Aquiles Delle Vigne
Ramzi Yassa is the winner of several international prizes. He has appeared both live and on television throughout the world in such venues as the Barbican, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Kennedy Center,
the Mann Auditorium, the Musikverein the Palau, the Tivoli, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées,
the Palais des Beaux Arts…
His concerto performances have associated him with such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy Charles Groves, Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Horst Stein. Ramzi Yassa was born in Cairo where he started his piano lessons with his mother. He graduated from the Cairo Conservatoire and then joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow where he studied with Prof. Dorensky.
In 1977 he won the First Grand Prix in the Paloma O'Shea International Competition in Santander,
as well as the Special Prize E.Casanueva. His CD recordings include among others, works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin, and the Beethoven. He received the Franz Liszt Centenary Commemorative Medal.
Ramzi Yassa was invited to take part in the jury of international competitions in the United States and Europe and the Middle East. He has also participated both as a performer and a speaker to events
organized by Unesco.
Besides his performing activities, he is Pianoforte Professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique "Alfred Cortot" in Paris where he has been living since 1977.
Ramzi Yassa is the artistic director of the International Music Center in Manasterly Palace, Cairo, a post he held for the past ten years. In 2007 he was the first Egyptian performer musician to be awarded the Merit
State Prize.
Anastasya Terenkova
“..Anastasya Terenkova is an artist whose breathtaking performance style and elegance stand out among the younger generation of world pianists today..”
Described by “Diapason” magazine as a “ravishing pianist,” Anastasya has received international critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the 2nd Prize at the Cincinnati International World Piano Competition, USA, the 1st Prize at the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Award, USA, and the prestigious 2010 “Gawon” International Music Award, Seoul, South Korea.
She has been invited to perform at numberous renowned festivals such as Auvers-sur- Oise, Saint-Riquier, Perigord Noir (all in France), King’s Place in London, “Bluthner Piano Series” in Leipzig, Trestler Music Series in Montreal, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Chamber Music Series in Valencia, “Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo”, and Annecy Classic Festival. She has also recorded for French radio and television.
Born in Moscow, Anastasya started playing piano at the age of six in the famous Moscow Gnessin Special Music School (the alma mater of such prominent pianists as Yevgeny Kissin, Boris Berezovsky and Nikolai Demidenko). At the age of eleven she gave her first solo recital. In 2001 Anastasya enrolled in The Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance, where she completed her classical training – including the prestigious postgraduate courses “Perfectionnement” and “Artist Diploma”– studying with professors Georges Pludermacher, Francois Frederic Guy and Itamar Golan (chamber music) and from 2004 with
Jacques Rouvier. Anastasya has participated in master-classes with Vladimir Krainev, Dmitri Bashkirov,
Philippe Bianconi, Dominique Merlet, Aldo Ciccolini and Christophe Eschenbach. She has also consistently worked with Rena Shereshevskaya.
Anastasya has won awards and scholarships from numerous institutions, such as the Georges Cziffra Music Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, the Tarazzi Foundation, the Nadia et Lili Boulanger Foundation and the ADAMI Foundation. She is the proud recipient of a “Bluthner” grand piano from the Arnold Reinhold Foundation.
She has performed at the Auditorium du Louvre, Thèatre des Champs Elysées, Invalides, Auditorium du Musée d’Orsay, “Cité de la Musique”, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Rachmaninov and the Small Halls of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, UNISA Grand Concert Hall in Pretoria, Lindor Auditorium in Johannesbourg, the Aaronoff Center in Cincinnati, Mannes Concert Hall in New York, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, and Sejong Performing Art Center, Seoul. She successfully toured in North America and lately in South Africa, both to great critical acclaim. An accomplished soloist, Anastasya is also a devoted chamber musician. For many years, she has been collaborating with prize-winning cellist Georgi Anichenko.
Lately Anastasya was featured in a documentary presenting the young generation of European pianists, “Au Claire de la Lune” on France 2 national television. She was also a guest on Gaelle le Gallique’s popular classical music radio program “Dans la Cours des Grands” on “France Musique” radio. Her recordings include Rachmaninov’s 3rd piano Concerto with Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire and « Souvenir de l’Opus 28 » live CD from the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise along with Fazil Say, David Geuerrier et Denis Matsuev. Her debut solo CD featuring works by Scarlatti, Chopin and Mussorgsky was released in the fall of 2010.
