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The Highest End FRENCH Concert Pianist of the 21st Century
Posted by VW in Blogs, Commerical Sponsorship, High-End Art Music on Saturday October 29th, 2016Vincent Larderet
The Highest End FRENCH Concert Pianist of the 21st Century
International acclaimed French Concert Pianist ~
Artistic Director of the “Piano au Musée Würth” International Festival (France) ~
• Musikhochschule Lübeck
Development cycle with Maestro Bruno-Leonardo GELBER, Piano 2002
• Concert Pianist International Soloist 1991
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HONORS and AWARDS ~
• Prize winner of the National Claude Kahn Piano Competition (France) 1995
• Winner of the International Brest Piano Competition (France) 1997
• Prize winner at Maria Canals Barcelona International Piano Competition (Spain) 1998
• Prize winner at AMA Calabria International Piano Competition (Italy) 1999
• Laureate of the “International Orpheum Foundation for young Soloist” (Switzerland) 2002
• “Classical Revelation” by Adami winner at MIDEM in Cannes (France) 2003
• Member of the Jury International Piano Competitions 2005
• Founder Member of the West Side Quartet 2007
• Classica’s “CHOC”, “MAESTRO” by Pianiste, Diapason 5, France Musique “best of”, Resmusica’s “CLEF” and RITMO 4 stars Awards 2011
• Nominated for the “International Classical Music Awards” (Worldwide) 2015 & 2012
• Pizzicato’s “SUPERSONIC” Award (Luxembourg) 2012 & 2014
• Awarded by the international title of “Steinway Artist” 2013
• Honorary International Artist-in-Residence & Honorary Artist-Faculty Member at Hong Kong Music and Performing School 2014
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The Florent Schmitt NAXOS CD featuring the world premiere recording of “La Tragédie de Salomé” to outstanding international critical acclaim has won 8 prestigious awards (Worldwide) 2011 ~
• Classica’s CHOC (France)
• MAESTRO by Pianiste magazine (France)
• Diapason 5 (France)
• Resmusica’s CLEF (France)
• RITMO’s 4 stars (Spain)
• Pizzicato’s SUPERSONIC (Luxembourg)
• Nominated for the “International Classical Music Awards” 2012 for the best “solo instrument” recording (World)
• “This is definitely one of Naxos’s better releases” May June 2012 in Fanfare (USA)
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ARS Produktion RAVEL SACD-CD “Orchestra & Virtuoso Piano” World Premiere Recording won 8 awards (Worldwide) 2014 ~
• “SUPERSONIC” from Pizzicato (Luxembourg, March 2014)
• Télérama 4 f (France, April 2014)
• Diapason 5 (France)
• 10/10 from KLASSIK Heute (Germany, April 2014)
• “Recording of the month” by MusicWeb International (US, May 2014)
• maximum points for interpretation & sound in “PIANO News” (Germany, May/June 2014)
• « JOKER » from CRESCENDO Magazine (Belgium, September 2014)
• “INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL MUSIC AWARDS” 2015 IN THE “SOLO INSTRUMENT” (Worldwide, November 2014)
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ARS Produktion Ravel Concerti + Schmitt World Premiere Recording won 8 awards (Worldwide) 2015
• Classique News “Clic” (France)
• Pizzicato’s SUPERSONIC (Luxembourg)
• Diapason 5 (France)
• Nomination for the “International Classical Music Awards” 2016 (ICMA) as the best Concertos recording of the year. Only 25 have been selected worldwide in the “Concertos” category (France)
• Highest ratings 6/6 for interpretation & sound in PIANO News (Germany)
• Resmusica “CLEF” (France)
• Klassik Heute “Empfehlung” (Germany)
• Praised in Fanfare “best recordings of the year” (USA)
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HONG KONG PREMIERE @ LE FRENCH MAY ARTS FESTIVAL 2017 OF THE NEW BRAHMS-BERG SACD PRAISED BY 4 AWARDS (2016, WORLDWIDE)
• MUSICA 5 stars Award (Italy)
• Classica 4 stars Award (France)
• Pizzicato 5 stars Award (Luxembourg)
• Nomination for the “International Classical Music Awards” 2017 (ICMA) as the best solo recording of the year. (Worldwide)
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Honored by the revered title of “Steinway Artist” and internationally renowned as a Ravel specialist, VINCENT LARDERET is worthy of the title of highest end French concert pianist of the 21st century. His 3 world premiere recordings of Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé, Ravel’s Orchestral & Virtuoso Piano and Ravel’s Concertos & Schmitt J’entends dans le lointain… won a total of 24 worldwide awards. Larderet is the only living French pianist who received this honor and attracted international recognition for the exceptional intensity of his very personal and deeply inspired interpretations often compared to the piano legends such as Michelangeli, Arrau, Zimerman and Argerich. Vincent Larderet CD Charity Sale. Net proceeds will be donated to the Hong Kong Music and Performing Foundation for charitable purposes, to enhance and publicize the education of music and arts for the future generations.
