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Stefano Bagliano – recorder

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Stefano Bagliano studied with Frans Bruggen, Kees Boeke, Walter Van Hauwe and Pedro Memelsdorf in recorder and ancient music and with Fabrizio Dorsi in orchestral conducting. He performed as a soloist 500 concerts for prestigious festivals in USA, Asia and Europe, such as Carnegie Hall of New York, Moscow Conservatoire, Gasteig of Munich, Società del Quartetto of Milan, Amici della Musica of Florence, Emilia Romagna International Festival, always with a great success.

He works with the famous singers Emma Kirkby and Roberta Invernizzi and performed with conductors such as Alan Curtis, Rudolf Barshai, Anton Nanut and Vladislav Bulakhov. He is the founder and the director of the ensemble Collegium Pro Musica and has made several recordings, achieving thus enthusiastic appreciations from the European and the American critics. He is the art director of the International Festival of Chamber Music of Genoa and Savona, of “Le Vie del Barocco” of Turin and consultant member of “Musica di Corte” of Campobasso.

He is professor of recorder at the Conservatory “Piccinni” of Bari. He also graduated in Law.

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Gianluca Capuano – harpsichord

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Gianluca Capuano was born in Milan; in 1992 he took a diploma in organ and organ composition at the Conservatory of his native town, where he studied with Eva Frick-Galliera.
He improved his knowledge on the period music (orga n and continuous bass) at the Scuola Civica di Musica with Lorenzo Ghielmi, and he also attended music interpretation courses in Italy and abroad.
Since 1997 he has been artistic and musical director of “I Madregalisti Ambrosiani”, an ensemble of professional singers specialized in the music of the European baroque, which took part in the most renowned period music festivals.

He has recorded for Stradivarius and the Italian broadcast Company, Rai-Radio tre.

César Carcopino – percussion

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Cesar Carcopino was born in Monaco in 1979. After studying the piano, he took up percussion with Isabelle Cornelis and Nicolas Martynciow at the Hector Berlioz Music Academy in Paris. After receiving his DEM (Diploma of Music Studies) in Chamber Music and Orchestra as a percussionist, he began an advanced cycle at the Boulogne CRR (Regional Music Conservatory) with Christophe Brédeloup, then with Frederic Macarez at the Paris CRR, and received a DEMS (Advanced Music Diploma) summa cum laude with the unanimous agreement of the board of examiners.

His diverse musical background gave him the opportunity to play and work with different personalities, e.g. Gilbert Amy, Xavier Gagnepain, Daniel Kavka, Eric Serra, Yann Maresz, David Liebman and with ensembles like the Picardy Chamber Music Orchestra, Itinéraire, 2E2M and others.

He also works as a studio musician or on stage in jazz, variety, popular music, etc. He won an award in 2009 from the Ensemble Music Challenge of FNAPEC, with the Argillos Percussion Group.

In 2009, he created the Ensemble Acouphène, and has remained its artistic director since then.

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David Cohen – violincello

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David Cohen was born in 1980 in Tournai, Belgium, into a family of musicians and started to play the cello when he was seven. In 1991 he won First Prize in the Young Soloist Competition and First Prize with Distinction in the Senior and the Junior International Competition in Wathrelos, France. He then went to the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. In 1994 David joined the Yehudi Menuhin School for four years, thanks to a grant from the Menuhin Foundation, before going on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Oleg Kogan. On graduation, David was awarded the GSMD’s most prestigious award, the Gold Medal, joining the list of previous winners including Jacqueline du Pré, Bryn Terfel and Tasmin Little.

David began an international career as a soloist aged just 11, performing with the Flemish Orchestra of Brussels, the Orchestra from Grenoble and the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra under Lord Menuhin’s direction, and in 1996 he toured England and Scotland with the Symphonia of Warsaw. In 1997 he had a masterclass with Mstislav Rostropovich and after listening to David, Rostropovich asked him to play in his cello sextet. The same year he was also offered a tour in Germany with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. David has also appeared at several international cello festivals including Kronberg (Germany), Manchester, Cambridge (UK), Beauvais (France) and the Gstaad Festival (Switzerland). In 2005, he became Artist in Residence at Peter House, Cambridge.

