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6ème New Year Music Festival in Gstaad - PIANO!...AND MORE 

P r o g r a m m e s u m m a r y 

Vendredi - Friday 30 December 2011 - Opening of the Festival : 

I - SALON EGGLI, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - "Festivalino" Goûter Musical pour les enfants - 16h00 

Doris Sergy, soprano, Christine Mantke-Goumaz, animation-danse : "Je mets les notes qui s'aiment ensemble" 

II - Patinage artistique - figure skating at the Grand Hotel Park Gstaad : presented by Nelson Monfort - 17h00 

Alban Préaubert, French world ice skater - followed by Welcome Cocktail in the Salon Eggli - 18h00 

III - LAUENEN CHURCH - in collaboration with the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music - 19h30 

under the patronage and in the presence of S.A.R. le Prince Emmanuel Philibert de Savoie, Prince de Venise 

Ensemble "Il Gene Barocco" "Gioventù veneziana" Music by Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Caldara & Veracini 

Samedi - Saturday 31 December 2011 - Free concerts for the people of Gstaad 

Roberto Moron Perez, guitar - Music by Sor, Barrios Mangoré, Albeniz, Tarrega, Sagreras, Fortea. 

"SIMPLE GALLERY" on the Gstaad Promenade "Impromptu" - 15h30 

ST JOSEF CHURCH, Gstaad Promenade - 19h30 

Dimanche - Sunday 1 January 2012 - New Year's Day Concerts 

I - ROUGEMONT CHURCH - under the High Patronage and in the presence of HE the Ambassador of Poland - 17h00 

Marcin Grochowina, piano "Paderewski and more...Composition, Inspiration, Improvisation." 

II - ROUGEMONT SALON DE MUSIQUE en collaboration avec SOS Talents Fondation Michel Sogny 

Celebrating the 19th century's "Star" Concert Pianists : - 20h00 

Natalia Morozova, piano "En pensant à Sigismond Thalberg” - Romantic Pianist 1812-1871 

In collaboration with the Thalberg Foundation. 

Lundi - Monday 2 January 2012 

I - ROUGEMONT CHURCH - 4ème "Tremplin pour les jeunes artistes suisses" Katia Michel, piano : - 17h00 

with the New Year Music Festival Ensemble - Benyounes Quartet. Music by Schumann, Mozart & Schubert. 

II - SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - Cocktail - Operetta "Medley Tenor Show" - 19h30 

Gilles Z San Juan, ténor with Gilbert Rosso, piano - airs latinos, mélodies evergreen italiennes. 

Mardi - Tuesday 3 January 2012 

SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad : Joaquin Soriano, piano - 19h30 

Cocktail and Concert 

en collaboration et au bénéfice d'Innocence en Danger et ses projets Suisses. Music by Albeniz, Liszt & Chopin. 

Mercredi - Wednesday 4 January 2012 

I - SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad : annual "Friends of the Festival" concert - 17h00 

Caroline Haffner, Paroles et piano - “The Piano Virtuosi : "Liszt, Paderewsky et Thalberg.” 

II - SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - "Tremplin pour les jeunes musiciens" - 19h30 

Cocktail 

en collaboration avec la Fondation "SAR Prince Paul de Roumanie" : Iustin Narcis Ianau, young singing talent. 

Jeudi - Thursday 5 January 2012 

SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - Ilan Rogoff, piano - 19h30 


Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor 

"Nostalgia Urbana - Astor Piazzolla" - Transcriptions for piano solo by Ilan Rogoff. 

Vendredi - Friday 6 January 2012 

I - LAUENEN CHURCH - en collaboration et au bénéfice du "Verein zur Förderung geretteter Tiere" - 17h00 

Emmanuel Rossfelder, guitar virtuoso. Music by Tarrega, Granados, Albeniz, Asturias, Bach, Händel & Verdi. 

II - SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad in collaboration with the Academy of the Arts Astana - 19h30 


Aiman Mussakhajayeva, violin with Amir Tebenikhin, piano. Music by Brahms, Franck & Franz Waxman. 

Samedi - Saturday 7 January 2012 - Last Night of the Festival 

I - ROUGEMONT SALON DE MUSIQUE en collaboration avec SOS Talents Fondation Michel Sogny - 17h00 

Ana Kipiani, piano. Music by Mussorgsky, Michel Sogny & Mozart. 

II - SALON MONTGOMERY, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - 

under the patronage of HE Ambassador of Hungary & in collaboration with the Franz Liszt Academy - 19h30 


Singing of Children & Roses - an opera recital with Emoke Barath, soprano & Emese Virag, piano 

Music by Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Haydn etc and first performance of "Love and the Rose" by Máté Hollós. 

An Interalp Music Festival - Artistic Director: Princess Caroline Murat • www.nymf.ch • www.apmcmusique.com 

Tickets from Gstaad Tourism, Rougemont Tourism, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad and online from the Festival office 

Email: gstaadnymf@gmail.com • Telephone/text : 0041 (0)77 474 15 27 - 0041 (0)79 745 19 85 • Concert ticket prices : Sfr 25.- to Sfr 45.-

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Comité du Festival 

Marraine du Festival: 

Dona Bertarelli 

Honorary President of the 

Festival: 

Martin T:son Engstroem 

SAR le Prince Robert de 

Luxembourg 

SAR Prince Pavlos de Grèce 

SAR le Prince Emmanuel 

Philibert de Savoie, Prince 

de Venise 

LLAARR Prince & Princesse 

Paul de Roumanie 

SA Prince Mubarak Al- 

Sabah 

Prince Alexandre Bagration 

Monika del Campo Bacardi, 

Lady of Bayfield Hall 

Maitre Jacques Bonfils 

Comte et Comtesse 

Pierre Cheremetieff 

Placido Domingo 

Barbora Dubey 

Donatella Flick 

Baronne Gennaro di 

Giacomo di Giampaolo 

Evelyne de Gorski 

Marthe Keller 

Comtessse Setsuko 

Klossowska de Rola 

Larry & Yolande Levene 

Brian Levine, 

Glenn Gould Foundation 

Dame Felicity Lott 

Georges Marci 

Vittorio Mosca 

Michel & Catherine Pastor 

Nicole Ricard 

Enrique Perez de Guzman 

Comte Gonzague Saint Bris 

Fazil Say 

Homayra Sellier 

Anneliese Schulte-Knopp 

Hedva Ser 

Milton and 

Beverly Shlapak 

Yuri Temirkanov 

Jean-Yves Thibaudet 

Maitre Monique Thierry 

Pierre-François Unger, 

Conseiller d'Etat 

Maxim Vengerov 

Michel Yagchi 

Comité Exécutif 

Marie-Paule Michel, 

Presidente 

Relations publiques : 

Jean-Sébastien Robine 

Le Comte Geoffroy de Briey, 

Chairman of the Festival 

Friends 

& Co-ordination Belgique 

Pierre Schuttel, 

Co-ordination Gstaad 

Delia Mamon, 

Co-ordination Verbier 

Chers amis du public, 

6, le chiffre dont la symbolique est la clef, celui de l'ouverture..... 

Celui de cette année.. 

Quand je pense au futur du New Year Music Festival in Gstaad j'ai toujours 

de nouvelles idées qui pourraient faire évoluer le Festival vers d'autres 

cieux. 

Et lorsque je regarde le chemin parcouru, je realise que tout est parti d'une 

simple idée pour devenir un événement incontournable dans le paysage 

gstaadois et des environs. 

Notre petite équipe enthousiaste renouvelle chaque année le miracle de réunir les plus 

extraordinaires musiciens dans une atmosphère conviviale oû vous, le public, jouez un rôle 

essentiel. 

Notre succès et notre durée se trouvent sans aucun doute dans la dynamique artistique et 

éducative qui permet aux petits comme aux grands de decouvrir la richesse de la musique 

classique et la joie qu'elle apporte. 

Comme vous le savez "notre" festival est a but non lucratif. Il apporte le soin et la comprehension 

aux prochaines générations de musiciens, notamment en les aidant financièrement leur 

permettant de compléter de solides études, et en leur donnant accès à des réseaux 

professionnels essentiels pour leur futur. 

Mais aussi chaque année nous choisissons des causes humanitaires ou medicales. 

Cette année c'est "Innocence en Danger" presidée par Homeyra Sellier et 'Happy Farm"une 

merveilleuse association aidant les chevaux en fin de parcours, basée a Salzbourg. 

Une des originalités du festival réside également dans sa totale independance artistique. 

C'est avec les artistes directement - sans intermediaires - que je travaille les programmations. 

Je suis ainsi totalement libre dans mes choix pour votre curiosité. 

Le stimulus créatif que le festival inspire nous permet d'imaginer de nouvelles collaborations et 

de ce fait le rend très attractif auprès de vous et des sponsors. 

Les concerts sont ainsi differents de ceux des autres festivals. 

Vous découvrirez encore cette année des talents véritablement exceptionnels et uniques. 

Je suis fière et reconnaissante de compter Aon, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad et Breguet comme 

principaux sponsors ainsi que Clarence Dillon, Julius Bär, Sotheby’s, L.Raphael, Louis Martin - 

CF Immobilier, et tous nos partenaires si genereux. Merci du fond du coeur à tous. 

Ma sincère gratitude au Collège du Rosey et tout particulièrement à Monsieur Philippe Gudin 

de la Sablonniere pour son attachement sans faille au festival. 

A Jane Mc.Intosh ma reconnaissance pour l'énergie qu'elle met et qui se surpasse depuis des 

années afin de rendre cet événement réalisable. 