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Larderet HK Debut in Retrospect
Chinese Who’s Who Society “Celebrity Videos” Exclusive Interview (March 1, 2014 Hong Kong)
Chinese Who’s Who Society “Post Concert News” (March 4 & 5, 2014 Hong Kong)
Hong Kong Music and Performing School PREMIERE CONCERT Photo Album
The first GERMAN prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition
Posted by VW in Blogs, High-End Art Music on Wednesday October 26th, 2016Nicolas Koeckert
The first GERMAN prize-winner at the Tchaikovsky Competition
Nicolas Koeckert
Honorary Professor of Cello and Chamber Music
Hong Kong Music and Performing School
The German-Brazilian violinist Nicolas Koeckert, who comes from a traditional musical family, was born in Munich, Germany. At the age of 5 he received as a gift his first violin from his grandfather. Nicolas started his academic studies when he was 16 at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Grigori Zhislin. Continuing his studies with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule für Musik Köln from 1998, Nicolas started to perform regularly as an international soloist. In 2005 he graduated with highest distinctions and two years later finished his Master’s degree.
In 2001, he won the first prize at the ‘International Competition for Young Violinists Novosibirsk’ in Russia, where he also received the special prize for the best performance of the commissioned composition and the ‘Cultural Prize of Novosibirsk’. In 2002 Nicolas Koeckert became the first German to win a prize at the world-famous ‘International Tchaikovsky Competition’ in Moscow. As a recognition for his artistic achievements in the same summer he was awarded with the ‘Artist Promotion Prize of the Bavarian Government’. In the year 2003, he was prize winner at the Montreal International Musical Competition and also was awarded the second prize at the ‘Liana Isakadze International Violin Competition’ in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Nicolas performs regularely as a soloist with leading orchestras from Europe, Asia, Brazil, Mexico and North Amerika like ‘Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal’, ‘Russian National Symphony Orchestra’, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, ‘KBS Symphony Orchestra’, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo’, ‘Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira’, ‘Orquestra Sinfônica do Teatro Nacional Brasilia’, Orquestra Experimental de Repertório, ‘Norrköping Symphony Orchestra’, Capella Istropolitana, ‘Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra’, ‘Georgian Chamber Orchestra’ and Munich Chamber Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Lawrence Foster, Sir Colin Davis, Michail Jurowski, Jonathan Nott, Asher Fisch, José Serebrier, Christoph Poppen, Saulius Sondeckis, Theodor Guschlbauer, Andris Nelsons, Ari Rasilainen, Ira Levin, Nicholas Milton, Marc Piollet, Emil Tabakov, Victor Pablo Pérez, Osvaldo Ferreira, Fabio Mechetti, Benjamin Northey, Gabriel Feltz and Markus Poschner, among others.
For the Bavarian Radio Station, the violinist has recorded various pieces like Ballade Sonata for solo violin No. 3 by Eugène Ysaÿe, Edvard Grieg’s Sonata in C minor, the Sonata by Maurice Ravel, Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34 and Melody, Op. 42/3 by Tchaikovsky, the Béla Bartók’s Solo Sonata, Antonio Bazzini’s Dance of the Goblins, Sibelius and the Second Violin Concerto of Karol Szymanowski.
The CD recording released by Naxos and featuring the Russian and Slavonic Miniatures by Fritz Kreisler was twice selected as the Recording Of The Month in 2006 by both The Strad Magazine and in 2004 by Naxos in Germany.
Nicolas teaches regularly and gives masterclasses in Germany and abroad. He is a teacher at the Vienna Conservatory.
