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Biographies<br />
and intense drama of his<br />
interpretations. He is a great<br />
believer in the importance<br />
of establishing meaningful<br />
ways to venture outside the<br />
familiar and conservative.<br />
Recent projects attesting<br />
this include a collaboration<br />
with the great American<br />
artist Richard Serra and<br />
two large scale projects<br />
at the former car-park at<br />
South East London with the<br />
Philharmonia Orchestra.<br />
Among Tsoy’s mentors are<br />
Elisabeth Leonskaya and<br />
Maria João Pires. He is also a<br />
passionate runner.<br />
Cellist Mario Brunello won<br />
in 1986 the Tchaikovsky<br />
Prize in Moscow, the very<br />
first Italian to have received<br />
this recognition. Over the<br />
years he has worked with<br />
the greatest conductors<br />
such as Claudio Abbado,<br />
Valeri Gergiev, Antonio<br />
Pappano and Ton Koopman.<br />
He is also a passionate<br />
chamber musician. In recent<br />
years he has promoted the<br />
rediscovery of the violoncello<br />
piccolo – an instrument no<br />
longer in current use, but<br />
popular among composers of<br />
the 17th and 18th centuries.<br />
He recorded 3 CDs with<br />
masterpieces by Bach,<br />
originally written for violin.<br />
Violinist Alina Ibragimova<br />
has established a reputation<br />
for versatility performing<br />
music from baroque to<br />
new commissions on<br />
both modern and period<br />
instruments. This season<br />
she will play concertos by<br />
Jörg Widmann, Béla Bartók,<br />
Sergei Prokofiev and Felix<br />
Mendelssohn with various<br />
orchestras conducted by<br />
Robin Ticciati and will start<br />
a 2-year Mozart cycle with<br />
the Kammerorchester Basel<br />
and Kristian Bezuidenhout.<br />
This season she continues<br />
her longstanding partnership<br />
with pianist Cédric<br />
Tiberghien with concerts<br />
across Europe and North<br />
America.<br />
Singer Elena Stikhina<br />
studied at the Moscow<br />
Conservatory and made her<br />
Mariinsky Theatre debut<br />
as Salome at the premiere<br />
of new production in 2017.<br />
For this performance, she<br />
was awarded the Onegin<br />
Russian opera prize and<br />
St Petersburg’s most<br />
prestigious theatre prize the<br />
Golden Sofit. Immediately<br />
thereafter she became a<br />
member of the Mariinsky<br />
Opera Company. She is in<br />
demand by opera houses<br />
in Europe and the U.S. and<br />
in 2019 made her debut at<br />
the Salzburg <strong>Festival</strong> in the<br />
title role of Cherubini’s opera<br />
Medea.<br />
Slagwerk Den Haag is<br />
fascinated by everything<br />
concerned with sound, pulse<br />
and materials that produce<br />
sound. As performers, they<br />
play on their traditional<br />
arsenal of instruments,<br />
and on porcelain, equine<br />
jaws, glass or 3D-printed<br />
instruments. Their projects<br />
reflect the very latest<br />
developments and they do<br />
everything in their power<br />
to help in the quest for the<br />
undiscovered.<br />
Through her distilled and<br />
often surreal works, Eva<br />
Vermandel explores how we<br />
perceive the world, drawing<br />
attention to the mundane by<br />
suspending its ‘normality’.<br />
Her work is in the collections<br />
of the V&A, London; the<br />
National Portrait Gallery,<br />
London; and the National<br />
Galleries of Scotland,<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
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