European Impro Intensive 2013 - Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag

European Impro Intensive 2013
13-22 February 2013
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
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Contents
4.
Welcome
5.
Programme Erasmus Impro Intensive 2013
10.
Division into the groups 13 February
11.
Programme seminar 16 February
12.
Preliminary Concert Programme
13.
List participants
15.
Biographies tutors
28.
Who is who – students
32.
Addresses
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Dear students and teachers,
Welcome to the second edition of the ERASMUS Intensive Project on Improvisation at the Royal
Conservatoire in The Hague!
We are very happy and honored to welcome so many distinguished guests from so many different
countries, and are looking forward to our time together during the coming 10 days.
This edition of the ERASMUS builds upon the great success of the first edition, which took place
during January 2012. The first edition showed that the rationale behind the project was (and still
is) highly relevant. Not only was the project a great (some even called it a revelatory) experience
for virtually all participating classical music students, in which they developed their artistic and
instrumental skills, but the idea of starting with improvisation workshops followed by students
having the responsibility to lead improvisation workshops themselves prooved to be very effective.
The result was a series of excellent context-related performances, in which students improvised
with school children, other students in the conservatoire and in unusual settings.
This year’s project will be no less exciting. With a teaching staff that consists of teachers that were
part of the team last year but also several new ones, it is to be expected that this edition of the
European Impro Intensive will again be a wonderful example of experimentation and artistic
innovation. The emphasis of the project will be slightly different from the previous edition, as most
of the activities will be focused on the community of the Royal Conservatoire itself. As was the case
last year, the project will start with a series of improvisation workshops, in which the participating
classical music students will be coached to become proficient improvisers. During the second part
of the project, the students and teachers will then visit various group classes in the classical music
and jazz departments to do improvisation sessions with the students in these classes. This will not
only result in improvisation sessions with small ensembles, but also with the baroque orchestra
that will be doing a project week simultaneously to the Impro Intensive and with the large First
Year’s Choir. The purpose of this approach is that no one in the conservatoire will be able to escape
the improvisation craze that will take place during the Impro Intensive.
I am also proud to present to you a beautiful booklet that has been produced to showcase the
results of the improvisation projects that took place at the Royal Conservatoire during the
academic years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. The report confirms the ambition of the Royal
Conservatoire to take the lead in addressing innovation in the training of classical musicians.
Let me take this opportunity to thank all students and professors for taking the time to come to
The Hague for this unique event. Furthermore, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to
Karst de Jong, Bert Mooiman, Rolf Delfos, Gerda van Zelm, Johannes Boer, Wouter Turkenburg,
Susanne van Els en Renee Jonker for their tireless support to this project. Finally, many thanks
should also be extended to the excellent organizing team, Irina Bedicova and Else van Ommen.
Martin Prchal, vice-principal Royal Conservatoire The Hague
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Programme Erasmus Impro Intensive 2013
(Programme subject to change)
Tuesday 12 February
Various activities for the Estonian students
Wednesday 13 February
10.00-12.00 St1
Vocal Workshop with Anne-Liis Poll (for KC vocal students and students
IP who are already in The Hague and are willing to join)
13.00
Welcome Desk at reception open
13.00
St1
Lunch all participants
14.00
St1
Opening
15.00-17.00
Selection Workshops 1 (students divided into the groups see page 9)
M201 Group A
John Ruocco
M502 Group B
Bert Mooiman
Tar2 Group C
Renee Jonker
St1
Group D
Dan Dediu
Tar1 Group E
Rolf Delfos
M602 Group F
Max Tabell
M402 Group G
Paul Dinneweth/Karst de Jong
17.00-19.00
Selection Workshops 2
M201 Group A
Dan Dediu
M502 Group B
John Ruocco
Tar2 Group C
Rolf Delfos
St1
Group D
Bert Mooiman
Tar1 Group E
Renee Jonker
M602 Group F
Paul Dinneweth/Karst de Jong
M402 Group G
Max Tabell
19.00
Dinner
20.00-21.00 AS
Kick-off Concert (Arnold Schoenberg hall)
Teachers welcome concert: Ernst Reijseger, Karst de Jong + Rolf Delfos duo,
Anne-Liis Poll, Bert Mooiman and John Ruocco
Thursday 14 February
09.15-10.45 AS
Vocal Workshop with Anne-Liis Poll with the First Year's Choir
09.30
St1
Kick-off with all students and teachers; Announcement of the groups
10.00-13.00
Workshops
St4
Group A
John Ruocco
Tar1 Group B
Bert Mooiman
M301 Group C
Sigmund Thorp
Tar2 Group D
Dan Dediu
St3
Group E
Rolf Delfos
St1
Group F
Max Tabell
M402 Group G
Paul Dinneweth/Karst de Jong
13.00
Lunch
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14.00-17.00
M502
Tar1
M301
Tar2
St3
St1
M402
16.00-18.00 St1
17.30
19.00-21.00 St1
Workshops
Group A
John Ruocco
Group B
Bert Mooiman
Group C
Anne-Liis Poll/Sigmund Thorp
Group D
Dan Dediu
Group E
Rolf Delfos
Group F
Max Tabell till 16.00 h
Group G
Paul Dinneweth/Karst de Jong
Mastercircle students Martin Prchal with Ernst Reijseger
Dinner
Presentation of the project “In the Border Area There are No Limits” by
Sigmund Thorp
Friday 15 February
10.00-13.00
Workshops
M502 Group A
John Ruocco
Tar1 Group B
Bert Mooiman
M301 Group C
Anne-Liis Poll
Tar2 Group D
Dan Dediu
St3
Group E
Rolf Delfos/Agustí Fernández
St1
Group F
Max Tabell
M402 Group G
Paul Dinneweth/Karst de Jong
13.00
Lunch
14.00-17.00
Workshops
M502 Group A
John Ruocco
Tar1 Group B
Bert Mooiman
M301 Group C
Anne-Liis Poll
Tar2 Group D
Dan Dediu
St3
Group E
Rolf Delfos/Agustí Fernández
St1
Group F
Max Tabell
M402 Group G
Paul Dinneweth/Karst de Jong
* During dinner there will be new empty lists on the announcement board where students can
subscribe themselves for the new groups.
