ADRIANA FERRERIRA
Born in 1990 in Braga (Portugal), Adriana Ferreira studied with Joaquina Mota at ARTAVE, a Professional School of Music, where she obtained the Instrument’s Course Diploma with a 20/20 score, after what she has been awarded a Merit Prize of the Ministry of Education and the Dr Manuela Carvalho Prize. From the age of seventeen, she studies under Sophie Cherrier, Vincent Lucas (Flute) and Pierre Dumail (Piccolo) at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris. Recently, she has also studied with Emily Beynon, Felix Renggli, James Galway and Vicens Prats.
Adriana appeared with the European Union Youth Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra and Paris Orchestra, and she played in several festivals, such as Giverny, Cistermusica, Estoril or Strasbourg, as a solo and chamber musician. She won the 1st prize at ten Flute Competitions, including the Kiev International Competition, Young Musicians Prize in Lisbon, Estoril Interpretation Competition and National Flute Competition in France. She performed as a soloist with several orchestras, having also premiered the Flute Concerto by Joaquim dos Santos, dedicated to her.
Adriana’s schedule includes performances in numerous Festivals, solo concerts with orchestra, her first solo CD recording, and collaborations with the Paris National Opera Orchestra and the Limburgs Symphony Orchestra, among others. For one year, Adriana will study with Benoît Fromanger at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, taking part of the European Erasmus program. In parallel, she attends a Musicology Bachelor at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), supported by a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Scholarship.
She has been recently awarded the 1st Prize, the Odense Symphony Orchestra Prize and the Young People Jury’s Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Flute Competition in Denmark.
FUMINORI TANADA
Born in Okayama (Japan) in 1961, Fuminori Tanada studied composition, harmonic writing and accompaniment with Yoshio Hachimura and Henriette Puig-Roget at the Tokyo Music and Arts National University. In 1984, he was admitted at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he won three 1st Prizes: composition, orchestration and accompaniment. Mr Tanada studied with Claude Ballif, Paul Méfano, Betsy Jolas, Serge Nigg, Jean Koerner and Solange Chiapparin, and he finished his academic studies with a Perfecting Cycle for composers at the Conservatoire.
After that, Fuminori Tanada dedicates himself to the piano and the composition. Pianist of the “Ensemble Itinéraire”, he participates in several concerts and recordings. He is also the accompanist of the Flute Classes of the Paris Conservatoire (Pierre Yves-Artaud and Sophie Cherrier).
As a composer, Fuminori Tanada wrote a Quartet with Flute (2001) for Emmanuel Pahud, “F” for Solo Flute (1991) and a Flute Concerto (2001) for Pierre Yves-Artaud, “Hommage à Alain Marion” (1998) for two flutes.
Also, “Mysterious Morning I” (1995) for Harp, “Mysterious Morning II” (1996-2000) premiered and recorded by the “Habanera” Sax Quartet, “Mysterious Morning III” (1996) written for the saxophonist Claude Delangle, “Mysterious Morning IV” (1996) for two Harps and ensemble, premiered by the “Ensemble Itinéraire” and the harpists Virginie Tarêtte and Elisabetta Giorgi conducted by Mark Foster.
Fuminori Tanada also composed “V” (2002) for Violin, for David Grimal, “Duo” (2006) for soprano and mezzo-soprano Saxophone, dedicated to Claude Delangle and Marie Kobayashi, “Octuor Concertant” (2008) for the guitarist Pablo Marquez and the soloists of the “Itinéraire”, “Echoing Forest II” for Violin and Piano, “Echoing Waves I” for two Trumpets, “Echoing Waves II” (2009) for Saxhorn and Piano, for the Prize Competition of the Paris Conservatoire.
His new piece for Wind Sextet and Piano (2007-2010) was recently premiered by Emmanuel Pahud, François and Paul Meyer, Gilbert Audin, Chezy Nir and the composer at the “Festival de l’Empéri” in July.
His compositions are edited by “Editions Henry Lemoine”.
Programme
F. Schubert
Nicolai Kasputin
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