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Han Jae-jin, who won first prizes at the Isangyun Competition in 2022 and George Enescu International Competition in 2021, will present one of his most anticipated programs this year as the artist-in-residence at Lotte Concert Hall. The 18-year-old cellist, the youngest musician to be named Lotte's artist-in-residence, will take the stage at least twice this year, in the Solo Cello Recital on March 27 and Trio R...
Musicians around the world are remembering the talented and versatile Finnish violinist, conductor and composer Jaakko Kuusisto, who died Wednesday at age 48 after a two-year battle with brain cancer.
Born into a family of musicians, including his grandfather, Taneli Kuusisto, and his father, Ilkka Kuusisto, both composers, Kuusisto and his younger brother Pekka Kuusisto started violin at an early age. Kuusisto attended the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where he studied violin with Géza Szilvay and Tuomas Haapanen, and composition with Eero Hämeenniemi. He later came to the U.S. to attend Indiana University's (now-Jacobs) School of Music, where he studied violin with Miriam Fried and Paul Biss, and composition with David Dzubay.
As a young violinist, Kuusisto was a stand-out in the international violin competition circuit, winning first prize at the 1989 Kuopio Violin Competition when he was 15, and then placing as a finalist in the International Sibelius Violin Competition in 1990 and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1994.
At the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 1997, Kuusisto not only placed as a finalist, but he also helped lead an unusual show of collegial spirit among the 12 finalists, who were given a week to prepare for the final round, and were sequestered together Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth. Fellow 1997 finalist Jennifer Frautschi wrote about it earlier this week on her
The 2nd Bartok Spring International Art Weeks presenting classical concerts and exhibitions will get under way next April in Budapest and several other cities.
This thread of research, and the immigrant attachment to the Hungarian-mother-country, were with me when I took my seat at The Hilbert Circle Theatre for the ISO program "Greetings from
Tweet The Festival Academy Budapest chamber music series, founded by the Hungarian violinists Katalin Kokas and Barnabas Kelemen, is to be held at various venues in the capital from July 16 to 25, including at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, the Budapest Music Centre and the Rumbach Sebestyen Street Synagogue. Performers include such celebrated musicians as Gidon Kremer with Camerata Baltica, Vilde Frang, Joshua Bell, Patricia Kopatchinszkaja, Kristof Barati, Istvan Vardai and Lilla Horti, among others. Peter Fekete, the state secretary for culture, told a press conference that people in the cultural sector had made great efforts to keep performance alive online during the pandemic and help others maintain their well-being. The task of artists now is to tempt people out of their homes and give them faith that normality can be restored, he added.