18th INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL BALATONFÜRED 26-29 June 2024.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 26 June 2024
7:30 PM OPENING CONCERT
ANDRZEJ GRYGIER (Poland)<br>guitarist
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- Fot Ewelina Pigula Andrzej Grygier
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- Fot Ewelina Pigula Andrzej Grygier
ANDRZEJ GRYGIER
Since 2017 he has been a student of the Academy of Music in Poznan where he joined the class of Lukasz Kuropaczewski. He graduated with honors from Poznan Academy of music in 2022. In the academic year 2020/2021 he was a student at KUG Graz (Austria) and in 2019/2022 and 2020/2022 at the SGA in Pordenone in the class of Paolo Pegoraro. He is currently a student at the jazz department – jazz guitar and a Phd student at the Doctoral School of the Academy of Music in Poznań specializing in classical guitar.
The greatest achievement of Andrzej is winning the Baltimore Guitar Competition. One of his greatest achievements also include prizes at international competitions organized in Gorizia (Italy), Szczecin, Krynica Zdrój(Poland), Olsztyn (Poland), Velbert (Germany), Tallinn (Estonia), Weimar (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Stuttgart (Germany), Żory (Poland) or Brno (the Czech Republic), Klagenfurt (Austria), Kutna Hora (the Czech Republic), Budapest (Hungary), Tychy (Poland).
He participated in master classes given by : Ł. Kuropaczewski, M. Barrueco, H.Käppel, M. Dylla, P. Romero, Z. Dukić, A. Desiderio, C.Marchione J.Perroy, P. Pegoraro, P. Zaleski, M. Tamayo and many others.
He has been awarded a scholarship by the President of the City of Leszno, the Polish Children’s Found, the Vividus Association in Poznań and Polonia Poznan Lions Club.
For his outstanding artistic achievements he was also awarded a Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarship for the years 2011-2016 and the “Young Poland” Scholarship for the year 2013.
As a soloist he performed with orchestras conducted by: Ilya Gajsin, Georg Köhler, Nicolas Milton, Roberto Zarpellon, Marek Moś, Miłosz Kula, Anna Sułkowska-Migoń. He has given concerts in countries including Poland, Germany,Austria, Russia, Slovakia, France, Belgium, Italy, Croatia and USA
In 2022 he was recognised by “The Acoustic Guitar” as a rising star of classical guitar.
Andrzej is playing guitar made by SAERS Masterworks and using Knobloch strings.
PROGRAM
BALATONFÜRED INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL – EVENING GUITAR CONCERTS AT THE VASZARY GALLERY
ANDRZEJ GRYGIER
(Poland) guitarist
PROGRAM
26th June, 2024 7:30 PM
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
On the air:
Agustin Barrios Mangore: La Catedral
Federico Moreno Torroba: Suite Castellana
Aleksander Tansman: Hommage a Chopin
Antonio Jose: Sonata para Guitarra
INTERMISSION
IO YAMADA (Japan)<br>guitarist
IO YAMADA
Io Yamada is one of the most promising talents of the new generation.
His interpretations are full of vitality, expressiveness and colour.
Listening to him is truly a joy for the soul.
– Ricardo Gallén (Guitarist, Professor at HfM Franz Liszt Weimar)
The exceptional musical quality of the young Japanese classical guitarist, IO YAMADA has been proven by over twenty prominent international awards, including the first prize at the first prize in the 55th Concorso di Chitarra Classica “Michele Pittaluga”, the first prize in the Nürtingen International Guitar Competition (Nürtingen, Germany) , the second prize and the special prize for the best interpretation of the obligatory piece in the Antony International Guitar Competition (Antony, France), the second prize in Iserlohn International Guitar Competition (Iserlohn, Germany), and the first prize in Premio Claudio De Angelis (Perugia, Italy).
