Concert
Kazunori Seo, flûte – Laurent Wagschal, piano
Samedi 3 octobre 2014 – 13:00 – Salle d’expo, Grand-Champ
Programme
- Walter Giesing- Sonatine pour flûe et piano
- Nicolo Paganini – Lambros Demetrius Callimahos
- Caprice XXIV, Variations d’après la version pour piano de Franz Liszt
- Walter Giesing – Variations sur un thème de Grieg pour flûte et piano
Gieseking et Callimahos
Gieseking and Callimahos..
Walter Gieseking is one of the great masters of piano at the beginning of the 20 th Century.
Music lovers associate him and his International career as a pianist, but also as composer, he gave us brilliantly interesting works for flute and piano. He often played these two pieces with L. Callimahos, an American / Greek, and these were extremely popular in the States.
On the other hand, this name of a noble flautist is forgotten today, as is the composer.
Lambros Callimahos won his diploma at the Julliard School in 1933 and made his debuts in 1935 as Master Flautist.
One can easily imagine that he was very important in the state of his art in Europe between the two great wars…..Today we can rediscover his name as having rearranged of The Caprice de Paganini for flute and piano.
Gieseking’s music is full of natural simplicity, showing a balance of formal and expressional , using espressivo and cantabile as his favorites.
Consequentially it is really amusing to listen to his music, and he has left a satisfying challenge to today’s musicians.
Kazunori Seo, flute
Prize-winner of the prestigious international competitions, notably « Carl Nielsen » and « Jean-Pierre Rampal » in 1998, and more « Geneva » in 2001, Kazunori SEO has won attention as one of the world’s outstanding flutists through numerous appearances as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.
He has performed with especially Patrick Gallois, Jean-Michel Damase, Emile Naoumoff, Maurice Bourgue, Jörg Demus, the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra and the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, among others in Europe, in Asia, and in North and South America…..
In 2005, he won the Pro Musicis International Award in Paris and he gives recitals regularly in Paris (Salle Cortot), New-York (Carnegie, Weill Recital Hall), Boston, Tokyo as the artist of Pro Musicis Association.
A passionate and dedicated as chamber musician, arranger & recording producer. He produce regularly many concerts and recordings for Naxos and his own label « Les Ménestrels & Virtus Classics » with Svetlin Roussev, Nicolas Dautricourt, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Laurent Wagschal, Jong-hwa Park, Makoto Ueno etc…. In 2011, he was commissioned by the Shirakawa-Hall in Nagoya (Japan), arranged two symbolic symphonies for chamber music. Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony for 6 players and Mahler’s 9th Symphony for 12 players. These arrangements got a lot of attention in the Japan music scene.
The flutist Kazunori SEO was born in Kitakyushu (Japan) in 1974. He began his musical studies since the age of 6 years with his parents who are musicians, but it is especially in Paris that he accomplished the essential of his musical studies. He studied flute in Paris with Raymond Guiot, Kurt Redel, Patrick Gallois, Benoît Fromanger and Alain Marion at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) where he was awarded the “Premier Prix” in flute in 1998. He also studied chamber music with Pascal Le Corre, Emmanuel Nunes, Christian Ivaldi, Ami Flammer, and he was awarded at the CNSMDP the “Premier Prix” in chamber music in 1999. He concluded his musical studies with Maurice Bourgue at the CNSMDP.
Laurent Wagschal, piano
After beginning his musical studies in his hometown of Annecy, Laurent Wagschal entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he received two First Prizes in the classes of Yvonne Loriod and Michel Beroff for piano, Jean Mouillère, Christian Ivaldi and Ami Flamer for chamber music. With encouragement from Leon Fleisher, Jean François Heisser and Jean Claude Pennetier, Laurent Wagschal set out on a career as soloist and chamber musician that has brought him considerable attention.
An award-winner of the Groupe Banque Populaire Foundation, he has won numerous international prizes and appeared as soloist with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Orchestre Pasdeloup, Orchestre de la Cité Universitaire de Paris, Orchestre d’Auvergne, Poznan Philharmonic, Orchestre Classica of Moscow and the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra.
Laurent Wagschal regularly appears in prestigious venues (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Musée d’Orsay and Radio France in Paris, Grand Théâtre of Bordeaux, National Music Auditorium in Madrid, Carnegie Hall in New York, Seoul Dongsoong Hall, Tokyo Opera City Recital
Hall…) and at numerous festivals (Bagatelle Chopin Festival in Paris, Midem in Cannes, Piano à Riom, Périgord Noir, Festival Présences, Automne en
Normandie…)
A chamber music enthusiast, he has played in particular with Svetlin Roussev, Julien Dieudegrad, Raphaël Perraud, Vincent Lucas, Kazunori Seo, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Alexandre Gattet, in Zellig Ensemble or in Saxiana Trio.
He has participated in chamber music concerts with the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Sendai.
His affinities with French music have led him to devote a large place for it in his recordings, jointly with the hopes of helping rarely played composers to be discovered.
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