Peter Jablonski är en firad svensk pianist och har erhållit internationell erkännande för sin mogna och nyskapande konstnärlighet. Under de senaste trettio åren har han förtrollat publik över hela världen. Efter att ha blivit upptäckt och kontrakterad av Decca redan som sjuttonåring har hans karriär präglats av
samarbeten med ansedda orkestrar och dirigenter som BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andris Nelsons och Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
Jablonskis engagemang för samtida tonsättare syns i uruppföranden av nya verk, samarbeten med lysande namn som Witold Lutosławski och Arvo Pärt. Peter Jablonskis förvaltning av Karlskrona International Piano Festival understryker hans hängivenhet att upprätthålla det musikaliska arv som han värderar högt.
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Described by the Gramophone as "a pianist in full flower of his mature, imaginative artistry", Peter Jablonski is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish artist. He is among the leading pianists of his generation, and during the last thirty years on international stages has performed with over150 orchestras, given over 2000 concerts, and has been on 30 tours of Japan. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Or-chestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Or-chestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los An-geles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung.
He appeared in concerts and recitals in famous venues around the world, which include the Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican in London, Philharmonie Berlin, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, Salle Pleyel Paris, Musikverein Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, among many others. He worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt, and had a number of works composed for, and dedicated to him, including Wojciech Kilar´s Piano Concerto, for which he won the Orpheus award for the world premiere performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. He remains a supporter of today’s composers and regularly gives world premieres of new works.
Jablonski´s extensive award-winning discography includes recordings he has made for Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Altara, and Octavia. He is now recording exclusively for Ondine. In December 2022, he was awarded the prestigious French Academy Charles Cros Award, Con-temporary Music, for his recording of piano music by Grażyna Bacewicz.
Peter Jablonski is the recipient of the Litteris et Artibus medal for his services to culture, granted to him by the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. He is also the winner of the prestigious prize Årets Svensk i Världen (International Swedish Personality of the Year), receiving it before ABBA and Astrid Lindgren. In May 2022 he was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
Peter Jablonski maintains a busy recording schedule, and his forthcoming Ondine releases include the second volume of the complete mazurkas by Chopin in 2023, and works by Ronald Stevenson in 2024.
Peter Jablonski will begin his 23/24 season with the Bacewicz residency with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in September 2023. Other engagements include Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3, directed from keyboard, with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, Bacewicz piano concer-to with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, a tour of Japan, recitals in Sweden, UK, and his continu-ing stewardship of the Karlskrona International Piano Festival.
Israelisk-ukrainska pianisten Alexandra Segal, hyllad för sin exceptionella talang, erövrade det prestigefyllda första priset vid George Enescu International Piano Competition 2021 och befäste sin status som laureat av flera internationella tävlingar.
Född i Kyiv, Ukraina 1995, inledde Alexandra sin pianoresa i Kyiv innan hon
fortsatte med sin kandidatexamen vid Buchmann-Mehta School of Music i Tel Aviv. Hon fortsatte sin utbildning med en masterexamen vid University of Music Franz Liszt i Weimar och slutför för närvarande sina studier vid University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Alexandra Segals anmärkningsvärda prestationer och gripande framträdanden fortsätter lysa starkt på den globala scenen.
Kritiker hyllade henne som "felfritt med full kontroll" och "dazzling" under hennes framträdanden, där de betonade hennes djupa musikalitet och virtuositet.
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Israeli-Ukrainian pianist Alexandra Segal was awarded first prize at the world-renowned George Enescu International Piano Competition in 2021, and is a laureate of numerous international com-petitions. She enjoys an active career in the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Israel, Romania, Austria, Poland, Croatia, Ukraine and now Sweden. She appeared at several notable venues such as the Romanian Athenaeum, Kyiv Philharmonic, Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, and was broadcasted live in the national television and radio channels of Romania (TVR), Israel (Kan Kol HaMusica) and Ukraine (NSTU).