His Debut-CD “1.0 (one)“ (Sylphide Records, 2018) was awarded ”special choice Disc” in Record-Geijutsu Magazine. Io has given numerous recitals in prestigious venues of Europe and Japan, including Kyoto Concert Hall (Kyoto, Japan), Nürtingen Guitar Festival (Germany), and Forum Gitarre Wien (Austria). In 2018 & 2024he received the scholarship from theRohm Music Foundation, which is renowned for granting the largest amount of grant in Japan. Beside his solo concerts, he has been a keen chamber musician, performing as a member of the “hep-poco dream Guitar Trio”. The trio has been featured on the Japanese NHK radio program, “Recital Nova”. He has studied with Naoki Yamada (his father) , Keigo Fujii, Tsuneo Ema, Kiyoshi Shomura and Gentaro Takada in Japan. After finishing his studies in Tokyo, Io was accepted to the “Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (MDW)” where he finished his first Diplom degree with Prof. Alvaro Pierri and since 2020 he has been studying at the ”Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar”. He completed his master’s degree there and currently continuing his study as a student of Konzertexamen with Ricardo Gallen and Thomas Müller-Pering.
He uses a guitar by the German luthier, Felix Müller.
2008 1. Prize at 16. Nagoya guitar competition, (Japan, Aichi)
2011 1. Prize at 38. Japan guitar competition, (Japan, Osaka)
2013 1. Prize at 21. San-in guitar competition, (Japan, Shimane)
2015 1. Prize at 33. Spain guitar Music competition (Japan, Tokyo)
2016 1. Prize at 7. East-end International guitar competition (Japan, Tokyo)
1. Prize at 7. J.S.Bach international guitar competition (Japan, Tokyo)
4. Prize at 59. Tokio international guitar competition (Japan, Tokyo)
2017 3. Prize at 29. International Competition for Early Music YAMANASHI,
(top of the list) (Japan, Yamanashi) (romantic guitar duo with Kyota Imoto)
2019 3. Prize at 27. international guitar competition “Ligita” (Liechtenstein)
2021 1. Prize at 2021 international guitar competition Nürtingen (Nürtingen, Germany)
2. Prize at 31. international Guitar festival “Forum Gitarre Wien” (Vienna, Österrich)
(top of the list)
2.Prize at 2. Stuttgart international guitar competition(Stuttgart, Germany)
3. Prize & „Leo Brouwer“-Special prize (best interpretation of the obligatory piece.)
at 36. Certamen Internacional de Guitarra Clásica «Andrés Segovia» (La Herradura, Spain)
2022 2. Prize & Special prize (Prize for best interpretation of the obligatory piece)
at 22. Antony international guitar competition (Antony, France)
2. Prize at 28th International Competition of Musical Performance for Guitar
– City of Mottola (Mottola, Italy)
2. Prize at 6th Taiwan International Guitar Competition (Taiwan)
2. Preis at 11th “Internationaler MARTINEZ-Gitarrenwettbewerb 2022 Iserlohn”
(Iserlohn, Germany)
1. Prize at “2022 Premio Claudio de Angelis” (Perugia, Italy)
2. Prize at international classical guitar competition Luxemburg (Luxemburg)
2023 3. Prize at Koblenz international guitar competition (Germany)
Vitality, expressiveness, colour: words that can describe the performance of Io Yamada, Japanese from Kyoto, who won over all the jurors at the Michele Pittaluga Competition in Alessandria.
“Yamada impressed everyone from the first moment he picked up the instrument. It was immediately clear that this music was in his chords and his final performance was a real concert: sound, stage presence, confidence,’ commented Micaela Pittaluga, president of the competition and member of the jury. The harmony shown by the winner with the conductor of the Orchestra Classica di Alessandria, Paolo Ferrara, was perfect, all the more so in a work where the ensemble’s dialogue with the solo instrument is fundamental, going beyond mere accompaniment.
MUSICA: (31. Ottobre 2023) “Io Yamada convince tutti al “Pittaluga”, https://www.rivistamusica.com/io-yamada-convince-tutti-al-pittaluga/
PROGRAM
BALATONFÜRED INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL – EVENING GUITAR CONCERTS AT THE VASZARY GALLERY
IO YAMADA
(Japan) guitarist
PROGRAM
26th June, 2024 7:30 PM
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
On the air:
R. S. de la Maza: Albada y Paisaje from La Frontera de Dios
Manuel Maria Ponce: Tres Canciones Populares Mexicanas
Maurice Ohana: Tiento
Manuel Maria Ponce: Variations sur “Folia de España” et Fugue
Manuel Maria Ponce: Estrellita
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
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Thursday 27 June 2024
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Public masterclass JÓZSEF EÖTVÖS
Venue: Ferencsik János Zeneiskola Balatonfüred, Ady Endre u. 13.
