피아노
EON International Music Academy
지역
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Nikolai Saratovsky
니콜라이 사라토프스키
Pianist
Russian President's Award for his musical accomplishments.
음악적 업적에 따라 러시아 대통령 상 수상
Professor at the National Taipei University of Education
타이베이 국립 교육대학원 음악과 교수
https://www.nikolaisaratovsky.com/
Nikolai Saratovsky is an internationally acclaimed Russian concert pianist. He graduated from the Moscow Central Music School and Moscow State Conservatory under guidance of Professor Elena Richter. Saratovsky`s development is followed by world-renowned artists such as Dmitry Bashkirov, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, Philippe Entremont, Jerome Lowenthal, Michel Beroff, Robert Roux and Artiom Agazhanov.
Nikolai Saratovsky is a prizewinner of numerous competitions such as Hamamatsu, Ferrol competitions, and many others.
Nikolai Saratovsky is regularly invited to conduct masterclasses in Russia, Japan, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
The pianist has performed in major concert halls around the world including the Great, Small, and Rachmaninoff Halls of the Moscow Conservatory; National Concert Hall in Taipei; Brussels Royal Conservatory Hall; Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Luxembourg Philharmonic. He has performed solo and with orchestras in 24 world capitals across the globe including New Zealand, Belgium, Luxembourg, USA, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Japan and Russia.
His newest CD was released in November 2018 in the presence of the Russian Ambassador in Luxembourg.
In 2020, Nikolai Saratovsky became a piano professor in the faculty of the Music Department of National Taipei University of Education.
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Yiwen Shen
이웬 셴
Pianist
Assistant Dean of Tianjin Juilliard School, China
중국 텐진 줄리어드 음악원 부학장
Active conductor, composer, and pianist.
지휘자, 작곡가, 피아니스트로 활동 중
https://www.tianjinjuilliard.edu.cn/faculty/yiwen-shen
Yiwen Shen is a Chinese conductor, composer, and pianist, and he currently serves as the assistant dean of performance activities at The Tianjin Juilliard School.
Shen made his conducting debut in China with the National Ballet of China Symphony Orchestra at the National Performing Arts Center in Beijing. In Europe, he has worked with North Czech Philharmonic, Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, MÁV Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Magna Graecia, Royal Camerata, Bucharest Philharmonic, and Bucharest Symphony Orchestra. In North America, he has worked with the Juilliard Orchestra, Prince George’s Philharmonic (MD), University of Maryland’s Symphony Orchestra and Repertoire Orchestra, as well as the Monteux Festival Orchestra.
Shen’s composition awards include the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, Gena Raps String Quartet Award, and Arthur Friedman Prize; first prize from SCI/ASCAP Composition Commission; second prize from the First China Clarinet Composition Competition; winner of the Nashville Symphony’s Composer Lab, Minnesota Orchestra’s Composer Institute, and Albany Symphony’s Composer to Center Stage Competition; two top prizes from Chinese National Composition Competitions, Chinese Golden Bell Award, and Distinguished Achievement of the Year in Music Composition in Shanghai. Other highlights include major orchestral premieres with the Minnesota Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, American Symphony, Albany Symphony, Beijing Symphony, Shanghai Symphony, Shanghai Opera House Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, and Bard Conservatory Orchestra for its first international tour of China. His full-length ballet, The Crane Calling, commissioned by the National Ballet of China, premiered in 2015, toured over 30 cities in China, and received its European debut in 2017 and North American debut in 2018.
His music has also been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as Bowling Green Philharmonic, Aeolus String Quartet, Omer String Quartet, Colorado String Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Players, Music from China Ensemble, TALEA Ensemble, Dal Niente Ensemble, The New York Virtuoso Singers, among others. As a pianist, he was a soloist with the Bard Conservatory Orchestra and New Juilliard Ensemble, and performed with Juilliard’s AXIOM. Shen can be heard in the recording of Chinese bamboo flute master Tang Junqiao’s Magical Flute of China, released by Channels Classics Records in 2007.
Shen holds a dual bachelor’s in composition and German studies from Bard College and the Bard Conservatory of Music, a master’s and doctorate in composition from Juilliard (where he taught from 2011 to 2016), and a master’s in orchestral conducting from the University of Maryland.