17.30
Dinner
19.00-21.00 St1
Open stage
Saturday 16 February
10.00-17.30 St1
Seminar
13.00
Lunch
17.30
Drinks hosted by the municipality of The Hague, alderman of culture, Ingrid
van Engelshoven
18.15
Dinner
On the announcement board the new list of groups will be presented.
Evening free
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Sunday 17 February
10.00-13.00
Groups’ rehearsals
13.00
Lunch
14.00-17.00
Workshop in new groups
Group A
Agustí Fernández /Max Tabell
Group B
Christoph Baumann
Group C
Rolf Delfos
Group D
Bert Mooiman
Group E
Ernst Reijseger
Group F
Karst de Jong/Noam Sivan
Group G
Paul Dinneweth
No organised dinner
Evening free
Monday 18 February
10.00-13.00
Workshops
Group A
Agustí Fernández/Max Tabell
Group B
Christoph Baumann
Group C
Rolf Delfos
Group D
Bert Mooiman/Alexandros Markeas
Group E
Ernst Reijseger
Group F
Karst de Jong/Noam Sivan
Group G
David Dolan/Paul Dinneweth
13.00
Lunch
14.00-17.00
Workshops
Group A
Agustí Fernández/Max Tabell
Group B
Christoph Baumann/Anto Pett
Group C
Rolf Delfos
Group D
Bert Mooiman/Alexandros Markeas
Group E
Ernst Reijseger until 15.30
Group F
Karst de Jong/Noam Sivan
Group G
David Dolan
17.30
Dinner
19.00-21.00 St1
Lecture concert Noam Sivan about classical improvisation and the
improvisation of a Sonata in 4 movements
Noam Sivan - 4 movement Sonata, David Dolan, Bert Mooiman, Karst de Jong
Tuesday 19 February
10.00-13.00
Workshops
Group A
Agustí Fernández
Group B
Christoph Baumann/Anto Pett
Group C
Rolf Delfos/Claron McFadden
Group D
Bert Mooiman/Alexandros Markeas
Group E
Ernst Reijseger
Group F
Karst de Jong/Noam Sivan
Group G
David Dolan
11.00-13.00
Lecture orchestral improvisation with period instruments by Mr. Kris Verhelst
and Patrick Ayrton
13.00
Lunch
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14.00-17.00
17.30
19.00-21.00 St1
Workshops
Group A
Agustí Fernández
Group B
Christoph Baumann/Anto Pett
Group C
Rolf Delfos/Claron McFadden
Group D
Bert Mooiman/Alexandros Markeas
Group E
Ernst Reijseger
Group F
Karst de Jong
Group G
David Dolan
Dinner
Workshop Claron MacFadden
For all participants and KC vocal students
Wednesday 20 February
10.00-13.00
Workshops
Group A
Karst de Jong /Claron McFadden
Group B
David Dolan
Group C
Bert Mooiman
Group D
Augusti Fernandes
Group E
Christoph Baumann
Group F
Andrei Tănăsescu
Group G
Anto Pett
13.00
Lunch
14.00-17.00
Workshops
Group A
Karst de Jong /Claron McFadden
Group B
David Dolan
Group C
Bert Mooiman /Juan de la Rubia
Group D
Agustí Fernández
Group E
Christoph Baumann
Group F
Andrei Tănăsescu
Group G
Anto Pett
16.00
AS
Improvisation orchestra rehearsal by Anto Pett
17.30
Dinner
19.00
St1
Concert Ernst Reijseger + students
Thursday 21 February
10.00-13.00
Workshops
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
13.00
Lunch
Karst de Jong
David Dolan
Bert Mooiman Juan de la Rubia
Agustí Fernández
Christoph Baumann
Andrei Tănăsescu
Anto Pett
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14.00-16.15
16.30 AS
17.30
19.00
St1
Friday 22 February
10.00
13.00
14.00
St1
16.00
AS
18.00
Workshops
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Concert Early
Dinner
Open stage
Karst de Jong
David Dolan
Bert Mooiman /Juan de la Rubia
Agustí Fernández
Christoph Baumann
Andrei Tănăsescu
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Music Department
Preparation final concert
Lunch
Evaluation
Final presentation with performances of the groups
Dinner and Goodbye
St = KC studio
M = KC classroom
AS = Arnold Schoenberg hall (KC concert hall)
Tar = Tarwekamp (see the address at the end of the booklet)
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Wednesday 13 February
Group A
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
15-17hrs
M201
17-19hrs
M201
Danielle Dahl (sax)
Michel Labuyère (double bass)
Francesc Guzmán (violin)
Reut Shabi (voice)
Hugo Loi (sax)
Baiba Bartkevica (voice)
Group B
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
15-17hrs
M502
17-19hrs
M502
Jan-Pieter Crols (piano)
Thomas Bouzy (viola)
Octavian Moldovean (flute)
Fra Rustumji (violin)
Camille Verhaak (clarinet)
Nora Fischer (voice)
Group C
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
15-17hrs
Tarwe 2
17-19hrs
Tarwe 2
Eira Sjaastad Huse (voice)
Helmi Malmgren (clarinet)
Ville Syrjäläinen (percussion)
Vivienne Liaio (piano)
Pieter de Koe (cello)
Kaja Nowak (violin)
Group D
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
15-17hrs
St1
17-19hrs
St1
Jenny Lewisohn (viola)
Sandra Holmberg (flute)
Ruth Fraser (voice)
Anna Daalmeijer (piano)
Loes Dooren (violin)
Group E
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
15-17hrs
Tarwe 1
17-19hrs
Tarwe 1
Hélène Elst (bassoon)
Jaan Krivel (voice/clarinet)
Benjamin Marionneau (cello)
Cornelia Zambila (violin)
Karin van der Veen (piano)
Group F
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
15-17hrs
M602
17-19hrs
M602
Rémy Reber (guitar)
Ivi Rausi (voice)
Joao Rosas Leitao (guitar)
Geerte de Koe (violin)
Tim Sabel (piano)
Anne Overpelt (clarinet)
Group G
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
15-17hrs
M402
17-19hrs
M402
Kirke Karja (piano)
Magor Szasz (double bass)
David Ruff (flute)
Alexander Rydberg (violin)
Marta Paklar (voice)
Tui Clark (clarinet)
John Ruocco
Dan Dediu
Bert Mooiman
John Ruocco
Renee Jonker
Rolf Delfos
Dan Dediu
Bert Mooiman
Rolf Delfos
Renee Jonker
Max Tabell
Paul Dinneweth/ Karst de Jong
Paul Dinneweth/ Karst de Jong
Max Tabel
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Programme seminar European Impro Intensive Saturday 16 February 2013
Koninklijk Conservatorium, Studio 1
10:00
* Welcome and presentation of publication 'Improvisation? Just do it!'