‘Alexandra Segal’s dazzling performance left us in little doubt as to the eventual winner. Hers was an extraordinarily virtuosic, buoyant rendition, impressing with both its intelligence and power, showing her to be flawlessly in command not only of her instrument but of her relationship with the orchestra.’ - Bachtrack
Alexandra has performed with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Kiev Chamber Orchestra, Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Pitesti Philharmonic Orchestra, Raanana Symphonette Orchestra and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Avi Ostrowsky, Yoav Talmi, Kensho Watanabe and Vag Papian.
Alexandra was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1995. She began her piano studies in Kyiv, and proceeded to obtain her Bachelor degree at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel Aviv, her Master degree at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar, and is currently finishing her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Clare Hammond, som hyllas för sina anmärkningsvärda pianofärdigheter, prisas som en "pianist med enastående talanger" (Gramophone) med "oändlig kraft" (The Times). Som mottagare av Royal Philharmonic Societys "Young Artist Award" år 2016 lyser hennes framträdanden av virtuositet.
Hon har nyligen nåttframgångar som att framföra Griegs pianokonsert med City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra och framträdanden med BBC Symphony Orchestra och Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, samt recitals på prestigefyllda platser som Aldeburgh Festival och Palazzetto Bru Zane.
Clares repertoar domineras av samtida musik, där hon har uruppfört över 50 verk inklusive stora kompositioner av Sierra, Saxton och Berkeley. Med över tjugo världspremiärinspelningar i sin diskografi, inklusive Heskeths "Uncoiling the River" och Fitkins pianokvartett, hyllas hon för sitt "skimrande pianospel" (BBC Music Magazine) på album utgivna av BIS.
Samhällsengagemang är avgörande för Clares karriär, då hon uppträder för skolbarn i samarbete med musikinstitutioner och utvidgar sin räckvidd genom barnkonserter, mästarklasser och framträdanden i fängelser och festivaler över Storbritannien och Frankrike.
Utbildad vid Cambridge University, Guildhall School of Music & Drama och City University London, var hennes doktorsavhandling inriktad på 1900-talets vänsterhandspianokonserter. Hon var en del av Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme tillsammans med franska pianisten Anne Queffélec.
Stöttad av olika stiftelser och organisationer, inklusive RVW Trust, Arts Council England och British Council, berikar Clares åtagande för samtida musik, samhällsengagemang och dynamiska pianoframträdanden den musikaliska landskapet.
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Acclaimed as a “pianist of extraordinary gifts” (Gramophone) and “immense power” (The Times), Clare Hammond is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances.
In 2016, she won the Royal Philharmonic Society´s Young Artist Award in recognition of outstanding achievement. Recent highlights include Grieg Piano Concerto with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Moussa and Carwithen with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, Panufnik with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, and recitals at the Aldeburgh Festival, Palazzetto Bru Zane in Venice (broadcast on RAI 3), Husum Festival in Germany, and in Denmark and Norway with Henning Kraggerud.
Contemporary music is at the core of Clare’s work. She has given over 50 world premieres, including those of major works by Arlene Sierra, Robert Saxton and Michael Berkeley, and her discography includes world premiere recordings of over twenty works. In 2019, she gave the world premiere of Kenneth Hesketh’s Uncoiling the River with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and a further performance with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko. In 2022, she premiered Graham Fitkin’s new piano quartet with Fitkin, Ruth Wall and Kathryn Stott at the Aldeburgh Festival, and opened the Southbank Centre’s 22/23 season at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the work.
Clare has recorded six discs for BIS, most recently releasing an album of Etudes by visionary French composer Hélène de Montgeroult. A disc of 20th- and 21st-century variations was released in 2021, and received extensive critical approval for Clare’s “shimmering pianism and lightly-worn virtuosity” (BBC Music Magazine) and “artistry of the highest order” (Musical Opinion), while Crescendo (Belgium) hailed her as “one of the most exploratory pianistic personalities of our time”. She previously recorded a disc of Etudes by Unsuk Chin, Nicolai Kapustin, Sergei Lyapunov and Karol Szymanowski which won her an Opus d´Or from Opus HD Magazine and 5 diapasons from Diapason.Community engagement forms an increasingly important part of Clare’s work. Since 2017, she has performed to over 11,600 schoolchildren in partnership with Gloucestershire Music and Wye Valley Music in Schools. She frequently gives children’s concerts and masterclasses at festivals in the UK and France, and runs an ongoing series of recitals at prisons.
