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The Nordic
Historical Keyboard Festival will present its second edition in Kuopio,
Finland, from August 14-23, 2013. Audiences will enjoy 22 concerts,
presenting outstanding keyboardist from Europe, the United States, and
Israel, including the Festival's directors keyboard performer
Michael Tsalka and clavichordist
Anna Maria McElwain, Organists
Peter Sykes and Jaana Ikonen,
harpsichordists Joyce Lindorff, Pilvikki Virtaperko, Sonia Lee, Imbi
Tarum, and Anna-Maaria Oramo, clavichordists
Marcia Hadjimarkos,
Ulrika Davidsson and
Roman Chlada and fortepianist
Kaoru Iwamura.
Repertoire
will include five centuries of keyboard music, as well as four world
premieres by renowned composers
Leonardo Coral
(Mexico),
Max Yount (U.S.A.),
Mari-anne Hof (Holland),
and
Liu Qing (China). These world premieres have been commissioned
especially for the festival.
Chamber
music will also play an important role in the festival. Invited artists
include Baroque violinist
Walter Reiter, cellist
Martin Rummel, viola da Gambist
Markus Kuikka, Raivo Tarum, baroque
trumpet and cornetto and mandolinist
Alon Sariel. The Nordic Historical
Keyboard Festival will also offer 8 days of master classes. Experienced
performers will teach beginning and advanced students. Each student will
be encouraged to study two to three historical keyboards with several
professors.
Additionally, lecture-recitals will be presented with themes including
improvisation, the challenges of introducing historical keyboards to
larger audiences, Bach's Art of the Fugue, and composing
contemporary music for historical keyboards.
The
eight concert venues chosen for the festival will include the Kuopio
Cathedral, the Art Museum, and the Chamber Music Hall of Kuopio
Music Center. To register please contact director Anna Maria McElwain at
info@nordicclavichord.org or at:
+358408350268
Leonardo Coral: "Constelaciones"
for fortepiano, composed for the Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival. 2012
world premiere performance at the 1st Festival (by M. Tsalka)
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