* Introduction by Helena Gaunt (Guildhall School of Music & Drama London), chair of
the day
10:15
Demonstration with students by Bert Mooiman & Karst de Jong
(ESMUC/Koninklijk Conservatorium)
11:00
Demonstration with students by Noam Sivan (Curtis Institute/Juilliard
School/Mannes School)
11:45
Break
12:15
Demonstration with students by Christoph Baumann (Musikhochschule
Luzern)
13:00
Lunch
14:00
Presentation Renee Jonker (Koninklijk Conservatorium) on 'applied improvisation' in
the project Music & Dementia
14:30
Demonstration with students by Vincent le Quang (Conservatoire de Paris)
15:15
Break
15:45
Presentation of a research on improvisation training for classical musicians by Erja
Joukarnmo-Ampuja (Sibelius Academy Helsinki)
16:15
Demonstration with students by Augusti Fernandez (ESMUC Barcelona)
17:00
Roundtable chaired by Helena Gaunt
17:30
Reception hosted by Ingrid van Engelshoven (Alderman for Culture, City Council of
The Hague).
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Preliminary Concerts’ Programme
Wednesday 13 February
20.00 in Arnold Schoenberg hall
Ernst Reijseger (cello)
Duo: Karst de Jong (piano) and Rolf Delfos (saxophone)
Anne-Liis Poll (voice)
Bert Mooiman (piano)
John Ruocco (saxophone)
Thursday 14 February
19.00 in Studio 1
Presentation of the project “In the Border Area There are No Limits” by Sigmund Thorp
Monday 18 February
19.00 in Studio 1
Evening on classical improvisation including a lecture concert by Noam Sivan with the improvisation
of a Sonata in 4 movements. Other performers: David Dolan, Bert Mooiman, Karst de Jong
Wednesday 20 February
19.00 in Studio 1
Concert Ernst Reijseger + students
Friday 22 February
16.00- 18.00 in Arnold Schoenberg hall
Final presentation with performances of every group
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List of participants
Tutors and guests
Paul Dinneweth
Yves Senden
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya
Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya
Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya
Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre
Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre
Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre
National University of Music
Bucharest
National University of Music
Bucharest
Sibelius Academy Finland
Sibelius Academy Finland
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama
Norwegian Academy of Music
Conservatoire of Paris
Conservatoire of Paris
Curtis Institute in Philadelphia,
the Juilliard School, and Mannes
College in New York
Music Universities of Lucerne and
Bern
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Juan de la Rubia
Agustí Fernández
Karst de Jong
Anto Pett
Anne-Liis Poll
Helena Tulve
Dan Dediu
Andrei Tănăsescu
Max Tabell
Erja Joukamo-Ampuja
Helena Gaunt
David Dolan
Sigmund Thorp
Vincent Le Quang
Alexandros Markeas
Noam Sivan
Christoph Baumann
Claron McFadden
Bert Mooiman
Rolf Delfos
Renee Jonker
Ernst Reijseger
John Ruocco
Students
Danielle Dahl
Eira Sjaastad Huse
Hélène Elst
Michel Labuyère
Jan-Pieter Crols
Rémy Reber
Thomas Bouzy
saxophone
voice
bassoon
doublebass
piano
guitar
viola
Francesc Guzmán
violin
Núria Andorrà
percussion
Norwegian Academy of Music
Norwegian Academy of Music
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Conservatoire of Paris
Conservatoire of Paris
Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya
Escola Superior de Música de
Catalunya
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Ivi Rausi
voice
Jaan Krivel
voice/clarinet
Kirke Karja
piano
Octavian Moldovean
flute
Magor Szasz
Helmi Malmgren
Ville Syrjäläinen
double bass
clarinet
percussion
David Ruff
flute
Jenny Lewisohn
viola
Fra Rustumji
violin
Alexander Rydberg
violin
Sandra Holmberg
Marta Paklar
Ruth Fraser
Reut Shabi
Anna Daalmeijer
Tui Clark
Loes Dooren
Hugo Loi
Benjamin Marionneau
Camille Verhaak
João Rosas Leitão
Cornelia Zambila
Nora Fischer
Karin van der Veen
Baiba Bartkevica
Geerte de Koe
Tim Sabel
Anne Overpelt
Vivienne Liao
Pieter de Koe
Kaja Nowak
flute
voice
voice
voice
piano
clarinet
violin
saxophone
cello
clarinet
guitar
violin
voice
piano
voice
violin
piano
clarinet
piano
cello
violin
Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre
Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre
Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre
National University of Music
Bucharest
National University of Music
Bucharest
Sibelius Academy Finland
Sibelius Academy Finland
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama
Guildhall School of Music and
Drama
Royal College of Music in
Stockholm
Royal College of Music in
Stockholm
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
Royal Conservatoire The Hague
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Biographies tutors
Christoph Baumann
Christoph Baumann grew up with western classical
music and is also deeply rooted in the percussive
idioms of contemporary jazz and afrocuban music. His
artistic work is oscillating between the poles outgoing
improvisation and composition, and he but likes to
question the granted positions with humor and
absurdity. As a pianist and in particular as a
composer he assumes stimulating or critical stances
by means of playfully confronting and fusing attitudes
and mentalities. His pervading interest to bring
different musical stiles into a dramatical context is
particularly evident in his big speciality, to taylor his composed and improvised music tightly to
theatre and radio plays, dance, films and his three speech-operas. Baumann teaches at the Music
Universities of Lucerne and Bern and performs internationally with a big variety of soloists and
ensembles. Since the late 70s he is noted for unconventional projects such as the Jerry Dental
Kollekdoof, the Latin-experimental band Mentalities, Cadavre Exquis, Baumann Large Ensemble,
Afro Garage and Hausquartett.
His musical work is well documented on CDs.
Dan Dediu
Dan Dediu (b. March 16, 1967, Braila). Romanian
composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber,
choral, vocal, and piano works that have been
performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Dediu graduated in composition at the Academy of
Music in Bucharest in 1989, where he studied with
Stefan Niculescu, Dan Constantinescu, Dan Buciu, and
Octavian Nemescu.