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Catalina Butcaru
카탈리나 부카루
Pianist
Frequently invited to international music festivals(etc. Chamber Music Festival Reichenau, the Festival Burg Golling in Salzburg)
다수의 국제 페스티벌 초청(Reichenau, Burg Golling 등)
Scholar of the “Alban Berg” foundation and the “Maria Theresia” foundation
"알반 버그" 재단과 "마리아 테레지아" 재단의 학자
Active in performing all over the world
전세계에서 활발한 연주 활동 중
https://www.catalinabutcaru.com/biography
Pianist Catalina Butcaru is regarded as one of the extraordinary talents of her generation. Her understanding of music and her impressive virtuosity and power of interpretation delight conductors, chamber musicians and critics alike. At the center of her artistic work are the works of the romantic and the modern eras up until the 21st century.
Catalina Butcaru was born in Constanta, Romania. When she was five years old, Catalina began taking piano lessons at Constanta music school with Victoria Nitu. At the age of eight, Catalina gave her first public concert, which was followed by her first solo concert with orchestra at the age of fourteen. Catalina moved to Bucharest when she was thirteen years old, where she continued her studies at the music school “G. Enescu” with Olga Szel. The renowned Romanian pianists Aurora Ienei and Dan Grigore also encouraged and influenced Catalina’s musical development. First recordings for Romanian radio broadcasting followed.
Catalina continued her musical education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she obtained her Master’s degree in 2004 after intensive studies with the acclaimed Russian piano teacher Alexandr Satz. Master courses with renowned musicians, such as Dmitri Bashkirov, Martin Hughes, and Andrzej Jasinski profoundly influenced her artistic development. Catalina Butcaru won several piano competitions in Romania, among them the Golden Lyra competition and the Mozart competition. She is a finalist of the international Steinway Competition in Vienna. Between 1996 and 2001 Catalina recorded for Austrian television and radio.
Her first solo CD was presented in full in Austrian radio.
Already at the age of 16, Catalina Butcaru was accepted at the renowned University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She gained her Soloist’s diploma under the supervision of Prof. Jürg von Vintschger. Her longstanding work with pianist Meira Farkas gave Catalina vital artistic impulses.
Butcarus first Solo CD, recorded at Wigmore Hall in 2008 and released by Divine Art – Diversions, attracted international attention. This recording of works by A. Berg, M. Ravel and R. Schumann was not only critically acclaimed but also presented in full in Austrian radio.
Many successful projects brought Catalina Butcaru together with musicians like Volkhard Steude, concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic, Valentin Erben, cellist of the “Alban Berg” quartet, or with the rising star violinist Emmanuel Tjeknavorian.
After a short break due to the birth of her two sons, Catalina Butcaru continued giving concerts. In 2014, Butcaru, together with the Rumanian flutist Matei Ioachimescu, recorded her new CD „Lumière“ with works of Poulenc, Enescu and Jolivet.
Catalina Butcaru and Volkhard Steude’s joint concert tour of Romania in 2016 was a huge success with the audience. This inspiring cooperation between Butcaru and the concertmaster of the Vienna Philharmonic will be continued in 2017: the duo has been invited to go on another tour of the most important concert halls in Romania. In addition to the sonata evenings, they will perform Mendelssohn’s double concerto.
Furthermore, Catalina Butcaru has been invited again to perform the Schumann concerto three times with the Middle German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra.
Catalina Butcaru is frequently invited to international music festivals, such as the Chamber Music Festival Reichenau, the Festival Burg Golling in Salzburg, „Klassik im Burghof“ in Klagenfurt, the Classic Azur Chamber Music Festival in southern France and the „Toamna Muzicala Clujeana“ in Romania. Catalina Butcaru is scholar of the “Alban Berg” foundation and the “Maria Theresia” foundation.
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Sarah Takagi
사라 타카기
Pianist
Faculty at New England Conservatory Preparatory & Continuing Education, USA
미국 뉴 잉글랜드 음악원 예비학교 및 지속교육 출강
https://sarahinfinitakagi.com/
Known for her unique daring performances where she often combines multi-disciplines/genres and media, Sarah Takagi has emerged as an original thinker and performer who is unafraid to redefine, reinvent, and expand the concept of music, identity, and performance in context of innovation and her spiritual practice.