A Marie-Paule Michel mes remerciements pour son aide généreuse et sa patience, et à Claudia 

Schlup et Jean-Sébastien Robine qui nous ont magnifiquement aidés à faire du New Year Music 

Festival in Gstaad un événement unique, mon affection! 

New Year Music Festival est un festival voulu et parrainé par les musiciens, acteurs, danseurs et 

patineurs eux-memes pour vous chers amis. 

Passez une magnifique semaine musicale en leur compagnie, mes souhaits les plus chaleureux 

pour de très heureuses fêtes de fin d'année, tous mes voeux de santé, bonheur et prosperité 

pour 2012! 

Caroline Murat 

Le 6ème "New Year Music Festival in Gstaad" 

Comité des Jeunes 

co-presidents : 

Allegra, Anais, Adria, Victor 

& Annabelle 

Comité des Jeunes 

Co-ordination: 

Thomas C. Paine 

Helena Adlercreuz 

Ken & Jemima Benning 

Anastasia & Dimitri Dogaev 

Luca Farinella 

Deborah & Adrian Jossa 

Luke Levene 

Princesse Delphine 

Lubomirska 

SA la Duchesse Rixa von 

Oldenburg 

Comtesse Ariane Piper 

Laetitia & Mika Zwaans 

Media Partners 

People & Gotha 

Monte-Carlo Society 

Bach Track 

Luxury Traveler 

Crisp TV - Kellie O'Farrell 

Organisation 

Artistic Director: 

Caroline Murat 

Communications, 

sponsoring: Jane Mc.Intosh 

Website: Anthoni Noyon 

Public Relations : 

Stephane Ruffier-Meray 

Secretary General of the 

Festival : Ines Mottier 

Artist Liaison & Welcome: 

Christine Mantke-Goumaz 

Officers of the Association 

pour la Promotion de la 

Musique Classique 

President & Founder : 

Princess Caroline Murat 

General Secretary : 

Stephane Ruffier-Meray 

For concert tickets please 

contact the Festival office or 

Gstaad Tourism on the 

Promenade, Rougemont 

Tourism or the Grand Hotel 

Park Gstaad. 

www.nymf.ch 

www.apmcmusique.com 

E: gstaadnymf@gmail.com 

Tel: 079 745 19 85 

Tel/text : 077 474 15 27 

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Friday 30 December 2011 - Opening of the Festival 

at the Grand Hotel Park Gstaad 

16h00 - Salon Eggli, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad 

“Festivalino” Goûter musical pour les enfants 

Doris Sergy, soprano 

Christine Mantke-Goumaz, animation-danse 

"Je mets les notes qui s'aiment ensemble" 

Phrase de jeunesse du Mozart. 

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Celebrating Songs for Children & for their Grandmothers 

Followed by Welcome Cocktail in the Salon Eggli - 18h00 

19h30 - Lauenen Church 

First night concert under the patronage and in the presence of 

S.A.R. le Prince Emmanuel Philibert de Savoie, Prince de Venise 

in collaboration with 

the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music 

Ensemble "Il Gene Barocco" "Gioventù veneziana" 

Vivaldi 

Concerto in G minor RV 105 

for recorder, flute, violin, cello & continuo : 

Allegro 

Largo 

Allegro molto 

Monteverdi 

"Si dolce è il tormento" (Scherzi musicali) 

Caldara 

Aria from "Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo" : 

"In lagrime stemprato il cor qui cade" 

"Per il mar del pianto mio" 

Vivaldi 

Concerto in G minor RV 107 

for recorder, flute, violin, cello & continuo : 

Allegro 

Largo 

Presto 

Aria from "Ottone in Villa" : 

"L'ombre, l'aure e ancora il rio" 

Veracini 

Cappricio in G for violin 

Vivaldi 

Aria from "Farnace" : 

"Quel candido fiore" 

Fin du concert 20h30 

17h00 - Ice Rink, 

Grand Hotel Park Gstaad 

Nelson Monfort 

presents 

Alban Préaubert 

Patinage artistique - figure skating 

on the rink at the Grand Hotel 

Park Gstaad : presented by 

Nelson Monfort . 

Franz Schubert 

Three Piano Pieces No. 2 in E-flat 

major 

Maxim Rodriguez - arr. 

"Orange Mecanique" 

Ensemble "Il Gene Barocco" : 

Miriam Albano, soprano 

Gregorio Carraro, flauto diritto e traversiere 

Matteo Gemolo, flauto traversiere 

Mauro Spinazzè, violino 

Michela Gardini, violoncello 

Fabiano Merlante, tiorba 

Notes 

The Festival thanks the Fondation Fellini pour le cinéma, Sion for helping to make this evening possible. 

Dans le cadre d'un partenariat 

qui sera inauguré à Gstaad le 30 

décembre 2011, le New Year 

Music Festival in Gstaad et le 

Venetian Centre for Baroque 

Music souhaitent co-produire 

plusieurs projets dans les années 

à venir, créant un axe de 

programmation commun visant 

à présenter à Gstaad et à Venise 

le fruit de recréations mises en 

oeuvres avec de jeunes artistes. 

En 2011 et 2012, deux projets 

sont lancés,le premier avec le 

jeune ensemble "Il Gene 

Barocco" intitulé "La Soavita 

Veneziana" et le deuxieme étant 

la recréation d'un opéra pour 

marionnettes, "Caligola delirante 

de Pagiardi" avec un cast de 

jeunes chanteurs doublés par les 

Marionnettes de Mimmo 

Cuticchio. Enfin, toujours en 

2012 nous recevrons-dans le 

cadre de ce partenariat les 35 

étudiants du département de 

musique ancienne de la Haute 

Ecole de Musique de Genève qui 

auront travaillé Gabrieli et 

Monteverdi pour ensuite les 

jouer à Venise. 

In the first half of the seventeenth 

century, Venice began a 

new chapter in the history of art. 

It invented the public opera 

house and gave instrumental 

music its pedigree. For more 

than a hundred and fifty years, 

La Serenissima transformed the 

art of Euterpe. In taking the 

names of the two composers 

who inaugurated and concluded 

that golden age, the Fondazione 

Monteverdi Vivaldi aims to tell a 

story that was written by many 

creators, and is scattered with 

masterpieces that are often 

overshadowed by The Four 

Seasons. A centre providing 

resources and promoting the 

dissemination of information 

and knowledge, the Venetian 

Centre for Baroque Music carries 

out fundamental work in the 

fields of research and interpretation. 

Punctuating its editorial 

activities, an international 

festival is scheduled each year, 

along with an academy for 

young artists, with the aim of 

reviving those unknown gems 

which deserve to be well known 

the world over. 

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Saturday 31 December 2011 

Free concerts for the people of Gstaad 

Roberto Morón Pérez, guitar 

15h30 - simple gallery, Gstaad Promenade “Impromptu” - short programme 

19h30 - St Josef Church, Gstaad Village 

Fernando Sor : Fantasia Elegiaca op.59 - Agustin Barrios Mangoré : La Catedral 

Preludio, Andante religioso, Allegro solemne - Isaac Albeniz : Asturias - Francisco 

Tárrega : Maria (Tango) - Julio Sagreras : Maria Luisa - Anónimo - Daniel 

Fortea : Mi Favorita 

Sunday 1 January 2012 

17h00 - Rougemont Church 

New Year’s Day Concert in association with 

the Embassy of the Republic of Poland : 

Celebrating the 19th century's "Star" Concert Pianists : 

Marcin Grochowina, piano 

"Paderewski and more... 

Composition, Inspiration, Improvisation" 


20h00 - Rougemont Salon de Musique 

en collaboration avec SOS Talents Michel Sogny : 

Natalia Morozova, piano 

"En pensant à Sigismond Thalberg 1812-1871" 

Beethoven 

Moonlight Sonata 

The Piano Sonata No. 14 "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, 

No. 2 popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata 

(Mondscheinsonate) was completed in 1801. The name 

"Moonlight Sonata” derives from an 1832 description of 

the first movement by music critic Ludwig Rellstab 

who compared it to real moonlight shining upon Lake 

Lucerne. 

Mendelssohn 

"Rondo capriccioso, Op.14" 

Sigismond Thalberg 

• The Art of Singing Applied to the Piano, Op.70 

Series IV - Transcription of the aria “Casta Diva” from 

Bellini's opera “Norma'” 

• Nocturne, Op 28 

Liszt 

Hungarian Rhapsody No.4 in E flat major S.244 

"Au bord d'une source" 

Années de Pélerinage: 1ère Année: Suisse S.160 


Thanks to Maitre Jacques Bonfils for his contribution to the evening 

Welcome note from the Ambassador of Poland : 

Dear guests of the New Year Music Festival in Gstaad, 

It is for the second time that during my mission in 

the Swiss Confederation I have the pleasure of inviting 

you to a meeting with Polish music in the 

charming ambiance of Rougemont. This year we 

would like to present the concert "Paderewski and 

more... Composition, Inspiration, Improvisation" 

by Mr Marcin Grochowina, who has prepared his 

personal interpretations of Ignacy Jan Paderewski's 

works. 

Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) belongs to the 

circle of most interesting personalities of Polish cultural 

heritage. Known worldwide as a pianist and 

composer, politician, diplomat, businessman and 

multitalented genius, he is also a symbolic figure 

of Polish - Swiss friendship. 

For many years he lived in the French speaking 

part of Switzerland where he not only composed 

and gave concerts but also was engaged in charitable 

work for war victims. For example, 

Paderewski together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, the 

Polish writer and Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, 

set up the Swiss General Committee for Polish War 

Victims' Relief in Vevey in 1915. 