He later attended post-graduate courses with Francis
Burt, Günter Kahowez and Wilhelm Zobl at the
Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna
in 1990-91, as well as the annual Cursus de
Composition et Informatique Musicale at IRCAM in 1994. He earned his PhD at the National
University of Music in Bucharest in 1995.
Among his many honors are First prizes in the National Composers Competition in ClujNapoca (1986, 1988), the Brass Chamber Music Competition in Budapest-Barcs (1990)
and the Premier Concours pour Orchestre Françaises de Flûtes (2000, for Spaima).
He earned Second Prize in the Ludwigshafen am Rhein Competition (1991, for 3/2) and
Third prizes in the Mozart 1991 (1991, for Motto-Studien) and Carl Maria von Weber
(1991, for String Quartet No. 3) competitions.
Other honors include the George Enescu Prize in the George Enescu Competition in
Bucharest (1991, for Symphony No. 1) and the Music Prize of the Romanian Academy
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(1991, for String Quartet No. 3). From the Romanian Composers Union, he earned the
Prize for Chamber Music (1992, for Hörner-Stimmen aus einem unbekannten Requiem),
the Prize for Symphonic Music (1995, for HYPERKARDIA), the prizes for opera (PostFiction) and musicology (with his wife, Valentina Sandu-Dediu) (1998), and the Prize for
Choral Music (1999, for Stabat Mater).
Lastly, he earned the Prize for EXPO 2000 in Hannover from the Romanian Development
Agency (2000), the Prize of the Galliard Ensemble International Composers Competition
in London (2000), the Neuköllner Opernpreis in Berlin (2002), and the Prometheus-Opera
Prima, a Romanian cultural award (2002).
He has earned scholarships from the Alfred-Töpfer-Stiftung (1990, Hamburg), the AlbanBerg-Stiftung (1991, Vienna), fellowships from New Europe College (1997-98,
Bucharest), the Wissenschaftskolleg (1998, Berlin), the Zuger Kulturstiftung Landis und
Gyr (2002, Berlin) and the one year residency of Villa Concordia Bamberg (2005-6). In
2000, his music was heard at the ISCM World Music Days in Luxembourg.
Paul Dinneweth
Paul Dinneweth completed his studies (organ, piano, singing, Music
history, fugue, choral and orchestral conducting, improvisation) at
the Lemmens Institute and the conservatories of Utrecht and Den
Haag.
After teaching for many years at several music schools in Flanders,
he currently teaches group improvisation, ear training and piano
improvisation for music therapists at the Lemmens Institute and
conservatories of Antwerp and Brussels.
In 1991 he was laureate of the International Improvisation Contest
in Knokke-Heist.
Since he followed an intensive postgraduate at Guildhall School in
London he became more creative in his approach as a teacher and
performer.
Paul Dinneweth is a freelance organist and workshop leader and he
conducts the Chorale Caecilia (Antwerp) and Musica Nova (Boom).
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David Dolan
Photographer: Suzan Farkas
David Dolan has devoted a part of his career as a concert pianist,
researcher and teacher to the revival of the art of classical
improvisation. In his performances, he incorporates extemporisation
into the relevant concert repertoire in repeats, eingangs and cadenzas.
David has performed world wide in concert venues and festivals, such
as the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London, Auditorium
Châtelet and Salle Pleyel in Paris, Concertgebouw and Anton Philipzaal
in Holland, the Jerusalem Theatre and Tel-Aviv Museum in Israel. He
has made live recordings and broadcasts for radio and TV stations.
David is a professor at the Yehudi Menuhin School as well as at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he is head of the Centre
for Creative Performance and Classical Improvisation. He is frequently
invited to give master classes at a number of the world’s leading music
institutions, such as the Juilliard School, the Royal College in London,
the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, the Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne,
The Chopin University in Warsaw, the New England Conservatory in Boston, the Jerusalem and TelAviv Music Academies, Verbier festival, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the Paris and Geneva
Conservatories. David is an associate fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
David Dolan’s CD "When Interpretation and Improvisation Get Together" includes improvisations
and works influenced by improvisations. Yehudi Menuhin’s response to it was: "David Dolan is
giving new life to classical music."
Born in Israel, David Dolan studied piano with Prof. Sonia Valin and composition and improvisation
with Prof. Haim Alexander at the Jerusalem Academy of Music in, where he obtained his B. Mus.,
First Prize, as well as the "Artist Diploma - Summa Cum Laude". He then studied with Leon Fleisher
at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and with Claude Frank in New York. In 1977 he took part
in Arthur Rubinstein's class in Jerusalem. His PhD work examined similarities between emotional
expression in speech and musical improvisation. Later research work focuses on creativity,
communication and expression in performance.
Agustí Fernández
Agustí Fernández (Palma de Mallorca, 1954), with a perfectly based
career and a well-deserved international reputation, is one of the
Spanish musicians of major international projection and a world
reference in the field of improvised music. Fernández has worked with
the founders fathers of the free improvisation scene Peter Kowald,
Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Barry Guy, a.m.o., and with
improvisers from all over the world. He is a member of the Evan
Parker Electro-acoustic Ensemble and of the Barry Guy New
Orchestra, since 2002. Up to the current date he has published more
than 50 cd's.
Along his professional life AF has received many recognitions, and his
solo for piano "Mutza" presented in New York in 2007 was
distinguished by the New York magazine AllAboutJazz as one of 10
best concerts from that year. The CD "Un llamp que no s'acaba mai"
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on PSI (Agustí Fernández, John Edwards and Mark Sanders) has been distinguished by Allaboutjazz
as one of the best 10 cd's in 2009; the CD "Aurora" on Maya Recordings (Agustí Fernandez, Barry
Guy and Ramón López) was selected by the Cuadernos de Jazz magazine as the best CD in 2007,
by the Jaç magazine as the best fourth disc of the history of the Catalan jazz and it was Disc
d'émoi (February, 2007) for the French Jazz Magazine.
In 2010 Agustí Fernández received the "Ciutat de Barcelona Music Award" granted by the Council
of Barcelona.
Since 2001 Fernández is titular teacher of improvisation at the Catalonia High Music School (Escola
Superior de Música de Catalunya).
