Galina Vracheva zeichnet sich in der weltweiten Pianistenszene nicht nur mit improvisierten Kadenzen in Klavierkonzerten vom Barock bis zur Moderne, sondern auch mit Spontankompositionen zu aus dem Publikum geäußerten Wünschen aus. Ihre Lehrtätigkeit ist gleichermaßen einzigartig, angefangen mit Klavier- und Kompositionsunterricht in München, Kiew und Berlin und seit mehr als zehn Jahren mit Meisterklassen in Konzertimprovisation am Conservatorium van Amsterdam, im Haus Marteau in Oberbayern, an der Mahidol University in Bangkok and am Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana.

Seit über zwanzig Jahren in Zürich zu Hause, stammt Galina Vracheva aus Plovdiv in Bulgarien, wo sie kürzlich ein Jugendorchester gründete, dessen Name‚ „Frank Martin Players“ die Verbindung mit der Schweiz symbolisiert, sowie ihr Trimontiada Festival zum nationalen Musikereignis aufbaute. Mit ihrem enormen Repertoire tritt sie sowohl als Solistin als auch als Kammermusikerin, wie auch zusammen mit renommierten Orchestern und Dirigenten auf. Sie war zu Gast im Fernsehen, so bei ARD, ZDF und BRF in Deutschland, und immer wieder bei zahlreichen europäischen Radiostationen wie BR Klassik, SRF2 Kultur und Oe1. Vracheva hat Klaviermusik, Suiten für Flöte und für Tuba und zwei Opern komponiert.

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Markus Lehmann-Horn was born in 1977 in Munich, Germany. From 1984 he took piano lessons, in addition to guitar lessons, but initially specialized in guitar and electric guitar. After graduation in 1996 Lehmann-Horn worked as a freelance guitarist, played numerous studio recordings and concerts with various ensembles and as a guest musician and wrote his first compositions. From 2003 he studied composition for film and television at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, from 2007 he began the master class in composition with Heinz Winbeck in Würzburg, which he completed successfully.

Lehmann-Horn’s compositions have already been awarded several times: in 2009 he got u.a. the Gerhard Schedl Music Theater Prize of the “Neue Oper Wien”, 2010 the Berlin Opera Prize, 2011 the prestigious Paul Hindemith Prize. Lehmann-Horn was a scholarship holder of the Free State of Bavaria in 2015 at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, as well as a 2016 winner of the 6th Brandenburg Biennale.

As a border crosser between the classical and the techno-electronic music world, he wrote numerous film music compositions for national and international film productions and was, among others, awarded the Franz Grothe Prize in 2009. He has received multiple nominations and a Best Film Score award at the annual international “Jerry Goldsmith Award” in Spain, as well as a nomination for the International Emmy in 2012.

In 2012, the extremely successful premiere of the opera “Woyzeck 2.0” with the “Neue Oper Wien” took place at the Vienna Chamber Opera. In December 2013, the new choral work “Sonat Vox Laetitiae” premiered with the Windsbacher Knabenchor, in February 2014 the award-winning drumming concert “Rot …” with the NDR Radiophilharmonie premiered in Hanover with great success. In March 2016, Lehmann-Horn’s first symphony “Verloren in Wien” (Lost in Vienna) premiered during the 6th Brandenburg Biennale under the direction of Peter Gülke.

Lehmann-Horn’s music is played by renowned orchestras, conductors and ensembles, including the Ensemble Triolog, Minguet Quartet, BR Rundfunkorchester, the NDR Radiophilharmonie or the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra.

Markus Lehmann-Horn lives with his family in Starnberg near Munich.

www.markuslehmannhorn.de

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Isabel Gehweiler (b. 1988) is a highly versatile young German cellist and also
works as a composer. She has won numerous awards including the European
bursary for young artists in the Plenary Hall of the European Parliament at 19
years of age.
She studied with Katharina Gohl-Moser, Ivan Monighetti (Basel College of Music,
Precollege course), Gustav Rivinius (Saarbrücken College of Music, orchestral
diploma), Richard Aaron (Juilliard School of Music, bachelor’s course) and Thomas
Grossenbacher (Zurich College of the Arts, soloist exam and teaching diploma).
As a soloist and chamber musician she has already performed at numerous
festivals including the Bayreuth Festival, the Kronberg Cello Festival, the Lucerne
Festival, the Festival of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, the Focus! Festival in New
York and the Verbier Festival.
She regularly performs as a soloist with orchestras and has appeared in such
concert halls as Carnegie Hall, New York, and Suntory Hall, Tokyo.
Isabel Gehweiler has won awards in national and international competitions,
including the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition (2002)
and the Kiwanis Music Competition (2015, 2016). She has received scholarships
from such institutions as the Notenstein La Roche Academy, the German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Rotary International Foundation.
She currently teaches the cello at the Hanover College of Music, Drama and
Media.

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The horn player Mischa Greull is a versatile chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. In addition to his work as solo horn player in the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, he plays in a variety of capacities within various ensembles. CD recordings and performances for the radio with horn quartet, wind quintet, horn trio and larger ensembles are just as much a part of his career as regular concerts with friends from the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, or with the Huh Trio in South Korea. Concert tours and teaching activities take him to Asia, North and South America, and all around Europe. Alongside his concert activities, Mischa Greull is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts and he also organises his own concert series in the city.

More information can be found at www.greull.ch

In order to lend its own face to the numerous and varied projects and productions by the Eos Guitar Quartet [Marcel Ege, Julio Azcano, David Sautter, Michael Winkler] not only in concert, but also on recordings, the eos guitar edition was founded.

