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All the conducting master class
2024-04-22 10:30:00
09 – 18 Jul, 2024 This course provides a entire work on the development of key components needed to conduct an instrumental or vocal band: gesture technic – Group Psychology – Self-knowledge– Scores Analisis – Orchestration and Organology.This training is responding tonumerous and diverse demands, to conduct, to work with: A symphony orchestra? An orchestra […]
2024-04-11 17:16:57
David Pastor on The Lyon International Chamber Music Competition
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2024-03-28 07:26:00
Without a shadow of doubt, a brilliant programme all round: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho in Berlin with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski
[…] in 2011 under the direction of Kent Nagano and awarded the Grammy Award in the ‘Best Opera Recording’ category. A further opera came along in 2006 with Adriana Mater, the première taking place in Paris at Opéra Bastille and in the same year her oratorio, La passion de Simone, surrounding the life of Simone Weil, received its première in Vienna. A one-person opera, Émilie, written to a libretto by Amin Maalouf, premièred in Lyon in 2010 was conducted by Kazushi Ōno and in 1999, Kurt Masur favoured Saariaho by conducting her composition Oltra mar for choir and orchestra with the New York Philharmonic. From my standpoint, though, she’s relatively unknown but her works speak volumes having been performed all over the show: London (1989), Jakarta (1989), Paris (1989, 1991), Vienna (1993) and, of course, the Salzburg Festival in millennium year. A 15-minute piece, Ciel d’hiver happens to […]
2024-03-15 16:06:00
Crouching composer, hidden dragon
[…] of Buddhist art in the world. Unlike the 6000 monasteries destroyed in Tibet, the Mogao Caves escaped the People's Liberation Army purges of the 1960s. In typical gushing PR speak Decca describe the Buddha Passion as "an epic choral work... a captivating tale of wonder, truth and gentle but irresistible transformation... the first such ‘Passion’ on a Buddhist rather than Christian narrative". Released in 2023, the Buddha Passion was recorded with the Orchestre National de Lyon, chorus and soloists conducted by the composer at the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre with the participation of Hunan Broadcasting System, China's second biggest state-owned broadcasting network. The irony of a 'Passion' on a Buddhist narrative with the full-on participation of China hardly needs reprising. Tan Dun's Buddha Passion purports to be "a captivating tale... of irresistible transformation" inspired by the Buddhist wisdom tradition. Yet more than a million Tibetans have died as a result of […]
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