David was appointed Principal Cello of the Philharmonia Orchestra in March 2002 (the youngest cello principal ever) and currently teaches at the Royal Conservatoire de Musique de Mons in Belgium. He plays on a magnificent cello by Dominico Montagnana circa 1735, thanks to Mrs Pat Morton and the Razumovsky Trust.

David’s solo recordings are available on the Forlane, Classic FM, Cypres-Records and LPO labels.
“…David Cohen, one of the most talented young cellists I know. He was a student at my School for some years, and is altogether a remarkable young man, a remarkable performer and already an outstanding cellist.”
Lord Yehudi Menuhin, 1998

Arnon Erez – piano

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Scholarships of excellence from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, winner of several competitions, including the first prize in the François Shapira competition, the Tel Aviv Music Academy competition and the Clermont awards. As a concert pianist, he has performed in numerous major concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, New York; Beethoven Halle, Bonn; Alte Oper, Frankfurt; Musikverein, Vienna; and London’s Wigmore Hall. Arnon Erez currently teaches at the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv University.

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Toni Flores – percussion

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Born in Benaguasil (Valencia). He studied music at the Conservatory of Music in Valencia with Manuel Thomas, Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid with Enrique Llácer “Regoli” Joan Iborra, Javier Benet, and J. Maria Martin Porras and Rotterdams Conservatorium (Netherlands), Robert Van Sice marimba.

He has collaborated with various orchestras and chamber ensembles Spanish. Founding member of Perku-Va. He has participated in recordings and radio and television programs in Spain, Croatia, Mexico and Argentina. He has attended and participated in courses in Spain, France, England, Belgium, Holland, Slovenia, Croatia, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, with international high-quality teachers.

His teaching was developed at the Professional Conservatory Ribarroja Municipal del Turia (Valencia) from the current 1988, creating the group which is Perkumanía Ensemble director.

With PERKUMANÍA ENSEMBLE, and participating in numerous meetings, conferences and exchanges of state and international, where he has been getting due recognition, is the organizer of the successive editions of the “International Seminar of Percussion in Riba-roja de Turia” in the who have participated percussionists and teachers, internationally recognized.

Also in the field teaching and dissemination, has developed an ongoing activity providing teacher training courses (Zephyr Godella and Valencia, Ministry of Education of the Generalitat Valenciana and Universitat Jaume I de Castellón) and concerts for school children through various institutional programs in collaboration with the Generalitat of Valencia and the Valencia.

In the field of production has made several first performances in Spain and several premieres of works for percussion group. It has produced the show “Around the World with 80 percussion instruments,” “PERKUMANICÓMIC” and “PERKUTRUM”, “Once upon a time … percussion “with an outstanding success and acceptance by the public. He recorded the CD of carols “Perkutiendo and singing Christmas” with the Choir of Trinity in Valencia with an outstanding success and acceptance by the public.

He has taught classes and workshops in different music schools, conservatories in Spain, Croatia and Argentina.

Toni Flores is sponsored by Sabian, Vic Firth drumsticks Subtracts Pierre Francois percussions, NP (Nova Percussió) and ADAMS

Paul Gulda – piano

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Paul Gulda started to play the piano at the age of 8. His first teachers were Jazz pianists: Fritz Pauer and Roland Batik as well as his father, Friedrich Gulda, who inspired him with his absolute dedication towards music. Leonid Brumberg, longtime assistant of the great Heinrich Neuhaus, taught him the principles of the “Russian School”. At last, Rudolf Serkin gave him the gift of true goodness and support in the realm of music.

