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Carlo Jans (20.7-29.7)
Conservatory Luxembourg

Carlo JANS, flute began his first flute lessons at the age of seven, violin lessons at twelve. On the completion of his training in Luxembourg and Nancy (class of Jacques Mule), he continued studies at the Conservatoire Royal de Liège, (Diplôme Supérieur de flûte) and at the Royal Conservatory of Maastricht (Soloist's Diploma). Being a student of Raymond Guiot, he was honoured with the "1.Prix Supérieur de la Ville de Paris". He completed a two years postgraduate program at the Cologne Academy of Music in the class of Andràs Adorjàn.

Open to new musical horizons, Jans studied conducting under Jan Stulen and Jean-Philippe Rieu at the Royal Music Academy of Music in Maastricht (Conducting Diploma with honours), followed by a Postgraduate Diploma at the "Zuid Nederlandse Hogeschool voor Muziek". Further conducting studies with Jorma Panula in St.Petersbourg Since 1984, Carlo Jans has taught flute and chamber music at the Conservatory of Luxembourg, In 1999, he was awarded a professorship for flute and conducting and began leading the orchestras of conservatory. From 1997 on , he was guest professor at the Academy of Music in Riga, Latvia and often invited for masterclasses in the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Poland Czech Republic, France and the United States of America..

Carlo JANS is always a welcome guest at National and International flute conventions ( NFA New York 2009, NFA Anaheim 2010, Flute Meetings Greece in Greece 2008 and 2009, Dutch flute conventions.

From September 2002 to 2009, Carlo Jans was teaching at the Musikhochschule Saarbrücken in Germany, activity he was obliged to give up because of the increasing number of concerts as soloist and invitations to teach all over the world.

From 2009 on, Carlo Jans has been a member of the world known chamber orchestra "Solistes Européens - Luxembourg", orchestra made up of Concertmasters and soloists from the best European Orchestras.

In 1988 he founded the "Forum International pour flute et piano Diekirch/Luxembourg", a summer course followed during the last 22 years by over 750 students of 39 different nationalities. Teachers enrolled included famous flutists like Jean-Claude Gérard, Maxence Larrieu, Janos Balint, Marianne Henkel, Gaby Pas-Van Riet, Andrea Lieberknecht, Konrad Hünteler, Michael Faust, Abbie de Quant, Marc Grauwels, Jean - Michel Tanguy...

Beside his professional life as teacher, he also pursues an active career as a flutist and conductor. He has been invited to perform as soloist with RTL Symphony Orchestra, Sonderjyland Smphony Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre d'Auvergne, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, National Polish Radio Orchestra, Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra, Porto Symphony Orchestra, Switzerland Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de chambre Jean - François Paillard and the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, where he has also been guest conductor since 1997.

He has played concerts as partner of flutists like Andràs Adorjàn, Maxence Larrieu, Janos Balint, Jean-Claude Gérard, with pianists like Daniel Blumenthal, Gabriel Tacchino, jazz pianist Claude Bolling, violonist Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violist Jitka Hosprova, cellist Mirel Iancovici, harpist Katerina Englichova or chamber music groups such as Zürcher Streichtrio, String Quartet Danel, String Quartet Martinu...

As conductor, he has accompanied soloists like Cyprien Katsaris, Daniel Blumenthal, Janos Balint... Numerous composers wrote solo pieces, chamber music and concertos for him, for example, Marcel Wengler, whose concerto for flute and orchestra was first performed in the ISCM World Music Days in 2000 together with the Swiss Chamber Orchestra.

In 2005, the famous Belgian composer François Glorieux wrote for him a fantastic piece entitled "Eight Interludes" for flute and strings.The "interludes" and all the other pieces Glorieux wrote for the flute will be released soon on CD, having been recorded in Riga with the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra under the baton of the composer.

Czech composer Jindrich Feld, whose concertos Carlo Jans recorded with the Prague Radio Symphony orchestra for Pavane Records, and whose chamber music for flute will come out soon in a 3 CD set , wrote for Carlo Jans and his Czech colleagues Jitka Hosprova and Katerina Englichova a "Musique concertante" for flute, viola, harp and strings.

