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Stephen Kovacevich is one of the most searching interpreters, never afraid to take both technical and musical risks in order to achieve maximum expressive impact. As a pianist he has won unsurpassed admiration for his playing, non-more than from Leopold Stokowski who wrote: “You do with your feet what I try to do with my Philadelphia Orchestra”.
Born in Los Angeles, Stephen Kovacevich laid the foundation for his career as concert pianist at the age of eleven. After moving to England to study with Dame Myra Hess, Stephen made his European debut at Wigmore Hall in 1961. Since then he has appeared with many of the world’s finest orchestras and conductors including Hans Graf, Bernard Haitink, Kurt Masur, Simon Rattle and Georg Solti. In addition, he has forged many longstanding professional relationships, most notably with Colin Davis with whom he made numerous outstanding recordings, including the legendary Bartok Piano Concerto No.2 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Recent and upcoming recital highlights include an extensive tour of the Far East, recitals in Paris, Berlin, Boston, Zagreb, Dublin and Cardiff, alongside two live BBC Radio 3 broadcasts from St George’s Hall, Bristol and Wigmore Hall. His recent concerto highlights include a triumphant return to Montreal Symphony Orchestra (under David Zinman), Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (with Sylvain Cambreling), Malaysian Philharmonic (Jacek Kaspszyk), Orchestre de chambre de Paris (John Nelson) and Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Vladimir Ashkenazy). Stephen recently performed to a sell-out audience for his recital at the International Piano Series at the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London. In addition, Stephen is a regular soloist at the Verbier and Lugano festivals.
Stephen is a committed chamber musician who has collaborated with Jacqueline du Pré ( with whom he recorded their celebrated recording of Beethoven’s Sonatas No. 3 and 5), Martha Agerich, Steven Isserlis, Nicola Benedetti, Nigel Kennedy, Lynn Harrell, Gautier Capuçon, Renaud Capuçon, Kyung-wha Chung, Truls Mørk, Emmanuel Pahud, Anna Larsson, Alina Ibragimova, Philippe Graffin, Joseph Suk and the Amadeus, Belcea and-Cleveland Quartets.
Stephen Kovacevich has enjoyed an illustrious long-term relationship with recording companies Philips and EMI. To celebrate his 75th birthday, Decca has released a Limited Edition 25 CD Box Set of his entire recorded legacy for Philips. In 2008 Stephen Kovacevich recorded Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations exactly 40 years after his first recording of the work. This Onyx recording won him the 2009 Classic FM Gramophone Editor’s Choice Award and the ‘Top Choice’ by Gramophone Magazine in September 2015, to quote: “his seasoned yet fearless mastery reveals something new with each hearing”.
A 22 ans, Alexandre Kantorow est le premier pianiste français à remporter la médaille d’or du Concours Tchaïkovski ainsi que le Grand Prix, décerné seulement trois fois auparavant dans l’histoire du concours. Déjà salué par la critique comme le « jeune tsar du piano » (Classica) et la « réincarnation de Liszt » (Fanfare), il a reçu de nombreux autres prix et est déjà invité à se produire au plus haut niveau dans le monde entier.
Avant même le concours, Kantorow avait déjà attiré l’attention. Il a commencé sa carrière très tôt et, à 16 ans, il a fait ses débuts à La Folle Journée de Nantes. Depuis, il a joué avec les plus grands orchestres du monde, y compris régulièrement avec l’Orchestre du Mariinsky sous la direction de Valery Gergiev, et les saisons à venir il se produira avec l’Orchestre de Paris, la Staatskappelle de Berlin, le Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, le Philharmonia, le Royal Stockholm Philharmonic et sera en tournée avec l’Orchestre National de Toulouse, le Budapest Festival Orchestra et le Munich Philharmonic.