The wide stylistic spectrum of the Eos Guitar Quartet is based on the personal musical passions and preferences of its members. The ensemble acts as a forum, which further develops the guitaristic inventiveness of its contributors to quartet music. In this way, the EGQ succeeds in representing all its musical facets equally competently. Thus it is logical that the eos guitar edition not only presents productions of the quartet, but also enables the individual Eos guitarists to publish their own projects. The eos guitar edition sees itself therefore as a specialized label, which offers space for high-quality guitar music with an open stylistic direction and specifically addresses the guitar audience with selected program concepts.

Small but nice – the EGQ with its steadily growing collection penetrates into a high-quality musical segment in the CD market, which the big labels do not cover. Starting in 2018, the eos guitar edition will be represented worldwide by the label Solo Musica and distributed in Germany / Austria / Switzerland via Sony Music, as well as in the rest of the world via Naxos.

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Born in Reims in 1934, Philippe Entremont is one of the most famous pianists and French orchestra conductors. The exceptional career of Philippe Entremont began at the age of eighteen when he came to the international attention with his great success at New York’s Carnegie Hall playing Jolivet’s piano concerto and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Since then, he has pursued a top international career as a pianist, and for the last 40 years on the podium as a conductor as well.

Mr. Entremont has guest conducted European and American orchestras as well as performing numerous piano and chamber music concerts. He has toured all over the world with many orchestras including the Wiener Kammer Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, the Israel Festival Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie.Mr. Entremont is renown as an orchestral conductor and with his dedication to developing orchestras’ artistic potential has led to numerous international tours, playing before full houses all over the world with the Wiener Chamber Orchestra – Europe, USA, South America, Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand. An eleven concert tour with the Orquestra de Cadaqués in the city capitals of various countries in Asia.

As principal guest conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, he has led tours internationally, including in the US in 2005 & 2006, conducting from the piano as well as the podium. He returned in both capacities for the Munich Symphony’s highly successful 15-concert US tour in February of 2009. Mr. Entremont is currently a lifetime laureate conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra. In 1997, Philippe Entremont founded the biennal Santo Domingo Music Festival, of which he was the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Festival Orchestra. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquestra de Cadaqués, and has also conducted the Tokyo-based Super World Orchestra.

He was also among the 10 world-class pianists chosen to perform in the “Piano Extravaganza of the Century” at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Mr. Entremont was Music Director of the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra between 1981 & 1986, after which he became Music Director of the Denver Symphony. He was also Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra until 2002. After having served as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra for almost thirty years with which he has performed in more than 800 concerts, he is now Conductor Laureate for Life. He was also Music Director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and is also their Conductor Laureate as well.

Mr. Entremont has directed the greatest symphony orchestras of Europe, Asia and America in the cities of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit, Minnesota, Seattle, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Montreal, The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra Nacional de España, the Academy of Santa Cecilia of Rome, l’Orchestre National de France, the orchestras of Göteborg, Stockholm, Oslo and Warsaw, the NHK of Tokyo, the KBS Orchestra of Seoul, the Vienna Symphony and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen, to name a few.

Mr. Entremont has worked with the world’s greatest soloists, both instrumental and vocal. One of the most recorded artists of all time, Philippe Entremont has appeared on many labels, including CBS, Sony, Teldec and Harmonia Mundi, and has garnered all of the leading prizes and awards in the industry.

In 2014 Sony Music issued a boxset of 19 CDs of all piano concerts he played under the direction of Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Jean Martinon to name a few…

Mr. Entremont is the Commander of the French Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, Commander of the Order of Arts et Lettres. He has also been awarded the Great Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit. He was for 20 years the Director of the famed American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, a function formerly held by the legendary Nadia Boulanger.

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Islam Manafov was born in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, and studied at the Baku Music School during the years 1977-1981.  In 1979 he won 1st prize in the “Azerbaijan Young Pianists Competition”, attracting the attention of the musical scene.  Following this achievement, at the age of 17,  he performed S. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 under the world famous Maestro Niyazi Tagizade, to great acclaim.  In 1981 the famous pianist and pedagogue A. A. Nasedkin, Professor at the Moscow State Conservatory of P. I. Tchaikovsky and “People’s Artist” of the Russian Federation and former USSR, came to Baku for give a concert and after listening to Islam Manafov invited him to continue his education at the Moscow State Conservatory of P. I. Tchaikovsky, in his own class.  After this, Manafov went to Moscow and completed his studies under Professors A. A. Nasedkin and M. A. Fiodorova with great success. While studying at the Moscow Conservatory and after his graduation Manafov gave concerts in almost all the important cities of the former USSR and was invited to major festivals.  His performance of works by S. Prokofiev, M. Mussorgsky, A. Scriabin and S. Rachmaninoff in particular were received by critics and famous musicians with the descriptions “ingenious” and “frenzied”.

Until now, Manafov has performed in the countries of the former Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Turkey and many countries of Europe and has also attended master-classes in Orchestral Conducting in St. Petersburg.  He has founded and conducted several orchestras, composed pieces in various forms, realized projects in connection especially with introducing music to children and young people and has won much praise in musical circles.  As a “People’s Artist” of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Manafov continues his artistic life as a pianist, conductor and composer, while working as a Professor at Baku Music Academy and Yeditepe University in Istanbul.

With this first CD, Manafov connects with his listeners through the works of the Romantic genius Chopin, with whom he has felt a close emotional tie since his childhood.  Using his immense palette of nuances he takes his listeners on a journey beyond time with Chopin’s works that may be considered his most difficult, both technically and musically, with their differing moods, at times wild, at times childish, at times rebellious and at times full of longing.