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198 West 21th Street,
Suite 721 New York,
NY 10010

FINAL VIOLONCELLO CONCERT

PROGRAMME:

 

The participants of the cello masterclass with Jean-Guihen Queyras take the stage. They are joined by pianists Lidiia Nochovska and Stephanie Gurga.

 

The detailed concert programme will be announced during the days of the masterclass.

 

Dylan Bachmann, Urara Katsuki, Piotr Olesz, Ioannis Papagiannopoulos, Zaira Pena Montes, Lyana Ulikhanyan & Adi Varon violoncello

 

Lidiia Nochovska piano

Stephanie Gurga piano

 

ARTIST RÉSUMÉS:

 

Curiosity, diversity and a firm focus on the music itself characterise the artistic work of Jean-Guihen Queyras. Whether on stage or record, one experiences an artist dedicated completely and passionately to the music, whose humble and quite unpretentious treatment of the score reflects its clear, undistorted essence. His approaches to early music and contemporary music are equally thorough. Jean-Guihen Queyras was a founding member of the Arcanto Quartet and forms a celebrated trio with Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov; the latter is, alongside Alexandre Tharaud, a regular accompanist. The versatility in his music-making has led to many concert halls, festivals and orchestras inviting him to be an Artist in Residence. Jean-Guihen Queyras often appears with renowned orchestras and conductors, and his discography is impressive. He holds a professorship at the University of Music Freiburg and is Artistic Director of the Rencontres Musicales de Haute-Provence festival in Forcalquier, France.

 

Lidiia Nochovska was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1988. She started her music education at the age of six. In 2006, she completed her studies at the Lysenko Specialized Music School under L. Vakarina and L. Rayko. Lidiia graduated later from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy (Kyiv) under the direction of O. Ryndenko and from the Instituto Internacional de Música de Camera de Madrid in the class of Ralf Gothoni, Eldar Nebolsin, Ángel Quintana, Luis del Valle and Kennedi Moretti. She was a founding member of Trio Areti. Lidiia is currently an accompanist at the Department of Opera and Symphony Conducting at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv), as well as an orchestra artist and a choir accompanist at the Kyiv National House of Music. Lidiia is also a member of the musical and theatrical team Art Razom.

 

Stephanie Gurga is a polyvalent musician, performing on piano, harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano, as well as an opera conductor. In 2010, she was named to the Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud-Valais-Fribourg, and has specialized in accompanying strings. She has accompanied the classes of numerous acclaimed teachers, including for Janine Jansen, Tatjana Masurenko, François Salque, Gerard Caussé, and Clemens Hagen.

As harpsichordist and pianist, Stephanie frequently appears with L’Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Prague Symphonic Ensemble, and the Sharoun Ensemble. As conductor, she has directed productions for the Nouvel Opéra Fribourg, at the Puy-du-Fou attraction park, L’Oriental de Vevey, the Grimeborn Opera Festival London, and the Woodhouse Opera.

Stephanie has mostly recently developed an electronic composition project, “Air(e)”, a mix of baroque and classical songs and arias re-composed and performed with a unique harmonic language and background. This project is supported by the Ensemble Valéik and has been the recipient of diverse grants in Switzerland and in Italy.