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Participants
Andy Anderson
Andy Anderson earned a Masters of Music in orchestral conducting at the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory of Music under the direction of Robert Olson. He has been assistant conductor of the Colorado MahlerFest in Boulder for nine years and he held the same post for three seasons with the Kansas City Ballet. In May 2000 he was given the prestigious Muriel McBrien Kauffman Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award by the Conservatory of Music at UMKC. In August 2000 he joined the Production staff of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. He is the founder and conductor of the Kansas City Puccini Festival, the Artistic Director of the Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City and was recently appointed to the newly created post of assistant conductor for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City.
Rossella De Angelis
Rossella De Angelis was born in 1981 in S. Maria Capua Vetere, Italy. Baby director at 5 years, she starts to play piano very young. At the age of 12 she is awarded with a diploma and the bronze medal in a Regional Pianistic Competition of ACLI, and next year she stars to compose music and texts writing her 1st Symphony at the age of 18. To continue her strong passion for conducting she follows Claudio Abbado for one year and Gary Bertini, staying in contact with a lot of great musicians. She studied with Fabio Vacchi at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan.
Sylvain Audino
Sylvain Audino studied at Lycée Condorcet, the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and attended the masterclasses in conducting of I-M.Huang (France), I.Karaabchevski (Italy) and K-H. Bloemeke (Germany). He became Yutaka Sado’s assistant on Holst’s “The Planets”, conducted several professional orchestras as well as operas, was selected for several competitions and was awarded several prizes while he was a university student. Since 2006 he is resident conductor of the theatre A. Béjart d’Asnières where he presented productions like Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev and Daphnis and Chloe by Ravel. Beside conducting Sylvaine Audino is the musical initiator at the Paris National Opera, Orchestre Colonne and Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France, he orchestrates and composes music.
Patrick Baton
Patrick Baton studied at the Liège State University as well as at the Royal Conservatoire of Music of Liège where he obtained several degrees. He studied choir conducting with László Heltay, Guy Reibel and Philippe Herreweghe and attended courses lead by Sergiu Celibidache, René Defossez, Alexandros Myrat. He obtained a Higher Diploma in Opera Conducting (Conservatoire of Toulon, France). He performed with many professional European orchestras. He obtained awards in different international competitions and won the Special Prize of the St Petersburg Composers at the first Prokofiev International Conducting Competition (St Petersburg, 1992). He recorded music for Philips, Cyprès and Syrinx. Since 1997 Patrick Baton is the chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Liège Conservatoire where he teaches orchestral practice.
Marco Boido
Born in Rome, Marco Boido studied at the “Santa Cecilia” Music Conservatory under Carlo Bruno (piano), Teresa Procaccini (composition) and Bruno Aprea (orchestra conducting). He followed conducting courses under Marcel Couraud, Ervin Acél, Emil Simon, Kurt Redel and Lajos Raiter. He has conducted many professional orchestras in Romania, Moldavia, Italy and Poland. He is a regular guest conductor of the Korrespondenzen orchestra from Baden-Baden holding concerts in Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, France and Luxembourg. He is a teacher at the Donna Olimpia Music School and conducts the chorus of Liceo Tasso in Rome.
Niels Borksand
After a more than 35 year long career as an actor and operasinger Niels Borksand took up the baton in 2000 and began studying with the foremost conducters in Denmark and with the Austrian maestro Dietfried Bernet for whom he has also worked as an assistant. Establishing his own orchestra The Sinfonietta Arctica he has presented numerous concerts in Denmark and Greenland where he is often on tour. There he conducted the first ever performance of Händel´s Messiah in 2004 and of Mozart´s Requiem in 2005. Apart from conducting a wide repertoire from symphonic music to brassband and choir with many Danish ensembles, he has worked with Wagner productions in Sweden and Denmark as well as with choirs for plays at The Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. Most recently he has conducted opera and concerts in Bulgaria and made recordings with the Bulgarian National Philharmonic Orchestra/Ruse for the Danish label Classico.
Michel Brousseau
The Canadian conductor was nine years old when he started his piano studies. Studying conducting under Raffi Armenian, he graduated from the Montreal Music Conservatory, where he also obtained a First Prize in piano. He also studied conducting with Otto Werner-Müller, Milen Nachev, Valery Vachev and Aldo Faldi. He is presently conductor and artistic director of the New World Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the Ottawa Classical Choir, the Chanteurs de Sainte-Thérèse Choir, and the Semper Fidelis Vocal Ensemble. He has conducted in Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, the United States and Canada. In 2005 he was finalist of the International Luigi Mancinelli Opera Conducting Competition held in Italy. Between 1995 and 1999 he was artistic coordinator of the Montreal Music Conservatory, one of his roles being the promotion of the talented young musicians. Currently he is preparing to release a recording that showcases the most beautiful Slavic and Italian arias for soprano and orchestra.
Igor Bukhvalov
Born in Minsk, Belarus conductor is Igor Bukhvalov currently pursuing his conduction career in New York City. He studied choral conducting at the Gnesin Musical Institute in Moscow and graduated as an opera and symphony orchestra conductor from the Belarusian Academy of Music (his professor was Gennady Provatorov). Igor Bukhvalov is a laureate of the International Church Music Competition and the Wroclaw Conductor’s Competition (Poland). He conducted many performances with the Belarusian State Bolshoi Theater and the State Symphony Orchestra of Belarus as well as the State Academic Choir of the Republic of Belarus. His teaching experience dates back to the period when he was a choirmaster in the Musical College of Minsk
William Carslake
Winner of the Hugh Roberton Conducting Prize, William Carslake (31) studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with Martyn Brabbins and Ilya Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. Previously he was Organ Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where he conducted the university orchestras as Assistant to Stephen Cleobury. Recently William has studied with Jorma Panula in Finland, and Sian Edwards in London. He has worked with several opera companies and conducted numerous symphonic orchestras. He founded and ran the Pembroke Academy of Music in South London, which provides instrumental tuition for socially disadvantaged students.