En récital, il se produit dans les plus grandes salles de concert telles que le Concertgebouw d’Amsterdam dans sa série Master Pianists, le Konzerthaus de Berlin, la Philharmonie de Paris, le BOZAR de Bruxelles, le Konserthus de Stockholm et dans les festivals les plus prestigieux comme La Roque d’Anthéron, Piano aux Jacobins, le Festival de Verbier et le Klavierfest Ruhr. La musique de chambre est également un de ses grands plaisirs et il se produit régulièrement avec Victor Julien-Laferrière, Renaud Capuçon, Daniel Lozakovick et Matthias Goerne.
Alexandre Kantorow enregistre exclusivement chez BIS, avec un grand succès critique. Son dernier enregistrement (œuvres solo de Brahms) a reçu le Diapason d’Or. Ses deux précédents enregistrements (concerti 3-5 de Saint-Saëns et œuvres solos de Brahms, Bartok et Liszt) avaient tous deux reçu le Diapason d’Or et le Choc Classica de l’année en 2019 et 2020 respectivement, le magazine Gramophone choisissant le disque solo comme Editor’s Choice et décrivant sa performance comme » un autre exemple remarquable de sa virtuosité et de son sens artistique, faisant preuve à la fois d’habileté et de sensibilité du début à la fin « . Ses enregistrements de récital à la Russe ont également remporté de nombreux prix et distinctions en 2017, notamment Choc de l’Année (Classica), Diapason découverte (Diapason), Supersonic (Pizzicata) et CD des Doppelmonats (PianoNews).
Kantorow est lauréat de la Fondation Safran et de la Banque Populaire, et a été nommé en 2019 » Révélation musicale de l’année » par l’Association des critiques professionnels. En 2020, il a remporté les Victoires de la Musique Classique dans deux catégories : Enregistrement de l’Année et Soliste Instrumental de l’Année.
Né en France à Clermont-Ferrand et d’origine franco-britannique, il a étudié avec Pierre-Alain Volondat, Igor Lazko, Frank Braley et Rena Shereshevskaya.
Young Polish pianist Michał Biel’s collaborations have already taken him to the world’s most celebrated concert halls, including London’s Wigmore Hall, and Carnegie Hall and the Alice Tully Hall in New York. He has also appeared in recital on such eminent international stages as at the Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Lille and the Polish National Opera. Countertenor Jakub Józef Orlínski is a regular chamber collaborator. Meanwhile it was with American bass Alexander Rosen that he won Second Prize at the 2018 Hugo Wolf International Art Song Competition in Stuttgart, and together they are laureates of the Academy Orsay-Royaumont. Further accolades include Best Young Accompanist at the 2015 Grand Prix de l’Opéra contest in Bucharest. Biel holds residencies as a collaborative pianist at the Juilliard School Vocal Arts Department and the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie in Neumarkt.
Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors and recital series. His commanding technique, power and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike.
Following summer festival appearances in Verbier and Salzburg and on tour with mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena, the 2022/2023 season begins with the opening week of the Chicago Symphony followed by return visits to New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh, Houston, Philadelphia, New World, Pacific, Madison, New Jersey, Toronto and Montreal symphonies. In Europe he will tour with Rotterdam Philharmonic and can also be heard with Berlin Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), Bamberg, Dresden Staatskapelle, Maggio Fiorentino and Zurich Opera orchestras.
Born in Tashkent in the Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973, where he studied with pianist Arie Vardi, head of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. In the United States, he studied at The Juilliard School, Marlboro School of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music, under Rudolf Firkusny, Leon Fleisher, and Rudolf Serkin. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists, in 2010 he was further honored as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University and in 2015 with an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music.
From an early age, Anna demonstrated an innate musical maturity and astounding technical abilities. Her live recording of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto has more than 30 million views on YouTube and is highly acclaimed by critics and world-renowned musicians. She regularly performs at the world’s most prestigious concert halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Tonhalle Zürich, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, and many others.
