Date/Time
Date(s) - 23/Feb/2019
Genre - Piano Trio
In a programme of Ravel: Sonata for violin and cello, Moszkowski: Suite Op. 71 (Piano trio version) and Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio
Dan Zhu is widely recognized as one of the leading musicians of his generation on the international stage today, praised as “an artist of affecting humility and beautiful tone production” by The Strad magazine, performing internationally in North America, Europe, and Asia. His recent triumphant performance with the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Festival has been raved by the critics as “truly brilliant, compelling, and polished”. He has appeared with world class orchestras under the direction of Maestros Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Philippe Entremont, Jacek Kaspszyk, Krzysztof Penderecki, Carl St.Clair, En Shao, Muhai Tang, Ralf Weikert, Long Yu among many others, and has been invited to perform and give master classes at renowned festivals, such as Salzburg Festspiele, Tanglewood, Verbier, Kuhmo, Marlboro, Menton, Schleiswig-Holstein, Prades-Casals, Ravinia, and Spoleto.
Dan Zhu’s recent seasons highlights includes concerto appearances with Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Camerata Salzburg at the Salzburg Festspiele; World premiere of Tan Dun’s Triple Concerto with the composer conducting the performance at Kennedy Center; Recital at Verbier Festival; Recital tour with pianist Michel Dalberto in China; Alban Berg violin concerto with Slovenian Philharmonic; with Prague Symphony for the 70th anniversary of UNESCO in Paris; the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in Germany; Lincoln Center series in New York; with Korean Chamber Orchestra at Seoul Arts Center; China premiere of Bright Sheng’s violin concerto “Let Fly” at the opening concert of the Beijing International Modern Music Festival; Symphony Orchestras of Boston, Belgrade, Hong Kong, New York, Munich, Paris, Vancouver, etc. Duo recitals with Christoph Eschenbach of Mozart and Beethoven sonatas cycle at the Kennedy Center and at National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. He has collaborated in recital and chamber music with pianists Philippe Entremont, Peter Frankl, Richard Goode, Lang Lang, KunWoo Paik, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, other instrumentalists includes Joshua Bell, Nobuko Imai, Gary Hoffman, and Mischa Maisky. Artist in residencies at the Mehli Mehta Foundation in Mumbai and at the “Intimacy of Creativity” in Hong Kong. His duo recitals with pianist Tzimon Barto in Hamburg was highly acclaimed by Die Welt as “distinctive dramaturgy of contrasts, crystalline tones with intensity and sensitivity”, last season with pianist Oliver Triendl was praised as “Perfect Playing” by Münchner Merkur.
A native of Beijing, Zhu made his first public appearance at the age of nine, performing Mendelssohn’s violin concerto with the China Youth Chamber Orchestra. At age twelve he entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where he studied with Xiao-zhi Huang. Four years later he was awarded the Alexis Gregory Scholarship to study with Lucie Robert at Mannes College of Music in New York. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with Tchaikovsky violin concerto at the age of eighteen. His mentors have included Ivry Gitlis, Gerard Poulet, and Aaron Rosand. As recording artist, Dan Zhu has appeared on several international labels, such as Cascavelle, CPO, Naxos, ORF. His latest world premiere recordings of Boris Papandopulo’s violin concerto and Bright Sheng’s chamber music album “Northern Lights” with the composer on the piano, both were released in 2017.
Dan Zhu has collaborated with numbers of the leading composers of our time on concert stages and in recordings, including George Benjamin, Gyorgy Kurtag, Krzysztof Penderecki, the late Gian-Carlo Menotti, Wolfgang Rihm, Guan Xia, Tan Dun, Bright Sheng, and Xiaogang Ye. His passionate involvement with Antarctica Forum in the environmental protection field, led him to be the first violinist in the history performed on the continent of Antarctica in 2013. Follow Dan Zhu’s music world on: www.danzhumusic.com
«An enthusiastic musician with a multi-faceted personality, Henri Demarquette plays the cello as if setting a deep forest ablaze; not a single stroke of his bow leaves the listener indifferent because he awakens music’s subconscious». O. Bellamy (Le Monde de la Musique). Born in 1970, Henri Demarquette entered at the age of 13 the Conservatoire de Paris where he studied with Philippe Muller and Maurice Gendron. He was unanimously awarded a Premier Prix, and worked with Pierre Fournier and Paul Tortelier before taking lessons from Janos Starker in Bloomington, USA.
Familiar with the stage by the time he was fourteen, Demarquette made his concert debut at seventeen with a recital at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and a recording for France 3 Television with pianist Hélène Grimaud. He caught the attention of Lord Yehudi Menuhin, who invited him to play Dvorák’s Concerto in Prague and Paris with Menuhin conducting.