The 2011-2012 season Anastasya will make her debut with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in Spain. This season's recitals include debuts at the “Monte Carlo Spring Art Festival,” in Monaco, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, the “Myra Hess Concert Series” in Chicago USA, the “Solistes aux Serres d'Auteul” Festival in Paris, the “Piano aux Jacobins” Festival in Toulouse, the Menton Music Festival, France, the Theatre “Les Bouffes nu Nord” in Paris, the Veria Arts Center in Veria, Greece among others.
Andrei Pisarev
In 1991, in the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, a young
Russian pianist won Grand Prize - which was the first time since 1956 that
Grand Prize had been awarded in this competition. It was Andrei Pisarev.
On October 10 2006 the reviewer Gunilla Boström wrote in Swedish
newspaper “Helsingborgs Dagblad”: “In April 2004 I believed that Andrei
Pisarev was the best pianist I have ever heard, and this opinion remains
after his recital… The expression “World pianist” is not an exaggeration
regarding him… “
Besides Mozart Competition Andrei Pisarev won 1st Prize in the
Rachmaninoff Piano Competition (Moscow 1983) as well as 1st Prize in the
UNISA TRANSNET International Piano Competition and Special Prizes for
the best performances of a classical sonata and a Mozart Concerto (Pretoria
1992).
The German newspaper "Westdeutsche Algemeine Zeitung" wrote about
Mr. Pisarev: “His performance cannot be forgotten. …The pianist presented
such impressive music, that is rarely heard. The fact that his playing is
distinguished for virtuosity - is of no doubt. Because that is the basis for
transparent sounding of music by Debussy, Liszt, Chopin and Kreisler/
Rachmaninoff. His performance was really transparent. The sounds of
Sonata by Scarlatti sparkled like clear radiant water drops. The "Suite
Bergamasque" by Debussy sounded as a canvass painted with clear bright
colours.”
Mr. Pisarev has wide repertoire and feels equally at home when he
performs Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Prokofiev,
Shostakovich.
All those competitions opened doors of the most prestigious concert halls
for the artist and brought engagements from the Words best symphony
orchestras, such as Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, RAI Orchestra
Milan, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, St.
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Both solo recitals and concerts with
the orchestras were acclaimed by audience and critics in USA, South and
Central America, Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, besides all
Russia.
Critics wrote after Mr. Pisarevs solo recital at one of the Europe most
prestigious concert halls – Gewandhous in Leipzig: "… his thoroughly
unquestionable and irreprehensible technical accomplishment and
imaginative interpretations, which amply tell the story of the brilliant
Lisztion piano in its epic moments, or that of Schumannesque intimist
in the idyllic ones. The magic of his artistic sensibility and the euphoric
atmosphere of the whole concert hall. His playing remarkable for its
composure as for its complete pianistic command. The faultless proportions,
the air of rapt simplicity, the perfect sense of balance and phrase were often
breathtaking."
Mr. Pisarev is a Professor at the Moscow Conservatory and he has also held
master-classes in Japan, USA and Yugoslavia.
He began his Musical education at the age of seven. In 1978 he moved
to Moscow to study at the Music School and then at the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory in Moscow. He graduated in 1987 and received his M.A.
degree in 1989.
Born
in Argentina, Aquiles Delle Vigne gave his first recital at the age of
8. At 17 he was already a disciple of Claudio Arrau and won the Grand
Prix "Albert Williams", the most prestigious competition in South
America. This award opened the doors of the most important concert halls of the continent for him.
Later, he completed his training in Europe with Prof. Eduardo del Pueyo and György Cziffra.
He has accomplished 20 tournées in Japan, 8 in Australia, the United States of America and Mexico.
Today, he is invited to the most important Festivals and performs in the most important halls in the world:
Santa Cecilia in
Rome, Salle Gaveau in Paris, The Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires, The Arts
Center in Seoul, The Atheneu George Enescu in Bucharest, Tchaikowski
Hall in Moscow, Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersbourg, The Palais des
Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Chulalongkorn Auditorium in Bangkok, the
Pablo Casals and the Tsuda Hall in Tokyo, the Villa Lobos Theatre in
Brasilia, the Cecilia Meirelles Hall in Rio de Janeiro, the Palau de la
Musica in Barcelona, De Doelen in Rotterdam, the Palais of the Music in
Sofia, the Salle Gothique in Brussels, the South Melbourne Town Hall, as
well as throughout South Africa and Cyprus.