As a soloist, Anna has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and more. Called the ‘house pianist’ (Telegraaf) of the Concertgebouw, Anna has performed there more than 30 times as well as in numerous online and television broadcasts. Anna is currently artist-in-residence at the Haarlem Philharmonie in the Netherlands. She is a regular guest at leading music festivals such as the The Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, Stift Music Festival in the Netherlands, Festival de Sintra in Portugal, Ravinia Festival in the USA, and at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in France.
In 2018, Anna signed with Channel Classics Records for a series of recordings. By the end of 2022, she will have released three solo piano albums, four chamber music albums, and all of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concertos with the Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen. « Her technique is fluent but never facile (…) demonstrating Fedorova’s fire and theatrical qualities », BBC Music Magazine’s 5+5 star-review of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Preludes, and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Anna graduated from the Lysenko School of Music in Kyiv with Borys Fedorov and the Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy, with Leonid Margarius. She received her Master’s degree and Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music, London, under the guidance of Norma Fisher. Her mentors include Alfred Brendel, Menahem Pressler, Steven Isserlis, and András Schiff.
Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and is recognised worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. An exclusive Nonesuch artist, Goode is a regular performer in the major recital halls and festivals across Europe and the US and performs as soloist with some of the world’s finest orchestras. In a recent season, The Daily Telegraph said, “There are brilliant young things among pianists, and there are wise old birds, who show their wisdom naturally in everything they do, without grandstanding or elaborate highlighting of details. Richard Goode is one of the latter sort.”
In recital, Goode performs every season at London’s Wigmore Hall and in major music centres across Europe, which in recent seasons has included Paris, Lyon, Verbier, Amsterdam, Budapest, Madrid, Stockholm, amongst others, and he has been a regular performer over the years at the Edinburgh International Festival, Kissinger Sommer and Pianos aux Jacobins in Toulouse. In 2019/20, highlights include his debut with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jurowski and an appearance at the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad Festival, as well as a recital tour across Italy and a UK festivals tour, finishing with a return to the Oxford Piano Festival in the summer of 2020.
In the US, Goode performs in all the major cities and in 2019/20 appears in recital at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, in New York at Tisch Center for the Arts, in Boston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, and in Canada in Montreal and Toronto. Goode has performed as soloist with most of the major orchestras across the US and many across Europe; recent highlights included debuts with Oslo Philharmonic and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and returns to the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, and Cleveland Orchestra.
Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His latest recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer was released in 2009 to exceptional critical acclaim, described as « a landmark recording » by the Financial Times and nominated for a Grammy award.
Klaus Hellwig se distingue d’abord par les prix qu’il remporte au Concours International Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud à Paris, et au Concours International de Musique Viotti à Vercelli, Italie. Il fut l’élève de Detlef Kraus, Pierre Sancan (Paris), Guido Agosti (Accademia Chigiana Siena) et Wilhelm Kempff. En 2007 avec la violoniste Christiane Edinger et le violoncelliste Lluís Claret, il fonde le Berlin Trio, ville dans laquelle il enseigne depuis 1980, à l’Universtät der Künste Berlin. Klaus Hellwig a enregistré plus de 25 CD pour de grandes maisons de disques. Ses élèves sont fréquemment récompensés lors de grands concours internationaux, dont les premiers prix des Concours Reine Elisabeth, Gina Bachauer et Schumann.
Avec une sensibilité musicale innée et une naturalité artistique, le pianiste de 24 ans, Mao Fujita, a déjà impressionné de nombreux musiciens de premier plan en tant que l’un de ces talents exceptionnels qui apparaissent rarement, aussi à l’aise dans Mozart que dans le répertoire romantique majeur.
