Pedro Mateo

PEDRO MATEO

González

PERFORMER

Born in Ávila in 1983, Pedro Mateo González has performed as a soloist with the ORTVE (Spanish National Radio and TV Orchestra), Castile and León Symphony Orchestra, Ecuador National Symphony Orchestra and the Balearic Islands Symphony Orchestra under conductors such as Fernando Bustamante, Alejandro Posadas, Adrian Leaper and Leo Brouwer. He has performed in the major concert halls of Europe, Asia and the USA, including the Berlin Philharmonie and Jordan Hall in Boston.

He has recorded for and been broadcast on Radio Nacional de España and released albums on both Naxos and Eudora Records. He also regularly performs chamber music with artists such as Pedro Chamorro, José Manuel Losada, Joaquín Riquelme García and André Cebrián. Pedro Mateo González has won several prestigious competitions such as the 2009 Boston GuitarFest, and the Concurso Permanente de Juventudes Musicales de España (Jeunesses Musicales Competition).

He taught at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón for several years, and is currently a professor of advanced musical studies at the Conservatori Superior de Música de les Illes Balears, Mallorca, and the Katarina Gurska School of Music in Madrid.

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Patrizio Perucchi

Patrizio

Perucchi

PERFORMER

Finalist in several international competitions, invited to be assistant of Raphaella Smits at the Lemmens Institute in Leuven in 2012-2013, Patrizio Perucchi played solo on several occasions with the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, including « les Nuits Musicales de Beloeil ». Furthermore he has performed on electric bass with the Flemish Opera.

He often works as a classical and electric guitarist with the pianist Geert Callaerts and his ensemble “Nieuwe Muziek”, with which he recorded « Le Marteau Sans Maitre » by Pierre Boulez.

Trained by Aldo Martinoni in Switzerland, then in Belgium by Raphaella Smits and Odair Assad, Patrizio also followed early music lessons with the lutenist Luca Pianca, and jazz lessons with Peter Hertmans.

His strong musical personality and his rigorous and perfectionist approach brought him to travel through Europe to follow masterclasses with prestigous musicians as, between others, Alberto Ponce, Paolo Pegoraro, and Paul Galbraith.

Besides giving concerts, Patrizio is known as a dedicated teacher. His constant research for perfection is valued by all of his students and have led him to tutor in several academies in Switzerland and Belgium.

He is currently a professor at the Wonderful World Muziekschool in Mechelen.

As a multifaceted artist Patrizio is equally comfortable with the baroque repertoire as with the contemporary experimental sonority. He is continuously exploring new timbres and colors. Today he’s become a renowned musician praised for his sensible and refined playing style, besides being a talented professor.

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Oscar Ebro Nebot

OSCAR

Ebro

PERFORMER

Born in Vila-real (Castellón), Oscar Ebro Nebot has studied under the tutelage of the concert guitarist Manuel Babiloni. Their his training as a professional interpreter has forged for more than twenty years in the “International Guitar Courses” led by master Babiloni.

In these he has been, musically and artistically, educated in the principles of a long tradition of guitar playing that, in the words of Manuel Babiloni, revolves around “music as a communicative fact. It is say, how from the respect for music you can express the emotion of it through the guitar”.

He has developed an intense pedagogical work in Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom. Since 2016, he has the privilege of teaching every summer in the “Manuel Babiloni International Guitar Course” in Vilafamés as well as well as directing, since 2021, the “Manuel Babiloni Musical Interpretation” which takes place at the NEO Academy music school in Vila-real.

As a concert guitarist he has participated in numerous festivals, as a soloist and as a member of various music formations of chamber music, which have taken place in different countries such as Spain, the United United Kingdom, Germany or Japan. Following the work done by his teacher, Oscar works with current composers such as Rafael Beltrán, Emili Mallol or Josep Pascual i Triay who have entrusted him with and dedicated the premiere of his compositions for his guitar. In 2019 it came to light with the label “JSM Guitar Records” his first record work “In Memoriam Manuel Babiloni”.

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OSRM

OSRM

Orquesta Sinfónica de la región de Murcia

PERFORMER

The orchestra is made up of a permanent staff of 49 professors who have been reinforced through public competitions to fill the existing vacancies, all of them chosen professionals trained in the best Conservatories in the world.

Since its creation, the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia has developed an intense activity as a privileged instrument for the promotion and dissemination of classical music through concerts and artistic, educational and informative activities, aimed at fulfilling its foundational purposes: the projection, transmission and dissemination of musical wealth outside its territorial scope.

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Marko Topkchii

Marko

Topkchii

PERFORMER

Multi-award-winning classical guitarist Marko Topchii was born to a musical family in Ukraine, in 1991. His prodigious achievements are best exemplified by his numerous competition victories: More than 100 awards worldwide in international classical guitar competitions, 55 of them being First Prizes in prestigious competitions including the 54th International Guitar Competition Francisco Tarrega, the 35th International Guitar Competition Andres Segovia in Spain, the 50th International Guitar Competition Michele Pittaluga in Italy, the 6th JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition in New York, the 16th Jan Edmund Jurkowski Memorial Guitar Competition in Poland, the Maurizio Biasini competition in San Francisco, the 56th Tokyo International Guitar Competition and most recently, the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition in New York.


Marko Topchii has appeared in the world’s most important venues, including the Carnegie Hall in New York, Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Salle Cortot in Paris, Grand Hall of the Kyiv Philharmonic, Grand Hall of Liszt Academy in Budapest, among others. He often collaborates with orchestras, having performed more than 15 concertos for guitar and orchestra. His discography includes the albums Marko Topchii on Naxos’ Fleur de Son Classics label (US) and Stars of the Guitar with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (as the winner of the Michele Pittaluga competition) on Naxos, as well as Van Gogh Fire and Carnival (following his win in the Tarrega Guitar Competition in 2021) on the Contrastes Records label in Spain.


Marko started studying the guitar at the age of four, under Volodymyr Homenyuk, and graduated from the Kharkiv Conservatory at the age of 21, where he studied under Volodymyr Dotsenko, an Honoured Artist of Ukraine. He continued with a three-year postgraduate programme at the Kyiv Music Academy under Yuri Aleksik, Honoured Artist of Ukraine. In 2018, he joined the professional studies programme of the San Francisco Conservatory in the class of Judicaёl Perroy, with whom he continued his studies at Haute Ecole de Musique de Geneve as part of the Master Soloiste programme.


Marko Topchii uses strings provided by Augustine and plays a Julian Dammann guitar.

AUDIO RECORDINGS

CARNIVAL

Published by Contrastes Records.
Sound Engineer: Javier Salvador
(2022)

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