“I strive to draw the conclusion from all of this, and to go beyond by my own means.“

Since 1982, Paul Gulda plays and appears internationally as a soloist, chamber player, improviser and composer. He devised and co-produced several programs combining music and literature, and even painting. Starting in 1998, he teaches regularly at masterclasses in many countries. From 2001-2003, he was guest professor at the Vienna Music University. Among the many renowned musicians he worked with are: Pianists Martha Agerich, Chick Corea, Japanese Jazz pianist Makoto Ozone as well as the conductors Zubin Mehta, Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin. He recorded about 20 CDs with a wide-ranging repertoire.

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Stefan Heckel – piano & impro

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His works as a composer include compositions for the International Ecumenical Meeting in Graz, Graz 2003 – the cultural capital of Europe, music for the screening of W. Ruttmann’s movie “Berlin-Symphony of a City”, opening music for “Interfaith Europe” and a concert for E-guitar and chamber music, performed in June 2004 with the Jazzit Stage Orchestra in Salzburg.

He is the founder of the “Improvised Music Nights” in Vienna. He was teacher of the University of Music in Graz and jazz piano teacher at King’s College in London. Stefan Heckel participated with Ensembles as the Stefan Heckel Group, Blaubauer, Dawn Chorus.

Weblink: www.ohmsk.net

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Anna-Maria Hepberger – percussion

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Anna-Maria Hepberger began playing the violin when she was five years old. With twelve years she got her first lessons in percussion. After finishing the Musikgymnasium in Feldkirch (Austria), she began studying percussion at the Landeskonservatorium Feldkirch by Prof. Wolfgang Lindner.

Anna-Maria has a long lasting experience in playing in different orchestras. So she plays amongst others in the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg and is member of the Symphonic Wind Orchestra Vorarlberg and the Wiener Jeunesse Orchester.

Anna-Maria is also a successful participant and price winner in different international competitions.

Claus Hessler – percussion

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Besides the wide stylistic range of his playing Claus’ unique and individual style of drumming comes as a mixture of his incredible technical skills, open handed playing and ostinato work that never gets into being “just drums”. He teaches at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, the “Berufsfachschule für Musik” in Dinkelsbuehl and maintains a busy schedule of clinics and private teaching.

As the first German respectively European drumset artist he also was invited to the „Drummer’s Collective“ (New York) and the University of Performing Arts / Ju Percussion Foundation in Taipei (Taiwan). His workshops and clinics are known for a very special mixture of education and his unique musical and drumistic qualities likewise. As a clinician he works exclusively with SABIAN cymbals, VIC FIRTH sticks. MAPEX drums and REMO drumheads.

Claus is currently one of the most in demand drum coaches and clinicians; in addition to his teaching and playing activities he is also contributing articles and columns to the German drum magazine “drums & percussion”, Australia’s “Drumscene” and from Fall 2010 also for “Modern Drummer”. His first and long awaited educational book “Open Handed Playing Vol. I” (co-written with Dom Famularo and including a foreword by Billy Cobham) has been released worldwide with Alfred Publishing and earned international recognition. Fall of 2010 will see another release in Germany with “Daily Drumset Workout” while Volume II of “Open Handes Playing Vol. II” is likely to be released spring 2011. Other future book projects include taking care of Jim Chapin’s idea about collapsed rudiments and a rudimental playalong project with alternate versions of traditional fife and drum tunes.Besides the wide stylistic range of his playing Claus’ unique and individual style of drumming comes as a mixture of his incredible technical skills, open handed playing and ostinato work that never gets into being “just drums”. He teaches at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt, the “Berufsfachschule für Musik” in Dinkelsbuehl and maintains a busy schedule of clinics and private teaching. As the first German respectively European drumset artist he also was invited to the „Drummer’s Collective“ (New York) and the University of Performing Arts / Ju Percussion Foundation in Taipei (Taiwan). His workshops and clinics are known for a very special mixture of education and his unique musical and drumistic qualities likewise. As a clinician he works exclusively with SABIAN cymbals, VIC FIRTH sticks. MAPEX drums and REMO drumheads.

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www.claushessler.de

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