how to interpret historical repertoire has led him to consider new methods of communication, along the lines of the participatory show based around the Red Book of Montserrat.

A protean artist, while in Chicago he co-wrote the documentary Someplace Else, which was selected by the Los Angeles, New York and Chicago Film Festivals, as well as a series of animated films selected by the Annecy Festival.

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Suzana Bartal

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Suzana Bartal is one of the upcoming piano talents of the young generation. Recent performances have taken her to prestigious venues such as the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Salle Pleyel and Radio France in Paris, Merkin Hall in New York as well as Milton Court in London.  Her appearances have been captured by France Musique. Other highlights of the past months include a Germany tour with violist Mariko Hara as part of the series “Best of NRW”. Their duo has been hailed as “brilliant, facettenreich und virtuos” and was recorded by the West Deutscher Rundfunk. Suzana’s playing has been described as having a “pearly touch and of absolute precision” by the Bonner Anzeiger.

In January 2015, Suzana made her triumphal debut with the Orchestre Avignon-Province in the Grieg Concerto under the baton of Wolfgang Doerner, as she stepped in very last minute for pianist Marie-Josèphe Jude. Her performance has received critical acclaim: “As soon as she lays her hands on the keyboard, the artist sets up a strongly marked personality. Her touch is sure, she shows perfect technique and plays with absolute simplicity pages of great complexity. Her sound is powerful and luminous (…)” – Le Marseillais.

Suzana Bartal has become the winner of the New York Concert Artists Concerto Competition in 2013 and has made her NYC debut with orchestra in 2014. She was also the winner of the 2012 Woolsey Concerto Competition allowing her to perform under the baton of Peter Oundjian.

A recipient of the prestigious scholarship from the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe, Suzana has also been supported by the Fondation Nadia et Lili Boulanger, the ADAMI and the Williamson Foundation.

Suzana’s wide range of repertoire reaches from solo works and concertos to chamber music works, all of which she actively and passionately performs. She has given concerts all around the world: in Germany, Holland, Italy, Hungary, UK, Belgium, France and Romania as well as the US and China. Her performances have  been  captured  by  French,  German,  Hungarian  and  Romanian  radio  and  television  channels.

Suzana is also an enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music and has worked with some of the most significant composers of our day, such as Thomas Adès and Eric Tanguy.

Extremely active as a chamber musician, Suzana has performed with violinists Alexandra Soumm, Deborah Nemtanu, Guillaume Sutre and Hildegarde Fesneau, soprano Karen Vourc’h, cellist Yan Levionnois, clarinetist Pierre Génisson and musicians from the Philharmonique de Radio France orchestra (David Haroutunian and Pauline Bartissol) and the Orchestre de Paris (Anne-Sophie Le Rol and Eric Picard), among others.

Born in 1986 in Timişoara (Romania) into a Hungarian family, pianist Suzana Bartal started her musical education in her hometown. Only three years later she became a winner of national and international competitions and gave her first solo recital at the age of 12 and had her first concerto apparition at the age of 13. In 2005 she decided to move to France where she studied with Denis Pascal, Pierre Pontier and Florent Boffard in Paris and in Lyon at the CNSMD. Between 2011 and 2014, Suzana has perfected her skills at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Peter Frankl. She is currently a candidate for a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Yale and has received the Harriet Gibbs Memorial Prize for excellency in studies from Yale. In 2013 – 2014 Suzana has been at Teaching Fellow at the Yale College.

Many distinguished artists have influenced Suzana’s musical and artistic development, such as: András Schiff, Leon Fleisher, Paul Lewis, Menahem Pressler, Jean-Claude Pennetier or Matti Raekallio, as well as the Ysaÿe Quartet, the Tokyo String Quartet or the Emerson Quartet. She has been invited to take part in the very selective International Musician’s Seminar in Prussia Cove (UK).

Her first album, an all-Schumann CD, was released by Paraty (Harmonia Mundi distribution) in March 2016.

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Ivan Ilić

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Pianist Ivan Ilić took degrees in mathematics and music at the University of California Berkeley before moving to Paris in 2001. He then studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris, where he was awarded a Premier Prix. The City of Paris sponsored his first recording.

Ivan Ilić has released three CDs with Paraty: 24 Préludes by Claude Debussy (2008), 22 Chopin Studies by Leopold Godowsky (2012), and For Bunita Marcus by Morton Feldman (2015). His albums have consistently been among Paraty’s most successful and most widely disseminated.

In recent years Ilić’s approach has broadened in scope, as he searches for a way to reconcile his intellectual curiosity with his career as a soloist. In 2011 he acted in two French short films: Luc Plissonneau’s Les Mains and Benoît Maire’s Le Berger. He also began to write about music; recent articles have appeared on the websites of Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and Music & Literature. Since 2014 he has co-produced several 5-hour radio series for Swiss Radio.

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Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro

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One of Portugal’s most recognised musicians, both nationally and internationally, Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro is considered a ‘poet of the piano’, whose musical interpretations, characterised by profound emotion and intellectuality, are appreciated as being without equal both by the public and by music critics. Born in Porto, he studied in various countries before becoming a disciple of Lyudmila Roshchina at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, where he obtained Doctorate in Musical Performance in 2000.