7:30 PM – CONCERT
Guitarist PAVEL STEIDL (Czech Republic)<br>concert
PAVEL STEIDL – GUITARIST
„Here was a guitarist who knew how to laugh with the music and share the joke with his audience. But behind the entertainer lies a serious artist, whose extended composition in memory of Jana Obrovska proved fully capable of stirring emotions at the other end of the scale. Never was a standing ovation more richly deserved. Pavel Steidl had won the hearts and minds of a capacity crowd.“
(Classical guitar magazine)
The magic world of Pavel Steidl charmed us in a delightful program, where classic welcomes varieties of incredible new ideas of how a guitar can create precious effects thanks to his ability to awaken what is normally quite inactive in our imagination and hands!
(Oscar Ghiglia)
Pavel Steidl was born in Rakovnik (Czech Republic). Since he won first prize at the Radio France International Competition in Paris in 1982, he has become one of the most widely celebrated soloists of his generation. Between the membres of the jury were names of such artist like Alexander Tansman, Antonio Lauro , Maria Luisa
Anido …Before that he studied with such guitarist as Milan Zelenka and Stephan Rak in Prague. In 1987 he decided to emigrate to Netherland were after years of studying and getting inspiration from many different artist he has created his own style which is not ignoring authentic way of intepretatione 19th-century guitar literature on periodic instruments and going far to some world music elements. Since 2004 he moved back to Czech republic and since since 2019 gives a lectures at the Conservatoire in The Hague.
He had an honor to work together with such artists like Leo Brouwer, Carlo Domeniconi Paolo Paolini, John Wiliams, Miroslav Vitous, Karin Schaupp, Edin Karamazov and others. Together with Zoran Dukic, Reentko Dirks and Thomas Fellow he is a member of Europian Guitar Quartet since 2012.
Pavel Steidl also composes himself and his own compositions are often played on his concerts or on the recordings. He played in more then 40 countries of the world from among Canada, USA, China, India, Japan, Europe, South and Central America, Australia and many others. On demand of Italian Guitar Magazine Guitart the readers decided to choose him as a guitar player of the year 2004. Pavel Steidl plays many instruments, but mainly Francisco Simplicio (1926), Walter Verreydt, Franz Butcher, Federico Sheppard. Romantic guitars: copies of J.G.Stauffer guitar made by B.Kresse and original instrument from the beginning of the 19th century Nikolaus G.Ries cca. 1830 and Johann Anton Stauffer cca 1840.
PROGRAM
BALATONFÜRED INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL – EVENING GUITAR CONCERTS AT THE VASZARY GALLERY
PAVEL STEIDL
(Czech Republic) guitarist
PROGRAM
27th June, 2024 7:30 PM
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
On the air:
Fernando Sor: Menuets op.11 Selection
Johann Kaspar Mertz: Liebeslied,Romanze
Ferdinando Carulli: Sei Andanti op.320 (selection)
Napoleon Coste: Fantasie sur deux motifs de La Norma op.16
Intermission
Phillip Houghton: Ophelia …a haunted sonata
- Fear and the Angel
- Suffering and madness ..am I but a dream of a shadow
- Chant.. of the flower – moon
- Water.. memories – halls of ghosts -wash away
- Death.. with moons in your hair
Carlo Domeniconi: Steidleriana
Martin Smolka: Lullaby No 12
Pavel Steidl: And You Go To Ithaca Too
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
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Friday 28 June 2024
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Public masterclass ZORAN DUKIC and ERIKA CZAKÓ
Venue: Ferencsik János Zeneiskola Balatonfüred, Ady Endre u. 13.
7:30 PM – CONCERT
EUROPEAN GUITAR QUARTET<br>concert
TURN THE WORLD AROUND – European Guitar Quartet
After around 60 concerts in 16 countries, including major venues such
as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Buttenwieser Hall New York and
Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, as well as festivals such as the Bergen
Music Festival (N), the Ravinia Festival Chicago (USA) and the
Monterrey Guitar Festival (MEX), the last sounds of the Danza tour
were heard in the Calcutta Central Hall in India.
The celebrated quartet’s new album “Fourtune” will be released in
October 2024. In addition to music by Frank Zappa, Carlo
Domeniconi and Harry Belafonte, it also contains music by Thomas
Fellow, Pavel Steidl and Reentko Dirks – contemporary embraces of
concert music, world music and jazz.