His career has been international ever since, taking him to many capitals in the company of the greatest French and international orchestras – most recently the Orchestre national de France, the London Philharmonic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Paris Orchestral Ensemble, the Tokyo Symphony, the Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orchestra, the Symphonia Varsovia, the Neue Philharmonie Westphalen, the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Demarquette has also appeared with his favourite chamber music partners Boris Berezovski, Michel Dalberto, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Fabrizio Chiovetta,[1] Vanessa Benelli Mosell and Jean-Frédéric Neuburgerr. In 2006, on the occasion of composer Henri Dutilleux’s 90th birthday, his interpretation of the concerto Tout un monde lointain, with the Nationaltheater Mannheim (NTM) orchestra directed by Frédéric Chaslin, gave rise to a film aired on Mezzo TV.
In 2011 and 2012, he performed with Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Hanover, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Français des Jeunes, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille… He also plays at Théâtre des Champs Elysées with Brigitte Engerer, at the Salle Pleyel with Vadim Repin, at the Berlin Philharmonie, Salle Gaveau, or Tokyo International Forum…
He has created works by contemporary composers such as Olivier Greif (Durch Adams Fall), Pascal Zavaro (concerto), Éric Tanguy (Nocturne), Florentine Mulsant (sonata), Alexandre Gasparov (Nocturne), Christian Lauba, his New York Concerto with Jonas Vitaud, piano and Richard Ducros, saxophone.
Henri Demarquette also performs an eclectic program from Bach to Galliano, in duo with the French accordionist Richard Galliano. In 2014, the duo created “Contrastes” for accordion, cello and orchestra, a composition by Richard Galliano. In 2015, he founded a string quartet with Augustin Dumay, Svetlin Roussev, and Miguel da Silva. Michel Legrand dedicated a concert to H.Demarquette who performs it for the first time with the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck and recorded by Sony Music. H.Demarquette created Vocello, an original ensemble for cello and choir a capella together with L’Ensemble Vocal Sequenza 9.3. Their program includes Renaissance pieces in relation with contemporary music. In 2016, Vocello stayed as artist in residence at Collège des Bernardins. Since 2012, H.Demarquette is regularly invited by Michel Onfray to take part in the original project called Université populaire de Caen, together with an essayist, a poet, and a musician called Jean-Yves Clément. In 2005, he received an award from the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation.
Henri Demarquette plays “le Vaslin”, cello manufactured by Stradivarius in 1725, lent by LVMH/ Moët Henessy. Louis Vuitton with a Persois bow dated 1820.
Kun Woo Paik is considered one of the most important pianists of his generation. Born in Seoul, Kun Woo Paik´s first concert was at the age of ten performing Grieg´s Piano Concerto with the Korean National Orchestra. At the age of fifteen, Kun Woo Paik moved to New York to study with Rosina Lhevinne at the Julliard School and with Ilona Kabos in London. Paik is the winner of the Naumburg award and Gold Medallist at the Busoni International Piano Competitions. His international career took off following his first New York appearance, in which he performed complete piano works by Maurice Ravel at the Lincoln Center, and his orchestral debut at the Carnegie Hall.
In 1974, Paik made his European debuts with three consecutive recitals at the Wigmore Hall, London, followed in 1975 by a recital in Berlin´s Philharmonie. Since then he has closely collaborated with conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Long Yu, Sir.Neville Marriner, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Jiří Bĕlohlávek, Dmitri Kitaenko, James Conlon, John Nelson, Eliahu Inbal and Antoni Wit, and performed with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, St Petersburg Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Symphony, Hungarian National, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam and Warsaw Philharmonic. He is also a regular guest artist of festivals including Berliner Festwochen, Aix-en-Provence, La Roque d´Anthéron, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Colmar, Montreux, Dubrovnik, Aldeburgh and Moscow Easter Festival. He was the first Korean artist to be officially invited by the Chinese government in October 2000. Kun Woo Paik´s numerous recordings include Scriabin, Liszt, complete works for solo piano by Mussorgsky, Rachmaninov´s complete piano concerti and Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (under Vladimir Fedoseyev for BMG). His complete Prokofiev piano concerti recording received both Diapason d´Or of the year and Nouvelle Académie du disque awards in France.
As an exclusive Decca artist and to celebrate JS Bach´s year in 2000, he recorded Busoni´s transcriptions of Bach´s organ works followed by an album of Fauré´s Piano works, which won all the major prizes in France. He recently released the complete works for piano and orchestra by Chopin with Antoni Wit and the Warsaw Philharmonic. Kun Woo Paik has recorded all thirty-two Sonatas by Beethoven for Decca.
“Paik´s sense of drama, his wit, mastery of nuance, thoughtfully weighted chords and fleet-fingered virtuosity, all are remarkable.” (Rob Cowan, The Independent). Kun Woo Paik lives in Paris and is the Artistic Director of the Emerald Coast Music Festival in Dinard, France and was made the “Chevalier de l´ordre des arts et des lettres” by the French Government in 2000.
