11th anniversary 1st October 2014

Board Members: EDA Headquarters: 19, avenue des Volontaires, President: 1160 Bruxelles-Brussels CONCERT Belgium Dr. Vincenzo Costigliola Tel.: 0032 27342980 Fax: 0032 27342135 General Secretary: e-mail: [email protected] FLAGEY Dr. Giuseppe Tavormina www.europeandepressionday.com STUDIO 1

Secretariat: Vice President: Piazza Portici, 11 Ms. Stephanie Wooley 25050 Provaglio d’Iseo (BS), Italy Tel.: 0039 3482630449 Treasurer: Fax: 0039 0309882061 Dr. Juan Mendive e-mail: [email protected] Supported by

Other Board Members:

Prof Nicolas Zdanowicz Ms. Marylou Selo Ms. Amelia Mustapha and the kind participation of Mr. Howard Young Philippe Liénart After studying at the conservatory of Brussels and Liège, where he won first prize in , harmony and , Philippe Liénart completed his training with Pascal Sigrist, Bernard Lemmens and Abdel Rahman El Bacha. He accompa- nied singing classes and opera at the Academy of Waterloo and taught piano to private Cap on Music Crainhem school. Philippe performs also as a duo with his violinist twin brother, Erwin Part 1 Liénart, in Belgium, and Italy (Ravello Festival). Alongside his activities as a soloist and chamber musician, Philippe also Erwin Liénart: Violin works around the opera and founded the trio “It’s like that! who Philippe Liénart: Piano performed throughout Belgium and France, with a new project, the “Pom’Opéra” for a young audience in collaboration with the ; Society IOTA theater. Sonata N°5 Fa mineur BWV 1018. Erwin Liénart won special honours at the end of his studies and Renaud Crols fell into music when he was little ... A Violinist and Largo a first prize for violin along with an advanced degree in chamber music at the Conservatory of Music in Brussels. He perfected , he studied classical music at the Royal Conservatory of Allegro Liège He very quickly became interested in other musical styles his art with, among others, Edith VOLCKAERT, Carlo Van Neste, such as jazz, the music of the East (Balkan, Gypsy) and world Adagio Ida HAENDEL, Sachar BRON, Ana Chumachenko, Lord Yehudi Allegro music in its broad sense. He notably featured in a series of con- Menuhin and Pierre AMOYAL. He then worked with Ion DURA, certs with the Taraf Haidouks, played alongside Roby Lakatos assistant Ruggiero Ricci and Ivry GITLIS. He won the “Bériot of AkaMoon and was in the show ‘Pity Alain Platel’. Today he is Léos Janacek; Charles” contest “Young Talents” and “Procivitate.”He was con- part of the group Les Violons of Brussels and people have not Sonata for violin certmaster of several chamber orchestras at home and abroad; stopped talking about him! and piano (1914) (Musical Offering, Prima la Musica Camerata con Rope, Amster- Ignazio Di Salvo was dam Symphony) and played first violin in the Belgian National Con moto introduced to music at Ballada Orchestra, the Orchestre de Chambre de Wallonie, I Fiaminghi, the age of 9. He studied Allegretto Brussels Philharmonic ... classical guitar at the Adagio Conservatory in the class of Francesco Buzzurro and composed his first musical Manuel De Falla; work at the age of 16. Spain popular suite This gave him a reputation El paño moruno amongst music magazines as a notable new talent. Nana In addition to the music, Canciòn in 2008, he earned a Polo degree in economics at the Asturiana University Luigi Bocconi in Milan. He won first prize Jota in the contest “Ziua Chitarelor 3” held in Bucharest and prize at the International Guitar Idol competition. He studied jazz guitar Interval with Bebo Ferra and Umberto Fiorentino. In 2011, he opened the concerts of Reb Beach (Whitesnake, Winger) and Guthrie Govan. Thereafter, he obtained a Master of the Italian jazz

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