His discography (over 36 CDs) for labels like Pavane Records, Calliope, Arco Diva, Bella Musica and Hänsler Classics have earned him outstanding reviews in the international press and awards such as the "Grand Prix du Disque" for his recording of the chamber music of Manuel Rosenthal.

Carlo Jans is playing a Brannen-Cooper Platinum flute with 14k mechanism and a Mancke Platinum headjoint.
Carlo Jans speaks Luxemburgish, French, German, English.


More information on www.carlojans.com


Matej Zupan (20.7-29.7)

Academy of Music at University of Ljubljana



Matej ZUPAN is a Professor at the Academy of Music at University of Ljubljana. From 1996 to 2008 he was the principal flutist of the Slovenian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He completed his graduate and post graduate studies at the Academy of Music at University of Ljubljana under Professor Fedja Rupel, and later went on to complete advanced studies with Mario Ancillotti and to attend Masterclasses led by Trevor Wye, Michel Debost, Peter-Lukas Graf and James Galway. He is the winner of several first prizes and other accolades in national competitions.

As a member of the ARIART Woodwind Quintet, the ACADEMIA ARS MUSICAE Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble for contemporary Music MD7 and Chamber Orchestra of Soloists (Society of Slovene Composers) as well as the soloist he has performed extensively throughout Slovenia, Europe, both Americas and Asia.

He has recorded for Slovenian Radio and TV, RAI and ORF. Since 2010 he is a president of Jeunesses Musicales Slovenia.

Matej ZUPAN speaks English and Slovenian

 

see more on : www.matejzupan.com

 



Robert Aitken(26.7-29.7)

composer, flutist, teacher and music director



Aitken, Robert (Morris) Flutist, composer, conductor, born Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada 28 August 1939. B. Mus. (Toronto) 1961, M. Mus. (Composition) (Toronto) 1964. After flute studies with Nicolas Fiore in Toronto (1955-59) he became principal flute of the Vancouver S. O. (the youngest principal in that orchestra's history) while studying composition with Barbara Pentland at U.B.C. From 1960-64 he served as second flute of the C.B.C. Symphony Orchestra while studying electronic music with Myron Shaeffer and composition with John Weinzweig at U. of Toronto. He considers Marcel Moyse, with whom he studied intermittently for 9 years in Vermont and in Europe, as his most significant flute teacher. However, he also studied with Jean Pierre Rampal (Paris, Nice), Severino Gazzeloni (Rome), André Jaunet (Zurich) and Hubert Barwähser (Amsterdam) during his 1964-65 European sojourn on a Canada Council grant.

In 1964 Aitken, with pianist Marion Ross (his wife) and soprano Mary Morrison, formed the Lyric Arts Trio. He served 1965-70 as co-principal flute of the Toronto S. O. but gave up this position to devote himself to solo performance and to appearances with the trio and with harpsichordist Greta Kraus. He won prizes at the "Concours international de flûte de Paris" (1971) and the "Concours international de flûte pour la musique contemporaine" (1972) in Royan (France).

In 1970 Aitken founded and directed until 1972 the "Music Today" series at the Shaw Festival (Ontario) and in 1971 co-founded with Norma Beecroft "New Music Concerts" serving thereafter as artistic director. In 1977 he was one of 12 instrumentalists invited by Pierre Boulez to present a solo recital at IRCAM (Paris) playing solo pieces of Takemitsu, Morthensen, Fukushima, Globokar, Sigurbjörnsson, Y. Matsudaira, Holliger and himself.

Aitken taught 1960-75 at U. Of Toronto, 1972-82 at the Shawnigan Summer School of the Arts (British Columbia) and in 1981 founded "Music at Shawnigan", a 3-week festival devoted to advanced chamber music study. From 1985-89 he was director of the Advanced Studies in Music program at the Banff School of Fine Arts (Alberta). He has given master classes in many countries including Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the U.S.A. From 1988 to 2002 he was professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Germany.

He has also been very active as a conductor with New Music Concerts (Toronto), with orchestras in Canada and Japan and in 1987 conducted the first performance of Schafer's "Patria I" for the Canadian Opera Company.

Critical comment on his playing seems to centre on his incredible variety of dynamics and timbres and on his exquisite sense of phrasing.

