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Ravil Islyamov – Violinist

Ravil Islyamov – Violinist

Discover Ravil Islyamov, violinist and composer of this beautiful quintet “Once Upon a Tale” played by Svetlana Ponomaryova (piano) and the MARS Quartet:– Ravil Islyamov (1rst violin)– Andrey Zubenko (violin)– Serafim Gerasimov (viola)– Matvey Sobolev (cello) Ravil Islyamov was born in Vladimir in 2001. Graduated from the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (class of Alexander Vinnitsky), currently studies at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of the same teacher. He was awarded the Gold Medal at the Delphic Youth Games of Russia (Tyumen, 2016;…

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Antoine Villéger – Road to Spasskaya

Antoine Villéger – Road to Spasskaya

Road to Spasskaya (tower) written by Antoine Villéger (15 y. o.) had it’s world premiere on March 20, 2022 with the Omsk Symphony Orchestra (conductor Dmitry Vasilyev). The magnificent piece, full of Slavic soul and written with outstanding finesse, shows us wonderful orchestral abilities of the young composer. This piece was written following Antoine’s visit to the Military Music Festival of the Spasskaya Tower in Moscow. In his score he has phrased the impressions of a trip to this major…

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Svetlana Ponomarëva – Concert pianist

Svetlana Ponomarëva – Concert pianist

Svetlana Ponomarëva was born in the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia. She went from playing with her fingers on the table at age three to being accepted, with the highest mark, to study in the prestigious Gnessins Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. Svetlana studied in the classes of Professor Alexander Satz and Professor Alexander Alexandrov.She was a finalist at the Young Concert Artist Competition in New York in 1993 and reached the semi-finals at the 1996 Esther Honens Calgary…

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Duo Froschhammer – Northern Lights

Duo Froschhammer – Northern Lights

Northern Lights – An insight into nordic violin musicPublished by the record company Solo Musica, the CD “Northern lights” of the Duo Froschhammer allows us to discover with sensitivity and virtuosity several Scandinavian composers. This very successful record brings together works for violin and piano written between the 19th and 20th centuries (Tor Aulin, Edward Grieg, Jean Sibelius) and also folk pieces transcribed by Fritz Froschhammer and the Duo Froschhammer. The Duo Froschhammer features siblings Felix Froschhammer, violin, and Julia…

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Alexandre Dubach & Sibylle Baehler Duo piano violin

Alexandre Dubach & Sibylle Baehler Duo piano violin

Alexandre Dubach is a Swiss violinist. He began studying violin under Elisabeth Schoni at the age of 7. Within two years, he won the Concours National of the 1964 EXPO in Lausanne, followed by appearance on television and radio around Switzerland. He proceeded to study under Eva Zurbrugg, Ulrich Lehmann, Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Magda Lavanchy and Salvatore Accardo. At 15 he gave his debut performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with Armin Jordanand the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, where he returned…

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Pianist Emma Saskia Baehler

Pianist Emma Saskia Baehler

Emma Saskia Baehler begins playing the piano before four years, and she gave her first official concert two years later playing mazurkas by Chopin and works by Brahms and with his mother Sibylle Bähler who is her first teacher. Emma Saskia Baehler has already performed in several Swiss cities: Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Avenches, Sigriswil, Zürich and Thun, playing as a soloist and with his mother of fourhands. She has playing also in Germany. . Since 2017, she has partnered with…

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Dimitris Anousis – A pianist goes to the opera

Dimitris Anousis – A pianist goes to the opera

Dimitris Anousis, Composer, pianist, arranger, manager of “AN ART ARTISTRY” has registred a beautiful disk intituled “When a pianist goes to the Opera”. This album is a collection of very interessant and virtuosic transciptions of piano of the 19th century as Hummel, Liszt, Raff, Thalberg, Smith, on well known and popular musical themes from operas by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, Wagner, Bizet.  I hope you will be interested to listen this excellent CD. You can find at Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/