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The Master and Margarita: Hats off to our Margarita
The young Russian cellist Maya Fridman graduated with the highest honors from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Her graduation recital was lauded for its original programming–thrilling from beginning to end and impeccably executed. Her diploma was granted excellent cum laude. Maya Fridman will be featured in the refined yet sensual Master and Margarita.
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Successful Mini Cello Biënnale
Amsterdam North hosted a Mini Cello Biennale on 20 May 2016 at the Concertgemaal, originally a water pumping station transformed into a concert locale. Two concerts were given with a busy crowd for dinner in between the musical events. Check the photos below to enjoy the scene and test the atmosphere pre Cello Biennale 2016!
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Mini Cello Biënnale (only in Dutch)
Kunt u niet wachten tot de Cello Biënnale in oktober van start gaat? Op zaterdag 21 mei vind de Mini Cello Biënnale plaats in het Concertgemaal. Het concert van de Cello Company tijdens de Mini Cello Biënnale op zaterdag 21 mei is al UITVERKOCHT! Gelukkig zijn er nog plaatsen voor het prachtige Italiaanse middagconcert met de […]
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Meet the jury of the National Cello Competition: Jan Willem Loot
Jan Willen Loot will be the chairman of the jury of the National Cello Concours. He was director of the Concertgebouw Orchestra until December 2008. Loot studied law at the University in Groningen and cello with René van Ast and Bertus van Lier. He was the director of the Overijssels Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands […]
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Concours – Registration
The registration deadline of 2016 National Cello Competition is 1 june 2016. Click here to complete the application form.
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Meet the jury of the National Cello Competition: Raphaël Pidoux
Raphaël Pidoux began his musical studies with the piano. He learned the cello with his father and entered Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris at age 17. He obtained a First Prize in 1987 and enrolled in Philippe Muller's class for graduate studies. He (then)joined Jean-Claude Pennetier's class on chamber music advanced skills, and Christophe Coin's […]
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Meet the jury of the National Cello Competition: Julian Steckel
Julian Steckel studied with Gustav Rivinius, Boris Pergamenschikow, Heinrich Schiff and Antje Weithaas. During his carrier he won several prizes, for instance the ARD Music Competition in Munich, the Rostropovich Competition in Paris and the Intenational Pablo Casals Competition in Kronberg. In recent years Steckel worked together with well known orchestras and directors. In the […]
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Festival program online! Ticket sale has started
The full program of the Sixth Cello Biennale Amsterdam is now on line (click here). Ticket sale has started! New faces and the cello as an actor Between 20 and 29 October 2016 the Cello Biennale will receive six orchestras, eleven ensembles, a choir and thirty-seven international solo cellists. It will be the festival of […]
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Meet the jury of the National Cello Competition: Martti Rousi
De Finnish cellist Martti Rousi studied at the well known Sibelius Academy with Arto Noras. Afterwards he studied with Janos Starker in the United States. He won the Turku National Competition for Finnisch cellists and in 1886 the second prize of the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. In 2015 Rousi was part of the jury […]
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Meet the jury of the National Cello Competition: Gregor Horsch
Gregor Horsch studied with Christoph Henkel in Germany. Thereafter he studied in Manchester with Ralph Kirshbaum and graduated cum laude at the Royal Northern College of Music. Afterwards he went to the Netherlands and became among others principal cellist of the Residentie Orkest and the solocellist of the Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orchestra. From 1996 het was […]