He has performed in
the festivals in Gstaad, Paris, Salzburg, Madrid, Flaine, Lausanne,
Bern, Miami, Lljubiana, Skopie, Korea (Euro Festival), and Beethoven
Festival, where he performed the last three Beethoven concerti.
Aquiles Delle Vigne
has been a concerto soloist under conductors such as Lord Yehudi
Menuhin, Leopold Hager, Georges Octors, Alberto Lysy, Lee Dong-Ho, Bogo
Leskowitch, Vladimir Kim, Emiel Simon, Edvard R. Tchivtzel, André
Vandernoot, Edgard Donneux, Ferdinand Terbi, Kamen Goleminov, Juan
Carlos Zorzi, Reinaldo Zemba, Eugène Castillo, Jesus Medina, Claudio
Santoro, Henrique Morelenbaum, Flavio Scogna, Hendrik Rycken, André
Neve, D. Marinescou, Roberto Misto, and Alexis Soriano, with the
Orchestre de la Radio et Télévision Française, the RAI in Rome, the
National Orchestres in Argentine, Belgium, Colombie, Mexico, the
Orchestre of the Bulgarian Radio in Sofia, the Solisti di Roma, the
Philharmonic Orchestres in Buenos Aires, Skopje, Fort Worth, Fort Wayne,
Bucharest, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Rosario, Bangkok, Parana, Lima,
Mexico, Bogota, Camerata Menuhin, Belgische Radio en Televisie, and
Carlos Chavez in Mexico DF.
As a teacher,
Aquiles Delle Vigne is highly sought after internationally. He currently
holds post at the Rotterdams Conservatorium (Codarts, Hogeschool voor
de Kunsten) in The Netherlands. He also gives masterclasses at the
International Sommerakademie Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, and is a
Visiting Professor at the Royal Northern College of Music in
Manchester. His pupils have won over 100 international prizes worldwide.
He is also regularly
invited at the Juilliard, Manhattan and Mannes Schools in New York, the
Tchaikowski Moscow Conservatory and the Korsakow St. Petersburg
Conservatory, the Toho University in Tokyo, the Hochschules in München,
Karlsruhe and Hamburg, the Universities and conservatories in Seoul,
Taejan, Sydney, Melbourne, Pretoria, Baltimore, Texas, Indiana, Osaka,
Kyoto, Bangkok.
He chairs and juries
in the most important international Competitions in all five
continents: Sydney, Pretoria, Cincinnati, Turin, Paris, Texas,
Casagrande, Masters in Monte-Carlo, Bellini, Madrid, Roma, Warsaw.
His vast discography
with EMI His Master's Voice, BASF Harmonia Mundi, BMG-RCA Victor,
Pavane and EMS have received outstanding praise and distinction. His
performance of the Preludes by Olivier Messiaen for the Pope John Paul
II at the Vatican earned him tremendous praise from the composer.
Aquiles Delle Vigne
currently resides in Brussels with his wife Chantal Remy. Their children
Laurence, Gabrielle and Guillaume also practice music.
Ramzi Yassa
Ramzi Yassa is the winner of several international prizes. He has appeared both live and on television throughout the world in such venues as the Barbican, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Kennedy Center,
the Mann Auditorium, the Musikverein the Palau, the Tivoli, the Théâtre des Champs Elysées,
the Palais des Beaux Arts…
His concerto performances have associated him with such conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy Charles Groves, Yehudi Menuhin, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Horst Stein. Ramzi Yassa was born in Cairo where he started his piano lessons with his mother. He graduated from the Cairo Conservatoire and then joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow where he studied with Prof. Dorensky.
In 1977 he won the First Grand Prix in the Paloma O'Shea International Competition in Santander,
as well as the Special Prize E.Casanueva. His CD recordings include among others, works by Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin, and the Beethoven. He received the Franz Liszt Centenary Commemorative Medal.
Ramzi Yassa was invited to take part in the jury of international competitions in the United States and Europe and the Middle East. He has also participated both as a performer and a speaker to events
organized by Unesco.