He is intensely active as a concert artist, invited as a soloist by major concert halls, festivals, and orchestras internationally. He has premiered the works of several composers, including Sofia Gubaidulina and Marcelo Nisinman, and has regularly performed with acclaimed musicians such as Gary Hoffman, Renaud Capuçon, José van Dam, Nicolas Altstaedt, Gérard Caussé, Jack Liebeck, Michel Portal, Anna Samuil, Lars Anders Tomter and Christian Poltéra. In 2006, he founded the DSCH-Schostakovich Ensemble. He is currently a university professor and serves as artistic director for numerous musical projects. Filipe Pinto-Ribeiro is a Steinway Artist.

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Fanny Azzuro

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“Azzuro: the young French pianist’s crystal-clear, poetic and luminous playing matches her surname to perfection.” Alain Cochard –concertclassic.com

Fired by an insatiable curiosity and decided zest for the fusion of musical and artistic styles, Fanny Azzuro, born in 1986, dedicates her first solo recording to the Russian repertoire so dear to her heart, from which she has chosen three contrasting works from the 20th century.

Prize-winner at several prestigious international competitions, including the World Piano Competiton in Cincinnati (World medalist, 4th prize), Lalla Meryem in Rabat, Morocco (Best interpretation of modern music and the Chopin prize), Washington International Piano Competition (semi-finalist), Piano Campus (Best interpretation of modern music), Vulaines-sur-Seine (1st prize), she has been invited to perform on many national and international stages: in Paris, at the military museum in Les Invalides (showcasing young artists just starting their career), at the National archives in Hôtel de Soubise (Festival of young artists) and at the maritime museum; as well as at the Debussy museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, at the Abbaye aux Dames (Saintonge Piano Festival), at the Montpellier ‘Radio France’ Festival, at the Prades Pablo Casals Festival, at the Piano Campus Festival in Cergy-Pontoise, at the Annecy Classic Festival, at the Auditorium de Vaucluse, at the Passerelle national venue in Gap; in Germany, in Austria, at the Salzburg Mozarteum, in Belgium at the Brussels Royal Conservatoire, in Luxembourg, in Italy, in Spain and in Croatia. She also performed in the United States (New York Piano Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, Texas Piano Festival), Morocco, Djibouti, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and China.

She has also been heard on the radio, in broadcasts by France Inter, France Musique, France Culture, RFI and FIP.

She started studying the piano in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence with Jean-Pierre Lecaudey and then José Arrué, at the Montpellier Conservatoire with Mireille Michaud and Suzan Campbell, at the Paris Regional Conservatoire with Olivier Gardon then at the Paris National Conservatoire with Théodore Paraskivesco, Laurent Cabasso and Denis Pascal, when she completed –respectively– herBachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Piano and Chamber music (in the classes of Jean-Noël Crocq and Ami Flammer with the SpiriTango Quartet). In 2011, she was a pupil of Tuija Hakkila at the Helsinki Sibelius Academy (Finland). Since 2012, she has continued to improve her technique at the ‘Incontri col Maestro’ International piano master-class in Imola (Italy), under Boris Petrushansky.

Other encounters helped stimulate her energy and musical curiosity: the unique Russian pianist Vladimir Viardo, the renowned French teacher Dominique Merlet, as well as Dmitri Bashkirov, Jacques Rouvier, Aldo Ciccolini, Jay Gottlieb and Gisèle Magnan.

As part of SpiriTango Quartet or together with jazzmen Tigran Hamasyan and Hervé Sellin, Fanny Azzuro breaks down barriers and broadens her experiences as a chamber-music player: dueting with horn-players Pierre Azzuro (her brother), André Cazalet, Hervé Joulain and Matthieu Romand, with violinists Kristi Gjezi, Sora Han and Vanessa Szigeti, as well as with the pianist Audrey Abela.

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Ensemble Turicum

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Founded in 1992 by Brazilian singer Luiz Alves da Silva and Swiss violinist Mathias Weibel, the TURICUM Ensemble is dedicated to historically informed performance on period instruments. Ranging from 5 to 30 musicians, the sound of the ensemble modulates while remaining recognizable. The ensemble distinguishes itself by the freshness of its interpretations, but also by its programming; unusual works are juxtaposed in ways that illuminate their interrelatioships.

Emphasis is placed on music from the 18th to the early 19th centuries from the Iberian Peninsula and South America, with a particular preference for Brazilian composers such as José Mauricio Nunes Garcia, Manuel de Oliveira , Marcos Portugal, and Antonio dos Santos Cunha. Naturally, the music of Italy and German-speaking countries is also represented.

In the TURICUM Ensemble’s concerts, it is not ununsual to experience classical music, folk songs and literature in the course of a single event. In this context the Swiss writer Hugo Lötscher (a renowned specialist on Brazil and Portugal) has collaborated with the Ensemble. 

In addition to frequent appearances in Zurich, the TURICUM Ensemble has performed in several international festivals, including: Schlosskonzerte Thun, Festival für Musik Sakrale Schwäbisch Gmünd, Friedenauer Kammerkonzert Berlin, Musica Antiqua Wien Musikverein, Les Chemins du Baroque (Sarrebourg and Paris), Yverdon Expo02, The Year of Brazil in France (Paris, Nîmes and Alençon), Festival de Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), Festival de Inverno de Ouro Preto (Brazil), Música nas Igrejas (Rio de Janeiro), and Kammermusikverein (Ettelbruck and Luxemburg). 

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