Two legends of the classical guitar meet two virtuosos of modern
fingerstyle to create an innovative new sound for the instrument.
Don’t think of classical guitar – expect a new experience in concert
guitar music.
“Birth of a new shining star in the concert sky”.
This is what the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten wrote after the
ensemble’s debut concert in Dresden in spring 2012. And indeed, the
meeting of two world stars of the classical guitar with two
outstanding protagonists of the modern acoustic guitar scene was able
to win over critics and audiences alike in no time at all.
Immediately after their debut, they received invitations to play at
festivals all over the world, inspiring musicians such as Giora
Feidman with their music. In 2017, they toured the USA, performing
in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and at the famous Ravinia
Festival in Chicago. In 2018, they gave their Russian debut at the
world-famous Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, their first concert in
Poland at the Silesian Guitar Autumn Festival and also made a guest
appearance at the Hamburg Guitar Days. In 2019, they played another
tour of the USA as well as concerts in India and Germany.
ZORAN DUKIC (CRO) can look back on winning more competitions
in his time than any other guitarist in the world. He has led some of
the most successful major classes at several European universities,
currently at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and thrills
audiences with his incredibly dynamic virtuosity. Whether as a soloist,
in a duo with Aniello Desiderio or in various chamber music
formations, he is undoubtedly one of the busiest concert guitarists in
the world.
PAVEL STEIDL (CZ) has long been regarded as an icon of the
instrument. His interpretations of classical-romantic music are unique
and inimitably intense. After concerts all over the world and at the
most important festivals, he has long since established himself as one
of the best in his field. In 1982 he won one of the most important
competitions of the time – Radio France in Paris and currently teaches
at the Prague Academy of Music.
THOMAS FELLOW (D) is an acoustic guitarist of the first rank and
has become one of the most successful and influential musical
accompanists on this instrument, not least through his innovative
playing in the duo “Friend ‘n Fellow” (after almost 2000 concerts with
Ray Charles, Luther Allison and Tommy Emmanuel, among others).
As an author and composer, he is published by Schott Music, directs
the pioneering “Acoustic Guitar” course at the Dresden Academy of
Music and has performed in over 30 countries.
REENTKO (D) has received international attention and recognition
not only as an impressive guitarist and percussionist, but also as a
composer whose works have won numerous prizes and have been
performed in the program of the “Cirque de Soleil” and the
Semperoper Dresden, among others. He has also gained recognition as
the guitarist of the band MASAA (German Jazz Award 2021) and
Ksenija Sidorova (Echo 2017).
These four musicians, each a highly respected name in the music
world, have set themselves the task of combining the concertante
tradition of the instrument with the expressive, dynamic sounds of the
modern age.
A summit meeting of guitar music.
www.europeanguitarquartet.com
“Melancholy and passion combine to create a magnificent sound
painting. This very special summit meeting of four exceptional
guitarists: a breath-taking demonstration of virtuosity and musical
versatility”
Mainpost
“Here, the creativity of four extraordinary musical personalities is
maximized, because visionaries don’t need to be pigeonholed. “Music
for the open minded” in the best sense. Absolute top class!”
Akustik Gitarre
PROGRAM
BALATONFÜRED INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL – EVENING GUITAR CONCERTS AT THE VASZARY GALLERY
EUROPEAN GUITAR QUARTET
Zoran Dukic | Pavel Steidl | Thomas Fellow | Reentko Dirks
PROGRAM
2024. június 28. 19:30
Balatonfüred, Vaszary Galéria
FORGASD KI SARKÁBÓL A VILÁGOT
Turn The World Around
Astor Piazzolla: Verano porteño” (Summer) from Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Reentko Dirks: Rafa
Pavel Steidl: Pictures from Moravia
Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze
Thomas Fellow: Porthos” and “D´Artagnant from The Four Musketeers
Reentko Dirks: Danza non Danza
Intermission
Pavel Steidl: Are You Going to Ithaca, Too?
Thomas Fellow: Agrippina
Thomas Fellow: Medusa
Frank Zappa: Oh No
Frank Zappa: Father O’Blivion
Astor Piazzolla: Concierto para quinteto
Harry Belafonte: Turn the World Around
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
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Saturday 29 June 2024
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Public masterclass PAVEL STEIDL and ERIKA CZAKÓ
Venue: Ferencsik János Zeneiskola Balatonfüred, Ady Endre u. 13.