Helena Gaunt
Dr. Helena Gaunt is the Assistant Principal (Research and Academic
Development) at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London,
where she provides strategic leadership in research, innovation and
enterprise. She is also a National Teaching Fellow (2009). Her current
research focuses on one-to-one and small group tuition in
conservatoires, orchestral musicians in the twenty first century, and the
role of improvisation (verbal and musical) in developing professional
expertise. She is an Associate of the Centre for Musical Performance as
Creative Practice (CMPCP), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council. Alongside research, she is a professional oboist, and has been
a member of the Britten Sinfonia. She is a co-editor of Music
Performance Research and a member of the Editorial Board of the
British
Journal
of
Music
Education.
Helena
co-directs
the
InnovativeConservatoire seminars, a programme of international
professional development for conservatoire teachers, and is also the Chair of the Forum for
Instrumental and Vocal Teaching for the International Society of Music Education (ISME). From
2007-2010 she chaired the Research group of the Polifonia project for the Association of European
Conservatoires (AEC), resulting in a Polifonia handbook Researching Conservatoires. Helena lives in
London and has five children, including two sets of twins.
Karst de Jong
Karst de Jong (1961) studied classical Piano and Music Theory at
the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Shortly after completing his
studies, he was appointed as a professor of music theoretical subjects at
the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory of
The Hague. He specialized in piano improvisation and the relation
between analysis and interpretation of the piano literature. Since 2003
he has been appointed professor of improvisation and compositiontechniques at the ESMUC (Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya) in
Barcelona.
He
regularly
gives
concerts
with classical
and
jazz improvisations, both as a soloist and with different instrumental
combinations. He has performed concerts in various countries in Europe
and Japan. He published articles on improvisation and music theory and
appeared at numerous conferences. He is a cofounder of the Dutch
Belgian society of Music Theory and editor of the Dutch Journal of Music Theory. Karst de Jong has
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taught many masterclasses of improvisation at internationally renowned festivals, among them
the International Chamber Music Festival Schiermonnikoog (2008 and 2009), The Piano Pic festival
in the French Pyrenees (2009 and 2011), the Paul Badura-Skoda Music Festival in Vila-seca, Spain
(2011) and the Gümüslük classical music festival in Turkey (2012). He recently released his first
CD with solo-piano improvisations. Karst de Jong currently lives in Barcelona.
Erja Joukamo-Ampuja
Erja Joukamo-Ampuja graduated from Sibelius-Academy 1987
making her Master of Music with excellent degrees and she has
completed her studies ( 1984-2001) in Norway, Austria, Germany,
England,
Canada
and
USA
with
famous
pedagogues.
Joukamo-Ampuja has played with the Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra years 1984-2001 and she has been teaching the French
Horn at the Sibelius-Academy since 1987, now being a Professor of
Horn and Pedagogy and Art Education. She is also a certificated ear
training teacher.
She is an active recitalist and a chamber musician as well as a well
known lecturer and a teacher.
In teaching and lecturing Erja Joukamo-Ampuja has specialized in:
Mental
practicing
in
music
teaching
/
performing
- Creative approach to teaching and improvising
- Teaching ear training and body pulse many practical ways for
instrumental players
- How to practice the best way (lectures prepared together with a medical doctor)
Erja has done research about "Creative musicianship skills" - courses effect to musicians skills,
thinking and creativity. Licentiate work 2010.
She has also been participating different research projects:
- Mental training and coaching in instrumental teaching (1994-1997)
- Music assessing : teacher-student situation and effective learning.(1999)
- Learning, Problem based learning (2001-2004)
- How to teach ear training to instrumentalists (brass, woodwinds, vocal, strings) more practical
way (2002)
- Research about brass players technique and ergonomics (2000-2010)
She is a member of Music Medicine Association (supervising board) in Finland since 2000.
She is a member of NORHORNPED (Scandinavian horn pedagogues group) since 1993.
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Vincent Lê Quang
Saxophonist whose insatiable appetite leads from Jazz to contemporary
and classical music, Vincent Lê Quang has a complete musical activity,
composing, improvising, conducting and teaching. Fine player of the
soprano saxophone,he has developed an immediately recognizable
sound and style. He discovered Soundpainting with Walter Thompson in
1999 and soon integrated contributions of this sign language in his
creations, always refining the expressive power of each technique
employed. Lê Quang is now a member of the Walter Thompson
Orchestra, based in New York City.
He is regularly invited by ensembles, as well as various musical
institutions (Hochschule Luzern, Colburn School in Los Angeles, Paris
Conservatoire, Trondheim NTNU ...). He received a commission from
the contemporary music ensemble Cairn, piece half written and half
composed with Soundpainting called Saisons. He plays with musicians
like László Fassang, Claude Delangle, Daniel Humair, Jean-Paul Celea in prestigious halls such as
the Library of Congress (Washington), the Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow), Palace of Arts (Budapest)
Cité de la Musique (Paris)... He is Professor at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) since 2007.
Alexandros Markeas
Alexandros Markeas was born in Greece in 1965, the
pianist and composer Alexandros Markeas studied in his
native country before entering the Paris Conservatoire,
where he studied piano, chamber music and
composition,
furthering
his
composition
studies
thereafter at IRCAM. His musical style ranges from free
improvisation, compositional works, and works with
multimedia. Over the last ten years, his music has been
performed in France by major contemporary ensembles,
including Ensemble Intercontemporain, as well as the
Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, and the
Percussions de Strasbourg, to name but a few.
Recipient of numerous commissions in France and throughout Europe, he has also been actively
engaged in theatre, notably through the long term project “Le Traité des Formes” with JeanFrançois Peyret, and has written extensively for young audiences and amateur ensembles. A keen
pedagogue, Markeas was appointed Professor of Improvisation at the Paris Conservatoire in 2003.
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Claron McFadden
Claron McFadden studied voice at the Eastman School of
Music in Rochester, New York. Her celebrated opera roles are
numerous and varied, including the title role of Lulu
conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and The controller in Jonathan
Dove's Flight, both performed at Glyndebourne; Zerbinetta in
Graham Vick's production of Ariadne auf Naxos at the Dutch
National Opera, where she has also performed many times;
and numerous projects she has toured throughout Europe,
including Dido and Aeneas and Les Indes Galantes, which she
also performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.
She sings many of the major oratorio works, but is also in
demand for her interpretation of modern and contemporary
music, in particular the music of Wolfgang Rihm and Harrison
Birtwistle. She performed in the world premiere of Birtwistle's
The Woman and the Hare at Southbank Centre’s Queen
Elizabeth Hall and in August 2009 at the BBC Proms with the
Nash Ensemble.
