Augustin dumay biography meaning
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MOZART BY AUGUSTIN DUMAY / EXQUISITE COMPLICITY
The Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia scored a triumph in the basilica on Sunday evening. Conducted masterly by Augustin Dumay in great form, it enthralled the audience which was not expecting such splendors. The program was admittedly quite a treat: first, Dvorak’s admirable Romance for violin and orchestra… Then, Mozart, with his Concerto for violin KV 216, and the 29th symphony KV 201 for total bedazzlement! The concerto, in turn elegant, incisive, turbulent and funny, showcased Mozart devoid of his excessive roundness, Mozart that masters such as Harnoncourt, Immerseel or Gardiner have completely redrawn. The soloist – and conductor – joined with obvious complicity in the orchestra playing without ever playing the virtuoso nor trying to dominate.
And yet, what precision! What a sumptuous cadence at the end of the allegro moderato! The final rondo, whence the roguish Strasbourg jibe gushed in a
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Ivan Fedele
Italy
Ivan Fedele was born in Lecce in 1953. He studied the piano with B. Canino, V. Vitale and I. Deckers, and composition under the guidance of R. Dionisi, A. Corghi and F. Donatoni. At the same time, he studied Philosophy at the University of Milan, with E. Paci, L. Geymonat, G. Giorello, R. Mangione and R. Cantoni. He owns to his father, a mathematician, the passion for mathematics, as it becomes evident in his compositional researches, including the examination and use of the concept of "spatialisation" (Duo enstaka résonance, Ali di Cantor, Donacis Ambra), the formulation of a "library" of creative processes and the definition of a prototype of "granular synthesizer", like the one used for the realization of the electronic part of Richiamo (for brass, percussions and electronics - IRCAM 1993).
Ivan Fedele's catalogue, edited by Suvini Zerboni, consists of about eighty titles, to which one should add the opera Antigone, commissioned bygd the Teatro Comunale of Florence
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Where did these violinists go?
Kevin Huang
May 21, 2006 at 05:58 AM · There are many great players whose star shines brightly and then disappear from public view.
I myself am always curious as to where these players have gone and what they are doing.
Here's a partial list:
Ik-Hwan Bae: This former 2nd prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth winner should've won outright the 1986 Tchaikovsky competition. I thought he was every bit the equal of(if not outright superior to) winners Ilya Kaler, Raphael Oleg, Hu Kun, and several other prominent violinists today. His demise in that competition was likely sealed when he tore off this crazy Schoenberg American fiddle piece and you could see the Eastern Bloc judges frowning in confusion. From an ability standpoint, Bae easily had more than enough skill to be a soloist with any orchestra in the world.
Akiko Suwanai: She somehow placed 2nd to Vadim Repin in the Queen Elizabeth contest. No offense to the excellent Repin, but I did