Over to Madrid this week for a recital by Pianist Miguel Ortega Chavaldas and cellist Maksym Dyedikov in music of Brahms, Hosokawa and Abril – recorded live by Radio Nacional de España on June 5, 2010.
Beginning with Brahms Cello Sonata Number 2 opus 99 – followed by Lied III by Toshio Hosokawa and finally Two pieces for Cello and Piano by Anton Garcia Abril. The Hosokawa and Abril pieces are world premier performances.
Toshio Hosokawa first studied piano and composition in Tokyo, then from 1976 with Yun Isang at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1983 to 1986, he studied with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. In 1980, he first took part in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse, including the performance of his compositions. He lectured there regularly beginning in 1990. In the following years, he became known internationally and received several commissions.
Anton Garcia Abril composed many classical orchestral works, chamber and vocal pieces, as well as over 150 scores for film and television. Between 1974 and 2003, he was head of the department of Compositions and Musical Forms (Composición y Formas Musicales) of the Madrid Royal Conservatory, and in 1982 he was elected a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. In 1994, he was awarded Spain’s Premio Nacional de Música for composition, and in 2008, he was also named a member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia.
He died on 17 March 2021, at the age of 87 from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.
Maksym Dyedikov is currently Principle cellist for the Odesa Philharmonic in Ukraine.
Miguel Angel Ortega Chavaldas studied with Almudena Cano, obtaining an Honors Matriculation and a First Class Diploma upon completing the Superior Degree in Piano and an Honors Matriculation with an Extraordinary End-of-Graduate Award, in Chamber Music.
Ortega Chavaldas expanded his studies in Amsterdam, Budapest and Rome with Katalin Némes, Márta Gulyás, György Kurtág, András Mihály and Ferenc Rados and received musical advice from Darío de Rosa, Rafael Orozco, Bruno Leonardo Gelber and Cristina Bruno. As a concert performer, he performs both in piano recitals and in various chamber ensembles, collaborating with musicians such as Natalia Gutman, Mihail Kohmitzer, Ivan Monighetti, Kim Scholes, Natalia Shakhovskaya, David Gueringas, Nicolás Chumachenco, Wolfgang Schmidt, Wen-Sinn Yan, Bernard Greenhouse , Lluis Claret, David Geringas, Frans Helmerson, János Starker, Philippe Müller, Antonio Meneses, Miklós Perényi, Gregor Horsch, Jens Peter Maintz, Torleif Thedeén, among many others. He has performed in the main halls of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, Germany, USA, Croatia, Turkey, Austria, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Tanzania, Vietnam, Albania and Tunisia . He makes various recordings for Sony, Versus, TVE, Tokyo NHK, Radio Warsaw, Bártok Radio, Hungarian National Radio, RNE Classic Radio.
Enjoy the concert.