Among his many awards are the Order of Canada, The Canada Music Citation, the Wm. Harold Moon Award, the Canadian Music Medal, The Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award and "Chevalier de l¹ordre des Arts et des Lettres" (France).

Some 50 works have been written for him by noted composers including Henry Brant, George Crumb, Elliott Carter, Toru Takemitsu, Roger Reynolds, Arne Nordheim, Manuel Enriquez, R. Murray Schafer, Gilles Tremblay, Bruce Mather, John Beckwith and John Weinzweig. He has more than 40 recordings to his credit.

In spite of his relatively small output, Aitken is one of Canada's outstanding composers. Like several other Canadian composers who traveled in East Asia (Gilles Tremblay, Claude Vivier and José Evangelista), he has been profoundly influenced by the contact with non-Western musical cultures. On listening to his Berceuse, one is struck by the absolute fresh use of diatonic materials, devoid of clichés, by the poetic and convincing integration of special flute effects and by the clarity of formal and rhythmic structure.

Bruce Mather
(for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians)


Robert Aitken speaks English, German and French



More information on www.bobaitken.ca


Philippe Benoit

Conservatorium Maastricht
Royal conservatory Gent
Lemmens Institute Leuven



Philippe Benoit (born 1961) teaches flute at the Maastricht Academy of Music. He also teaches flute and chamber music at the academies of music in Ghent and Leuven (Belgium). He studied at the Stedelijk Conservatorium in Kortrijk and continued his studies in flute and chamber music at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven (Belgium) with Eric Dequeker, among other teachers. He won first awards in harmony, counterpoint, and chamber music.

Benoit was flautist with a number of orchestras, including the orchestra of La Monnaie opera theatre in Brussels and the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders. He was the conductor of the Vivente Voce chorus until 2005. He is solo flautist with famous ensembles such as the Marsyas Ensemble, the Catalpa Ensemble, the Czech Virtuosi chamber orchestra, and the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense, which he also conducts. In Dutch Limburg, he is a flautist with the Amati Ensemble and principal flautist with the Limburg Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2000 he has taught the Master class at Belgium's International Music Academy. He has participated in recordings for radio and CDs.

Philippe Benoit speaks French, German, English and Dutch.

The Course of Mister Benoit is sponsored by  Altus Flute and Artis Music

Anne-Catherine Heinzmann (22.7-26.7)
Musikhochschule Nürnberg.
Anne Cathérine Heinzmann has been a guest in various concerts and international festivals during the last years and counts in the meantime among the most renown german flutists of her generation. As a soloist, chamber- and an orchestra musician she appears regularly in Germany and throughout Europe.

Grewing up in Hamburg she comes from a traditional musician family and began already as a child with the musical education.
She studied with Professor Jean-Claude Gérard (Stuttgart), Professor Jeanne Baxtresser (New York) and with Professor Michael-Martin Kofler (Salzburg). In addition she received important influences from Aurèle Nicolet and Paul Meisen.
She is a prizewinner of many national and international competitions and was supported by the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes", the chamber music foundation "Villa Musica ", the " Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben" and was promoted by the important foundation "Deutscher Musikrat".
The flutist shows an active concert activity, which led her to the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Semperoper in Dresden, to the Rudolphinum in Prague, to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and to the BBC PROMs concerts in London, to the Alte Oper Frankfurt, to the Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Biennale Munich and to MusicaMallorca.
To her chamber music partners count soloists of international orchestras and ensembles, in addition she played with Leonard Hokanson, Miriam Fried, Paul Rivinius, Aurèle Nicolet, Erik Schumann and Gustav Rivinius. Anne-Cathèrine Heinzmann is since 1999 Assistant Principal Flute at the Fankfurter Opern- and MuseumsOrchester.
Apart from her orchestra activity she dedicates herself substantially to the chamber music and the importance of the contemporary music. With her two ensembles, the Trio Charolca and the Veldana Quartet she shows en engaged concert activity and also with her pianist Thomas Hoppe (AtosTrio).
A CD recording of works by Harald Genzmer played by the Trio Charolca will be published in 2012 (Thorofon), followed by her Debut recording with works for flute and piano with her duo partner Thomas Hoppe (Audite). An album with Bach Arias (Daniel Behle, Tenor) and the Partita for Soloflute will be recorded and published in 2013, too.
Due to her passion for teaching she became in the meantime a well known teacher at numerous master classes. Her teaching concept is influenced by the work and co-operation with Professor Jeanne Baxtresser, in whose international master classes in the Music Academy Hammelburg she did participate as her assistant for a long time.
Since 2008 Anne Cathérine Heinzmann is the leader of an annual master class for flute in co-operation with the International Music Academy Schloß Rheinsberg. In October 2009 she was appointed Professor for Flute at the 'Hochschule für Musik' in Nürnberg. She is currently the youngest Flutist to hold such a position in Germany..