Né à Tokyo, Fujita était encore étudiant au Tokyo College of Music en 2017 lorsqu’il a remporté le Premier Prix au prestigieux Concours International de Piano Clara Haskil en Suisse, ainsi que le Prix du Public, le Prix Modern Times et le Prix Coup de Cœur, qui l’ont d’abord fait remarquer par la communauté musicale internationale. Il a également remporté la médaille d’argent au Concours Tchaïkovski de Moscou en 2019, où ses qualités musicales spéciales ont attiré une attention exceptionnelle d’un jury de musiciens de premier plan.
Fujita a été invité à se produire en récital dans de grands festivals internationaux, dont le Klavier-Festival Ruhr, les festivals de Tsinandali et de Riga-Jurmala, entre autres, et il fait ses débuts très attendus en récital aux États-Unis au Carnegie Hall en janvier 2023. Parmi ses faits marquants récents et à venir avec des orchestres figurent des performances avec le Gewandhausorchester, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Munich, le Royal Philharmonic, le Royal Concertgebouw, l’Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, le Konzerthaus de Berlin, l’Orchestre symphonique métropolitain de Tokyo, l’Orchestre symphonique métropolitain de Tokyo, l’Orchestre philharmonique d’Israël, la RAI, la Filarmonica della Scala et l’orchestre du Festival de Lucerne, tandis que ses nombreuses relations avec des chefs d’orchestre comprennent Vasily Petrenko, Christoph Eschenbach, Riccardo Chailly et Andris Nelsons.
En novembre 2021, Fujita a signé un contrat exclusif multi-albums avec Sony Classical International. Ce nouveau partenariat le voit explorer de nombreuses facettes du répertoire à travers plusieurs sorties, commençant par un enregistrement studio très attendu de l’intégrale des sonates pour piano de Mozart, qui devrait être publié en octobre 2022, suite à une série acclamée de performances des sonates complètes au Festival de Verbier en 2021. Fujita a été invité à interpréter le même ensemble d’œuvres, entrecoupé de séries de variations, lors de cinq concerts pour ses débuts au Wigmore Hall de Londres à la fin de la saison 22/23.
Commencant les leçons de piano à l’âge de trois ans, Fujita a remporté son premier prix international en 2010 au World Classic à Taiwan et est devenu lauréat de nombreux concours nationaux et internationaux tels que le Concours International de Piano Rosario Marciano à Vienne (2013), le Concours International Mozart de Zhuhai pour jeunes musiciens (2015) et le Concours International de Piano des jeunes artistes Gina Bachauer (2016). Mao Fujita déménage à Berlin pour poursuivre ses études avec Kirill Gerstein.
Le pianiste et entertainer canadien Chilly Gonzales, primé aux Grammy Awards, vivant actuellement en Europe, est aussi bien connu pour son approche intimiste du piano à travers sa trilogie d’albums Solo Piano que pour son sens du spectacle et ses collaborations avec des artistes de renommée internationale.
« Gonzo », tel que son entourage le nomme, vise à être un homme de son temps, abordant le piano avec une formation classique et jazz mais avec l’attitude d’un rappeur. Il interprète et écrit des chansons avec Jarvis Cocker, Feist et Drake, entre autres et détient le record du monde Guinness pour le concert solo le plus long, plus de 27 heures. En 2014, il a remporté un Grammy pour sa collaboration au Meilleur Album de l’année de Daft Punk. 2018 voit la sortie au cinéma de Shut Up and Play the Piano, un documentaire retraçant son parcours, sélectionné à la Berlinale.
Plus récemment, Chilly Gonzales s’est lancé dans une nouvelle forme d’entrepreneuriat en inaugurant sa propre école de musique The Gonzervatory, aboutissement de l’exploration menée ces dernières années dans l’enseignement de la musique.
Son premier livre Enya / Plaisirs (non) coupables est publié en octobre 2020. À travers cet essai autobiographique, l’artiste s’interroge sur son propre enthousiasme pour les musiques souvent considérées d’un « goût » douteux et pose la question : la musique doit-elle être soumise à une appréciation intellectuelle ou peut-elle simplement aller droit au coeur ?