The music and memory of Ignacy Jan Paderewski 

is still very well known and popular in Switzerland. 

There is the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Museum 

in Morges and the monument of Maestro 

Paderewski in the centre of Vevey. I am very glad 

that thanks to the cooperation with Princess 

Caroline Murat, the founder and artistic director 

of the New Year Music Festival in Gstaad, also here 

in Rougemont, we will have the pleasure of enjoying 

the music of one of the best Polish musicians - 

Ignacy Jan Paderewski - in the inspiring performance 

of Mr. Marcin Grochowina. 

I wish you an enjoyable evening and all the best 

for the New Year 2012, 

Jaroslaw Starzyk 

Ambassador of the Republic of Poland 

to the Swiss Confederation 

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Monday 2 January 2012 

17h00 - Rougemont Church 

Katia Michel, piano 

Benyounes Quartet 

Robert Schumann 

Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44 

Mozart 

Quartet K387 in G major 

Schubert 

Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 

Schumann’s piano quintet was first played by Clara Schumann in Vienna in 1842 


Thanks to 

Martin Rauh in Bern 

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19h30 - Salon Montgomery, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad 

Operetta ! 

“Medley Tenor Show” Gilles Z San Juan, ténor 

Gilbert San Pietro di Monte Rosso, piano 

Lopez 

Ouverture piano solo de "La 

Belle de Cadix" 

Offenbach 

Barcarole 

"Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour" 

Lopez 

"Chanter, chanter" 

Sorozàbal 

"No puede ser" 

Yradier 

"La Paloma" 

Gardel 

"El dia que me quieras" 

Bixio 

"Parlami d’amore Mariu" 

Di Capua 

"Ô Sole Mio" 

Rota 

"Parla piu piano" 

Tosti 

"Chanson de l’Adieu" 

Bernstein 

"Maria" 

Gershwin 

Preludium N°1, "Summertime" 

Lopez 

"La Belle de Cadix", "Maria 

Luisa", "L’Amour est un 

bouquet de violettes" 

Piazzolla 

"Oblivion / j’oublie" 

Lehàr 

"Heure exquise" 


Notes 

Le ténor Gilles San Juan qui 

a débuté sa carrière en 

troupe à l’Opéra de Nice et 

qui chante, depuis, en France 

et à l’étranger dans divers 

opéras, opérettes et films 

musicaux pour le cinéma et 

la télévision vous convie, 

dans ce récital, à un voyage 

lyrique et cosmopolite pour 

ténor charmeur ! Il 

interprètera, à sa manière, 

aussi bien de l’opérette, de la 

comédie musicale, des 

mélodies classiques et des 

chansons de variétés 

françaises et internationales 

et nous fera ainsi faire un 

tour du monde grâce à sa 

voix de velours et d’airain. 

Tout comme Roberto Alagna, 

il rendra un hommage au 

ténor basque Luis Mariano 

mais aussi au répertoire 

espagnol, sud-américain et 

italien. Accompagné 

magistralement au piano par 

le maestro San Pietro di 

Monte Rosso, il chantera les 

œuvres des célèbres 

compositeurs comme Tosti, 

Lehàr, Offenbach, Bernstein, 

Gershwin, Rota, Piazzolla, 

Lopez, Gardel… et ce 

séducteur lyrique vous 

entrainera dans son univers 

musical qui se conjugue au 

temps de la passion et du 

cœur !

Tuesday 3 January 2012 

19h30 - Salon Montgomery, 


in collaboration with “Innocence in Danger” 

for the benefit of their Swiss projects 

Joaquin Soriano, piano 

Albéniz 

"Evocacion" El Puerto 

Liszt 

"Feuilles Mortes" Variations sur un théme de Mariano Soriano, 

Sarabande et Chaconne sur Almira de Händel 

Chopin 

12 Préludes op.28 

Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante 


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from sexual abuse and fights against the spread of pedo-criminality via the 

media, particularly the Internet. 

www.innocenceindanger.ch 

Tickets : SFR 50.- including cocktail reception - all proceeds for “Innocence in Danger” 

L'APMC est fière de sa collaboration avec les pianos Yamaha et 

remercie Mr. Thomas Glutz leur directeur pour la Suisse. Nous 

voulons dire notre gratitude pour son soutien inconditionnel à 

notre directrice artistique, Caroline Murat, à 

Martin T:son Engstroem, Directeur General du Verbier Festival. 

Depuis l’an 2000 à Gstaad nous avons pu organiser les premiers 

concerts dans cette region d'artistes tels que Cecilia Bartoli, Gregori Sokolov, Maxim 

Vengerov, Anne-Sophie Mutter etc....et les "Adieux" en Suisse de Leontina Vaduva et 

Grace Bumbry. 

Les collaborations avec des Concours Internationaux sont à la base de notre travail 

comme, entre autre Genève, Chopin 2010, Menuhin, Reine Elizabeth, Rostropovich. 

Ainsi qu’avec des Fondations telles que Glenn Gould, Como, SOS Talents - Michel Sogny, 

HRH Prince Paul de Roumanie etc... et des conservatoires et academies, Verbier, Genève, 

Vienne, Menuhin...... 

En Suisse dans le cadre des Inter-Alp Music Festivals, "Ski&Music in Veysonnaz Nendaz" 

dont la marraine était Marthe Keller fut integralement consacre aux jeunes talents. 

Measha Brueggergosman y a donné son premier concert en Suisse après son 

brillantissime Prix au festival de Verbier. 

L'APMC continue l'organisation de galas a buts caritatifs au benefice de la recherche 

medicale (Chateau de Versailles, janvier 2011, Gala des Coeurs decembre 2010 Gstaad au 

benefice de la recherche contre le cancer.) 

“Liszt connût Mariano Soriano lors de son voyage en 

Espagne en 1847. La musique espagnole l’inspira et donnat le 

fruit splendide de sa plus belle rhapsodie: celle qui porte son 

nom.” Joaquin Soriano 

Notes 

Thanks to Maitre Jacques Bonfils for his contribution to the evening 13 

Photo: Eva Maria Ripoll Mont 

It was Polish pianist and composer, 

Frederic Chopin who totally transformed 

the art of playing piano in the 

19th century. His beauty in playing, romanticism 

and technical innovations 

were recognized by Schumann who 

famously remarked "Hats off gentlemen! 

A genius!" While his own, short 

life ended in Paris in 1849, before he 

reached the age of 40 years, Chopin's 

popularity and style of playing continue 

to dominate piano music and 

performance today. Virtually everything 

he wrote remains on the concert 

repertoire. Respected and admired by 

musicians in his own times, the legacy 

has been a constant one. A hundred 

years after his death, Alfred Cortot 

wrote a poem on Chopin's hands. The 

leading musical lights in Chopin's own 

life were Bach and Mozart. But he acknowledged 

those around him too: 

about Liszt he wrote "Liszt is playing 

my études....I should like to steal from 

him the way to play my own études." 

What is remarkable is that all of this 

legacy came from few public appearances 

- perhaps 30. He played virtually 

all of his concerts in private salons 

and his music was only available in 

written form - and very, very difficult 

to play for anyone trying at home. 

Until the recordings of the 20th century, 

Chopin's legacy was in the hands 

of the stage performers. He made his 

way as a composer and teacher of society 

ladies. A typical day of hour long 

lessons started at 8am with a Pleyel 

grand for the students and a small piano 

for Chopin himself. He intended 

to write a book on piano teaching but 

died before he could develop his first, 

short notes.

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Wednesday 4 January 2012 


"Friends of the Festival" concert 

Caroline Haffner, Paroles et piano 

The Piano Virtuosi : 

"Liszt, Paderewsky et Thalberg - 

les trois grands solistes du piano romantique" 


Welcome Tea - Cocktail reception 


en collaboration avec 

la Fondation "SAR Prince Paul de Roumanie" 

Iustin Narcis Ianau, young singing talent 

Narcis Ianau (17 years old) is a Romanian artist whose amazing 

contra-tenor voice was discovered in Spring 2011, on a 

"Romania's Got Talent" TV show in Bucharest. Born in a family with few financial possibilities, 

Narcis never dared to dream of being on a stage. He never imagined that there are people who 

will appreciate his unusual voice. Impressed by his talent and his difficult situation, TRH Prince 

Paul and Princess Lia of Romania decided to help Narcis become a true artist and a musical 

ambassador for their country. Through "HRH Prince Paul for Romania" Foundation in Bucharest, 

the Royal couple offered Narcis a scholarship in Munich. The German lessons, the canto lessons 

and the piano lessons with the best teachers from the German Opera in Munich started in November 

2011. The "New Year Music Festival in Gstaad" is Narcis Ianau's first performance after 

starting his professional studies to become a great contra-tenor with the help and support of 

"HRH Prince Paul for Romania" Foundation. Fin du concert 20h30 

19h30 - Salon Montgomery, 


Ilan Rogoff, piano 

Liszt 

Piano Sonata in B minor 

“Nostalgia Urbana - Astor Piazzolla" - Transcriptions for piano solo by Ilan Rogoff 


Notes on the music & composers by Ilan Rogoff : 

Franz Liszt - 

Piano Sonata in B Minor 

Liszt chose to call this great work 

a Sonata. We can attribute his decision 

to the freedom Romantic 

composers took in giving a title to 

their works. This great work bears 

no resemblance to the traditional, 

or classical Sonata form. It could 

be legitimately titled a "Fantasy" 

or a pianistic Tone Poem, a term 

Liszt brought into symphonic 

music. This great work was Composed 

in 1852/53 during his 

Weimar period (1848-1859), a period 

which saw Liszt at his most 

creative and fertile stage as well 

as personally happy - after giving 

up on a brilliant concert career 

(1847) and dedicating himself to 

composition, championing 

Wagner (who later married his 

daughter Cosima) and to his beloved 

Princess Carolyne Sayn- 

Wittgenstein who he met in 1847 

and who lived with him in 

Weimar until 1859, when the princess 

left for Rome - causing Liszt 

to give up his post in Weimar and 

follow her there, eventually becoming 

an Abbé and hoping to 

obtain the church's permission to 

marry his beloved. The structure 

of this work can be described as 

that of a "non rigorous cycle", in 

variation form - where the variants 

are either rhythmic, harmonic 

and/or melodic, with surprising 

diversity, flexibility and mobility 

of ideas and sounds. 

