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Concert series World stars in Lithuania

 

 

Performers:

PIERRE AMOYAL (violin)

JEAN-MARC LUISADA (piano)

 

Programme: 

 

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Violin sonata in B flat major, KV 454

FRITZ KREISLER – Liebesleid

JULES MASSENET – „Méditation de Thaïs

FRITZ KREISLER – Caprice Viennois

CÉSAR FRANCK – Violin sonata in A major, FWV 8

 

PIERRE AMOYAL (violin)

Pierre Amoyal is one of the most brilliant violinists of his generation. He began his music studies very early and was awarded a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de musique de Paris at the age of 12. At the age of 17 he departed for Los Angeles to study with Jascha Heifetz, with whom he studied for five years. There he enjoyed the privilege of performing chamber music in concert as well as recording with Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.
Since then Pierre Amoyal has been invited to play with the most eminent orchestras and has performed throughout the world. He regularly works with the most important conductors of our time: Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, Charles Dutoit, Eliahu Inbal, Stanislas Skrowaczewski, Günter Herbig, Georges Pretre, Guennadi Roshdestvensky, Kurt Sanderling, Simon Rattle, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and Myung Whun Chung.
During the season 2011-2012, Pierre Amoyal will perform with orchestras and recitals in Salzburg, Japan, Finland, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Serbia, Bosnia, France and Switzerland. He will be the member of jury of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in May. He will give Master Classes in Japan, in Germany, at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, at the Lausanne Summer Academy and at the String Seminar in Toho Gakuen School of music in Tokyo.
In 1985 Pierre Amoyal was named a Chevalier of Arts and Lettres and in 1995 was raised to the rank of Chevalier de l'Ordre National de Mérite. In 2002 he received the Prix du Rayonnement de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la création artistique and in 2006, the Prix de la Ville de Lausanne.
Pierre Amoyal plays one of the world's most celebrated violins, the Kochansky Stradivarius from 1717 which was miraculously recovered in Italy in 1991 after its theft in 1987.

JEAN-MARC LUISADA (piano)

“Luisada has the style to make every note indispensable and to uncover poetic motifs in the deepest recesses of the score.”
Profoundly shaping his musical talents were two teachers: Marcel Ciampi and Denyse Riviere, with whom he studied first in Paris, then at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. He then began his studies at the Paris National Conservatory of Music, where he studied piano with Dominique Merlet and chamber music with Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux. Winning first prize in both disciplines, he began postgraduate work in 1978, while working regularly with Nikita Magaloff, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Milosz Magin, who would remain his teachers after the completion of his degree.
In 1983, Mr Luisada gave a prize-winning performance at the Dino Ciani competition at La Scala in Milan. In 1985 he was a prize winner at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. His success in Warsaw opened the door to an international career. Concerts across the globe ensued. Invited to tour Japan after the competition, he now returns on an annual basis to a faithful public.
In conjunction with the rise of his touring career, Jean-Marc Luisada recorded first with Harmonic Records and then with the Deutsche Grammophon label with whom he realised numerous recordings - some of the most noteworthy are the Chopin Waltzes and Mazurkas and the Grieg and Schumann concerti with the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas.
Jean-Marc Luisada signed an exclusive contract with RCA Red Seal/BMG in 1998 (now BMG-Sony). His releases on the label feature the music of Bizet and Fauré (for which he received the Disc of the Year award), Dvorak, Schumann, Mozart, Haydn, Liszt, Scriabin, the Beethoven no. 4 piano concerto with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and of course several recordings featuring the composer Chopin, including his latest Chopin releases in 2009 (nocturnes, etudes, polonaise) and 2010 and 2011 (complete Mazurkas and Ballades) which received rave reviews by the press.
Jean-Marc Luisada has performed under the direction of Charles Dutoit, Adam Fischer, Theodor Guschlbauer, Eliahu Inbal, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Marek Janowski, Mikko Franck, Emmanuel Krivine, Yehudi Menuhin, Michel Plasson, Cord Garben, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Yutaka Sado, Stanislaw Skorwacewski and Michael Tilson Thomas with the LSO, NHK, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, St Petersburg Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Tokyo Philharmonic, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.... He is also a devoted chamber musician and performs with the Fine Arts, Sine Nomine, Kocian, Modigliani and Talich quartets, as well as with Paul Meyer, Patrick Gallois, Gary Hoffman, Yuzuko Horigome, Philip Dukes, Laurent Korcia, Raphael Oleg and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt.
Jean-Marc Luisada is a frequent guest at the Besançon Festival, the Festival de la Roque d'Antheron, the Radio France Festival in Montpellier, the Strasbourg Festival, Bergen in Norway and the Valdemosa Chopin Festival in Majorca. He plays throughout Europe and Japan, and has appeared at the most prestigious halls including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, London; Suntory Hall, Tokyo; New Bilbao Auditorium of Barcelona; Victoria Hall, Geneva; Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, New York; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Musikhalle of Hamburg; Herkulessaal, Munich; Teatro San Carlo, Napoli; Verdi Hall of the Conservatory of Milan; Dvorak and Smetana Halls, Prague; Symphony Hall of Osaka, Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow; Tonhalle, Zurich; and in Paris at the Salle Pleyel, Théatre des Champs-Elysées, Théatre du Chatelet...
Projects in 2010/11 include recitals across Europe, Japan and further afield (He will inaugurate the new Auditorium Richelieu in Abu Dhabi in May) and CD releases with Sony BMG.
In June 1989 he was appointed Chevalier des arts et lettres and in November 1999, Chevalier du l'ordre du mérit by the French government. In 2003 he was promoted to Officier des arts et lettres.
He is also a Professor at the Ecole Normale de musique « Alfred Cortot » in Paris.

 

 

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