Clare completed a BA at Cambridge University, where she obtained a double first in music, and undertook postgraduate study with Ronan O’Hora at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and with Professor Rhian Samuel at City University London. She completed a doctorate on 20th-century left-hand piano concertos in 2012. In 2014 Clare was paired with French pianist Anne Queffélec on the Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme run by the RPS.
Clare is grateful for the support of the RVW Trust, Hinrichsen Foundation, John S Cohen Foundation, Arts Council England, Scops Arts Trust, Golsoncott Foundation, Gemma Classical Music Trust, Fidelio Charitable Trust, Help Musicians UK, Stradivari Trust, Ambache Charitable Trust, British Korean Society, Chandos Memorial Trust, Vernon Ellis Foundation, Polish Cultural Institute, British Council, and the Britten-Pears Foundation.
Den svenske pianisten Jonas Olsson har etablerat sig som en av de mest äventyrliga pianisterna på den skandinaviska nymusikscenen idag. Efter att först ha studerat hos Hans Pålsson i Göteborg debuterade han med Göteborgs Symfoniorkester 2007.
Han tillbringade sedan ett år vid International Ensemble Modern Academy i
Frankfurt, följt av två år hos Pierre-Laurent Aimard i Köln, där han specialiserade sig på samtida solorepertoar. En annan viktig påverkan kom från att arbeta intensivt med Pierre Boulez som medlem av Lucerne Festival Academy mellan 2006 och 2009, där hans solorepertoar inkluderade Boulez Sur Incises and Répons och Messiaens Des canyons aux étoiles. Jonas Olsson delar sin tid mellan Sverige och Tyskland och har ett späckat konsertschema, och framträder på stora arenor som Lucerne Festival, Piano Festival Ruhr, Aldeburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall och NY Phil Biennal. Höjdpunkter inkluderar de kompletta Boulez-sonaterna på Klang-festivalen i Köpenhamn 2015 och en Rebecca Saunders-porträttkonsert på Aldeburgh-festivalen 2016.
Hans repertoar omfattar ett stort urval av verk från de mest betydande kompositörerna från det sena 1900-talet som Berio, Boulez, Carter, Ferneyhough, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Messiaen, Nono, Sciarrino, Stockhausen och Xenakis. Lika viktigt är hans engagemang för en yngre generation kompositörer, som han har ett nära samarbete med för att utforska nya speltekniker. Han är medlem i de Göteborgsbaserade samtidsmusikensemblerna Mimitabu och Gageego! och bjuds regelbundet in att spela med andra ensembler i hela Europa.
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The Swedish pianist Jonas Olsson has established himself as one of the most adventurous pianists on the Scandinavian new-music scene today. Having initially studied with Hans Pålsson in Gothenburg, he made his debut with the
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2007.
He then spent a year at the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, followed by two years with Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Cologne, where he specialised in contemporary solo repertoire. Another important influence came from working intensely with Pierre Boulez as a member of the Lucerne Festival Academy between 2006 and 2009, where his solo repertoire included Boulez’s Sur Incises and Répons and Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles. Dividing his time between Sweden and Germany, Jonas Olsson has a busy concert schedule, appearing at major venues which include the Lucerne Festival, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Aldeburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and the NY Phil Biennial. Highlights include the complete Boulez sonatas at the Klang Festival in Copenhagen in 2015 and a Rebecca Saunders portrait concert at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2016.
His repertoire comprises a large selection of works from the most significant late- twentieth-century composers such as Berio, Boulez, Carter, Ferneyhough, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Messiaen, Nono, Sciarrino, Stockhausen and Xenakis. Equally important is his commitment to a younger generation of composers, with whom he closely collaborates on exploring new playing techniques. He is a member of the Gothenburg-based contemporary-music ensembles Mimitabu and Gageego! and is regularly invited to play with other ensembles throughout Europe.