Her many recordings include Birtwistle's Paul Celan Songs,
Haydn's Orfeo and Gluck's Paride ed Elena with La Stagione
Frankfurt and as Aspasia in Handel's Alexander Balus with the King's Consort for Hyperion Records.
She has also made many television appearances, including Channel 4's My Night with Handel,
performance documentary of contemporary settings of Handel’s operatic arias, available on video
and DVD.
Recent engagements were with L’Europe Galante (Didone, Scala), Göttingen Händel Festspielen,
tours with Orchestra of the 18th Century, concerts with the Residentie Orchestra, engagements with
the Dutch National Opera (After life , Rage d’Amours) etc., in Lyon, projects with companies like les
Ballets C de la B, Muziek Lod, Transparant, ballet company Leine & Roebana, chamber music
projects with Arditti Quartet, Minquet Quartet, a concert tour through Europe with l’Anima Eterna,
concerts with the NDR and WDR Symphony Orchestra, concerts with Münchner Kammerorchester,
Orchestre de Lugano, Platée with the Nationale Reis Opera, and various chamber music projects
with for example Arditti Quartet and the Minquet Quartet in Salzburg.
Future engagements include performances in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Claron has also
been invited by the Bayerische Staatsoper to perform a leading role in a new opera by Jörg
Widmann, a leading role in a new opera of Michel van der Aa with the English National Opera
(ENO), appearances in Festivals all over the world, etc.
In August 2007 Claron McFadden was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, winning
praise for her brilliant coloratura, her wide repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Bernstein and
contemporary composers, and her vivid stage personality.
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Bert Mooiman
The Dutch pianist, organist, church musician and music theorist
Bert Mooiman studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague,
The Netherlands. He took his certificates as a solo pianist (prof.
Theo Bruins) and organist (prof. Wim van Beek) cum laude, and
received
the
Fock-medal
for
his
extraordinary
artistic
achievements. He was a prize-winner at international competitions
in Groningen and Ljubljana. In 2003 he finished his studies as a
music theorist with a paper on the relation between the work of
O.Messiaen and French tonal harmony, which was rewarded with
the Martin J. Lürsen – prize. The performances of Bert Mooiman
encompass piano recitals, chamber music, solo concerts with
orchestra, organ recitals and basso continuo playing. Since 2000
he is a professor for music theory, improvisation and piano at the
Royal Conservatoire. Bert Mooiman frequently publishes about
theoretical subjects. He delivered papers at conferences of the
Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory and the German
Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, and gives guest lectures for HOVO at
Leiden University.
Anto Pett
Anto Pett graduated from Conservatoire of Tallinn (now
renamed Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) as a
pianist and composer. Since1987 he has been teaching
harmony and improvisation in the Estonian Academy of
Music and Theatre.
In 1988 he discovered, that improvisation was to become
his main means of artistic expression. Since 2002 A. Pett is
a regular professor of contemporary improvisation in Est.
Academy of Music and Theatre. During his over twenty
years of teaching A. Pett has developed an original
improvisation teaching method, that works successfully in
teaching process with all instruments and singers. Many of
his students have been awarded prizes at the Leipzig Improvisation competition.
A. Pett has presented his teaching method and made masterclasses in many Music Schools of
Estonia and in several Music Academys and Conservatoire´s (now 38) in abroad ( Helsinki,
Stockholm, Oslo, Haag, Utrecht, Hamburg, Odense, Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Riga, Vilnius,
Antwerpen, Cardiff, Glasgow, Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Brigthon, Vienna, Evanston, London, etc.).
He has directed following improvisation groups: „Extemporists“ (1994-97) and PROimPRO (1998 2002). On 2006 together with his main performing partners, Anne-Liis Poll (voice) and Jaak
Sooäär (el. guitar), was established „Free Tallinn Trio“. This ensemble had the first success in
concert of festival „Christopers“ , in Vilnius , 2006. These groups are invited to Festivals of
contemporary music, improvisation and modern dance in Estonia, England, France, Finland, Poland,
Germany, Sweden and USA etc. A. Pett has also made improvisation solo concerts in several
European countries. He has conducted an improvisation orchestra concerts in many countries (e.g.
GIO – Glasgow Improvisation Orchestra, Vienna, Helsinki, Stockholm)
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In 2003-2005 he has recorded 15 CD-s together with different improvisation artists to Erol
Records, CGA collection (improvized music). 2 CD s with Leo Records 2010 – A Tale – with Free
Tallinn Trio and 2012 – PlayWork – duo with Bart van Rosmalen (cello). Among the improvisators
whom A.Pett has co-operated are: Kent Carter, Sylvain Kassap, Joelle Leandre, Etienne Rolin,
Francois Rosse, Emile Biayenda, Albrecht Maurer, Sten Sandell, Petras Visniauskas, Stanislaw
Skoczynski etc. His improvisation teaching method „A. Pett`s teaching system“ is published on
2007 by edition „Fuzeau“, www.edidions-classique.com with CD of exercises.
Anne-Liis Poll
Anne-Liis Poll received her degree in choir conducting under the
direction of professor Kuno Areng of the Tallinn Conservatoire (the
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre at present) in 1987. She
earned great success in the same field as a founder and conductor
of the chamber choir Eesti Projekt. The choir became rapidly a
significant rival to Estonia’s best choirs, winning the Grand Prix at
the international choir festival Tallinn ’8 8. A.-L. Poll has studied
singing under the direction of Galli Kulkina, Prof. Eva MärtsonWilson and Prof. Matti Pelo. A.-L. Poll has appeared as soprano
soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, Händel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt,
Mozart’s Mass in C minor etc. She has also performed solo
cantatas
by
Telemann,
Bach,
Händel,
Vivaldi
etc.
At the moment A.-L. Poll is teaching singing and voice
improvisation in EMTA (the Estonian Academy of Music and
Theatre) drama department, voice improvisation in EMTA and EKA (the Estonian Academy of Art).
A.-L. Poll has developed a teaching method of voice and creativity Voice Games what she has
presented in her workshops in different academies and conservatories of Europe (Warsaw, Vienna,
Glasgow, Cardiff, Antwerpen, Helsinki, Udine etc.)
