ISABELLE PERRIN–FrancE
From a very young age, Isabelle Perrin has been passionate about the harp. She began her training at the Conservatoire National de Région de Nice (she gave her first public recital at the age of seventeen), then continued her studies at the Juillliard School of Music in New York before joining the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and later on the Orchestre National de France as co-principal harpist during 25 years.
An international soloist, Isabelle Perrin is regularly invited to play with prestigious ensembles such as the Northwest Sinfonietta (USA), the Orchestre Symphonique d’Oshawa-Durham (Canada), the Coastal Symphony of Georgia (USA), the National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland), the BBC Wales Orchestra (Wales), the Orchestre Symphonique de Bruxelles (Belgium), the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (Australia), the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland), the Korean Chamber Orchestra (South Korea), the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra (China), as well as numerous French orchestras, including the Orchestre national de France, the Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France, the Orchestre national de Lille, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre national des Pays de la Loire, the Orchestre national de Lorraine…
Her warm personality, as well as the deep relationship she has created with her instrument, has incited several composers to create music with her in mind. Bernard Andrès has dedicated his Danses d’Erzulie for harp, string orchestra and percussion to her. This piece was world premiered in Cincinnati, USA and the European Premiere was given in Amsterdam a year later. In 2008, Isabelle Perrin explored for the first time the “Blue Harp” (an electronic harp associated with a computer) in Katowice, Poland, with the Concertino “South Shore” for Blue Harp and Orchestra written especially for her by Elzbieta Sikora and performed in different places, among them Taïwan
Born in Guatemala in 1958, he began his musical studies at the National Conservatory of Music of his country, his teachers were Buenaventura Robles Peralta (Harp), Juan de Dios Montenegro Paniagua (Piano) Jorge Álvaro Sarmientos De Leon (Harmony, theory and composition) and Alberto Navas (Singing).
He graduated in 1978 and continued his musical studies in Germany with Lieselotte Potuloff-Schad.
He has played as harpist in recitals, concerts and operas in Latin America, United States of America, some European countries, Africa, Asia and Australia.
OTTO THIEL-LEMMERHOFER
GERMANY
ZENÓN DÍAZ LAUZURICA
spain-cuba
Master of Fine Arts of the Odessa State Conservatory, Ukraine. Violin professor, Chamber Music Artist and Orchestra Soloist. In Cuba he was a student of the renowned violinist Evelio Tieles Ferrer but received the bachelor degree in Odessa with the professor Pavel Melaméd (disciple of the famous Russian pedagogue AY Yampólsky) and completed the violin and chamber music postgraduate studies at the Moscow Tchaikowsky Conservatory, in the classes of the prestigious professor Evguenia Chugáieva (assistant of Yuri Yankiliévich) and Prof. Dimitri Galínin. In Havana he developed an intense pedagogical activity at the Manuel Saumell School of music, the National School of Arts and the Higher Institute of Art, and his students received first prizes in national and international competitions. He has been a jury member in different violin competitions His repertoire includes works by J.S. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ysaye, Sarasate, Tchaikowsky, Kreisler, Sibelius, Paganini, etc. As soloist he has performed in Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Finland and Japan. He was invited by the Association of Laureates of the Tchaikowsky Competition, to offer recitals at the International Festivals of Ibero-American Music in Moscow 2000 and 2001. Zenon is a member of the Cuban Asociation of Writers and Artists . He worked for eight years in Venezuela as Head of the Violin Chair of the Mérida State Symphony Orchestra Foundation and also at the Music School of Los Andes University He has been concertmaster at the Havana Great Teather Opera and Ballet Orchestra, at the Brindis de Salas Chamber Orchestra and at the Cuba National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Leo Brouwer.