As an award- winning pianist, Sarah Takagi has performed at Carnegie Recital hall, Kennedy Center, 92nd Y as well as on Public Television and Radio and Film. As a concerto soloist, she has performed over a dozen concerti under the batons of BSO conductors Pascal Verrot and Carl St. Clair among others. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the NEC Honors Chamber Ensemble, Radius and Chameleon Ensembles as well as with her own Duo PiantiCella with Longy-Bard College faculty cellist Michael Bonner. Her solo CD “Lavender Bouquet” which offered classical music with Reiki healing energy was the Top Selling Album in 2008.
In 2014, she released “@Play” her first all original improvisation CD recorded live from her solo show with guest artist singer Sarah Rogo. As an improviser, she has performed on piano and synthesizers with other pianists, singers, dancers, mime, yoga dancer, as well as with interactive fractal images on screen. In recent years, she has found herself as an improviser beyond her first instrument; improvising as a dancer, actress, singer, and a clown. In November 2016, she was the featured speaker on Classical Improvisation for New England Piano Teachers’ Association.
In addition to improvising, she has also composed several works for piano and voice including a solo piano piece “Ocean Voices” which was premiered at Roy Barnett Hall at the University of British Columbia for planetary healing conference in 2014.
Most recently, she has crossed genre and medium into singing Jazz. After making her solo debut show at Lilypad with the Lefteris Kordis trio, she has appeared frequently in the Boston area performing with top musicians including Ran Blake, and has been invited to perform with top jazz musicians in Tokyo, Japan, this winter.
BM and MM with Distinction and Honors; DMA (studies); New England Conservatory of Music. Tourjee award; Janet Gates Peckham Award, Winner of Beethoven Society, MTNA, Messiaen competition among others. Piano Studies with Michiko Miyamoto, Nelita True, Wha Kyung Byun. Improvisation with Ran Blake. Dalcroze studies with Lisa Parker. Jazz Voice with Panayota Haloulakou. Studies in theater, and clowning with Marty Levin.
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Catherine Gordeladze
캐서린 고델라체
Pianist
Faculty an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, Germany
독일 프랑크푸르트 국립 음악대학 출강
Faculty an der Kalaidos Musikhochschule in Zürich, Switzerland
스위스 칼라이도스 음악대학 출강
https://www.catherinegordeladze.de/
Born in Georgia and based in Germany, the pianist Catherine Gordeladze has gained renown by virtue of her “sparkling tone”, “an original, profound musicality” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), her “charm, brilliant technique and great variety of tone colours” (Radio Bremen) and a “performance underpinned by instinctive sureness and elegance” (Zeitung fürs Dresdner Land), thus establishing herself as one of the most remarkable musicians of the younger generation. Five highly-praised solo CD recordings with ARS MUSICI, NAXOS and ANTES EDITION bear witness to this pianist’s high standard of artistry and her international renown. Her latest album, „Caprice Brillant“ released by ANTES EDITION came out in 2020 and was immediately selected as CD-TIPP in hr2 Kultur and Radio Bremen2, chosen as Recording of the Months by Pianodao (UK), Best rating (10/10/10) by klassik-heute; 5 Sterns by kulturfreak, 5 Sterns by Piano News, recommended on Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Love London, Love Culture (UK), Lady Magazine (UK) and Interlude Magazine (UK): “Her brilliant control of tone, texture and structural overview consistent throughout these many and varied compositions“ (Pianodao, UK). Her album, “Dance Fantasies“ (ANTES EDITION) was selected by BBC Radio as CD of the Week in Classics Unwrapped. “Klassik heute” praised the way she performed “with subtle charm and pianistic grandeur”. The same CD was also named “CD-TIPP” on “hr2 Kultur”, recommended on klassik.com, and chosen as Album of the Week on WRD3. Britain’s Lady Magazine also named it CD of the Week, and Pianodao UK picked it as “Best of the 2017 Shortlist”. Her album „American Rhapsody“ (ANTES EDITION) featuring piano works by American composers, immediately won the silver and bronze medals in the instrumental performance solo/album category of the renowned Global Music Award in the USA. “Her playing is delightful” was the enthusiastic response from the American music magazine Fanfare. The CD was specially recommended by the German online magazine klassik.com and radio station hr2 kultur. An outstanding soloist and much-sought-after chamber music partner, Catherine Gordeladze currently makes guest appearances at major concert venues and with renowned orchestras including the Georgian State Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Landestheater Coburg, the Mainz Philharmonic State Orchestra, the South-West German Chamber Orchestra of Pforzheim, the Europa Philharmonie and the