Cui Xi Min
Posted by VW in Arts Culture, Blogs on Thursday October 6th, 2016CUI XI MIN
Cui Ximin was born in Beijing in 1963. He was fond of painting since childhood and entered into the painting class of Beijing Youth Palace for study when he was six and half years old, and received the guidance of many famous masters. In recent years, his works are mainly flowers and birds, and has been collected by Zhongnanhai, Great Hall of the People, the Palace Museum, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Red Cross Society of China, China Association of Poverty Alleviation,China Charity Federation, Museum of the War of Peoples Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Capital Library of China, Jingfeng Hotel, University of California, American International Times, political VIPs of Burma, South Korea and Japan and foreign friends and people from all walks of life. Now Cui Ximin is council member of China Painting Calligrapher Association; academician of China Calligraphy and Painting Art Institute for Research; vice president and secretary general of Beijing Creation Academy of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute and member of Beijing Artists Association. As the “city card” of Beijing, Cui Ximin is making outstanding contributions to promoting Chinese traditional culture. At the World Tourism Cities Federation established in Beijing in September 2012, Cui Ximin’s traditional Chinese realistic paintings were assigned as Chinese painting gifts and presented to the UN officials and mayors of the cities participating in Beijing Xiangshan Summit; in March 2014 Cui Ximin was invited to “2014 China Culture Week” held in America, during which Cui Ximin’s individual works were specially exhibited and won the top prize “Mountain Bear”. In March 2014, Cui Ximin participated in the 1st 100 China Artists Association Chairman Masterwork Exhibition sponsored by Shenzhen Entrepreneur Association and Shenzhen Enterprise Confederation and held in the art gallery of Shenzhen University. Cui Ximin’s four screens of flowers and bird won consistent praise.
崔西民參展情况
• 作品《香雲》入選2002年迎奧運全國中國畫大展
• 作品《秋韻》入選中國美協主辦的2003年國際雙年展序列展“海潮杯”中國畫大展
• 2003年《水墨新世界》首都知名畫家10人展
• 2003年參加《紀念紅十字會100周年》大型畫展作品《一藍春色》被中國紅十字會收藏
• 作品《秋歌》入選中國美協主辦的2004年《菜鄉情》中國畫提名展獲提名獎
• 作品《醉秋》入選中國美協主辦的《太湖情》中國畫提名展獲提名獎
• 作品《淡妝高韻》入選中國美協主辦的《長江頌》中國畫提名展獲提名獎
• 作品《柱頂紅》榮獲第三届中國農民書畫大展暨千兆杯書畫大賽優秀獎
• 作品《笑對冰天》榮獲首届“盛世中華”全國書法、美術作品大展一等獎
• 2006年參加中國殘聯及全國政協主辦的《牽手同心迎特奧》大型畫展
• 2006年榮獲“國際華人”書畫百傑
• 2006年應邀到新加坡及馬來西亞參加《中國書畫名家展》
• 作品《清韻》參加中國美協舉辦的《2007年中國畫展》
• 參加中國美協舉辦的《草原情》中國畫提展獲提名獎
• 參加中國美協舉辦的《第二届齊白石國際文化藝術節》中國畫提名展獲優秀獎
• 2007年隨中國文聯代表團到韓國參加《中國書畫名家精品展》
• 2007年九月在中央美術學院美術館與崔澤培舉辦《崔澤培、崔西民畫展》
• 2007年參加《世界華人藝術家迎奧運暨倒計時一周年書畫展》
• 2008年5月在愛家收藏世界舉辦的《人文奧運首都著名畫家七人畫展》
• 2008年5月在北京電視臺BTV-3《藝術北京》播出的專題片《崔西民花鳥畫選》
• 2008年5月在中國網絡電視臺《翰墨人生》做著名畫家專訪
• 2008年6月在首都博物館舉辦《崔西民畫展》
• 2008年3月15日慶祝內蒙古自治區成立60周年，首届《星安杯》全國書畫大獎中榮獲銀獎
• 2008年3月15日慶祝內蒙古自治區成立60周年，首届《星安杯》全國書畫大獎中作品永久收藏
• 2008年6月15日中國電影美術協會主辦大展中國畫作品入選2008年中國影視名人迎奧運書畫大展組委會永久收藏
• 2008年8月1日由北京華夏藝術學院，《中外藝術》雜誌及豐台美協主辦的畫展中獲中國人民武裝員警部隊，北京總隊文化藝術事業貢獻獎
• 2008年8月8日獲世界華人慶奧運名家書畫大展入選作品
• 2008年8月8日獲中華民族藝術珍品珍品文化節奧林匹克之旅捐贈證書
• 2008年9月17日獲接待北京第29届奧林匹克運動會嘉賓獎禮品
• 2008年12月1日花鳥作品獲得隆重紀念改革開放30周年，全國名人名家書畫邀請大展金獎
• 作品曾先後在《中國書畫報》、《書畫產業報》、《中國花卉報》、《人民日報》、《北京日報》、《羲之畫報》、《北京晚報》、《北京工人報》、《美術之友》、《翰墨典藏》、《國畫經典》、《畫壇名家》、《北京旅遊》等報刊雜誌發表