Zenon Diaz has also worked as Violinist Professor at the National Orchestra of Spain and at the Madrid "Victoria de los Ángeles" and "Adolfo Salazar" Conservatories
mendmaa dorzhin. MONGOLIA
She studied in Moscow at the Academy of Music attached to the Conservatory of P.I. Tchaikovsky, where he studies with the great pedagogue Galina Eguiazarova, finishing the studies with the Honor Prize.
In 1985, she continues at the Superior State Conservatory P.I. Tchaikovsky from Moscow, with the prosessors A. Ignatieva, I. Smorodinova and E. Kuznetzova receiving the title of "Master of Fine Arts" in 1990.
She has given concerts in Mongolia, Russia, Spain, Norway, Germany. She has recorded for the RTV of Mongolia, along with the State Orchestra of her country playing the piano concerto of E. Grieg.
Already in Spain she quickly joined the musical world, his activity being very intense and varied, as a concert performer, and in chamber music groups.
He has given master classes in summer courses at the UIMP in Santander.
In 2005 she forms the "Duo Grieg" with the Ukrainian pianist Vadim Gladkov and have been winners of several international competitions such as the "7th International Grieg Competition" in Oslo, International Competition "T.I.M" Rome.
She has been a jury of different international competitions, Mongolia, Spain, etc.
Since 2008 she works as professor at the Professional Music Conservatory of Alcalá de Henares.
And in 2018 she has been named “Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Mongolia” in Spain.
DALIBOR BERNATOVIC.-SLOVENIA
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He graduated from elementary school and the Secondary School of Music Conservatory in Maribor, Slovenia, where he studied the clarinet and saxophone, and from the Secondary School of Music in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he studied the harp. He studied at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana under Prof. Rudi Ravnik, and graduated from the Music Academy in Zagreb, Croatia, under Prof. Maria Mlinar.
He was 15 years Principal Harpist at the Slovenian National Theatre and Simphonyic orchestra Maribor. As a soloist, he performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the countries of the EU.
All through this period he also worked at music schools in Ljubljana, Nova Gorica, Celje, Velenje and Maribor, where he participated in the formation of new departments for harp music. He has been teaching music for twenty-five years, and has been granted the title of councillor. He actively participated in the curriculum committee and in the revision and creation of a new harp curriculum, which he is also co-authored.
He has been equally successful in the composition of children´s tunes, as well as music for accomplished, professional harpists, which is quite scarce in our country, particularly tunes by domestic composers.
His compositions have been performed at numerous concerts across Slovenia, as well as in Amsterdam, Madrid, Vienna, Turin,
Cardiff, Zagreb and Belgrade.
In the field of electrical and electro-acoustic harp he is continuously working on presentation in order to open new horizons and possibilities in sound and playing harps for young musicans.
As a President of the Slovenian Harp Society, he is organizing international seminars, harp competitions, concerts and other forms of qualification and cooperation for harpists.
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Ofelia Montalván
spain-cuba
In Cuba, she was a student of the prestigious teacher Teresita Junco.
She received the Master of Fine Arts degree as a concert pianist, accompanying pianist and piano teacher in 1986, at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of the People´s Artist of Russia Valery Kastélsky (disciple of H. Neigáuz) culminating her postgraduates studies (performance phd) in 1989 with the highest grades.
Ofelia Montalvan was piano professor at the Higher Institute of Art of Havana since 1986; and between 1994 and 2002 at the Mérida State Symphony Orchestra and the University of Los Andes in Venezuela. Her students have been awarded at the International Competitions in Valletta, Malta; Val Tidone Italy; Neue Sterne, Germany; Piano & Artists, Alcala Gran Klavier , etc. He has taught courses in teaching methodology and piano interpretation in several countries.
She has played in master classes of the Stuttgart Bach Academy and of the cellists Natalia Gutman, Philippe Müller, Frans Helmerson, David Geringas and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. She has offered recitals with French violinist Maurice Hasson, professor at the Royal Academy of London and clarinetist Marian Liebowitz of the San Diego University.