Dortmund Philharmonic. She has performed in the lunchtime concerts broadcast by Hesse Radio in Frankfurt, in the Winners and Masters concert series at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich, in the Mozart Society concerts at the Kurhaus of Wiesbaden, at The Next Generation III festival at the Harenberg City- Center building in Dortmund, at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and at chamber music recitals in collaboration with such artists as violinist David Garrett and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott. She has also made numerous radio and television recordings in Georgia, the Czech Republic, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Mexico, Australia, Hong Kong and the USA. In 2017 she was singled out by the city of Frankfurt/Main as an “outstanding personality with a migrant background” for her successful international activity as a performing artist and her honorary involvement in “Rhapsody in School”, a project for which she regularly visits schools in order to encourage students to take an interest in classical music. She was presented with this distinction by the Mayor of Frankfurt, Peter Feldman, in a formal ceremony in a packed St. Paul's church. Catherine Gordeladze has won awards in various competitions, including the International Chopin Piano Competition in Darmstadt. She has won the medal of the French Legion of Honour. During the award of the 2004/05 Bruno Heck prize by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, this “outstanding pianist” received a special prize in recognition of her “extraordinary achievement”. Throughout the course of her musical training, up until passing her concert exam, Catherine Gordeladze attained distinctions at the music colleges in Tbilisi, Frankfurt am Main and Weimar. She received her first piano tuition at six years of age at the Central Music School in Tbilisi. Celebrated as a child prodigy, she made her first orchestral appearance at just seven years of age. She gave a piano recital at ten years of age. Just one year later, she took part in a gala concert at the Tbilisi Opera in the presence of the former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze. The concert was broadcast live on television throughout the Soviet Union. Her encounter with and many years of tuition from Alexis Weissenberg have significantly influenced her artistic development. In addition to her concert engagements she teaches at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main and at the Kalaidos University of Music in Zurich.
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Angela Jeong-Hyun Kim
김정현 엔젤라
Pianist
Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA
미국 남일리노이대학교 에드워즈빌 음악대학 조교수
https://www.siue.edu/arts-and-sciences/music/about-contact-us/kim.shtml
Praised by international press as “a pianist who meets the highest standard of technique,” Angela Jeong Hyun Kim is one of the rising young pianists showing her versatility through colorful imagination, and intense musical expression. As a scholarship student at the Eastman School of Music, Ms. Kim received the prestigious Henry Cobos Endowed Piano Prize for demonstrating excellence in piano performance. In 2017 Ms. Kim received the Free For All Concert Fund from the Boston Foundation. The fund was used to bringing live classical concerts to underprivileged communities in Greater Boston area. The same year, Ms. Kim also received the Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston.
Ms. Kim began piano studies at the age of four, making her first public debut in her native South Korea, as the winner of the SoongEui Competition when she was nine years old. Upon turning sixteen, Ms. Kim came to the United States to continue her music studies with world-renowned pedagogue Wha Kyung Byun. During that time she toured and performed in Panama, and Guatemala, as a pianist with the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander. She is a frequent soloist with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, MI, with performances broadcasted nationally on Interlochen Public Radio. Additionally, former GLCO Maestro, Matthew Hazelwood, invited Ms. Kim to tour Colombia as a soloist with the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia.
As an avid performer of new music, Ms. Kim has been collaborating with the Callithumpian Consort, an internationally recognized Boston based ensemble directed by pianist, Steve Drury. She worked closely with many influential composers including Christian Wolff, Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, Jonathan Harvey, Frederic Rzewski, and Unsuk Chin. During her DMA studies, Ms. Kim collaborated with Eastman’s Musica Nova where she worked with Hans Abrahamsen and Chaya Czernowin. Along with the collaboration of percussionist Andre Sonner, Ms. Kim has also formed a noteworthy Boston based Piano/Percussion Duo performing new music for the genre as one of the very few groups that exist in the country.
