Helsingborg Piano Festival

OK! Here is the info for next year’s festival!!!

Welcome to the Helsingborg Piano Festival 2008!

CONCERTS AND MASTERCLASSES AUGUST 6-12

For the sixth year, Dunkers Kulturhus welcomes you to Helsingborg, Sweden, to the Master classes for young pianists at the Helsingborg Pianofestival. This festival gives you a unique possibility to participate in Master classes, private lessons, lectures, perform in concerts, and of course, to attend the piano recitals during the festival. During the week-long festival, every day is intense and filled with activities around the piano music. The venue is inspiring as can be, with the beautiful scenery of the sea just outside, and the state-of-the-art cultural building to work in and enjoy during the festival.

Per Tengstrand & Per Nyrén, Artistic Directors
Dunkers kulturhus

You will be guaranteed at least three lessons, including one public Masterclass with different teachers. You will play at lunchconcerts and one major concert. As participiant you attend all festival arrangements free of charge.

REGISTRATION
Complete the application form and return it by mail or e-mail
to the given address no later than June 1. If you have been accepted to
the Masterclass you will be notified no later than June 15. The
participation fee is 3000 SEK. If you are accepted, pay the registration
fee , 500 SEK to the PG account of Helsingborgs Kulturförvaltning,
PG 488 75 83-7, or to bank account no IBAN SE 51 9500 0099 6042
4887 5835, SWIFT: NDEASESS.
The remaining 2000 SEK are to be paid upon arrival.
Accomodation and meals are not included, but we can help you find
cheap accommodation if you require so. If you wish additional
information, please write to Per Nyrén, per-nyren@telia.com

Please tell us your:

Name
Adress
Telephone
E-mail
Age
Studies
Preliminary repertoire during the festival

Please send the application form to : Per Nyrén
Snickarehusvägen 110
S-26060 Kvidinge, Sweden
or to: per-nyren@telia.com
www.dunkerskulturhus.se

PROGRAM

Wednesday Aug 6: Master class and private lessons

19.00 Lecture Per Nyrén
20.00 Inauguration concert Per Tengstrand
Chopin, Liszt

Thursday Aug 7: Master classes and private lessons

Friday Aug 8: A Day of Beethoven
Master classes and private lessons

19.00 Lecture Per Nyrén

20.00 Beethoven in concert Per Tengstrand, Peter Takács and students. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and more

Saturday Aug 9: Master classes and private lessons
20.00 Helsingborg Dagblad’s Concert with teachers and students

Sunday Aug 10: Master classes and private lessons

19.00 Lecture Per Nyrén
20.00 Concert Peter Takács
Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy

Monday Aug 11: Master classes and private lessons

Tuesday Aug 12:

20.00 Piano cavalcade with teachers and students

ARTISTS, TEACHERS AND LECTURERS:

Per Tengstrand is one of today’s foremost young pianists. He received top prizes in Long-Thibaud Competition and in 1997 he won First Prize in Cleveland International Competition. He has since then performed with great acclaim as recitalist in Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Centre and appeared solo with orchestras like the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Japan Philharmonic. The Washington Post describes him as “technically resplendent, powerful, intuitively secure” and the New York Times “a superb Swedish pianist” whose recital “was rewarding, both for its unusual programming and for his eloquent, technically polished performances”. In 2005, he was decorated by King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden with the Royal Medal Litteris et Artibus for outstanding service to the arts, as the youngest recipient ever.

Peter Takács is Professor of Piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he has been teaching since 1976. Hailed by the New York Times as “a marvellous pianist,” Peter Takács has performed widely, receiving critical and audience acclaim for his penetrating and communicative musical interpretations. Peter Takács has performed as guest soloist with major orchestras in the U.S. and abroad, as well as at important summer festivals such as Tanglewood, Music Mountain, Schlern Music Festival in the Italian Alps, and Tel Hai International Master Classes in Israel. He has performed and recorded the cycle of thirty-two Beethoven Piano Sonatas, which are due for release on the CAMBRIA label in 2008.

Romuald Sztern is one the most sought-after teachers in Sweden today after successfully teaching young pianists like Per Tengstrand, Francisca Skoogh, Linda Dahl-Laursen, Ha-Young Sul and many others. After accidental injuries made it impossible to pursuit a performing career, he turned to teaching together with becoming a doctor in medicine. This combination has developed a unique insight in both musical and anatomical matters. Among his piano teachers, the late Stanislav Knor has had the greatest influence. He also cites his work with Per Tengstrand as a source of great pianistic and musical inspiration.

Per Nyrén was Musical Producer at Dunkers Kulturhus 2002–2006. He was founder of Helsingborg Concert Hall Choir 1972-1990 and for the chamber choir Felicitas 1972-. He has been active as pianist in several chamber music groups and is now chairman in Helsingborg Chamber Music Society. Per Nyrén has been lecturing on music during the last 20 years.

FROM the Festival in 2007:
Brahms Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 1 from my solo recital

Ride of the Cossacks: Franz Waxman’s great music arranged by Paul Henning, one of the highlights of the festival for us!

Technique seminar part 3: about warming up, and down. The talk about having the fingers and joints “come alive” is very much related to how to control an instrument, and how to learn a new instrument. To feel the weight by not pressing down but having the arms and fingers react “by themselves” to the weight and touch of the keys.

Technique seminar part 2 About how to “survive” long, difficult passages. The principle that Romuald talk about, how you can rest different muscle groups when changing the arm position slightly, can work with both scales and chords. The shoulder-blade movement is more for octaves and chord playing.

Technique seminar part 1 We discuss tremolos and certain movements connected to it. Note that Romuald talks about how much to use the arm movement in classical music: I recieved a question about the Mozart Fantasie K.475, the Piu Allegro: this movement will certainly help here. But as Håvard says, everyone has to find their level of finger activity versus arm movement.

Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker Suite

Children’s Concert, Carnival of animals: Finale

“Trepak” from the duo concert The festival has started, and it’s incredibly exciting and intense…we are working on the editing on videos from the first concert and some masterclasses, and if everything goes well the first videos will be up tonight (Thursday). Full house for the duo recital. Shan-shan and I performed the Arensky suite for the first time: a first time is always a little extra tense, but we felt comfortable with the piece. We were happy that the audience liked the music so much. The Carnival of Animals is exciting, and we had help from great players from Helsingborg Symphony. Nutcracker is lovely of course, but the concert’s climax was the “Ride of the Cossacks”: I have never heard such excitement from an audience, ever. And just in time for the festival, summer arrived…

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