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| Wiener Brahms Trio |
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Jasminca Stancul | piano Boris Kuschnir | violin Orfeo Mandozzi | violoncello „Excellent soloists . . . outstanding chamber musicians . . . “ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) “ . . transparency in tone, elegance in rhythm and the singing of melodious bows in most beautiful sonority.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) Boris Kuschnir, Violin Orfeo Mandozzi, Cello Jasminka Stancul, Piano The Wiener Brahms Trio is composed of three world-wide renowned chamber musicians, who have won, also as soloists, many important international competitions. Founded in 1993, the Trio made a sensational debut in the summer of that same year at Gidon Kremer’s Cham¬ber Music Festival of Lockenhaus, which was followed by invitations to the Kölner Philhar¬monie and to London Wigmore Hall. Since then the Wiener Brahms Trio has performed with great success in Spain (Madrid), Switzerland, in Russia (Moscow: Richter Festival “December Evenings” and St. Petersburg: “Musical Spring”), England (Wigmore Hall, London), France, Scandinavia and Slovakia. It has played at the Festivals “Bregenzer Frühling”, at Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and at “White Nights” in St. Petersburg. A most successful performance at Brucknerhaus Linz was followed by a sensational Concert at Wiener Konzerthaus: Together with Yuri Bashmet and Julian Rachlin the musicians of the Wiener Brahms Trio played – to an enthusias¬tic audi¬ence – the quintet by Robert Schumann. The Trio is also working regularly with Nikolaj Znaider and Gérard Caussé. In 1996 the Wiener Brahms Trio won the First Prize at the 9th International Chamber Music Competition of Illzach (Alsace, France). As a solo ensemble the Trio has performed various Triple Concertos: with Wiener Chamber Orchestra, directed by Dr. Charles Ansbacher, they played Beethoven’s Triple Con¬certo at Wiener Konzerthaus; with the same ensemble they played the Concerto at the Festival Bregenzer Frühling, under the direction of Philippe Entremont, and again, with great success, with the Irish National Orchestra in the National Concert Hall of Dublin, directed by Gerhard Markson. In Luxembourg the Wiener Brahms Trio played the Triple Concerto by Bohuslav Martinů, with the Solistes Européens directed by Jack Händler. The Complete Piano Trios by Schumann have been recorded by Wiener Brahms Trio for NAXOS. This Complete Edition on 2 CDs is a reference recording, which was honoured by several international music magazines. In autumn 2006 the Wiener Brahms Trio started their 10th concert tour to England. During their stays in England they not only gave regularly concerts at Wigmore Hall, but also made studio recordings for BBC and a live performance at BBC Radio 3. In the last few years, the Trio has performed in numerous concerts all over Europe, including Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Festwochen Festival, Museumsgesellschaft in Frankfurt, Wig¬more Hall in London and Schubertiade Roskilde in Denmark, to mention but a few of them. In recent times there were concerts in Spain, at Auditorio Nacional Madrid, at the Festival of Divonne, France, in Luxembourg, Geneva, Belgrad, Zagreb, Dublin, and in many other con¬cert halls of the world. The musicians of the Vienna Brahms Trio play on outstanding instruments: Boris Kuschnir plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari, “La Rouse-Boughton”, Cremone, 1703; it was given to him as a loan in 1991 by the Austrian National Bank in recognition of his artistic performance and his service rendered to music. Orfeo Mandozzi plays a cello made by Fran¬cesco Ruggeri, Cremone, 1675. Boris Kuschnir - Violin Boris Kuschnir, born in 1948 in Kiev, studied violin at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conserva¬toire with B. Belenky and chamber music with V. Berlinsky (Borodin Quartet). His many en-counters with D. Shostakovich and D. Oistrach, with whom he also studied, have had a lasting influence on his artistic development. He has won numerous prizes at international violin and chamber music competitions. From 1970 to 1979 he was a member of the Moscow String Quartet. He became an Austrian citizen in 1982. Since 1984 he has been Professor at the Conservatoire Vienna Private University, and in 1999 he was also appointed Professor at the Music University