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"Natalia Trull began studying piano in her native St. Petersburg. She later moved to Moscow where she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory. Among her teachers were professors Y. Zak, M. Voskresensky and T. Kravchenko. Her performance career was launched when she won first prize at the Belgrade International Piano Competition in 1983. However, the biggest success came in 1986 she won the silver medal at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition. The public was swept off its feet by her interpretation of composers such as Schubert and Stravinsky. Her “Petrushka” suite left an everlasting impression on the public and critics alike. In 1993, Natalia Trull was awarded the Grand Prix at the Piano Masters Competition in Monte- Carlo (where only winners of international competitions are accepted as participants). Natalia Trull’s complete control and fantastic virtuosity place her in a class of her own, and she is in great demand as a performer all over the world. Among the distinguished orchestras with whom she has performed are the London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Monte-Carlo, Tonhalle Symphony Orchestra and all of the major Russian Symphony Orchestras. Natalia Trull has also played with such conductors as Raphael Frubeck de Burgos, Raymond Leppard, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Eri Klas, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vassily Sinaisky, Yuri Temirkanov and many others. Her repertoire includes over 50 concertos, of which the Tchaikovsky concerto has proved to be the most popular, the pianist having performed the work on over one hundred occasions in the world’s leading concert halls. Her most brilliant performances of the Tchaikovsky concerto were in Hollywood Bowl under Eri Klas and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and in Suntory Hall with Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Koizumi Kazuhiro (1998-99 season). Natalia’s performances today are remarkable for her total absorption in the music her unique stage presence and technical mastery in presenting a wide repertoire of works. From 2000 Natalia Trull is Professor at the Moscow Tchaikovky Concervatory. Also she is frequently invited to give masterclasses to the U.S.A., Japan, Italy, Germany, South America etc. Jury member of many international piano competitions such as International Telekom Beethoven Piano Competition, Valencia International Piano Competition, Monte-Carlo Piano Masters Competition, International Mozart Competition Salzburg etc.
She also teaches exceptional students such as Eva Gevorgyan- pianist and composer / Prizewinner of more than 50 international piano competitions."
Recordings:
• Prokofiev – The Complete Piano Sonatas under the “DML Classic” label (Japan)
• Chopin - recital including two Sonatas, the Fantasy and Mazurkas
• Schubert - recital including the Wanderer-Fantasy, Impromptus op.90 and Schubert-Liszt Song
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Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła
Pianist, chamber musician, teacher, Habilitated Doctor of Musical Arts, associate professor at the Chair of Piano of the Chopin University of Music, from which she graduated with honours in 2004 in the piano class of Alicja Paleta-Bugaj and in the chamber music class of Krystyna Borucińska. Since 2020, she has been a Deputy Dean of the Department of Instrumental Studies of her alma mater.
Prizewinner of national and international piano competitions, including the 1st prize in the All-Polish Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2000). She received an honourable mention in the Estrada Młodych as part of the 35th Polish Piano Festival in Słupsk (2001); finalist of the International Piano Competition ‘Sergei Rachmaninov’ in Morcone (2003); winner of the second prize in the 3rd Concorso Pianistico Internazionale ‘Andrea Baldi’ in Bologna (2013). Two-time scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as well as recipient of other prestigious scholarships.
She has participated in numerous master classes led by such artists and teachers as Andrzej Jasiński, Marek Mizera, Jerzy Godziszewski, Oxana Yablonskaya, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli, Hiroko Nakamura, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Arie Vardi, Dominique Merlet, Alexei Nasedkin, Evgeny Mogilevsky, Vera Gornostaeva, Lee Kum-Sing, and Nikolai Demidenko. The artist has performed in many Polish cities (including seven philharmonic halls) as well as in renowned concert venues in Austria, Azerbaijan, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, or the USA. She has co-operated with such conductors as Łukasz Borowicz, Rafał Janiak, Monika Wolińska, Sławek A. Wróblewski, Tadaaki Otaka, Daisuke Soga and Jiří Petrdlík. She has run master classes for pianists in Poland, Azerbaijan, China, Italy, Tunisia, and the USA.
In 2014, together with Konstanty Andrzej Kulka and Tomasz Strahl, she recorded complete chamber works by Fryderyk Chopin for the DUX label. The album won the Excepcional award of the Spanish magazine Scherzo and received a nomination for a Fryderyk. In addition, the artist participated in the recording of two CDs under the Saxophone varie series (vol. 2 and vol. 3, nominated for a Fryderyk) with saxophonist Paweł Gusnar; in 2018, on the occasion of the centenary of Poland’s independence, she recorded cello sonatas by Zygmunt Stojowski and Ludomir Różycki, together with Tomasz Strahl, for Chopin University Press. In 2019, the album won a Fryderyk in the category Album of the Year – Chamber Music.
Moreover, in 2014 Agnieszka Przemyk-Bryła published the book Sonata w twórczości Siergieja Rachmaninowa [Sonata in the Output of Sergei Rachmaninov] (Toruń 2014).