À l’hiver 2020, Chilly Gonzales sort son album de Noël. Des chansons féodales aux canons de la pop, A very chilly christmas passe en revue un large éventail du répertoire de Noël. Il y a de la grandeur et de la gravité, de l’austérité et de la gaieté, et il y a Mariah Carey.
Cette année Chilly Gonzales revient sur scène avec un nouveau programme qui démarre, comme toujours, par des morceaux de la Trilogie Solo Piano . Les hits et les surprises du reste de son répertoire seront agrémentés par de nouvelles Masterclasses, le tout accompagné de ses explications ludiques sur le fonctionnement de la musique.
Il sera rejoint sur scène par Stella Le Page au violoncelle, Joe Flory à la batterie et Marine Goldwaser à la Clarinette.
Nelson Freire has long been seen as a connoisseur’s pianist, but a series of superb recordings have raised his profile to the extent that he is now thought of as one of today’s universally recognised great musicians. Whether playing the great warhorses of the repertoire or the gentlest miniatures, he brings to his performances a level of quiet thoughtfulness that puts him in a class of his own.
Born in Boa Esperança, Brazil, he began piano lessons at the age of three with Nise Obino and Lucia Branco, who had worked with a pupil of Liszt. He made his first public appearance at the age of five playing Mozart’s Sonata K. 331. In 1957, after winning a grant at the Rio de Janeiro International Piano Competition with Beethoven’s Emperor concerto, he went to Vienna to study with Bruno Seidlhofer, teacher of Friedrich Gulda. Seven years later he won the Dinu Lipatti Medal in London and first prize at the International Vianna da Motta Competition in Lisbon.
Since his international career began in 1959, Freire has appeared at virtually every important musical centre, in recital and working with countless distinguished conductors and orchestras. A great musical collaborator, he has toured extensively with Martha Argerich, with whom he shares a long-time musical collaboration and friendship. They have recorded several discs together, including a live recital from the Salzburg Festival.
He has an extensive discography and was included by Philips in its historic series Great Pianists of the 20th Century, released in 1999. He has been an exclusive Decca artist since 2001, his releases including major works by Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Liszt, as well as the two Brahms Concertos with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly. The Chopin bicentenary year of 2010 saw two new releases by Freire: his recording of the complete Nocturnes and a recital album. In the Liszt bicentenary year of 2011 Decca released his recital album Harmonies du Soir. An album of his compatriot Villa-Lobos, Brasileiro, was released in summer 2012.
In October 2014 he celebrated his 70th birthday with the first release in a Beethoven concerto cycle with Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, coupling the Emperor concerto with the Sonata Op 111. It was followed by a recording of the Chopin F minor concerto with the Gurzenich Orchestra Köln under Lionel Bringuier, prompting BBC Music Magazine to say: “. . . it would be a rare connoisseur not to recognise a major master in the lyrical, rhythmically buoyant, spiritually abundant playing here”. Radio Days, a two-CD collection of concerto radio broadcasts from 1968 to 1979, included repertoire Freire had never recorded commercially, as well as his legendary Paris debut in Tchaikovsky’s first concerto with Masur in 1969. In March 2016 comes his first recorded recital of the music of Bach, featuring four great keyboard works and a collection of shorter pieces and arrangements.
Freire will be including Bach in recitals during spring 2016 in Lyon, Paris, Berlin, Perugia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Vancouver. His diary also has two recitals in his native Brazil and dates in Finland, Luxembourg, France and Germany, with Beethoven and Brahms concertos featuring prominently.
In March 2007, Nelson Freire was appointed a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and in January 2011 he was made a Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion de’Honneur, the French government’s highest award to a foreigner.
“Few pianists alive convey the sheer joy and exhilaration of being masters of their craft more vividly and uncomplicatedly than Nelson Freire.” – The Guardian
source : https://www.deccaclassics.com/fr/artist/freire/biography