As a collaborative pianist, Ms. Kim has performed with musicians such as Dylana Jenson, Margaret Batjer, Martin Chalifour, and Paul Sonner. Ms. Kim frequently visits Interlochen Arts Academy for the one week Institute to perform recitals with guest artists and faculty. Through her education at NEC and Eastman, Ms. Kim has worked with renowned pedagogues such as Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Lawrence Lesser, Lucy Chapman, and Russell Miller to name a few.
Ms. Kim has performed throughout the US, South America, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Korea.
Her important artistic influences include world-renowned pianists and pedagogues Russell Sherman, and Lev Natochenny. Earning academic honors, Ms. Kim completed Bachelor and Master degrees, and Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music, as a student of Wha Kyung Byun. She has finished her Doctorate of Piano Performance, and Literature, at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Natalya Antonova. In the past, Ms. Kim had served as a theory faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has joined the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville as an Assistant Professor in Piano and a director of the keyboard area in 2017.
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David Keun-tae Park
박근태
Pianist
First prize winner of the 2022 France Opéra de Baugé International Conducting Competition
2022년 프랑스 오페라 드 바우게 국제 지휘 콩쿠르 1위
Neue Philharmonie Stellvertretender Künstlerischer Leiter / Principal Conductor
독일 뉴 필하모닉 오케스트라 부예술감독 및 상임 지휘자
https://www.instagram.com/keuntae_park
https://www.neue-philharmonie.net/keuntaepark
Keuntae Park, first prize winner of the Opéra de Baugé International Conducting Competition 2022 in France, also taking the Orchestra Award and Audience Award, has been appointed principal conductor/deputy artistic director of the Neue Philharmonie Berlin, beginning in the 2021–22 season.
He has led the Deutsche Symphonie Orchester Berlin, Komische Oper Berlin, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Philharmonisches Orchester Cottbus, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, Göttinger Symphonie Orchester, Brandenburger Sinfoniker, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Hamburg Camerata, Preußisches Kammerorchester Prenzlau, Athens Philharmonic Orchestra, Karlovy Vary Symphony, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Opéra de Baugé, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
He began his studies of conducting with Prof. Christian Ehwald at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, where he received a scholarship from the DAAD. Since 2022 he is studying Master Degree in conducting with Prof. Steven Sloane and Harry Curtis at Universität der Künste Berlin.
Keuntae Park was born in Seoul/South Korea, received his first violin and piano lessons at the age of four. He was educated at the Yewon School as a pianist, and he started his piano studies with Prof. Ian youngwook Yoo at the Yonsei University, where he was rewarded a full scholarship and graduated with the best grades.
In 2016, he began his Master degree with Prof. Gabriele Kupfernagel at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin, graduated his degree with the highest honor and in 2020 he completed an additional study course in Konzertexamen.
As a pianist, Park was invited to perform in many of the world’s greatest venues, including New York's Carnegie Hall, Budapest Liszt Hall, Müpa Budapest, Vienna Musikverein, Konzerthaus Berlin, Steinway Haus Berlin, Schlosstheater Rheinsberg, Seoul Arts Senter, Sejong Art Center, Kumho Art Hall.
He won the grand prize of the Franz Liszt International Competition, grand prize of the Bechstein Competition, first prize of Frederic Chopin Competition, first prize of Joong-Ang Music Competition, first prize of Ewha & Kyunghyang Competition.
Since 2013, he has been the music director of Y us Piano Ensemble and 2018, he began teaching as a opera coach at the Universität der Künste Berlin.
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Nathan Williamson
네이슨 윌리암슨
Pianist
Founded and directs "the Southwold Music Trust"
"The Southwold Music Trust"의 설립자 및 지휘자
Since 2016 has been alongside as Artists-in-residence at Brunel University London, UK
2016년부터 런던 브루넬 대학교 상주 아티스트
Active in performing all over the world
전세계에서 활발한 연주 활동 중
https://nathanwilliamson.co.uk/
Nathan Williamson’s career crosses genres, styles and performance practices. Alongside regular solo, chamber and concerto performances, Nathan is in demand for new work from a wide variety of artists both at home and abroad. He also stages and facilitates a range of musical projects on a local and national level, ranging from collaborations on new repertoire, performances for the concert hall and theatre, and music-making for musicians of all ages and abilities.
