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Giovedì
23 maggio 2002 - ore 21 - Limonaia
della Villa Strozzi:
Via Pisana, 77 - 50143 Firenze (angolo via G. Della Casa) Autobus: linee 6 e 12
STEPHANE GINSBURGH was born in 1969 in Brussels (Belgium). After graduating from the Royal Music Conservatories of Mons (Prof. Mikhaïl Faerman) and Liège in piano (Prof. Ch. Bohets) and chamber music, he studied with Paul Badura-Skoda, Vitaly Margulis, Pascal Sigrist and particularly with Claude Helffer in Paris for contemporary music. He currently teaches chamber music at the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium). In 1995, he won the Tenuto Music Competition organised by the National Radio and appeared as soloist with the BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra (Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto) and with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège. The same year, he made a recording of Béla Bartók's Piano Sonata for the Communauté des Radios Publiques de Langue Française (RTBF, France Musique, Radio Suisse Romande and Radio Canada). During the summer of 1996, thanks to the Ronit Amir Lowenthal Scholarship, he participated in the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival (Santa Barbara, USA) where he worked with the pianist Jerome Lowenthal from New York. Stephane Ginsburgh has been a member of Le Bureau des Pianistes since 1991, a Belgian group dedicated to contemporary music. He also formed with Laurence Cornez a piano duo that has performed over forty works in this particular repertoire in Belgium and abroad, with strong preference for Debussy, Ravel, Bartók, Ligeti, Boesmans and Fafchamps. With le Bureau he has made recordings of the music of Jean-Luc Fafchamps (three CDs) and Morton Feldman, following a concert at the 1991 Ars Musica Festival in Brussels. He also forms the "Geister Trio" with violinist Igor Semenoff and cellist Geert De Bièvre, playing modern music such as the remarkable Présence by Bernd Alois Zimmermann that they will shortly record on CD. He recently collaborated with violist Garth Knox (ex-violist of the Arditti Quartet) for homage to the Viennese composer Karl Weigl, in Budapest. Also an active recitalist, Stephane Ginsburgh performs a great deal of modern music (Scriabin, Prokofiev, Bartók, Messiaen, Schnittke, Stockhausen, etc.) as well as the Classical and Romantic repertoire, styles that he often associates in his programs (Beethoven and Schumann). He has appeared in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia and the USA. He was also guest to Festivals such as Ars Musica (since 1991), Midis-Minimes, la Bellone, de Wallonie, Vers la Flamme au Botanique (all in Belgium), and Brighton in the UK. During Ars Musica 98, Stephane Ginsburgh played two recitals for the Belgian Radio at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, featuring premieres by Belgian composers, in addition to works by Ives, Wolpe and Carter. Stephane Ginsburgh has founded with composer Renaud De Putter, le Bureau des Arts, an active group of artists dedicated to different types of artistic expression and creation such as music, dance and literature. Future recording projects include two CD's with American solo music (Feldman and Wolpe) for Sub Rosa. In 1999, he was awarded a special Prize for his dedication to Belgian contemporary music, and his next premieres include pieces by Kolp, Tolosa and Mernier. GERRIT
NULENS was born in 1972 and started studying percussion at the age
of 8. At 16 he took private lessons with Robert Van Sice. Two years later
he was invited to attend the Rotterdam Conservatory following the only
dedicated marimba programme in Europe. He obtained his bachelor and masters
degree from the same institution.
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