Anne-Liis Poll and Anto Pett started their cooperation at the turn of the millennium. They have
since performed together at concerts and festivals all around the world and improvised with a
range of respected musicians. As the result of their long term partnership, the duo has developed a
new music genre - ImproMonoOpera, a masterpiece of improvised structure and libretto. Together
with Jaak Sooäär (electric guitar) they have also established the Free Tallinn Trio, achieving
remarkable success in festivals and concerts at home and abroad.
Ernst Reijseger
Cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger (1954) plays the cello from the age of seven and began as a
performing cellist and improviser in 1969. From that time on he developed
his own musical
vocabulary. In 1974 his teacher Anner Bijlsma advised him to cease his music education at the
Amsterdam Conservatory and pursue his own way.
Many of Reijseger’s collaborations cannot be classified into genres. He writes for and improvises
with musicians and ensembles of different musical disciplines and nationalities. He gives solo
recitals, performing his own music.
For solo concerts Reijseger uses a 4-string and a 5-string cello.
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In 2010 he received an Edison ‘Hedendaags Klassiek’ (Contemporary
Classical) for his second solo album Tell Me Everything
(Winter&Winter).
Reijseger coöperated with saxophonist Sean Bergin, pianist Burton
Greene, drummer Martin van Duynhoven, guitarist Derek Bailey,
percussionist Alan Purves and guitarist Franky Douglas, bass player
Lesley Joseph, tabla player Trilok Gurtu and cellist Yo Yo Ma, pianist
Franco d' Andrea, clarinetist Louis Sclavis, pianist Simon Nabatov,
singer Mola Sylla and percussionist Serigne Gueye, bass player Mats
Eilertsen, drummer Thomas Strønen, multi-instrumentalist Stian
Carstensen and drummer Jarle Vespestad, reed player
Fredrik
Ljungkvist, singer Maria Pia de Vito, pianist Uri Caine, pianists
Harmen Fraanje and Wolfert Brederoode, accordion player Luciano
Biondini, tuba player Michel Godard, cellist Giovanni Sollima.
He was part of the Theo Loevendie Consort, Guus Janssen Septet,
Arcado String Trio, Trio Clusone with Michael Moore and Han Bennink,
Misha Mengelberg’s Instant Composers Pool, Gerry Hemingway Quintet, Amsterdam String Trio,
trio with pianist Georg Graewe and percussionist Gerry Hemingway, trio with trumpet player Eric
Vloeimans and guitarist Anton Goudsmit, duo with pianist Harmen Fraanje and trio with Harmen
Fraanje and singer Mola Sylla.
In 1985 Reijseger was awarded with the Boy Edgar prize (Dutch prize for jazz and improvised
music). In 1995 he received the Bird Award from the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Reijseger collaborates with the Sardinian vocal group Tenore e Concordu de Orosei. With them and
Senegalese singer Mola Sylla he performs a concert version of the music for the films by Werner
Herzog. The title of this performance and the cd is Requiem for a Dying Planet.
For the Amsterdamse Cello Biënnale 2010 Reijseger worked with 140 young cellists, who
eventually assembled in one orchestra, the Mega Kinder Cello Orkest.
On the island La Réunion Reijseger met the group Groove Lélé. This accidental encounter has led to
a close friendship and a musical collaboration. They recorded the album Zembrocal Musical
(Winter&Winter).
The cd Zembrocal Musical received the French prize ‘Trophée des Arts Afro Carabiéen’ for 'Best
album 2010’. Groove Lélé & Reijseger were also nominated for 'Best Group 2010’.
Juan de la Rubia
Juan de la Rubia, born in Valencia in 1982. He studied
as organist, pianist and harpsichord player in Valencia,
Barcelona, Berlin and Toulouse. His teachers have been
Oscar Candendo, Montserrat Torrent, and Michel
Bouvard. At the same time, he attended masterclasses
with Daniel Roth, Bernhard Haas, Enrico Viccardi,
Wolfgang Zerer, Olivier Latry and Ton Koopman.
After winning the First National Prize of Organ for young
musicians in Spain, he started his activity as soloist in
the most important halls and Spanish festivals, as well
as concerts abroad (Germany, Slovenia, Philippine
Islands, France, Guinea, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Czech
Republic). He won also another important prizes in Spain (Granada, Santiago de Compostela,
Valencia,Barcelona).
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Specialized in improvisation, he studied with Emilio Molina and Wolfgang Seifen in Barcelona and
Berlin, and he frequently plays improvisations during his concerts.
He has played with different orchestras and choirs like "Camerata de Madrid", Choir and Orchestra
of Valencia, National Orchestra of Andorra, Royal Orchestra of Galicia, Berlin Kammerorchester Carl
Phillip Emanuel Bach, with the conductors Lorin Maazel, Fréderic Chaslin, Yaron Traub, Salvador
Mas, Maximino Zumalave, etc.
Since 2005 he is teacher at ESMUC (High School of Music of Catalonia), where he alternates his
teacher's labor and concert playing, and he is also the organist at Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
John Ruocco
John Ruocco (1952, New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is a wizard on the
tenor saxophone and clarinet. He teaches jazz-saxophone at the Royal
Conservatoire since 1987. In the mid-nineties he became conductor of
the Royal Conservatoire Big Band. He took the big band to concerts at
home and abroad as well as a to the North Sea Jazz Festival in
Rotterdam and The Hague for 20 consecutive years. John Ruocco
performed and recorded with the Peter Herbolzheimer band, and
conducted the Dutch Jazz Orchestra. He is a regular guest teacher and
workshop leader in the USA, Germany, and Taiwan. He was educated at
the, among other institutions, North Texas State University, and he
studied classical clarinet from the Brussels Conservatoire.
Noam Sivan
Pianist, composer, improviser, conductor, and interdisciplinary
artist, Noam Sivan (1978) has been featured throughout North
America, Europe, and Asia, in venues including Carnegie Hall’s
Zankel Hall, Ravinia Festival, Salle Cortot in Paris, Zipper Hall in
Los Angeles, Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Cultural Center of the
Philippines, Chicago Cultural Center, Scotia Festival in Canada,
Jerusalem Theater, and Tel Aviv Museum. He has premiered his
own piano concerto in the triple role of soloist, conductor, and
composer. He also performed the Asian premiere of the Viktor
Ullmann piano concerto with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra,
and Bach’s Goldberg Variations encored by his live improvisation
on the piece for a broadcast on Israeli national TV. His solo recital
series Chopin and Improvisations has won high praise: “Tonight we
were treated to an exceptional piano recital by one of the brightest
stars in the constellation of young world-class pianists.” With over 40 compositions to his credit, his
music includes operas, scores for ballet and dance, vocal music, orchestral and chamber works.