Besides his performing activities, he is Pianoforte Professor at the Ecole Normale de Musique "Alfred Cortot" in Paris where he has been living since 1977.
Ramzi Yassa is the artistic director of the International Music Center in Manasterly Palace, Cairo, a post he held for the past ten years. In 2007 he was the first Egyptian performer musician to be awarded the Merit
State Prize.
Anastasya Terenkova
Described by “Diapason” magazine as a “ravishing pianist,” Anastasya has received international critical acclaim and numerous awards, including the 2nd Prize at the Cincinnati International World Piano Competition, USA, the 1st Prize at the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Award, USA, and the prestigious 2010 “Gawon” International Music Award, Seoul, South Korea.
She has been invited to perform at numberous renowned festivals such as Auvers-sur- Oise, Saint-Riquier, Perigord Noir (all in France), King’s Place in London, “Bluthner Piano Series” in Leipzig, Trestler Music Series in Montreal, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Chamber Music Series in Valencia, “Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo”, and Annecy Classic Festival. She has also recorded for French radio and television.
Born in Moscow, Anastasya started playing piano at the age of six in the famous Moscow Gnessin Special Music School (the alma mater of such prominent pianists as Yevgeny Kissin, Boris Berezovsky and Nikolai Demidenko). At the age of eleven she gave her first solo recital. In 2001 Anastasya enrolled in The Paris National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance, where she completed her classical training – including the prestigious postgraduate courses “Perfectionnement” and “Artist Diploma”– studying with professors Georges Pludermacher, Francois Frederic Guy and Itamar Golan (chamber music) and from 2004 with
Jacques Rouvier. Anastasya has participated in master-classes with Vladimir Krainev, Dmitri Bashkirov,
Philippe Bianconi, Dominique Merlet, Aldo Ciccolini and Christophe Eschenbach. She has also consistently worked with Rena Shereshevskaya.
Anastasya has won awards and scholarships from numerous institutions, such as the Georges Cziffra Music Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, the Tarazzi Foundation, the Nadia et Lili Boulanger Foundation and the ADAMI Foundation. She is the proud recipient of a “Bluthner” grand piano from the Arnold Reinhold Foundation.
She has performed at the Auditorium du Louvre, Thèatre des Champs Elysées, Invalides, Auditorium du Musée d’Orsay, “Cité de la Musique”, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Rachmaninov and the Small Halls of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, UNISA Grand Concert Hall in Pretoria, Lindor Auditorium in Johannesbourg, the Aaronoff Center in Cincinnati, Mannes Concert Hall in New York, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, and Sejong Performing Art Center, Seoul. She successfully toured in North America and lately in South Africa, both to great critical acclaim. An accomplished soloist, Anastasya is also a devoted chamber musician. For many years, she has been collaborating with prize-winning cellist Georgi Anichenko.
Lately Anastasya was featured in a documentary presenting the young generation of European pianists, “Au Claire de la Lune” on France 2 national television. She was also a guest on Gaelle le Gallique’s popular classical music radio program “Dans la Cours des Grands” on “France Musique” radio. Her recordings include Rachmaninov’s 3rd piano Concerto with Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire and « Souvenir de l’Opus 28 » live CD from the Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise along with Fazil Say, David Geuerrier et Denis Matsuev. Her debut solo CD featuring works by Scarlatti, Chopin and Mussorgsky was released in the fall of 2010.
The 2011-2012 season Anastasya will make her debut with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra in Spain. This season's recitals include debuts at the “Monte Carlo Spring Art Festival,” in Monaco, the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, the “Myra Hess Concert Series” in Chicago USA, the “Solistes aux Serres d'Auteul” Festival in Paris, the “Piano aux Jacobins” Festival in Toulouse, the Menton Music Festival, France, the Theatre “Les Bouffes nu Nord” in Paris, the Veria Arts Center in Veria, Greece among others.
Andrei Pisarev
In 1991, in the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg, a young
Russian pianist won Grand Prize - which was the first time since 1956 that
Grand Prize had been awarded in this competition. It was Andrei Pisarev.