The composition starts with an 

eight bar introduction (in the 

Greek Doric form) with a descending 

scale, giving way to the schematic 

exposition of the principal 

theme in B minor. This theme, titled 

"Energico" has two principal 

elements, which are in constant 

conflict and lead to the first of the 

"Grandioso" sections in D major. 

After a brief, peaceful and graceful 

section, we return to the more 

combative principal theme with 

show of contrapuntal virtuosity. A 

great fervour animates this section 

in which all previous themes reappear, 

including the beginning 

descending scale and the initial 

"Grandioso" section is reaffirmed. 

A short and melodic Andante section 

in F sharp major leads us back 

to a remembrance of the opening, 

which sounds like the conclusion 

of the cycle. Instead, Liszt takes us 

on a masterful, dramatic and contrapuntal 

whirlwind tour-de-force 

of a fugato, using the two elements 

of the principal theme - 

which brings us to the recapitulation 

of all that has happened before. 

The closing section, a more 

peaceful variant of the opening 

theme leads to the same Hungarian 

descending scale which ends 

with vast, ecstatic chords in the 

Notes 

Sigismond Thalberg 

Born in Geneva on 8 January 1812, 

Sigismond Thalberg was one of 

the romantic pianists who "all decided 

to be born at much the same 

time" - Mendelssohn 1809, Chopin 

1810, Liszt 1811 and Henselt 1814. 

As Harold C. Schonberg wrote in 

his 1963 treatise on "The Great Pianists." 

By the 1830s the piano had 

taken essentially its modern day 

form and was the social instrument 

in European homes of the 

day. All new compositions - symphonies, 

concertos - were quickly 

written for piano and thus it became 

the way that music spread 

throughout Europe and to the cities 

of the Americas. With so many 

people able to play, they also 

wanted to hear. Thalberg understood 

the role of the concert performer 

to put on a show. He developed 

a technique, learned from 

a harp player, to play music to 

sound as if he was playing with 

three hands. Essentially he 

brought out the melody with both 

thumbs and surrounded it with 

arpeggios and was so named "Old 

Arpeggio". A hard working musician 

with a flawless technique he 

played without any bodily movement 

- in contrast to the flamboyant 

and constantly moving Liszt. 

Mendelssohn compared the two 

musicians in an 1840 letter. For 

him Thalberg was calculated and 

polished. Liszt a performer whose 

musical perceptions extended to 

the very tips of his fingers. He 

wrote that the two men, alone, 

represented the highest class of pianists 

of his day. Thalberg made 

an astonishing career and retired 

a rich man in 1863. He went to live 

in Italy as a winegrower - without 

a piano in the house. 

uppermost register - culminating 

in a last breath. 

The two elements in the principal 

theme were described by the 

French interpreter Alfred Cortot in 

this way: "One is Exclamative, ferocious, 

desperate and resolved, 

while the other is Sarcastic, deceptive 

and demonic". These dualities 

of which Cortot speaks are evident 

in many of Liszt's works and 

often attributed to his fascination 

with the figures of Faust and 

Mephistopheles. However, the 

qualities Cortot attributes to the 

two principal elements can be easily 

amplified by most interpreters, 

and in turn by listeners, experiencing 

their own individual perceptions 

and emotions aroused by 

Liszt's masterpiece. 

Ilan Rogoff 

Palma de Mallorca, 2011 

15

Astor Piazzolla 

Nostalgia Urbana - Transcriptions 

for piano solo by Ilan Rogoff 

(from his CD) 

The "breach" between Classical 

and Folk Music is far less than we 

are accustomed to believe, as 

many composers draw inspiration 

from the culture in which they are 

nourished. Folk rhythms and 

melodies form an integral part of 

works by Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, 

Dvorak, Debussy, Ravel, Sibelius, 

Tchaikowsky, Mussorgsky, 

Smetana, Mahler, Strauss and 

Wagner among others. Twentieth 

century composers followed the 

same path: Stravinsky, 

Shostakovitch, Copland, 

Bernstein, De Falla, Albeniz, 

Granados, Villa Lobos, Ginastera, 

and of course, Astor Piazzolla. In 

1924 Piazzolla's family moved 

from Buenos Aires to New York 

City, where they stayed until 1936. 

At the age of nine, Astor Piazzolla 

started playing the Bandoneon, 

became familiar with American 

Contemporary music, including 

Jazz, listening to Cab Calloway 

and Duke Ellington, as well as 

meeting Carlos Gardel, who was 

charmed by the young bandoneon 

player and invited him to appear 

in his last film. In 1937, back in 

Buenos Aires, he played traditional 

tango as bandoneon soloist 

in Anibal Troilo's orchestra. In 

1940 he composed a work for 

Arthur Rubinstein who was in 

Buenos Aires on a tour. Rubinstein 

recognized Piazzolla's talent and 

told him to take composition lessons 

with Alberto Ginastera, with 

whom he studied for eight years. 

Between 1950 and 1953 his compositions 

won prizes and awards, 

including first prize in France, 

entitling him to a scholarship to 

study with Nadia Boulanger at the 

conservatory of music in Paris. 

The importance she had in his life, 

is best illustrated by Piazzolla recounting 

his arrival in Paris 

in1954, with 50 kilos of scores and 

saying to her: "I am a composer, I 

would like you to analyze my 

music. After she spent two weeks 

looking at my scores, her comments 

were: 'Interesting....... It is 

a little Bartok, Stravinsky, 

Hindemith, but not Piazzolla. 

What does Piazzolla do?' Quite 

ashamed, I told her that I play the 

Bandoneon in a nightclub, on 

which she asked me to play for 

her. After listening to a few bars 

she said: 'Mais voilà, that's it..... 

Piazzolla! Not these 50 kilos of 

music I analyzed.... This is the 

music you should be working on!' 

That was the day I began to believe 

in Astor Piazzolla. I launched 

myself into the world with that 

music in hand, the music Nadia 

Boulanger considered to be good." 

The following year he recorded 

fourteen of his compositions with 

the strings of the Paris Opera orchestra, 

Marital Solal at the piano 

and himself playing the 

Bandoneon. On his return to Buenos 

Aires he formed two groups, 

a strings and bandoneon orchestra 

and his famed Buenos Aires 

Octet. After two difficult years in 

New York (1958-1960), he returned 

to Buenos Aires to create 

what became a fundamental 

group in the trajectory of his music: 

The Quinteto Nuevo Tango 

(Bandoneon, piano, violin, electric 

guitar and double bass), which 

caused a fury among university 

students and other segments of 

the public, including vitriolic criticism 

against his innovative approach. 

In the 1960s, Argentina's 

military government condemned 

his work for being too avantgarde, 

with critics calling him a 

clown or paranoid. Paradoxically, 

this proved to be beneficial as he 

gained publicity and new audiences. 

In 1972, after leaving his 

homeland again, he started gaining 

recognition in Italy. During 

that period he increased his musical 

group from a quintet to a sextet 

by adding a second bandoneon 

and replacing the violin with a 

cello. This group was also increased 

to an octet, and later to a 

full symphony orchestra. More 

than 300 tangos, Milongas and 

songs, instrumental, chamber and 

symphonic music, compositions 

for the theatre and ballet, as well 

as the scores for nearly 50 films, 

give testimony to Piazzolla's creativity, 

originality and genius. His 

convictions are those of an innovative 

composer who took his inspiration 

from the depth of 

Argentinean folk music, while rejecting 

the traditional, conservative, 

and often purely popular 

approach. He revolutionised and 

brought the Tango and Milonga to 

their extreme esthetical limits, 

thereby gaining its acceptance as 

music for concert stage. As happens 

all too frequently, it was during 

the decade after his death that 

great accolades and due recognition 

were accorded to Piazzolla 

with many recordings, some with 

the world's best-known performers. 

"Urban Nostalgia" 

The academic nature of his early 

compositions and printed versions 

of some piano works often 

result as unplayable, leading one 

to suspect that they were meant 

primarily as a base for extemporisation 

by the performer. 

Piazzolla claimed that he "never 

interprets a work in the same 

manner twice" and "We (the musicians) 

get bored by always play- 

ing the same music". Although he 

claimed that "my music is 10% 

pure Tango and 90% contemporary 

classical music", his need to 

constantly improvise, revise and 

reorchestrate his works often prevented 

the existence of a definitive 

version, 

Transcribing to piano solo works 

composed for a group permitted 

me to be faithful to harmonic content. 

However, playing various 

voices in the same register, while 

easily distinguishable when 

played by different instruments, 

either becomes muddled on a piano, 

or creates a sound world, 

which is alien to Piazzola's music. 

