CONCERT: AYAKO FUJIKI (PIANO) ANTON SERRA (FLAUTA TRAVESSERA) A LA R.A. CATALANA DE BELLES ARTS DE ST. JORDI

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Ayako Fujiki

Concert coming up on 18th November in barcelona!! Playing Fauré, Prokofiev, Martin, Gubaidulina!!! xxx

Born in Tokyo, Ayako Fujiki started playing the piano as a young child and performed her first concert at age seven playing Beethoven and Chopin. She has been performing in Japan, Spain, UK, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and recently Colombia, Cartagena de Indios.

She has developed her skill with renowned pianists Alicia de Larrocha (winner of the 1994 Premio Princípe de Asturias de las Artes) and widow of Igor Marchevich, Carlota Garriga at the Marshall Academy, Barcelona, specializing in Spanish music, with Carmen Bravo Mompou specializing also in the compositions of Frederic Mompou, with Jan Wijn at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Holland,  with Chung Lee at Graz University, Austria, with Narcis Bonet at the L’Ecole Normale du Paris, France, with Irina Ossipova, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, with Christopher Elton, Royal Academy of Music, London, and many other major Japanese pianists including Naoko Matsuno and Momoyo Nakai. According to Carlota Garriga "proves to have high sensitivity and excellent piano playing skills" and from Carmen Mompou "she certainly has a promising career ahead".

In 2005, she was honored with the diploma "Specialization in Spanish music". In 2007, she was awarded title of "Master of Spanish Music". She was Finalist in the International Piano Competition, Vienna. She has performed in various music festivals in Spain and Italy. In 2009, She has released the recordings of "Franz Schubert" and in 2010, the recordings of the solo piano Suite "GOYESCAS  - los majos enamorados -" composed by Spanish Composer Enrique Granados which is famous as one of the most difficult piano suites, she has recorded them for posthumous memorial of her professor Alicia de Larrocha.

She has played as a soloist Chopin Piano Concerto with the orchestra formed by the Opera Liceu Orchestra members, also she has played Manuel de Falla's Cembalo Concert using the very Cembalo which Manuel de Falla used to use when composing, as well as Padre Soler manuscript Quintets with Clàssic Barcelona.   

As a composer her composition was premiered in Palau de la Música Catalana. She is working on her own albums as a composer and has composed orchestrated pieces with piano and a variety of other instruments for films, advertising and documentaries, incorporating classical and electronic musical techniques.

http://www.ayakofujiki.com/

Anton Serra 

 

Professor Superior de Flauta travessera, nascut a Barcelona l’any 1957. Va estudiar a Suïssa, sota la direcció de J.P. Haering i amb altres destacats flautistes com Mörhing, Rampal, Nicolet i Freivogel. Actuà com a primera flauta de l’ Orchestre de la Ville de Fribourg i de la banda suïssa “Landwer”.
El 1976 guanyà el concurs de música moderna de Ràdio Juventud de Barcelona (premiat amb un contracte de 5 anys amb el segell “Ariola Eurodisc”) i, l’any 1984, el concurs internacional de música de cambra “Città Stressa” (Itàlia).

Des de finals dels anys 80 ensenya el seu instrument a l’Acadèmia Marshall de Barcelona ( fundada per Enric Granados l’any 1901 i dirigida actualment per Alicia de Larrocha ) i als Conservatoris Municipals de Granollers i de Valls. Ha estat, en diverses ocasións, membre del jurat a L’Ecole Nationale de Musique de la Ville de Tarbes (Conservatoire Henry Duparc-França).
 Ha realitzat mes de 400 concerts  dintre dels festivals mes destacats del nostre país com Peralada, Torroella, Palau de la Música... i a Alemanya, Itàlia, França, Suïssa, Israel, Rússia i Finlàndia, amb solistes catalans i d’altres d’arreu del món. Cal destacar les orquestres que l’acompanyen en tant que solista, com    l’”Orchestre de Chambre de Paris”, “The Moscow Kamerata” amb la qual ha fet diverses gires i un CD, la “Mozart Festival Orchestra”, “The New Israel Chamber Ensemble”, l’ Orquestra Simfónica “Arthur Rubinstein” de Polonia, l’ Orquestra de cambra de Bratislava, l’ Orquestra de Cambra del Empordà, la del Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona, la Camerata Mediterrània, l’Orquestra “Concerto”, el seu propi grup Clàssic BCN, etc. 
Es membre fundador del “Trio Marshall”.
Les emissores “Radio Nacional de Espanya” i “Catalunya Música” retransmeten sovint els seus CD’s, elogiats per la premsa especialitzada. 
Anton Serra ha tocat durant uns anys amb una flauta Verne Q. Powell d’or i, des de l’estiu 2004, ho fa amb una WM. S. Haynes també d’or.

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