Those have been performed by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the New York City Ballet’s
Choreographic Institute, and Mannes Opera; broadcast on over 50 radio stations in North America
and elsewhere; and recorded for Koch and Bridge labels. A notable pioneer in the revival of
improvisation in the classical music world, Noam Sivan is on the faculties of the Curtis Institute in
Philadelphia, the Juilliard School, and Mannes College in New York, where he founded improvisation
workshops and produced all-improvisation concerts, including the first-ever such concert in the
long history of the Curtis Institute. He has improvised in concerts as solo pianist; conductor of
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orchestral improvisations; and in multidisciplinary improvisations with musicians, dancers, and
actors. He holds a doctorate from the Juilliard School, having written his doctoral dissertation on
improvisation. His teachers have included Milton Babbitt, Carl Schachter, Edward Aldwell, Robert
Cuckson, and Richard Goode. www.noamsivan.com
Max Tabell
Max Tabell is a lecturer in pop/jazz piano and the head of the
music education department at the Sibelius Academy. He
graduated from the Sibelius Academy jazz music department as
a jazz pianist and has a long career as a pedagogue and as a
pianist and keyboardist in many popular pop/rock- and jazz
groups in Finland. He has released 4 CDs with his own group
Bitter Sweet (www.myspace.com/bittersweetfi) and appears as
a side man in several recordings. He has written a jazz theory
book Jazzmusiikin Harmonia, Harmony in Jazz music (University
Press 2004) and created a web site about improvisation in jazz
and
popular
music
(www.siba.fi/afroimpro).
In
recent
years Max has developed methods to teach improvisation for
beginners and classical musicians with little or no previous
experience in improvisation by applying methods of learning to
improvise traditionally used by jazz and popular music
professionals. He has also absorbed methods originally
developed for theater improvisation into his pedagogical
approach. Max is a sought after educator in Finnish music
institutions.
Andrei Tanasescu
Born in 1955 in Bucharest, Andrei Tănăsescu studied music
composition at the National University of Music in Bucharest and
he perfected his studies in Poland (1984 and 1986).
At this moment, he is Universitary lecturer and doctor at the
National University of Music in Bucharest. He achieved “Henryk
Wieniawski” prize for music composition (1986).
As pianist, he is having a rich concertistic activity and he
participated in music festivals in Holland, Finland, Japan etc.
He is the author of various films soundtracks and documentaries.
He is also composer of stage music, symphonic and chamber
music.
Andrei Tănăsescu is a member of the Union of Romanian
Musicians and Composers and also a member of Union of Romanian film makers.
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Sigmund Thorp
Sigmund Thorp is one of Norway's leading conductors. In
addition to having conducted all the Norwegian orchestras, he
has held numerous concerts with orchestras in many
European countries, including London and St.Petersburg.
He was the 1st Prize winner of Biel International Conducting
Comeptition 1989, and he also won 2nd prize in the AustrianHungarian International Conducting Competition in Pecz,
1994.
He studied orchestral conducting with Normal Del Mar and
Christopher Adey at Royal College of Music in London. During
his studies he won several prizes, including "The Tagore Gold
Medal",
as
the
best
male
student
1986.
Sigmund Thorp is Associate Professor at the Norwegian
Academy of Music in Oslo, educating tomorrow's conductors,
in addition to teaching contemporary music. He is artistic
leader of the Norwegian Academy Sinfonietta, and has
conducted more than 350 works by contemporary composers,
of
which
a
huge
number
of
national
and
international
first
performances.
Sigmund Thorp also works regularly with improvisation, and has directed many experimental
projects involving jazz musicians and classical performers.
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Who is who – students
Alexander Rydberg
Anne Overpelt
Benjamin Marionneau
Camille Verhaak
Cornelia Zambila
Danielle Dahl
David Ruff
Eira Sjaastad Huse
Fra Rustumji
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Francesc Guzmán
Geerte de Koe
Hélène Elst
Helmi Malmgren
Hugo Loi
Ivi Rausi
Jan-Pieter Crols
Jenny Lewisohn
João Rosas Leitão
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Kaja Nowak
Karin van der Veen
Kirke Karja
Loes Dooren
Magor Szasz
Marta Paklar
Nora Fischer
Núria Andorrà
Octavian Moldovean
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Pieter de Koe
Rémy Reber
Reut Shabi
Ruth Fraser
Sandra Holmberg
Thomas Bouzy
Tim Sabel
Tui Clark
Vivienne Liao
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Addresses
Royal Conservatoire
Juliana van Solberglaan 1
2595 CA The Hague
Tel: +31 70 315 15 15
Stayokay Den Haag
Scheepmakersstraat 27
2515 VA The Hague
Tel: +31 70 315 78 88
Fax: +3170 315 78 77
E-mail: denhaag@stayokay.com
Website: www.stayokay.com/denhaag
Hotel NH Den Haag
Prinses Margrietplantsoen 100
2595 BR The Hague
Tel: +31.70.3812345
Fax: +31.70.3812323
E-mail: nhdenhaag@nh-hotels.com
Studio Tarwekamp
Tarwekamp 3
2592 XG Den Haag
From the Royal Conservatoire walk to tram station TERNOOT and take tram 6 (direction
LEIDSCHENDAM/LEIDSCHENHAGE). Get off the tram at the 4th stop REIGERSBERGENWEG. Take
the right side of the road, walk 20 meters back until you see the former British School at
Tarwekamp 3 behind some house blocks. On the left-hand side of this building, you'll find the
green iron gate to the play-yard. That's where the Studio is located.
How to use the OV-chipkaart - Checking in and checking out
At the start of your journey, you check in at the gate by holding your OVchipkaart up to the screen. The sound and light signal indicates your card
has been read. You must have enough money on your OV-chipkaart to
pay for the full journey.
At that end of your journey, you must check out by holding your card up
to the gate screen. The sound and light signal once again indicates that
your card has been read. If you do not check-out you will be charged €4
for trams and buses.
The school will provide enough credit for travel to and from school, however, if you wish to explore
the city there are many shops where you can top-up the credit yourself, just look for the OVchipkaart sign in the shop windows.
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