African Rhapsodies
Nottingham based Senegalese composer and kora player Seckou Keita is proud to present African Rhapsodies: an epic project created in collaboration with Italian composer and musician Davide Mantovani, due to be released via Swiss label Claves Records in May. African Rhapsodies is an enchanting,..
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"[..] Anna Agafia nous convainc aisément de son talent dans ce Nielsen composé en 1911 et construit en deux parties. Chacune commence par une calme introduction,
bientôt suivie d’une section rapide qui consiste, dans le premier mouvement, en un Allegro cavallerésco, et dans le second, en un fantasque Allegro
scherzando. Avec son violon Guarnerius de 1730/33, Le Sphinx, qui lui est prêté, Anna Agafia surmonte les embûches d’une partition complexe qui se
révèle par moments éperdument lyrique et oppose souvent la soliste à une masse orchestrale.
Elle se révèle, selon la nécessité, capable de dialogue, de sûreté, de passion, de mélancolie aussi, sans oublier la tension qui traverse l’œuvre. [..]"
Crescendo magazine, Jan Lacroix, mars 2023
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She then continues her studies in the class of Davide Formisano and obtains in 2010 her soloist diploma with unanimity. She starts her professional career at the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen. Temporary contracts followed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, playing under the direction of Pierre Boulez, Ricardo Chailly and Gustavo Dudamel among others, and at the Berlin Philharmonic, playing under conductors such as Mariss Jansons, Bernard Haitink and Herbert Blomstedt.
Currently co-soloist at the Musikkollegium Winterthur.
Since making the decision to establish his own trio with bassist Werner Spies and drummer Hugo Radyn in 2006, Charl du Plessis has alerted audiences to the complexities and capabilities of combining jazz and classic music. The creative possibilities of this musical unit have offered him the means to produce a wide range of music not confined by any style or genre.
She is a multiple prize winner of national and international competitions and a scholarship holder of the Bachwoche Ansbach. She received important impulses from Henri Sigfridsson, Aleksandar Madžar, Brigitte Meyer, Konstantin Lifschitz and Hartmut Höll, among others.
Her performances have taken her to Paris, Bayreuth at the Steingräber & Söhne Piano Factory as part of the Young Master Pianists, to Gladbeck for the Forum of German Music Academies, to the Theater Basel, to Sils Maria and to the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad.
The multi-talented musician was appointed the youngest principal flutist at the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra and at the Lucerne Festival Orchestra with additional conducting responsibilities. It followed a period of full time opera and symphonic conducting.