This obliged me to separate voices 

into different registers. Melodic 

lines presented a greater problem 

in some works, due to the nature 

of the piano. As opposed to the 

human voice, stringed and wind 

instruments, once a long note is 

struck, maintaining, varying or 

increasing volume or intensity is 

not possible, which causes great 

difficulty in maintaining the illusion 

of "legato" and the resulting 

melodic flow and continuity. Nevertheless, 

once these difficulties 

are met, I feel that the power of 

Piazzolla's music, its originality 

and beauty, overcomes these instrumental 

obstacles and shines 

through. My hope is that the transcriptions 

and arrangements I 

have humbly assembled, recorded 

on CD and as a "playable" score, 

will facilitate the enjoyment of the 

essence of his music, while maintaining 

the option of treating the 

text with the same freedom 

Piazzolla has claimed. 

It struck me that although the 

works chosen for the recording are 

varied, there is a common denominator, 

which I can only define 

as "nostalgia". Piazzolla admits 

to nostalgia being a motivating 

force in his creativity, whether 

remembering his father's tears 

when listening to Tango music, or 

for his homeland while working 

abroad. An urban nostalgia associated 

with humanity, rather than 

with nature. Virile, passionate, 

sensual, pensive, sad, bitter, or 

loving are all terms which come 

to mind while listening or studying 

his music. Human and urban 

elements, rather than music which 

celebrates nature, yet without 

making any use of typical or noisy 

elements associated with city life. 

The urban is made obvious even 

in titles such as the four 

"Estaciones Porteñas", referring to 

the Four Seasons in Buenos Aires, 

yet devoid of association with the 

seasons in nature, or in "Los 

Pajaros Perdidos" using blind and 

lost birds as a metaphor for a lost 

love. After all, urban - is nature 

designed by man. Some of the 

Thanks to The Embassy of the State of Israel for their contribution to the evening 

works are inspired by very personal 

events in Piazzolla's life. 

Foremost is "Adios nonimo" composed 

in Rome when Piazzolla 

was notified of his father's death. 

It is a homage and a personal requiem 

to his beloved father. Likewise, 

‚ÄúLos Pajaros Perdidos‚Äù 

(The lost birds) is a beautiful song 

using the images of birds flying 

blindly over the sea on a dark 

night as an analogue to a lost love. 

These compositions represent different 

styles mastered by 

Piazzolla. From the "Coral" 

(Fugata) inspired by Bach's counterpoint 

and his classical training, 

through the "impressionist," 

"Valsisimo" soulful Milongas, 

Songs and Tangos, he draws on 

jazz elements, popular music and 

classical composition technique to 

create a new style, entirely his 

own, later admired and imitated 

by others. The most striking elements 

are simple classicist structures, 

containing beautiful melodic 

lines, complex and rich harmonies 

and typical rhythms derived 

from Argentinean Folk Music. 

Nearly all the works are originally 

composed for a small ensemble 

and various versions by 

the composer as well as other artists, 

playing them with different 

combinations of instruments have 

been recorded. Although many of 

his compositions are rooted in 

music, which was traditionally 

danced to - much like Chopin's 

Waltzes, Polonaises or Mazurkas, 

Piazzolla's compositions are essentially 

music to be listened to. 

In Piazzolla's own words: "This is 

no dance music like traditional 

tango, no easy listening music". 

His total identification and belief 

in his music goes beyond his artistic 

and musical convictions, as 

is reflected in a statement made 

about one his last recording; "This 

is the music I can give to my 

grandchildren and say, 'This is 

what we did with our lives'." 

Ilan Rogoff 

Palma de Mallorca, 2011

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Emmanuel Rossfelder, guitar virtuoso 

Francisco Tarrega 

Théme et variations sur le carnaval de Venise 

Recuerdos de la Alhambra 

Enrique Granados 

Danse espagnole no. 5 

Isaac Albeniz 

Granada 

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Jean Sebastien Bach 

Cantate 147 "Jesus que ma joie demeure" 

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in collaboration with the Academy of the Arts Astana : 

Aiman Mussakhajayeva, violin 

Amir Tebenikhin, piano 

winner of the Anton Rubinstein Competition 

Brahms 

Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor 

Franck 

Violin Sonata in A major 

Franz Waxman 

"Carmen Fantasie" 

Saint-Saens 

Introduction & Rondo 

Capriccioso in A minor 

About Happy's Farm 

A warm welcome! 

At the foot of the lovely Salzburg 

mountains, in Anif, 27 

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Three employees plus voluntary 

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responsibility for their wellbeing. 

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Saturday 7 January 2012 - Last night of the Festival 

Under the patronage and in the presence of the Ambassador of the 

Republic of Hungary to the Swiss Confederation, Dr Erzsébet Nagy 

La Fondation SOS 

Talents a été crée par 

Michel Sogny en l'an 

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piano en développant 

leur talent et leur 

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méthode composée de 

Michel Sogny. 

E: info@sos-talents.ch 


17h00 - Rougemont Salon de Musique 

en collaboration avec SOS Talents Michel Sogny : 

Ana Kipiani, piano - 

winner of the first 

Verbier Festival Academy 

Julius Baer Ambassador Prize 2010 - 2011 

Michel Sogny 

PRolegomens and studies 

Mozart 

Piano Sonata No. 18 in D major, K 576 (1789) 

Mussorgsky 

"Pictures from an Exhibition" (1874) 


Singing of Children and Roses : 

Emoke Barath, soprano - winner of the 2011 Verbier Academy Prize 

Emese Virag, piano 

Song cycles about children : 

Modest Mussorgsky 

Detskaya (The nursery) 

François Poulenc 

La courte paille 

Songs about roses : 

Josef Haydn 

Heidenröslein 

Robert Schumann 

Röselein! Röselein! 

Meine Rose 

Richard Strauss 

Rote Rosen 

Gabriel Faure 

Les Roses d'Ispahan 

La Rose 

Máté Hollós 

Love and the Rose (first performance!) 

Benjamin Britten 

The last rose 


Suivi du’une interview publique 

The Festival is honoured to collaborate for 

the second consecutive year with the 

Franz Liszt Academy of Music 

and the Hungarian Embassy. 

End Notes 

Nous arrivons à cette dernière 

journée de "notre" festival, consacrée 

à deux jeunes talents brillamment 

issus de l'Académie de Verbier, tous 

deux Prix Julius Bär, journée qui 

démontre comme chaque année 

l’excellence de notre collaboration 

avec notre prestigieux voisin et ami 

le Festival de Verbier. Cette semaine 

passée ensemble a également illustré 

l'échange culturel régulier entre la 

Hongrie et le NYMF-grâce à l'aide de 

SE Madame l'Ambassadeur Nagy, et 

l'Académie Franz Liszt de Budapest. 

Tout au long de ces 9 jours notre 

quatrième collaboration avec la 

Pologne a permis en 2011 de célébrer 

Paderewsky mettant ainsi le piano à 

l'honneur. Nous sommes les premiers 

ce 1er.janvier (2012 ) à ouvrir l'année 

Thalberg en Suisse, grand pianiste né 

à Genève en 1812. Nous la clôturerons 

en collaboration avec le Centre International 

d'études Sigismund 

Thalberg en décembre 2012. Nous 

reprendrons ces collaborations et 

d'autres, notamment celle que nous 

avons depuis le début du festival avec 

le Concours d'Interprétation de 

Genève. Nous recevrons ainsi en 

décembre prochain le 1er.prix du 

concours de Quatuor 2011,le Quatuor 

Hermès. Enfin un mécène privé nous 

permettra de continuer un 

passionnant projet autour de Venise, 

Genève, Gstaad et la musique baroque. 

Patinage, théâtre, 

marionnettes, danse, musiques du 

monde et opérette : nous 

continuerons à être différents pour 

susciter votre plaisir. Et surtout nous 

partagerons avec vous la découverte 

de jeunes talents comme ceux invités 

durant toutes ces années, (Alexandra 

Soumm, Sayaka Shoji, Callum Smart, 

Denis Kojoukhine, Kyrill Gerstein, 

Louis Schwizgebel-Wang, MozART, 

Measha Brueggergosman etc...) qui 

pour beaucoup ont commencé leur 

carrière avec nous et sont aujourd'hui 

des talents confirmés. A l'année 

prochaine cher public et amis pour le 

7ème New Year Music Festival in 

Gstaad (28.12.12 - 5.1.2013). 

Votre présence tout au long de cette 

semaine nous montre combien vous 

appréciez notre Festival et la place 

qu’il a prise pendant vos vacances 

dans cette magnifique région. Très 

belle et heureuse nouvelle année. 

Le 6ème "New Year Music Festival in 

Gstaad" 

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About the Artists : Biographies 

The Benyounes Quartet 

Rougemont Church - 


The members of the Benyounes 

Quartet hail from England, Wales 

and Ireland and are united by 

their love of chamber music and 

enthusiasm for communicating 

with audiences. They met at the 

Royal Northern College of Music 

in 2007, where they were recipients 

of major prizes for string 

quartet. Winners of the Royal Philharmonic 

Society's prestigious 

Julius Isserlis Scholarship, the 

quartet continued studies at the 

Haute Ecole de Musique de 

Genève with Professor Gabor 

Takacs-Nagy. The Benyounes 

Quartet currently holds the Richard 

Carne Junior Fellowship for 

String Quartet at the Trinity Laban 

Conservatoire of Music and 

Dance. Recently chosen as Park 

Lane Group Young Artists, they 

will give their Purcell Room debut 

in January 2012. In the summer 

of 2010, they were invited to 

perform an exciting new collaborative 

work by a young British 

composer at the Verbier Festival, 

Aix-en-Provence Festival, and 

Aldeburgh Festival. This season 

the quartet gave recitals at the 

Dartington, West Cork and 

Bellerive Festivals. 