Hebe de Champeaux
Hebe de Champeaux was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and was raised in San Jose, California. She received her Masters of Music in Instrumental Conducting at the Indiana University. She co-founded a collaborative ensemble of artists, dancers, and musicians called ExArt in the spring of 2006 with Mihaela Bogdan. She received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from San Francisco State University, where she studied with the Alexander String Quartet. She has performed widely as an orchestral musician with various regional and international orchestras, including the Henry Mancini Orchestra 2006 and the AIMS Orchestra in Graz, Austria. She is currently the conductor, violin, and flute teacher at the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, and she is the conductor of the Jerusalem Chorus in Ramallah, Palestine.
Vincenzo Colagiuri
Vincenzo Colagiuri was born in Sydney, Australia, his parents are Italian. He started playing the piano at the age of five and studied conducting under Gerald Krug and completed his piano studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. A further period of study took him to the UK, attending courses at the English National Opera and accompanying the vocal master-classes of famous artists. He has been active as a concert accompanist and repetiteur in a wide variety of repertoire. He was a participant in the Symphony Australia Conductor Development Programme 2004 and his most recent conducting engagements include Così fan tutte and La Belle Hélène as well as the musicals Titanic in Sydney and The Phantom Of The Opera in Singapore.
Stephen Ellery
After graduating from the Birmingham Conservatoire as a clarinetist and composer Stephen Ellery received several international scholarships. Between 1988-1991 he studied conducting with Jerzy Katlewicz at the Krakow Academy of Music, from 1991 to 1995 he continued his studies with Ilia Musin at the St Petersburg Conservatory. He obtained the Master’s Degree in conducting at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. He won prizes and awards at various international conducting competitions. Stephen Ellery now works with children’s orchestras in London. He had also conducted children orchestras in Japan and Siberia as well as various orchestras on four continents.
Georges-Étienne d’Entremont
Born in Montréal, Canada, the 29 years old Georges-Étienne d’Entremont studied at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montreal as well as at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany. He has studied with Raffi Armenian, Stéphane Laforest, Louis Lavigueur and Per Borin. In 2001-2003 he was second conductor, chorus master and coach for the Université du Québec à Montreal’s opera program. In the last few years, Georges-Étienne d’Entremont has conducted many orchestras and choruses as spear conductor in the Montréal area. As a part of his training, he also conducted rehearsals of the Württembergischen Kammerorchesters (Heilbronn), the Bruckner Sinfonie Orchester (Stuttgart) and the Südwestdeutschen Philharmonie (Konstanz).
José Antonio Espinal
Born in Mexico, José Antonio Espinal is pianist, orchestral and choral conductor who lives in Los Angeles, the United States. In 2000 he moved from Mexico to the US in order to work with maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor of the LA Philarmonic. He received two artistic grants from the Mexican National Endowment for Arts and Culture and is in charge of four choirs within The Harmony Project, an internationally recognized music organization providing music instruction for the youth. Actively involved in choir directing, he is the founder of a choir festival in Mexico and participated at several prestigious international festivals. He was honoured for his work with children and young people.
Rubén Flores
Rubén Flores was born in 1969 in Xalapa Veracruz, Mexico. He studied flute and conducting in Mexico and the United States and graduated from the Veracruz University. In 2001 he started his professional career as a conductor of the State Symphonic Orchestra. As a guest conductor he has directed several professional orchestras in Mexico. He arranges classical and folk music for orchestras and bands and he has been invited to share this experience in more than 20 workshops held at various universities. He has been the chief conductor of the Veracruz Youth Symphonic Orchestra. He was one of the last Latin American students of maestro Jorma Panula.
David Glover
David Glover, originally from Athens, Georgia, USA, started his musical career as a violinist at age of 5. As a violinist he attended the University of Georgia (BM) and Boston University (MM), studying with Bayla Keyes. He has participated in the Brevard Music Festival, Musicorda, and the Rome Festival. As a member of the Arco Chamber Orchestra, he made two tours to Carnegie Hall and other venues on the East Coast. As a conductor, he has been a part of the South Carolina Conducting Institute, the Opera Workshop at Spoleto. He also was the conductor of the Pre-College Orchestra at the University of Georgia between 2003-2004. Currently he is an assistant conductor to the orchestras at Indiana University. In 2005 he founded L’Orchestra da Camera and lead its two inaugural performances.
Yiannis Hadjiloizou
Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, he received his first piano lessons at age of 4. He graduated from the Cyprus Academy of Music and the Piano Studio of Madam Despo Hadjiloizou-Frangakou. In 1993 he was awarded the prize for Best Music Composed for a Play by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture. He continued his studies in the United States and he now holds nine diplomas, the last one being a doctorate from Boston University. He has produced 3 records with the Nicosia Music Society. He is the founder of the Chicago Camerata (1999), Melodramatic Stage of Nicosia (2000), and Boston Chance Orchestra and Chorus (2006), and has made a guest appearance with world-renowned contemporary music ensemble ALEAIII. He was appointed president and artistic director of the Cyprus Academy of Music in 2000. He is also an active tv/film/ad composer and works in his private Audio/Midi recording studio.
Koichiro Kanno
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971, Koichiro Kanno started studying the piano at the age of 5. He continued his musical training at the Toho-Gakuen School of Music and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Koichiro Kanno was engaged as a conductor at Opera Brasov in Romania (1997-2001). Since 2003 he has been the music assistant and solo-repetitor at the Opernfestspiel Heidenheim in Germany.
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