PIERRE-YVES ARTAUD

First Prize for flute and First Prize for chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire, Pierre-Yves Artaud has played all over the world. He has performed with famous orchestras under the direction of P.Boulez, J.C Casadesus, C.Dutoit, P.Eotvos, L.Foster, A.Tamayo, T.Yeh. He has been part of Ensemble 2e2m for many years both as a soloist and artistic director. In 1965, he has founded the Quatuor de flûtes Arcadie and in 1985 the Orchestre français de flûtes.
   Professor of flute at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and Ecole Normale de Musique, he is also director of several collections and has compiled several teaching methods and treatises. He has given numerous master-classes : Taïwan, Japan -Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima, Akiyoshidai Festival-, Korea, Great-Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany -Darmstadt-, etc..., and has worked on important researches about flute, particularly at the Ircam in Paris where he was put in charge of the Instrumental research workshop under P.Boulez from 1981 to 1985.
   As a performer, teacher, or in the field of research, Pierre-Yves Artaud has been playing an important part in the development of the art of the flute, as much for the interpretation of classical music as for the creation of modern music. Many composers have written for him : G.Amy, A.Boucourechliev, F.Donatoni, B. Ferney-hough, S. Goubaïdulina, T. Hosokawa, K. Huber, B. Jolas, M. Lévinas, P. Méfano, E. Nunes, L. de Pablo, Y. Taïra.
   Pierre-Yves Artaud was awarded the french Medal for arts and sciences (1978), the Grand Prix for interpretation of french contemporary music by the Sacem (1982), the Prix Charles Cros for the Artaud/Ferneyhough record (1983), the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque français (1984) and the Prix Charles Cros (1983,1985,1995), and the Japanese Grand Prix for the Hosokawa record. In 1998, he is awarded the Prix for pedagogy by the Sacem.
   Doctor Honoris Causa Bucharest University (Year 2000).
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HENRIK SVITZER

Henrik Svitzer belongs to the French-American flute school and is one of the well-known Scandinavian flutist and teachers. From 1968 to 1975 he worked as a solo flutist at the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1975 he joined the Royal Danish Orchestra as a solo flutist.
   Svitzer was awarded with the grand prix at the festival for young artists in Bordeaux (France), and in Uelzen (Germany), and in 1973 he was honoured as the best Danish woodwind player. He was a member of the Center of ”Creative and Performing Arts” at the State University of New York at Buffalo under leadership of music director and composer Morton Feldman and resident conductor professor Jan Williams. In 1978 Henrik Svitzer was winner of the East and West Artists International Auditions and was sponsored in his debut at Carnegie Hall, New York.
   One year later Henrik Svitzer was reinvited by the EWA and once again he played at Carnegie Hall. In addition he played at the Columbia University, Albright Knox art Gallery, WBAI Radio in New York and at numerous universities and festivals in the United States and has toured extensively throughout Europe, and Japan. He is currently employed as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of music and at the Odense Carl Nielsen Academy of Music.

DMITRO TAVANETS

Dmitro Tavanets finished National Music Academy of Ukraine and post graduate study in National Music Academy of Ukraine, where he was studying with professor Vsevolod Vorobyov. He is Prizewinner of National Piano Competitions, finalist of I and II International Piano Competitions in memory of Vladimir Horowitz. From 1999 he is working with National Ensemble of Soloists "Kyiv Kamerata". Dmitro took part in Music Fest (Kyiv), "2 days and 2 nights" (Odessa), I Festival of modern music (Yerevan, Armenia), Days of Ukrainian Culture in Germany (Berlin), Days of Kiev's culture in Moscow (Russia), "New Music Marathon 2005" (Prague, Czech R).

At the concert a number of young flutists, who just ended International Flute Summer Academy with Artaud and Svitzer, will also perform.

Programme

Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) – Musikalisches Opfer BMW 1079;
Ricercare for six flutes (arranged by Henrik Svitzer)

Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) – Trio for 2 flutes and piano opus 119
    I Allegro moderato
    II Adagio patetico
    III Rondo

Marcin Blazewicz (1953-) – Concert for flute (tilegnet Artaud)
    Maestoso – Allegro

Frederic Hartmann (1957-) – Friend – Ships In The Oceans Of Hearings (dedicated to Svitzer, 2008)

Pierre-Yves Artaud (1946-) – Eole for solo piccolo

Ole Bull (1810-1880) – Sæterjentens Søndag (solitude sur la montagné)
    Based on Johan Svendsen's harmonisation. Arranged by Per Øien