L'Ensemble Il Gene Barocco 

Lauenen - 

Friday 30 December 2011 

L'Ensemble Il Gene Barocco nasce 

dall'incontro tra alcuni giovani 

musicisti formatisi nei 

dipartimenti di Musica Antica dei 

Conservatori e delle Accademie 

piu prestigiosi a livello nazionale 

ed europeo quali i Conservatori di 

Verona, Padova, Vicenza, il 

Conservatoire de Génève, il 

Koninklijk Conservatorium 

dell'Aja, il Conservatoire National 

de Région de Paris, il 

Conservatorio Superior de Musica 

Osca Esplá (Spagna), 

L'Accademia Internazionale della 

Musica di Milano. I singoli artisti 

si sono perfezionati sotto la guida 

di maestri di fama internazionale 

come Marcello Gatti, Monica 

Huggett, Cristina Miatello, Sergio 

Balestracci, Jill Feldmann, Enrico 

Onofri, Roy Goodman, Barthold 

Kuijken, Marco Vincenzi, Vittorio 

Ghielmi, Christoph Rousset e 

molti altri. Svolgono regolare ed 

intensa attivitá concertistica ospiti 

di importanti orchestre in eventi 

e manifestazioni musicali: Festival 

Grandezze e Meraviglia 

(Modena), Spazio e Musica al 

Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza), Festival 

de Musique Baroque 

d'Ambronay (Francia), Saison 

Emoke Barath, soprano 

Salon Montgomery, Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - Saturday 7 January 2012 

Hungarian Emoke Barath was born in 1985. She started her musical studies when she was 6 years old 

playing the piano, cello and harp and singing in choirs. A special award in 2003 and first prizes at 

National Singing Competitions followed in 2005/6. She then studied with Julia Paszthy at the Liszt 

Academy of Music in Budapest. Prize winner at the 44th Antonin Dvorak International Singing Competition 

in 2009 she performed roles in operas by Handel, Vivaldi and Purcell in 2010. A participant 

in several masterclasses in Hungary, Austria, the USA and Switzerland with Barbara Bonney, Kiri Te 

Kanawa and Ricard Bordas helped her to develop. Invited to perform as soloist at the Palace of Arts- 

Budapest, Sopron Early Music days, iskolc Opera Festival, Tschaikovsky Concert Hall, Pushkin Museum, 

Moscow and the Verbier Festival. The Grand Prix at the 2011 Verbier Festival Academy will 

lead to a further performance there in 2012. Emoke also won the International Singing Competition 

for Baroque Opera, Innsbruck in August 2011. 

musicale à Royaumont (Francia), 

Accademia Montis Regalis, 

Accademia Bizantina, La Stagione 

Armonica. I programmi proposti 

si distinguono per eterogeneità e 

ricchezza strumentale/vocale, 

attraversando stili e caratteri della 

complessa Europa barocca: dal 

bizzarro e poetico Seicento 

italiano alla Germania di Bach e 

Telemann, passando per le frivole 

e delicate nuances della Francia di 

Louis XIV. Il Gene Barocco ha 

visto il suo esordio nell'ambito del 

Festival di Musica Antica‚ 

"Gregorio Strozzi" (Potenza). 

Caroline Haffner, piano 

Princess Caroline Murat, 

Artistic Director 

Festival Friends Concert 

Salon Montgomery, 

Grand Hotel Park Gstaad - 


Caroline is acclaimed by connoisseurs, 

critics and fellow musicians 

for the brilliant virtuosité, pro- 

found musicianship and dramatic 

intensity of her playing. She has 

been encouraged throughout her 

career by personalities such as 

Placido Domingo, Maxim 

Vengerov and Mstislav 

Rostropovitch, who spoke of the 

imagination, colour and poetry in 

her performance. The style of 

playing - eminently romantic and 

dramatic - which characterizes 

Caroline Haffner allows her to be 

mentioned alongside the legendary 

pianists with whom she has 

studied. As a child prodigy she 

took lessons with Alfred Cortot 

and was deeply influenced by the 

limpidité, fluidity and spontaneous 

expression of his style. Later 

she studied with Samson 

Francois, Pierre Sancan, and with 

David Oistrakh's accompanist, the 

Russian teacher Lev Oborin in 

Moscow. All these varied and individualistic 

musicians strongly 

influenced her artistic understanding 

and development. Since 

her youth, the technical and mu- 

Marcin Grochowina, piano 



Nach dem Studium bei Prof. Andreas Immer an der 

Musikhochschule Freiburg erhielt er 1994 dort einen Lehrauftrag. 

Marcin Grochowina ist einer der wenigen Konzertpianisten, die 

neben dem klassischen 

Repertoire auch den 

Jazz und die Improvisation 

auf hoher 

professioneller Ebene 

b e h e r r s c h e n . 

Mitungewöhnlichen 

Programmen versucht 

Grochowina, die 

Spezialisierung des 

Konzertbetriebes zu 

durchbrechen und die 

künstlerischen Gesten 

von Komposition und 

Improvisation sinnvoll 

miteinander zu 

verbinden. Seit 2008 hat er eine Lehrstelle für Klavier an der 

Musikschule Konservatorium Bern. 

Presenting a repertoire ranging from the classical to jazz and improvisation, 

Polish born Marcin Grochowina led piano and improvisation 

at the First International Master Class Yehudi 

Menuhin Forum Bern in July 2011. Currently teaching at the 

Musikschule Konservatorium Bern he performed at the 2011 

Montreux Jazz Festival. 

sical skills of Caroline Haffner 

have brought her a string of prestigious 

awards. After a number of 

first prizes at the Conservatoire 

National Superieur de Musique 

(CNSM) in Paris, a Licence de 

Concert at the age of 14 years at 

the Ecole Normale de Musique de 

Paris, recognition from Charles 

Munch and a 'virtuosité' at the 

Conservatoire de Génève, 

Caroline continued her studies in 

Vienna with Leonid Brumberg. 

Caroline takes her stage name 

from her mother - descended from 

Sigmund Haffner, Mayor of Salzburg 

and friend of Mozart for 

whom he wrote the Haffner Serenade 

and Symphony of the same 

name. Technically and musically 

expert Caroline also has an interest 

in ancient music and discovered 

and rewrote with the 

"Biblioteca Vivaldiana" and Cini 

Foundation Venice, Cimarosa's 

"La Morte d'Abel" oratorio. 

Narcis Iustin Ianau, voice 




Encouraged by his grandmother, 

Romanian 16 year old Narcis 

Iustin Ianau impressed thousands 

of television viewers when he 

sang on "Romania's Got Talent ." 

With no formal training and a 

natural, counter tenor voice, 

Narcis has always enjoyed singing, 

dreamed of performing on 

stage and representing Romania, 

his country. With little musical 

education and from a poor family, 

raised by his father and grandmother 

while his mother works in 

Italy, Narcis started singing in 

church when he was five years 

old. He has had a tough time at 

school as other children did not 

understand the quality of his 

voice. For the TV show, he tried 

several pieces and chose Puccini's 

aria "O mio bambino caro" from 

an opera CD borrowed from a 

friend. He repeated it a lot and 

tried to imitate the soprano; with 

stellar success. 

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Biographies 

Ana Kipiani, piano 

Rougemont Salon - Michel Sogny 

Saturday 7 January 2012 

Ana Kipiani was born in 1994 and 

began her studies at the Tbilissi 

Central Music School with Levan 

Inshvili. Performing concerts from 

an early age Ana has taken part in 

a number of competitions and festivals. 

In 2008 she participated in 

a gala concert for Michel Sogny's 

Foundation "SOS Talents" which 

was broadcast on MEZZO TV. 

Ana studies with Nuza 

Chirakadze. She won first prize in 

the "Concours International de Piano 

"Nikolai Rubinstein" 2008 and 

she was the youngest pianist to 

appear at the Klavier Ruhr Festival 

in 2009 and gave a series of 

concerts in Italy with Jan Paulo 

Pretto conducting. Ana was 

awarded the first ever Verbier Festival 

Academy Ambassador Prize 

in August 2010 and represented 

the Academy‚Äôs values and received 

the support of the Verbier 

Festival Foundation Council and 

Bank Julius Baer for the year to 

July 2011. 

Christine Mantke-Goumaz 

Salon Eggli, 



Née en1982, Christine Mantke- 

Goumaz est la fille du professeur 

de danse classique Isabelle 

Goumaz et la petite fille du 

professeur de piano Adéle 

Goumaz, chez qui elle a suivi 

respectivement ses premières 

leçons de ballet et de piano. 

Formée d'abord à Lausanne puis 

à la Haute Ecole de Dresden 

(Allemagne), elle démarre une 

carriére de danseuse 

professionnelle. Lauréate d'une 

médaille au concours international 

de danse de Nitéroi au 

Brésil, Christine danse différents 

rôles tels que Clara dans Casse 

Noisette, une sylphide dans 

Giséle, sur des petites et grandes 

scénes comme la Semper Oper de 

Dresde ou à Beaulieu Lausanne. 

Sa carrière s'interrompt lors d'un 

solo, sur la scene, alors qu'elle est 

invitée à danser chez sa maman, 

c'est la chute. Les complications de 

la blessure lui font quitter les 

planches pour une reconversion 

qui débute par un séjour 

linguistique en Angleterre, puis se 

poursuit par des études 

universitaires. Depuis 2008, 

Christine enseigne l'allemand, les 

mathématiques ainsi que le 

français à l'Etat de Vaud, à l'Ecole 

Steiner et actuellement à l'Orif. 