As well as working alongside numerous living composers in performances of their work, Nathan has collaborated with a diverse rostra of artists, including Claire Bloom, James Gilchrist, Guy Johnston, Arisa Fujita, the Gryphon Trio, Njabulo Madlala, Boris Kucharsky, Alexander Baillie, Ensemble Endymion, the Rossetti Ensemble, the Allegri and Sacconi Quartets. Since 2016 Nathan has been a member of the ensemble Piano Circus who, alongside their position as Artists-in-residence at Brunel University London, have commissioned over 100 new works and undertake regular international tours.
January 2022 saw the final release of the three-volume recording project for SOMM-Recordings, ‘100 Years of British Song’, with tenor James Gilchrist. The discs included premiere recordings of Holst, Maconchy, Carwithen, John Woolrich, Geoffrey Poole, and Nathan’s own work, as well as songs by Bridge, Clarke, Gurney, Bush, Alwyn, Rawsthorne, Dickinson and Dring. Awarding its ‘Recording of the Month’ accolade, Limelight described Volume I as a penetrating, frequently revelatory start to a promising new series. Reviews from The Gramophone followed: James Gilchrist’s contribution is past praise in its probing range of expression and unfailing sensitivity to the text. What’s more, he enjoys immaculate support throughout from Nathan Williamson, who also provides a stimulating booklet essay. Glowingly realistic sound and full texts boost the desirability of a most impressive release… Of Volume II MusicWeb International said: It is redundant to declare that this is a superlative CD. Considering the two performers, the technical prowess of SOMM Recordings, the excellent liner notes and the imaginative and wide-ranging programme, it could be nothing else.
Following these recordings Nathan founded The Art of British Song in September 2021, a longer-term project celebrating British song, its legacy and its future, through performance, education, and the development and funding of new work. Since then Nathan and James Gilchrist have given recitals at Snape Maltings, The Alwyn Music Festival, the English Music Festival, and Surrey University, before staging a series of ‘Salon Recitals’ in the summer 2022, presenting British song in its more ‘natural’ environment of the domestic setting. This theme continues with the premiere of Nathan’s new song-cycle, Grey and Green are all my Light, written for the baritone Jonathan Eyers, which will take place at Reydon Hall in April 2023.
Nathan’s enthusiasm for British music has also been reflected in recent solo piano projects. An exploration of the Sonatas and Nocturnes by Malcolm Lipkin, and the 24 Preludes and Fugues by Christopher Brown, both culminate in 2023 with the release of premiere recordings of this repertoire for Lyrita. 2022 also saw Nathan give the first performance for some 20 years of Thomas Pitfield’s First Piano Concerto at Aldeburgh in his own arrangement for chamber orchestra commissioned by the Pitfield Trust, as well as several concerts and broadcasts focussed on the music of Doreen Carwithen in her centenary year. Prior to the pandemic Nathan’s CD of British 20th century solo piano works for SOMM, Colour and Light, was chosen as Album of the Month in International Piano Quarterly: ‘No praise could be high enough of Williamson’s performances… Whether in the dream-world of the Delius Nocturne or in the fire and ice of the Herschel Hill Toccata, Williamson unearths musical treasure beyond price’ (Bryce Morrison).
No stranger to the classical repertoire, Nathan celebrated Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in 2020 with a cycle of the complete Piano Concertos at Aldeburgh. His debut recording, Brahms and Schubert: Late Piano Works, was reviewed by Donald Sturrock as ‘a truly electrifying debut from a musician with a rare marriage of thoughtfulness and passion… I doubt this Sonata [Schubert D.959] has ever had a more powerful advocate.’ His first CD for SOMM, Great American Sonatas (2017), was hailed by Musical Opinion as ‘a landmark in recordings of American Piano Music’.
During the recent lockdowns Nathan gave online solo recitals and duo recitals with violinist Marije Ploemacher for City Music Live, the Southwold Music Trust and the Delius Society, as well as streaming regular live music into local schools and care homes.