Anne Cathérine Heinzmann speaks German und English.

 

see more on : www.annecatherineheinzmann.de

 

Gudrun Hinze - piccolo(23.7-24.7)
Piccolo soloist Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Musikhochschule München
Musikhochschule Leipzig.
GUDRUN HINZE was born in Homburg/Saar and studied in Düsseldorf and Essen withProf. Hans - Jörgen Möhring und Prof. Matthias Rütters, Piccolo with Kurt Nitschke.
She participated with distinction in several national and international competitions, and was subsequently engaged by the WDR and MDR symphony orchestras. She has been solo piccolo flautist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra since 1993, and at the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra since 1999. From 2003-11 she has been teaching the piccolo at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover, since oct 2011 at the Musikhochschule München.
Gudrun Hinze is the specialist for the piccolo parts in the known Flute Flute Quintet Quintessenz (www.quintessenz-leipzig.de). It has also become her task to arrange compositions suitable for her quintet colleagues, as there are few pieces originally written for this ensemble. For the label Berlin Classics; first Cd recording with piccolo concertos by Vivaldi, Stephenson, Waterhouse, Mower and Schulhoff. A second Solo Cd "PicCollage" with works by McKimm, Dorff, Vivaldi and Delanoff will be available in April 2011 (Talanton records).


Gudrun Hinze speaks German und English.

Some videos :


The Course of Miss Hinze is sponsored by Adams flute center and Mancke flute

Antoni Wierzbinski(26.7-29.7)

Professor of flute of the Music Academy in Lódz , Poland .



A native of Kraków, Antoni Wierzbinski has graduated with diploma of distinction from the High School of Music in Lódz in 1969. After further study in Paris with Alain Marion he has also attended master classes with Jean Pierre Rampal and Maxence Larrieu. He is a prize- winner in the National Flute Competition of Wloszakowice (Poland) and received "Prix d'Excellence" in Flute and Chamber Music at the Conservatory Competition in Rueil -Malmaison, France in 1974.

Prof. Antoni Wierzbinski appears frequently as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe ( Netherland, France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey, Switzerland - sir Yehudi Menuhin Gstaad Festival ) and U.S.A. He was also co-principal flutist of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra for two years and has toured often with the Polish Chamber Orchestra "Sinfonia Varsovia" as a member and the guest soloist of this orchestra .

He regularly records for Polish Radio and Television, Television of Netherland. Professor of chamber music at the "Jugend Festspieltreffen" in Bayreuth (1996 - 2000). He is flute class professor in the Music Academy in Lódz - Poland as well as frequently jury member of the international flute competitions. From the 1-rst of September 2005 is rector of the Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lódz.

Antoni Wierzbinski speaks Polish, French, German, Spanish and English.

 

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Ewa Rzetecka, harpsichord (20.7-29.7)
Academy of Music Lodz , Poland



Polish harpsichordist and organist. She graduated with the highest honours from the Academy of Music in Lodz in 2003 ( prof.Leszek Kedracki ).

In 2005 - 2007 she was a student of postgraduate studies in Conservatoire de Musique in Geneve - prof. Alfonso Fedi , harpsichord, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, maestro al cembalo, Marcelo Giannini et Vincent Thévenaz, organ. She improved her technique by participation in the master classes given by Wladyslaw Klosiewicz ( Poland ), Ketil Haugsand (Norway ,Portugal ), Pierre Häntai ( France ), George Kiss( Italy ), Luca Scandali (Italy).

She gave a lot of solo concerts and recitals of chamber music in Poland ( Cracow, Warsaw, at the Filharmonics in Lodz and Czestochowa) ,Switzerland ( with Diletto Musicale ), France, Portugal, Norway, Italy ( duet on the organ with Liuwe Tamminga). In 2009 she has worked as an accompanist during summer masterclass for singers in Naleczów ( Poland ).