On October 10 2006 the reviewer Gunilla Boström wrote in Swedish
newspaper “Helsingborgs Dagblad”: “In April 2004 I believed that Andrei
Pisarev was the best pianist I have ever heard, and this opinion remains
after his recital… The expression “World pianist” is not an exaggeration
regarding him… “
Besides Mozart Competition Andrei Pisarev won 1st Prize in the
Rachmaninoff Piano Competition (Moscow 1983) as well as 1st Prize in the
UNISA TRANSNET International Piano Competition and Special Prizes for
the best performances of a classical sonata and a Mozart Concerto (Pretoria
1992).
The German newspaper "Westdeutsche Algemeine Zeitung" wrote about
Mr. Pisarev: “His performance cannot be forgotten. …The pianist presented
such impressive music, that is rarely heard. The fact that his playing is
distinguished for virtuosity - is of no doubt. Because that is the basis for
transparent sounding of music by Debussy, Liszt, Chopin and Kreisler/
Rachmaninoff. His performance was really transparent. The sounds of
Sonata by Scarlatti sparkled like clear radiant water drops. The "Suite
Bergamasque" by Debussy sounded as a canvass painted with clear bright
colours.”
Mr. Pisarev has wide repertoire and feels equally at home when he
performs Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Prokofiev,
Shostakovich.
All those competitions opened doors of the most prestigious concert halls
for the artist and brought engagements from the Words best symphony
orchestras, such as Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, RAI Orchestra
Milan, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, St.
Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Both solo recitals and concerts with
the orchestras were acclaimed by audience and critics in USA, South and
Central America, Europe, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, besides all
Russia.
Critics wrote after Mr. Pisarevs solo recital at one of the Europe most
prestigious concert halls – Gewandhous in Leipzig: "… his thoroughly
unquestionable and irreprehensible technical accomplishment and
imaginative interpretations, which amply tell the story of the brilliant
Lisztion piano in its epic moments, or that of Schumannesque intimist
in the idyllic ones. The magic of his artistic sensibility and the euphoric
atmosphere of the whole concert hall. His playing remarkable for its
composure as for its complete pianistic command. The faultless proportions,
the air of rapt simplicity, the perfect sense of balance and phrase were often
breathtaking."
Mr. Pisarev is a Professor at the Moscow Conservatory and he has also held
master-classes in Japan, USA and Yugoslavia.
He began his Musical education at the age of seven. In 1978 he moved
to Moscow to study at the Music School and then at the Tchaikovsky
Conservatory in Moscow. He graduated in 1987 and received his M.A.
degree in 1989.
Ming-Hui Lin
her piano studies at age 6 and performed in public at age 8. The winner of numerous
prizes and scholarships, Dr. Lin received her Bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan
Normal University, Master of Music in Piano Performance and Doctor of Music from
Indiana University, Bloomington, where she studied with Michel BLOCK, Erica
CAVALLO and Luba Edlina Dubinsky. Due to distinguished accomplishments, she
was invited as a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and was appointed by the Minister of
Education of Taiwan as the 2003-2004 Artist in Resident of Cité International des
Arts of Paris.
As a soloist, Dr. Lin’s performances have been praised as a pianist with beautiful
tone color and insightful interpretation. Her recent performances include the concerto
performances with UC Irvine and NTNU orchestras, piano solo recitals in the
National Concert Hall of Taiwan as well as the in the United States. In addition,
she gives masterclasses and lectures in Taiwan and China. Besides, Dr. Lin is also
recognized as a pianist-scholar and dedicated to research on piano literature, teaching
and performance, her recent publications include a book on Prokofiev’s war sonatas
published in 2009 and other articles on various subjects on Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin
among others.
tone color and insightful interpretation. Her recent performances include the concerto
performances with UC Irvine and NTNU orchestras, piano solo recitals in the
National Concert Hall of Taiwan as well as the in the United States. In addition,
she gives masterclasses and lectures in Taiwan and China. Besides, Dr. Lin is also
recognized as a pianist-scholar and dedicated to research on piano literature, teaching
and performance, her recent publications include a book on Prokofiev’s war sonatas
published in 2009 and other articles on various subjects on Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin
among others.
Dr. Ming-Hui Lin is currently Professor of Music in piano, former chair of
the Music Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University of Taiwan
and jury members of the YAMAHA, KAWAI along with other competitions in
Taiwan and China. She will also be jury member of the Seoul International Piano
Competition in 2013.
the Music Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University of Taiwan
and jury members of the YAMAHA, KAWAI along with other competitions in
Taiwan and China. She will also be jury member of the Seoul International Piano
Competition in 2013.