Nathan’s own compositions are a mixture of extremes, ranging from complex, virtuosic chamber works and songs to music written specially for young performers, and arrangements for amateur instrumental ensembles and choirs to opera and incidental theatre music. Recent works include The little that was once a man, a song cycle to texts by Bryan Heiser written for James Gilchrist, a major new Sonata for cello and piano commissioned by Charles Watt, and Crystal, a mammoth single movement work for piano quartet written during the pandemic and premiered by the Rossetti Ensemble in 2021.
Machine Dream, a children’s opera commissioned by Mahogany Opera Group for their ground-breaking ‘Snappy Operas’ project, has been performed by numerous primary schools across the UK. Nathan’s music for piano, which he regularly performs in recital, includes a number of works commissioned as personal tributes or to mark special occasions, including Intermezzo (2012), Flowers of the Field – a lament (2013) Variations on a Theme of Cole Porter (2014), and Dreams (2016).
Nathan has also been commissioned by Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, Bury St. Edmund’s Cathedral, Mariko Brown and Julian Jacobson, Endymion, Pushkin House, as well as works for younger and amateur performers by Pro Corda and Music Works chamber music courses, Rugby School, Waveney and Blyth Arts, and the Chamber Music 2000 project. A cycle of string quartets has led to premieres by the TinAlley and Barbirolli Quartets in both the UK and USA. In 2010 he conducted three performances of his first opera, A Fountain Sealed, to a libretto by Thomas Walton. His work Trans-Atlantic Flight of Fancy is featured on NOW Ensemble’s album Dreamfall (New Amsterdam Records) and Homecoming, a commission for violinist Piotr Szewczyk as part of his Violin Futura project, was recorded on Navona Records following dozens of performances by Szewczyk and other violinists worldwide.
Nathan studied with Malcolm Singer and Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and at Yale University, where his principal teachers were Ezra Laderman, Martin Bresnick, Michael Friedmann and Joan Panetti, to whom he was appointed deputy on her revolutionary ‘Hearing’ programme of ear-training and aural analysis. Further postgraduate studies followed with Robert Saxton at Oxford University, before a period of teaching at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Nathan now lives in the town of Southwold, on the Suffolk coast, where he founded and directs the Southwold Music Trust, seeking to make music a central part of the local community through performance and education initiatives with musicians of all abilities, and its sister organisation, the Southwold Concert Series, which has staged some 60 events in local venues since 2008. He is married to Daisy, senior music therapist at Suffolk Music Therapy Services, and together with their two young children they love nothing more than heading straight out onto the beaches and beautiful countryside which surround their home.
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Makiko Hirata
히라타 마키코
Pianist
Instructor of Stanford e-Wakayama, USA
미국 스탠포드 대학의 e-Wakayama 출강
Instructor of Stanford e-Entrepreneurship, USA
미국 스탠포드 대학의 e-Entrepreneurship 출강
Instructor, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability for Eikei University of Hiroshima, Japan
일본 히로시마 에이케이 대학의 기업과정신 및 지속가능성 출강
https://musicalmakiko.com/en/biography
http://musicalmakiko.com/en/
https://www.youtube.com/c/MakikoHirata
An international pianist and a recording artist with ten released albums, Makiko Hirata is “Dr. Pianist,” on a mission to promote the power of music to heal and unite us. She collaborates with neuroscientists to quantify the benefit of music and promote music as an overlooked social resource through speaking engagements, workshops and writing. She is a US-Japan Leadership Program Fellow.
Dr. Hirata has given recitals, lectures, concerto performances and outreach concerts in the Americas and Eurasia with ensembles and artists, such as the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, the Pecs Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, conductor Leon Fleisher, and clarinetist David Krakauer. As a teacher, she has taught at New York University, Colburn Conservatory of Music, Rice University, and Lone Star College, and given master classes and lectures internationally.
Dr. Hirata is a Shigeru Kawai Artist.
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Ng Chong Lim
총 림
Pianist
To hold master classes and teach students around the world
세계 각지에서 마스터 클래스 개최 및 후학 양성 중
A judge of a number of international competitions
수많은 국제 콩쿠르 심사위원으로 활동 중
http://www.smccomposers.com/ng-chong-lim.html
Hailing from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pianist–composer Ng Chong Lim studied at the Royal College of Music (RCM), London under the tutelage of Professor Frank Wibaut. He continued his piano studies with Professor Elza Kolodin and subsequently with Professor Beat Furrer at the Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria for music composition. Chong Lim was the Winner of Malaysian National Piano Competition 1993, Prize winner of the Royal Overseas League Competition and The Anthony Saltmarsh Junior Fellowship (RCM).