She was in the semifinale of the international organ competition in Muzzana in Italy. She has also played as organist of the Polish Catholique Mission in Geneva.

She cooperates with Great Theatre in Lodz ( " La Serva Padrona" - G. Pergolesi, "Impresario in angustie" -D. Cimarosa, " Xerxes" and " Julius Cesar"-G. F. Haendel ) and with the French - Swiss group Cappella - Genevensis ("Bastien et Bastienne" - W. A. Mozart, " La descente d'Orphee aux Enfers" - M - A. Charpentier).

Currently she is an assistant in Academy of Music in Lodz where she prepares her doctoral thesis. In 2009 she recorded a CD with Polish flutist Joanna Woszczyk - Garbacz with baroque music for flute and harpsichord.

Ewa Rzetecka speaks Polish, French and English.

Ewa Rzetecka will work with flutists on sonatas by Michel Blavet and J.S.Bach Introduction course to the organ and harpsichord for pianists

Cordula Hacke (20.7-29.7)

Collaborative piano/Accompaniment

Musikhochschule Düsseldorf, Germany



Since completing her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Köln, the University of Toronto and the Folkwanghochschule Essen, pianist Cordula Hacke has developed a thriving career in both Europe and North America with an emphasis on the instrumental and vocal chamber repertoire.

Her chamber music partners include principal wind and string players from some of the world's greatest orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the German Radio Symphony Orchestras (Berlin, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Cologne and Stuttgart), the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Royal Danish Opera Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Her extensive discography ranges from the works of contemporary Japanese and women composers to those of artists such as Pavel Haas, Leo Smit, and Paul Hindemith.

Having worked closely with American composer George Crumb for many years, Cordula Hacke has been invited to perform his works in prestigious festivals in Germany, Austria, Denmark, Canada and the USA. Her recording of Crumb'sVox Balaenae was released by Arte Nova-BMG Classics. Since 1996, she has collaborated with Jeanne Baxtresser, former principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic, in presenting acclaimed masterclasses in centres such as Frankfurt, Oxford, Toronto, New York, Pittsburgh and Amsterdam.

She has served as an official accompanist for the ARD International Music Competition (Munich), the Deutsche Musikrat Competition (Berlin) and the Markneukirchen International Competition. Ms. Hacke is a member of the teaching faculty at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf as well as a member of several juries of international competitions (for example president of the jury at the Internationale Kuhlau Wettbewerb, Uelzen).

Her work as musical director in recent years include the Frankfurt production of My Fair Lady (2008 / Komédie Frankfurt/M.), Acht Frauen ( 2007 / 2008 Komédie im Bayerischen Hof, München and 2006 / Fritz Rémond Theater Frankfurt/M.) and Irma la Douce (2009 / Frankfurt/M.).

Cordula Hacke speaks German, French and English.

 

see more on : www.cordula-hacke.de

 



Katrin Reifenrath (23.7-29-7)
collaborative piano, chamber music, accompaniment

Conservatory Luxembourg



Professor for piano and piano accompaniement,accompanist at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg.
After studies at the "Conservatoire National de Région de Caen", Katrin Reifenrath integrated into the "Royal Conservatory Brussels" in the class of Daniel Blumenthal and finished with "Diplôme supérieur de maîtrise avec distinction" in 2000.
During this period, she studied music theory at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (Prix d'Harmonie). Masterclasses with Marie-Paule Siruguet and Pascal Devoyon for the piano and with Elizabeth Cooper for singing leader.
Holder of the "State Diploma" in France, she was appointed professor at the Luxembourg Conservatory in 2003. She is accompanist of the flute class, violin class, trombone class and conducting class. Soloconcertos with the "Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra", "Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra-Les Musiciens", "Philharmonisches Orchester Trier", chamber music partner of Carlo Jans, Claude Giampellegrini, Marc Meyers, Stéphanie Pochet. She also took part in the opera of Udo Zimmermann Die Weisse Rose in the Theater of Luxembourg-City.
Katrin Reifenrath speaks French, German, English and Luxemburgish.

 

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