Oliver Moulin
Hailed by the Washington Post as a « young artist displaying maturity and elegance », French pianist Olivier Moulin studied under Eric Heidsieck and Gery Moutier at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Lyon, where he was unanimously awarded first prize with the highest honors. After advanced studies in the same institution, he continued his training in Austria at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the classes of Karl-Heinz Kämmerling for the piano and Clemens Hagen for the chamber music, where he obtained a Master of Arts with the highest honors. Throughout his studies, he has also benefited from the advices of masters such as Aldo Ciccolini, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, Dominique Merlet, Jacques Rouvier, Sergio Perticaroli …
Prizewinner of international piano competitions, he is a regular guest at prestigious concert halls around the world : Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, the Louvre Auditorium and Radio-France in Paris, Lyon National Opera, Metz Arsenal, Mozarteum Salzburg, Franz Liszt Museum in Budapest, BASF Gesellshafthaus in Germany, Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Japan, Shanghai Concert Hall, as well as in Washington DC, Osaka, Beijing, Istanbul, New Delhi, Geneva, Lisbon, Oslo, Minsk …
He is also invited to perform at major international festivals : La Roque d’Anthéron, the Radio-France Festival, Chopin Festival in Paris, Central European Music Festival in Slovakia, Lisztomanias Festival in Istanbul, Virtuosi Festival in Brazil, Festival International de Piano « En Blanco y Negro » in Mexico City, Croisements Festival in China, Gümüsluk International Music Festival in Turkey, Bellapais International Festival in Cyprus … His concerts are regularly broadcasted by radio and television in France and abroad.
His tours have taken him to most European countries, as well as to the USA, Japan, China, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Belarus, Turkey, India, Indonesia, Algeria …
Olivier Moulin performs as a soloist with the Orchestre National de Metz, the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra in China, the Camerata de Coahuila in Mexico… under the baton of conductors Peter Csaba, Jacques Mercier, James Liu, Kanako Abe… His passion for chamber music also leads him to share the stage with numerous musicians : the Fine Arts Quartet, soloists of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, the principal trumpet of the Berlin Philharmonic David Guerrier, Bertrand Chamayou, Edwin Crossley-Mercer… He also collaborates with many other artists, including Ève Ruggieri (concert-lectures on Frédéric Chopin and George Sand), or French actor Francis Perrin (Stravinsky’s « The Soldier’s Tale », Poulenc’s « Histoire de Babar »).
His first solo album, dedicated to Franz Liszt, was released under the AmeSon/Outhere label. This recording was praised by critics and featured in several broadcasts, notably on France Musique, Radio Classique…
After teaching at the Geneva Conservatory of Music in Switzerland, Olivier Moulin is currently a piano Professor at the Nancy Conservatory in France, and the President of the Épinal International Piano Competition (member of the World Federation of International Music Competition in Geneva). He is regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe, the United States, Japan, China… and serves on the jury of numerous international piano competitions : Istanbul, Porto Santa Cecilia, Elevato, the Scriabin Competition in Grosseto, the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition…
António Rosado
António Rosado is a performer who dominates what he does. He has both emotion and poetry, as well color and taste” in Diapason Magazine. Rosado is a nationally and internationally recognized pianist, result of his talent and taste for diversity, expressed in an extensive piano repertoire that includes works by composers as diverse as Georges Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Isaac Albéniz and Franz Liszt. This versatility allowed him to present for the first time in Portugal, outstanding works as the Sonatas of G. Enescu or the Paraphrases of F. Liszt, being the first Portuguese pianist to perform the complete Preludes and Etudes of Claude Debussy. Also about his recitals can be underlined the interpretation of the complete Mozart and Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Rosado has performed on stage for the first time at four years of age. His musical studies started with his father, and continued at the National Conservatory of Music in Lisbon, where he finished the Piano Superior course, with the highest qualification. At sixteen Rosado left for Paris, and there he came to be a disciple of Aldo Ciccolini at the Music Conservatory and further training took place at Siena and Biella (Italy). In 1980, took place is debut in concert with the Orchestre National de Toulouse, under the direction of Michel Plasson and since then Rosado has played with numerous international orchestras and notable conductors such as Georg Alexander Albrecht, Moshe Atzmon, Franco Caracciolo, Pierre Dervaux, Arthur Fagen, Leon Fleischer, Silva Pereira, Claudio Scimone, David Stahl, Marc Tardue and Ronald Zollman. In chamber music he has performed with prestigious musicians such as Aldo Ciccolini, Maurice Gendron, Margarita Zimermann, Gerardo Ribeiro and Paulo Gaio Lima, with whom he played Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano. Laureate by Maurice Ravel International Academy and the International Academy Perosi, António Rosado was distinguished by the Vianna da Motta International Competition and the International Competition Alfredo Casella in Naples. These awards are the international recognition of his virtuosity and the impetus for a brilliant career, with performing recitals and concerts throughout the world, and participation in various festivals. In the 90s, he was the pianist chosen by TF1 for the recording and transmission of three programs - Spanish and Portuguese music, Liszt and, finally, a recital with music.