Chong Lim has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician in many international venues, with recent appearances at ‘Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Project’ in Singapore and The 3rd Asian Grand Piano Concert in Seoul, Korea. In 2013, he was invited to “Evmelia” International Music Festival, Greece, “Opusfest” Antipolo 2013- International Piano and Chamber Music Festival, Philippines. In 2014, he performed at “21st New Music Festival”held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Chong Lim has served as juror of international competitions, including The 5th & 6th ASEAN International Chopin Piano Competition in Malaysia, The jakarta International Piano Competition held in Indonesia and National Music Competitions for Young Artists in Manila, Philippines.
A keen composer, Chong Lim has had his works commissioned by and premiered in various countries. Notable works include “Three Sketches for two pianos” (premiered in Taiwan 2004), "Rimba", “Window” and “Xiang”(premiered by the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006-7), “Amorphous” for String Orchestra (premiered at “Streams” New Music Festival in Brauweiler, Germany, 2010), “Footprints” for Piano Solo (premiered at “John Donald Robb Composers’ Symposium, New Mexico, USA, 2011), “Shadows” for Piano and Malay Traditional Instruments (premiered at “International Festival Of Classical Music” Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2011), “Three Sketches” for Oboe, Cello and Piano (commissioned by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for Chambre d'écoute, Germany, 2012), “Dragonfly(s)” (specially commissioned for the 5th ASEAN International Chopin Piano Competition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2012)A committed pedagogue, Chong Lim was a faculty member of Universiti Malaya (Malaysia) and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore). Many of his students have won major prizes at both local and international competitions.
For his great contribution to the Malaysian music scene, Chong Lim was awarded STM (Pingat Setiawan Tuanku Mukhriz - Associate-Order of Loyalty to Tuanku Mukhriz) by the Yamtuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia in 2011.
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Esther Jung-a Park
박정아 에스더
Pianist
Associate Professor at Columbus State University, USA
미국 콜롬버스 주립대학교 부교수
Director of Pre-College program at the East Tennessee State University, USA
미국 이스트 테네시 주립 대학 프리 컬리지 프로그램 책임자
Visiting Associate Professor at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, USA
미국 콜롬버스 주립대학교 슈보브 음악대학 초빙 교수
https://www.columbusstate.edu/profiles/park-esther
Pianist Esther Park has performed as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals across the United States as well as Asia and major European cities. Ms. Park has appeared as soloist with many orchestras such as Houston Symphony, Corpus Christi Symphony, Filharmonia Pomorska, Poland, Shanghai Philharmonic, China, the American Academy of Conducting Orchestra at Aspen, Shreveport Symphony, the Juilliard Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony.
Ms. Park gave a five-city recital tour in Korea, and has performed at the Juilliard Theater in NYC, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Halls' Weill Recital Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Ms. Park is the winner of the 2013 Jose Roca International piano competition and Russian International piano competition (now San Jose International Piano Competition, 2009 "Prix Amadeo" and the 2009 Chopin Gesellschaft Klavierwettbewerb. She is the winner of the 2004 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition at the Juilliard School, and the 52nd Kosciusko International Piano Competition.
Ms. Park is a founding member of a piano duo with her sister, Sun-A Park. Duo Amadeae has since won the Chicago International Duo Piano Competition, and has appeared in numerous festivals, concerto performances and in duo recitals. The duo has been heard on WQXR as well as part of the Horowitz & Stecher foundation's piano series.
Ms. Park has received her Bachelor's degree and Master's degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky. Ms. Park also studied at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater (Hannover) under the tutelage of Bernd Goetzke, and has since received the Artist Diploma, Master of Musical Arts Degree and the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Boris Berman. Ms. Park has been serving as the associate professor of piano since 2015 and the director of Pre-College program at the East Tennessee State University. Starting in the Fall, Ms. Park will join the Schwob School of Music as visiting associate professor of music.