Elle reste active dans les milieux 

de la culture. Elle a suivi une formation 

de théatre au sein de la 

compagnie le Mesureur à 

Lausanne, donne des cours de 

danse au Centre de Danse la 

Venoge, et en tant que danseuse, 

chorégraphe et assistante de direction, 

elle participe aux spectacles. 

Katia Michel, piano 



La pianiste hispano suisse Katia 

Michel se produit en Allemagne, 

en Amerique centrale, en Bulgarie, 

en Espagne, en France, en Irlande, 

en Italie, au Mexique, en Suisse et 

aux USA. Le public et la critique 

soulignent unanimement sa 

musicalité et son élégance 

poétique, tout autant que sa 'technique 

brillante'. Elle a joué en 

soliste avec de nombreux 

orchestres, parmi lesquels le 

B ö h m i s c h e K a m m e r - 

philharmonie,l'Orchestre régional 

de Cannes, les Orchestres de la 

Radio-Télévision suisse et 

espagnole, l'Orchestre national du 

Salvador et la Real Orquesta 

Sinfonica de Sevilla. Sous la direction 

de Philippe Bender, Philippe 

Béran, Juanjo Mena, Uwe Munt et 

Urs Schneider. Katia Michel est 

invitée réguliérement à des festivals 

internationaux, notamment le 

New Year Music Festival in 

Nelson Monfort 

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Son of American Colonel 

Nelson Monfort Senior, 

Nelson Monfort is a television 

host and sports journalist 

on France Television. 

A graduate of the Institut 

d'études Politiques de Paris 

Nelson also appreciates 

classical music and is a 

highly informed and appreciative 

listener. TV commentator 

for figure skating 

he makes intelligent and 

notable interviews of athletes just 

after their competition: among his 

most famous interviews are those 

of Andre Agassi, Martina 

Navratilova, Carl Lewis, Bill 

Clinton at Roland Garros in 2001 

and sprinter Michael Johnson during 

the Olympic Games in Atlanta. 

Gstaad, le Festival Castell de 

Peralada, Antibes Génération 

Virtuoses, la Schubertiade de 

Vilabertran, le Festival de piano de 

Barcelone, le Festival de Gijon et 

le Kammermusik Festival in des 

Wartinschloss. Elle s'est produite 

devant de grands auditoires tels 

que le Carnegie Hall à New York, 

le Royal Dublin Society Concert 

Hall, la Beethoven Kammermusiksaal 

à Bonn, le Palau de la 

Musica et l'Auditori à Barcelone 

et le Teatro Monumental à Madrid. 

Aiman Mussakhajayeva, violin 




Aiman Mussakhajayeva, People's 

artist of the Republic of 

Kazakhstan, is the brightest representative 

of the violin school of 

her country A graduate of the 

Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, 

she won prestigious prizes including 

the Paganini Sibelius and 

Tchaikovsky International Competitions. 

Founder and head of the 

State Chamber Orchestra "Academy 

of Soloists" she has taken the 

orchestra to Russia, the USA, Japan, 

Germany and Austria. Since 

1993, a jury member at the 

Tchaikovsky International Competition 

in Moscow, Aiman is also 

a professor at the Moscow, 

Almaty, Astana, and Bishkek Music 

Conservatoires. In 1998, she 

opened the Kazakh National 

Academy of Music in Astana, the 

new capital of Kazakhstan, where 

she serves as President. Among 

the titles she holds is UNESCO 

"Artist for Peace" (1998). 

Nelson with HE Ambassador Dr 

Erzsébet Nagy of the Republic of 

Hungary at the Festival for the 

start of the Liszt Celebratory 

year. 

Roberto Moron Perez , 

classical guitar 

Gstaad - 

St Josef & the Simple Gallery, 

Saturday 31 December 2011 

Spanish-born Roberto Moron 

Perez studied in Madrid, Italy and 

the UK, graduating with first class 

honours and a degree in Musicology 

from the Universidad 

Complutense de Madrid, then 

completing a postgraduate programme 

at the prestigious Royal 

Academy of Music in London 

where he received the Julian 

Bream Prize and was selected to 

participate in the Wigmore Hall 

Award. Prize-winner of many international 

competitions, Roberto 

has appeared as soloist in Spain, 

Switzerland, Italy, the USA, the 

United Kingdom, Ukraine, Germany 

and Japan, and in concert 

with numerous Spanish orchestras. 

Recently, he played the famous 

Concierto de Aranjuez with 

the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 

and the National Symphony 

Orchestra of Ukraine. Stephen 

Dodgson and Angelo Gilardino 

are among the prominent composers 

with whom he has worked, 

and the famous English pianist, 

Stephen Hough, has written a guitar 

piece for him. Roberto Moron 

Perez has released a world premier 

recording with pieces by 

Stephen Dodgson and has collaborated 

with the Italian publisher 

Berben in the edition of The 

Andres Segovia Archive. 

Alban Préaubert 

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From Grenoble, France, Alban 

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He is a five-time (2006, 2008 - 2011) 

French bronze medalist. Albert is 

a former French junior national 

title holder and won bronze at the 

2006 French nationals, a 6th place 

showing at his first Europeans, 

and an 8th place in his World 

Championships debut. Further 

medals in international competition 

were followed by two terms 

with Skate America. In 2008-9 season 

he beat his countryman Brian 

Joubert at the French Masters and 

won his third Trophée Eric 

Bompard medal, a bronze. He also 

won the bronze at the Cup of Russia 

and was an alternate for the 

Grand Prix Final. In the 2009-10 

season, he took more medals on 

the Grand Prix circuit - including 

bronze at Skate Canada, third at 

French nationals and finished fifth 

and sixth at his two Grand Prix 

assignments in 2010-11, and followed 

this with his fifth bronze 

medal at French nationals. Alban 

graduated with an MBA from 

ESCP Europe in May 2010.

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Natalia Morozova, piano 

Rougemont - Salon Michel Sogny 


Russian pianist Natalia Morozova began her piano studies at the age 

of six at the Rachmaninoff School in Moscow. She attended the 

Tchaikovsky State Conservatory with the pianist Tigran Alikhanov, 

himself a student of the great Russian pianist Lev Oborin. Natalia 

pursued piano studies at the same conservatory with Professors Victor 

Mergianov and Alexander Mdoyantz while studying chamber 

music with Tigran Alikhanov. She completed her post-graduate degree, 

also at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory. Among numerous 

awards Natalia won first prizes at the Nikolaj Rubinstein International 

Competition in Moscow, Young Pianists "Rome 99", International 

Chamber Music Competition in Verbania Italy, Taneyev International 

Chamber Music Competition in Kaluga, Russia and at the Reding- 

Piette International Competition in Neuchatel. Playing with orchestra 

and as a soloist in Europe Natalia has performed in Moscow, Archangel, 

Viatka, Kaluga and Yekaterinburg, Russia, in Geneva for Radio 

Suisse Romande, Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland and Annibale di Francia Theatre, 

Messina, Giuseppe Verdi Theatre, Trieste, Savoia Theatre, Campobasso, Puccini Theatre, Merano and the 

Alfieri Theatre, Turin, Italy and the Arts Club, London. Natalia has performed recitals for radio including 

Radio Suisse Romande, Rai 3 Rome, Festival "Melomania" Paris and many concerts in France for different 

festivals. Natalia has worked with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Soloists under the 

direction of Yuri Bashmet and recently she performed at the Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de Musique 

Romantique Francaise in Venice, Italy. A member of the scientific committee of the international "Primavera 

Musicale" project at the Discanto Academy of Arts in Verona, Italy since 2010 Natalia's repertoire continues 

to develop in baroque and contemporary music. 

Ilan Rogoff, piano 



Thursday 5 January 2012 

Dozens of concerts with the Israel 

Philharmonic Orchestra in Israel 

and abroad as well as recitals, 

chamber music and concerts with 

other orchestras have established 

Ilan Rogoff as one of Israel's favourite 

artists. His studies of the 

piano were conducted with the 

distinguished exponents of the 

Eastern European Virtuoso school 

- Karol Klein, Stefan Askenase and 

Vladimir Horowitz, and with 

those of the Germanic tradition - 

Leonard Shure and Claudio 

Arrau. His own very personal 

style has evolved from a synthesis 

of both traditions. Ilan Rogoff 

has appeared in most European , 

American and Latin American 

music centres as well as in South 

Africa, Japan and the Far East. 

Among the conductors he greatly 

enjoyed working with are: 

Aharonovitch, Allemandi, 

Barshai, Bender, Bloemstedt, 

Brotons, Chmura, Commissiona, 

De Preist, Dorati, Justus Frantz, 

Giulini, Griffith, Groves, Herbig, 

Klecki, Krips, Lopes-Cobos, 

Mayer, Michniewski, Rodan, 

Saccani, Kurt Sanderling (with 

whom he recorded with the 

Philharmonia Orchestra for the 

Unicorn label), Thomas 

Sanderling, Shallon, Sherrif, 

Skrowacewski, Stein, Steinberg, 

Talmi, van Alphen, Weller, 

Zaliouk and with Zubin Mehta on 

tours of the the Israel Philharmonic 

Orchestra in Argentina, 

Brasil, Uruguay and the US. Ilan 

Rogoff is reknowned for his interpretations 

of the Romantic composers. 