Martin Skafte är en Svensk tonsättare känd för sina verk för solopiano, kammarmusik och röst. Hans kompositioner är publicerade av Gehrmans Musikförlag i Sverige och Norsk Musikforlag, Musikkforlagene i Norge.
Han fick internationellt erkännande 2017 när hans pianosvit 24 Preludier – Inspirerade av
Claude Debussys Préludes för piano publicerades av Sveriges ledande musikförlag Gehrmans Musikförlag.
Han fick då flera nationella och internationella inbjudningar att berätta om sitt verk av bl.a. Boston Conservatory och Berklee School of Music i USA, Norges Musikkhøgskole i Oslo och Musikhögskolan i Malmö.
Bland Skaftes andra tonsättningar finns tre bearbetningar av Chopinmazurkor, Sex Bagateller (att framföras tillsammans med Beethovens Bagateller Op. 126), sångcykeln Preludier för mezzosopran och piano, Tre Etyder för piano, Scala Fenicia för Engelskt horn och piano, samt Engång för blandad kör och sopransolist.
Hans musik har uppmärksammats och spelats av den världsberömde svenske pianisten Peter Jablonski. Till honom har Skafte skrivit en Fantasi över två verk av Skjrabin, som uruppfördes på Karlskrona International Piano Festival den 14 november 2021. Hans musik har också lyfts fram och framförts av pianisterna Jonas Olsson (Sverige) och Stephen Porter (USA), bland andra.
Skafte är utbildad vid Gotlands Tonsättarskola i Visby, Sverige, samt Högskolan för Scen och Musik i Göteborg, Sverige. Han har erhållit konstnärsresidens på Visby International Composers Centre 2016, 2019 och 2020, och på Villa San Michele - Anacapri, Capri år 2019. Han har mottagit flertalet stipendier och projektbidrag från bl.a. Konstnärsnämnden, STIM, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse och Längmanska kulturfonden.
Bland hans nuvarande projekt finns bl.a. symfoniska verk och pianokonserten Mot Fyren (inspirerad av Virginia Woolfs roman med samma namn) till Peter Jablonski.
I början av 2022 släpps hans 24 Preludier på det Londonbaserade skivbolaget Toccata Classics, en inspelning gjord i December 2021 av Jonas Olsson.
Framöver väntar en Europeisk turné tillsammans med pianisten Stephen Porter, som kommer framföra ett urval av Skaftes musik på sina konserter.
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Martin Skafte is a Swedish composer known for his works for solo piano, chamber music, voice, and choir. His compositions are published by Gehrmans musikförlag in Sweden and Norsk Musikforlag, Musikkforlagene in Norway.
He came to international recognition in 2017, when his piano suite 24 Preludes – Inspired by Claude Debussys Préludes for Piano, was published by the leading Swedish publisher Gehrmans Musikförlag. He was invited to speak about his work to international audiences, which include Boston Conservatory and Berklee School of Music in the USA and Norges musikkhøgskole and Musikhögskolan i Malmö in Scandinavia.
Among Skafte’s notable compositions are three reworkings of selected mazurkas by Chopin, Three Etudes, Six Bagatelles (to be performed with Beethoven’s Op 126 Bagatelles), a song cycle Preludier for soprano, Scala Fenicia for cor anglaise and piano, a piano trio, and Engång for mixed choir and solo soprano.
His music has been championed by the leading Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski, for whom he has written a Fantasia over two works by Scriabin, premiered at the Karlskrona International Piano Festival on 14 November 2021. His music has also been performed and promoted by the pianists Jonas Olsson (Sweden) and Stephen Porter (USA), among others.
Skafte was educated at Gotland School of Music Composition in Visby, Sweden, and at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, Sweden. He held artist residencies at Visby International Composers Centre in 2016, 2019, and 2020, and Villa San Michele – Anacapri, Capri in 2019. He is recipient of multiple grants and scholarships, which include funding from Swedish Arts Grants Committe, STIM, Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, and Längmanska Foundation, among others.
His current projects include composition of his second piano trio and a piano concerto To The Lighthouse (based on the eponymous novel by Virginia Woolf) for Peter Jablonski.