She has performed in Russia, Italy, France, Cuba, Venezuela, Uruguay, Portugal, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Japan and Spain; at the Rachmaninov Hall, Maly Sal, Pushkin Museum and Moscow Kremlin, C.C. Gulbenkian of Paris and Lisbon, Münsterhof of Strasbourg, National Music Auditorium of Madrid; Barcelona Petit Palau ; Music House of Oporto, etc. He has also made recordings for Sony Spain.
Since 2002 she collaborates as pianist at the Reina Sofía School’s Cello Sony Chair with the professors Natalia Shakhovskaya and Ivan Monighetti.
She is currently professor and Head of the Piano Department at the El Escorial Conservatory
Cristina santacatalina. SPAIN
He studied at the Superior Conservatory of Music of Badajoz with Professor Juan José Hernández. Later, he expanded his training in the Music Classroom of the University of Alcalá de Henares with Magdalena Martínez. She has been a student of the Academy of Orchestral Studies of the Barenboim-Said foundation with Professor Thomas Beyer, and has collaborated with the Orchestra of Extremadura under the baton of Álvaro Albiach, Enrique García Asensio, José Luis Estellés and Miguel Romea. He has done numerous courses of interpretation, chamber music and pedagogy with professors such as Mónica Raga, Salvador Martínez, Claudia Walker, Cristina Ánchel, Álvaro Octavio, Márta Gulyás, Alexander Kandelaki, Jordi Mora and Lucjan Luc.
In the field of teaching, he has worked in various music schools in Extremadura and in the Community of Madrid. He is a member of didactic musical groups that combine music and theater in an informative work through schools and libraries of the Community of Madrid.
Complementarily, when looking for new horizons to his musical training, he performs in the Autonomous University of Madrid the Master of Advanced Music Therapy and Applications. She is currently a transverse flute teacher in the Municipal Schools of Music and Dance of the Community of Madrid and the Higher Center for Musical Teaching KATARINA GURSKA.
Graduated from the Higher Conservatory of State of Kazan, where she studied with professors G.Serebryakova, Vadim Afanaciev, G.Khodzhaev, B.Kaplun. He has received prizes in competitions and international festivals such as the Regional Contest of Violinists (1982) and the First Prize "Salikh Saidashev" of Música Camara (1984). Since 1988 - Concertino of Symphonic Academic Orchestra of Volgograd, at the same time he is Concertino de Opera, Violin Professor of the Higher Conservatory of Volgograd.
He participated in numerous tours and festivals for the best venues in Denmark, Finland, Netherland, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Belgium, England, Germany, Poland, Cheqia, Slovakia, Slovenia ...
In those countries he has played recordings for radio and television: "Composers of France" (Lakhty, Finland 1990), P.Tchaikovsky, "Symphonies 4,5,6", M.Glinka, N.Rimsky-Korsakov, etc. ("Es-Dur", Germany 1992).
In Spain she has joined the cultural activity, being a concertmaster of different orchestras (symphony orchestra of Madrid) and is a violin teacher at the Katarina Gurska Center in Madrid.
NAILIA SAVROVA. RUSSIA
MIGUEL ROSELL. SPAIN
He studied at the Conservatory of Music of El Escorial with Professor Dimitri Furnadjiev, finishing them at the Superior Conservatory of Music of Madrid with Professor Rafael Ramos, where he obtained the diplomas of the highest degree of cello and chamber music.
He has received master classes from teachers Franz Helmerson, Popov and Janos Starker.
Various orchestral and chamber music groups have collaborated, among them the Chamartín Symphony Orchestra, La Camerata Eduard Toldrá and the City of Granada Orchestra.
He has made recordings for RNE, for various musical groups and for film productions.
Currently he collaborates with various chamber groups in Madrid, among which is Quadrivium, a string quartet, of which he is the founder.
He also works as a professor of cello in the Municipal Schools of Music of the City of Madrid and Majadahonda.