His recordings of the Fan- 

tasies of Schumann and Schubert 

(on the Nimbus label) was chosen 

as one of the years' best by 

“Records & Recordings”. Having 

gained special recognition for his 

interpretations of Chopin's music, 

he recorded for the BBC the music 

for the television series "Notorious 

Woman" on the life of 

George Sand. Not withstanding 

his special interest in the Romantic 

composers, he performs regularly 

20th century and contemporary 

music and has given the 

World Premiere of piano concerti 

composed for and dedicated to 

him by John McCabe's (3rd piano 

concerto) in England and Ivan 

Erod in Vienna. The acclaim and 

awards won by his double CD encompassing 

the integral works 

composed by Chopin in Mallorca 

and related works (“Chopin in 

Mallorca” - Preludio/Blau 

Records 10011/2), is now in its 

fifth edition. It led to engagements 

at New York's Metropolitan Museum, 

Washington's Dumbarton 

Series, in Austria, Germany, Poland, 

Switzerland, Paris, Cannes, 

Monte Carlo, at the Granada International 

Festival of Music and 

Dance, the Beethoven Festival in 

Bonn, the Euriade Festival, the 

Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, 

the Chopin Festival in 

Valldemossa, the Ibiza International 

Festival and on tours of 

South America, South Africa, the 

Carribean and Israel. This album 

was followed by a CD titled “Portraits”, 

dedicated to works by 

Schumann (carnaval, Fantasie and 

G minor Sonata), now in its second 

edition. His CD recording of 

both Chopin Concerti for String 

Quintet was recorded with soloists 

of the Vienna Chamber Or- 

chestra. It received the highest accolades 

from music critics and audiences. 

His latest CD contains his 

transcriptions and arrangements 

for pia¡no solo of twelve works¡ 

by Astor Piazzolla, “Urban Nostalgia.” 

Emmanuel Rossfelder, guitar 

Lauenen - 


A 14 ans il devient le plus jeune 

guitariste jamais admis dans la 

classe d'Alexandre Lagoya au 

Conservatoire National Supérieur 

de Musique de Paris. En 1991 et 

1992, il obtient deux premiers prix 

au CNSM de Paris (guitare et 

musique de chambre). Il se 

présente alors à des concours 

internationaux et reçoit de 

nombreux prix, Il se produit sur 

les grandes scénes en France et à 

Boston, New York, Philadelphie, 

Los Angeles. Il joue également en 

soliste avec de grands orchestres : 

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, 

de la Scala de Milan, 

le Landmarks Boston Orchestra, et 

sous la direction de chefs 

prestigieux : Roberto Benzi, 

Philippe Bender, Charles 

Ansbacher, Stanislas Lefort. 

Concertiste reconnu, il est en 1998 

lauréat de la Fondation 

d'Entreprise Groupe Banque 

Populaire. Ce prix lui permet entre 

autre d'enregistrer son premier 

CD : "Danses Latines" Victoire de 

la Musique Classique en 2004 

(catégorie Révélation Soliste Instrumental 

de l'année). Ses succés 

et récompenses en France sont 

remarqués par le Japon, la Russie, 

le Canada, les Etats-Unis, le Brésil, 

qui l'invitent dés lors pour des 

tournées réguliéres. 

Gilbert San Pietro di Monte 

Rosso 




Concertiste interprétant des styles 

et des auteurs de toutes les 

époques concernées depuis la 

création du piano. 

Cette polyvalence permet à Gilbert 

San Pietro di Monte Rosso 

d'insérer dans son répertoire des 

œuvres de Beethoven, Chopin, 

Gershwin, Piazzolla, Joplin, 

Bolling, Legrand,...etc Passionné 

de musique, passionné de piano, 

Gilbert San Pietro di Monte Rosso 

est engagé pour la promotion de 

cet instrument et dans la 

découverte des jeunes talents. 

Il s’implique dans leur promotion. 

Gilbert San Pietro di Monte Rosso 

est également passionné d'histoire 

et de sa corrélation avec 

l'évolution de la musique. 

Amateur d'Opéra, il a assumé de 

1977 à 1995 le poste de clavier percussion 

solo dans l'Orchestre 

Philharmonique de l'Opéra de 

Nice. Depuis 12 ans Gilbert San 

Pietro di Monte Rosso a renoué 

avec les liens familiaux 

ancestraux, et se produit sous ce 

nom “à rallonge” qui dévoile ses 

origines Piémontaises. 

Il a aussi adopté ce patronyme 

pour ses concerts et ses activités 

musicales afin de marquer une 

rupture avec sa carrière passée de 

Percussionniste, se recentrer sur le 

Piano, et afin sans qu'il n’y ait pas 

d’ambigüité d’activité entre sa 

carrière précédente et sa carrière 

actuelle. 

Gilbert San Pietro di Monte Rosso, 

Fondateur depuis 2007 du 

“Concours International de Piano 

Nice Côte d’Azur”, dont il dirige 

désormais le déroulement annuel 

au sein du Conservatoire National 

à Rayonnement Régional de Nice, 

a également créé en 2010 le “Nice 

Pop Piano International Competition”, 

rencontre de jeunes 

pianistes suivant un autre cursus 

que les études classiques convention-nelles. 

Cette nouvelle compétition 

permet aux jeunes pianistes de se 

mesurer en interprétant tous les 

styles excepté le classique. 

Sa remarquable entente avec le 

Tènor Gilles San Juan est le fruit 

d’une extraordinaire complicité 

née dans la polyvalence de styles 

qu’ils ont tous deux en commun 

et pour des œuvres et des 

compositeurs qu’ils vénèrent 

d’une même passion. 

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Joaquin Soriano, piano 




A lifetime in music at the highest, 

international level, Joaquin 

Soriano teaches as a professor at 

the Madrid Royal Conservatory. 

He is a member of the Academy 

of San Fernando and of the Institute 

of Spain. Among his honours 

are the Gold Medal of Fine Arts, 

the French Order of Arts and Letters 

and the Medal of the City of 

Paris. He also holds the title of the 

Republic of Lithuania's officer 

award. Joaquin Soriano studied 

with Professor Vlado Perlemuter 

at the Conservatoire National de 

Paris, and privately in Vienna, 

with Alfred Brendel. First prizes 

in international competitions including 

Vercelli and Jaen, were a 

springboard for a brilliant career, 

performing with many of the 

world's leading orchestras, including 

the Israel Philharmonic, 

the National Orchestra of Spain, 

the RAI Orchestra of Italy, the 

ORTF Orchestra of France, the 

Gürzenich Orchestra, the London 

Symphony Orchestra, the English 

Chamber Orchestra, the Royal 

Philharmonic and the Manchester 

Halle Orchestra. His recordings 

include works of Albeniz (Iberia), 

Granados, the complete work of 

Schubert-Liszt (Soirées de 

Vienne), Liszt, Chopin, and the 

complete work for chamber music 

of Turina, as well as his Symphonic 

Rhapsody. He has also recorded 

Nights in the Gardens of 

Spain with the English Chamber 

Orchestra and Falla's Clavecin 

concerto. He made a new recording 

of Nights in the Gardens of 

Spain with Frübeck and the National 

Orchestra of Spain in the 

year 2000. Joaquin Soriano's 

masterclasses are highly appreciated 

in Europe, U.S.A., Australia 

and Asia. As a jury member, he 

has been on the panels of well 

known International Competitions: 

Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein (as 

a vice-president), Marguerite 

Long, Van Cliburn, Maria Callas 

(as a president of the jury), 

Hamamatsu, Bolzano, London, 

Leeds, Dublin and Santander (as 

a president and artistic director). 

At present, he is the artistic director 

of the Iturbi International Piano 

Competition in Valencia. He 

gives master classes regularly at 

the Juillard and Manhattan 

Schools in New York as well as the 

Hochschule of Stuttgart in Germany 

and at the Sommer- 

Akademie of the Salzburg 

Mozarteum. 

Amir Tebenikhin, piano 




Amir Tebenikhin is a Kazakh pianist 

who won the 1999 Vianna da 

Motta Competition and has performed 

at the Carnegie Hall, the 

Salle Pleyel and the Wigmore Hall. 

In 2007 he won the Anton 

Rubinstein Competition in Dresden. 

Born in Moscow and now living 

in Germany, Amir started to 

play piano at the age of six with 

his father Wladimir Tebenikhin, 

himself a student of the legendary 

pianist Lev Oborin. He continued 

his education in Almaty and at the 

Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in 

Moscow. Since 2004, he has been 

a student of Karl-Heinz 

Kämmerling at the Hanover Music 

University in Germany. A prize 

winner at the 2003 Queen 

Elisabeth Music Competition in 

Brussels he won further prizes the 

following year in Glasgow and at 

the first international piano competition 

in Panama-City. In 2006, 

Amir Tebenikhin won the special 

prize for the best cooperation with 

an orchestra at the first international 

Carl Bechstein piano com- 

petition. These and his other accomplishments 

allow him to develop 

an international career. 

Amir started to play piano at the 

age of six with his father Wladimir 

Tebenikhin, himself a student of 

the legendary pianist Lev Oborin. 

Emese Virag, piano 



Saturday 7 January 2012 

Emese Virag is a pianist, coach 

and teacher at the Ferenc Liszt 

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Budapest Spring Festival, Budapest 

Goethe-Institut, Institut 

Francais and Instituto Italiano. 

Many of her concerts have been 

recorded by Hungarian Radio. 

She frequently plays contemporary 

Hungarian music and has 

given the first performance of 

many compositions. In 2007 she 

was awarded the Gundel Prize of 

Arts and in 2008 the Ferenc Liszt 

Prize. Her CD containing world 

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