7:30 PM – CONCERT
Solo performance by ZORAN DUKIC (Croatia)<br>guitarist
Zoran Dukic (1969, Zagreb) was presented with a guitar at the early age of six. Today he is one of the most distinguished classical guitarists of our time. His concert performances, both as a soloist or with an orchestra, leave long-lasting impressions on audiences and critics alike. He performed in the most prestigious concert halls worldwide, such as Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Carnegie Hall in New York, Concert Gebouw in Amsterdam or Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow.
“… after two minutes the audience was breathless,… the string genius from Zagreb showed both technical brilliance and tenderness,… with the artistic potential and expressive power of life itself,… This is a musician not a guitarist.” KÖLNISCHE RUNDSCHAU, Germany
“The Zoran Dukic concert in Miami on June 21st 2019 was a complete and utter triumph” CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE, USA
In his “tour de force” competition years (1990-1997) he has won an astonishing number of competitions. He is the only guitarist to have won both “Andrés Segovia” competitions, in Granada and in Palma de Mallorca as well as competitions dedicated to “F. Sor”, “M. Ponce”, “M. de Falla”, “F. Tárrega” among many others. This in addition to his unique expressiveness and poetry on the guitar launched his worldwide career.
“A thrilling concert… the audience was on its feet already after the first piece… a phenomenal evening” GEVELSBERGER ZEITUNG, Germany
“…what a power for captivating the attention of the audience!” VIOLÃO INTERCAMBIO, Brazil
His performances throughout the 5 continents have inspired numerous composers to dedicate their works to him. His premiers of new music are strengthened by his admiration of contemporary musical expression. He has also toured with entire Bach programs, performing complete cycles of lute, violin or cello suites. Music by J. S. Bach is still the focal point of his musical life.
” What a height of interpretative capacity… His concept of baroque style bears a stamp of authenticity…petrifying security…” EL CORREO DE ANDALUCIA, Spain
“a true artist, a musician whose dimension goes beyond superlative dominion of the instrument…He almost caused a state of delirium through the level of his virtuosity and volcanic fantasy” CANARIAS 7, Spain
“…Master of the instrument, shining in virtuoso moments as well as in the intimate ones. The sonority he creates from his guitar is as admirable as his palette of expression and elegance.”
EL NORTE, Mexico
Being exceptionally enthusiastic and dedicated to teaching, his pedagogical activities are equally impressive. He is a professor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague since 1997 and has one of the most successful classes in Europe. Being a very active chamber music performer he is a founding member of the “European Guitar Quartet”, “Croatian Guitar Quartet” and duo with Aniello Desiderio. He is a D’Addario artist since 2011.
He has recorded compact discs and DVDs for labels in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Brazil, Netherlands, Croatia and Canada.
“A musician with vigour and power reserved only for the great…his way of vibrato on certain notes goes straight to your heart…his sonority, inspiration and lyricism can move mountains…Llobet, Segovia, Presti are back!” CAHIERS DE LA GUITARE, France
“…Dukic is, without exaggeration, one of the best guitarists of today and one of the greatest musicians Croatia has ever had… Breathless virtuosity, fascinating levels of dynamics, astounding beauty and clarity of tone and unbelievable concentration and focus as he dives into the depths of the spirit of the music, bringing back to us its metaphysical dimension disguised and cloaked in sound.” ZAREZ, Croatia
PROGRAM
BALATONFÜRED INTERNATIONAL GUITAR FESTIVAL – EVENING GUITAR CONCERTS AT THE VASZARY GALLERY
ZORAN DUKIC
(Croatia) guitarist
PROGRAM
27th June, 2024 7:30 PM
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
On the air:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Siciliana BWV 1001
Astor Piazzolla: Invierno Porteño
Johann Sebastian Bach: Andante BWV 1003
Astor Piazzolla: Adios Nonino
Johann Sebastian Bach: Largo BWV 1005
Astor Piazzolla: Muerte de Angel
Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabanda BWV 1004
Intermission
Sylvius Leopold Weiss: Tombeau sur le Mort de Comte D’Logy
Manuel de Falla Homenaje: Canción del Fuego Fatuo
Augustin Barrios: Choro da Saudade, Caazapá
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion (arr. R.Dyens)
Duke Ellington: Melancholia
Venue: Vaszary Galéria, Balatonfüred, Honvéd u. 2-4.
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