of Graz. His excellent reputation as a teacher has won international recogni¬tion with the outstanding success of his pupils, especially Julian Rachlin (1st Prize EBU Com¬petition 1988) and Nikolaj Znaider (1st Prize Queen Elizabeth Competition 1997). He also works as a jury member of renowned international competitions, e.g. Tchaikovsky Competi¬tion Moscow, Queen Elizabeth Competition Brussels, Niccolò Paganini Competition Genoa. In 1984 Boris Kuschnir founded the Wiener Schubert Trio, subsequently, in 1993 the Wiener Brahms Trio, both playing in the world’s most illustrious venues. He made numerous re¬cor-dings, notably the complete Mozart piano trios (EMI) and Schumann’s complete works for piano trio (NAXOS). Since 2003 Boris Kuschnir is also playing in the Kopelman Quartet, with recordings (Nimbus Records) and concerts all over the world. Boris Kuschnir plays a violin made by Antonio Stradivari, Cremone, 1703, the “La Rouse-Boughton”, which was given to him as a loan by the Austrian National Bank in 1991 in re¬cognition of his artistic performance and his service rendered to music. Orfeo Mandozzi - Violoncello Orfeo Mandozzi was born in Locarno/Switzerland in 1968 to a family with a long musical tradition. He studied cello, composition and conducting at the Paris Conservatoire, the Milan Conservatoire, the New York Juilliard School of Music (“Summa cum laude” and “Mention of Honour”) and at the Vienna Music University. His participation as an active student in master classes with M. Rostropovich, Yo Yo Ma, P. Tortelier, M. Gendron, D. Shafran, H. Shapiro, B. Greenhouse. S. Palm, F. Galimir and R. Mann, gave him further impulse and en¬richment. Orfeo Mandozzi has won several First Prizes at important international competitions, in¬cluding UFAM Paris, Johannes Brahms Competition, Austria, Osaka Competition, Orpheus Zurich. He has performed as a soloist in almost all European countries, the USA, South and Central America, and has made numerous radio, television and CD productions. His regular chamber music partners are N. Znaider, J. Rachlin, D. Garrett, G. Caussé, Y. Bashmet. I. Golan, St. Vladar, Ch. Hinterhuber and J. Stancul. From 1992 – 93 Mandozzi was Principal Cellist of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, from 1993 -2007 he held the same position with the Tonkünstler Orchestra. Since 2006 he is Professor at the Music University of Würzburg (Germany). Orfeo Mandozzi’s primary interest is the enlargement of the existing standard cello repertoire, promoting rare and unjustly neglected cello works. He is the editor of the “Edizione Arteviva” and is working closely with several composers of our time, who have dedicated many works to him. Jasminka Stancul - Piano Jasminka Stancul, born in Serbia, and meanwhile Austrian citizen, studied in her home coun¬try and at the Music Conservatory in Vienna with Noel Flores. From the Swiss Government she got a two-year scholarship for extraordinary talented artists, which allowed her to study in the master class of Maria Tipo in Geneva. Since she won the First Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in Vienna, Jasminka Stankul has performed with many renowned orchestras world-wide: Wiener Symphoniker, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxem¬bourg, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the National Orchestras of Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia and Estonia, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and many others. During the Mozart Year 2006 she played several piano concertos by Mozart in the Wiener Musikverein and in the Grosses Feststpielhaus of Salzburg. In April 2005 she made her highly acclaimed recital debut in the Brahms Saal of Wiener Musikverein. Jasminka Stancul has worked with many outstanding conductors, including Alexeev, Baudo, Graf, Horvat, Kobayashi, Kuhn, Luisi, Maazel, Ono, Rasilainen, Remmereit, Salonen, San¬derling, Saraste, Schirmer, Stein und Weil. She has performed at many important festivals: Piano Festival Ruhr, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau Music Festival, Maggio Musicale Fioren¬tino, Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Wiener Musiksommer, Carinthischer Sommer, and Radio France Montpellier. For “Discover” she recorded all Beethoven Concertos. 2006/2007 If you wish to revise this biography, please contact Mark Stephan Buhl Artists Management. Please use material of the current season only. |
