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CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 33613 PIAZZOLLA ROTA BASSOBASSO BAILANDOBAILANDO DE FALLA RICK STOTIJN double bass MALIN BROMAN violin LAVINIA MEIJER harp Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 1 RICK STOTIJN double bass Rick Stotijn received his first lessons at the age of Festival, Delft Chamber Music Festival and the eight, studied at the Conservatory in Amsterdam International Chamber Music Festival of Janine with his father Peter Stotijn where he graduated Jansen in Utrecht. with the highest distinction. Later on he studied His first Bottesini CD, which came out in 2012, with Bozo Paradzik at the Hochschule in Freiburg. received raving reviews: ... Rick Stotijn is a Rick won several first prizes at a.o the Princess first rate virtuoso, a real master of his instrument Christina Competition, the Young Musical Talent ...Stotijn let his bass sing, his technique is pheno­ Foundation and in 2013 the Netherlands Music menal ... A disc not to be missed, the best Bottesini Prize, which is the highest Dutch Music Award for cd ever?! ... This disc stands on a class of it’s own. young and talented musicians. Many solo Future seasons will present trio concerts with appearances at home and abroad were soon to his sister Christianne Stotijn and pianist Joseph follow including a Carte Blanche series in the small Breinl throughout Europe and USA, concerts with hall of the Concert gebouw Amsterdam. Rick Stotijn Janine Jansen to the major capitals in Europe, performs regularly as soloist with Orchestra’s such and a Japan tour with Luzern Festival Orchestra as the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Claudio Abbado. Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Rotterdam Chamber For ten years Rick was principal double bass player Orchestra and the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra with Amsterdam Sinfonietta. Currently he has this and in the 2014/15 season with Philharmonie position with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orches­ Zuidnederland, the Residentie Orchestra and the tra and the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin. Flanders Symphony Orchestra. As guest principal Rick played regularly in the Moreover he is very much in demand for chamber London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concert­- music concerts, performing with Janine Jansen, gebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart and the Jurgen Kussmaul, Gidon Kremer, Christianne Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Stotijn, Liza Ferschtman, Robert Holl, Mischa Rick is teacher at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Maisky, Bram van Sambeek, Julius Drake, He performs on a Raffaele & Antonio Gagliano Candida Thompson and many others. Rick is a double bass, generously loaned by the National regular guest at festivals such as the Lucerne Musical Instrument Foundation. 3 MALIN BROMAN Malin Broman is a violinist much in demand as a cert gebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Cologne Philhar­ soloist, chamber musician, teacher and orchestral monie, Berlin Philharmonie, Schleswig­Holstein leader. Raised in Kungsbacka, Sweden, Malin and Schwetzinger Festspiele, with residencies at began playing the violin at the age of five. Early Lofoten and Mecklenburg­Vorpommern festivals in her career, she was a prizewinner at numerous and tours of Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, New com petitions including the Eurovision Broadcasting Zealand and Canada. Union Competition and the Carl Nielsen Inter­ Malin has also given recitals in Washington DC, national Violin Competition in Odense, Denmark. Ostrava, Copenhagen and has performed at the At the Washington International Competition for Edinburgh International Festival with the Leopold Strings, she gained both First Prize and the String Trio and in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall Audience Prize. Latterly, she won a scholarship to with the Belcea Quartet. For six years, Malin was study with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of a member of the Nash Ensemble with which she Music & Drama in London. toured regularly around Europe and performed at the Malin has since forged a successful career as a BBC Proms and in their own series at the Wigmore soloist, performing with many orchestras across Hall. As a violist, Malin has performed at the Båstad the world. Highlights of her solo career include Festival, Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall. perform ances with the Gothenburg Symphony, She regularly plays viola with the Elias quartet, Copenhagen Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, taking part in their Beethoven cycle in 2013­2014. Academy of St Martin­in­the Fields and the Malin was appointed leader of the Swedish Radio Swedish Radio Orchestra, working with conductors Symphony Orchestra in 2008 and as guest leader such as Heinrich Schiff, Neeme Järvi and Andrew has performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra Manze. In April 2011, Malin performed Brahms’ and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Double Concerto with Steven Isserlis and the In 2002, Malin was presented with the Halland Swedish Radio Orches tra conducted by Daniel Academy’s Award for Outstanding Cultural Achieve­ Harding. ment and in 2008, she was elected a member of Devoted to chamber music, Malin is a founding the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. With the member of the Kungsbacka Piano Trio, which was Kungs backa Piano Trio, Malin was honoured to selected for both the BBC New Generation Artists receive the prestigious Interpret Prize from the Royal Scheme and the European Concert Halls Organi­ Swedish Academy of Music, which was presented zation. The trio has made its Carnegie Hall debut to them by Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden. and appeared at major venues, including the Con­ Committed to passing on her expertise to future 4 5 generations, Malin has served as a member of the Malin’s performances have been broadcast on teaching staff at the Gothenburg Academy of Music BBC Radio 3, Swedish Radio and throughout and Drama, where she placed particular emphasis Europe. She has recorded discs with labels on the ergonomics of string playing. Currently she is including Hyperion, NAXOS and BIS. Professor of Viola at Edsberg Institute of Music in Malin Broman plays a 1748 G. Gagliano violin, Stockholm. generously loaned by the Järnåker Foundation. 6 7 LAVINIA MEIJER Lavinia Meijer is recognized worldwide as one of the Competition in Vienna and third prizes both at the most successful rising stars. Born in Korea in 1983 International Harp Competition in the USA and in and adopted into a Dutch family, she now lives in Israel. Special awards have been given to her in The The Netherlands. She studied harp under the Netherlands and also by the Borletti­Buitoni Trust in guidance of Erika Waardenburg at the conserva­ Londen. Besides performing the standard harp tories of Utrecht and Amsterdam, where she repertoire Lavinia Meijer is very keen on playing received her Bachelor and Masters degrees with the modern music. She is also interested in experiments highest distinction. In October 2009 Lavinia Meijer with electronic music, theatrical performances and was presented the ‘Nederlandse Muziekprijs’ at the jazz. She has inspired several composers to write Amsterdam Concertgebouw by the Minister of new compositions for the harp in all possible Culture. This Dutch Music Prize, a state prize, is the combinations, not only with violin, but also with a highest award a classical musician can obtain in The saxophone quartet and even a rock band. Composers Netherlands. Since a few years she has toured as a such as Garrett Byrnes, Carlos Michans, Jacob ter solo­harpist across Europe and America, visiting the Veldhuis (JacobTV), Roderik de Man and Paul main concert halls as Dutch representative in the Patterson wrote new music for her. The first cd she series Rising Stars. In that context she gave solo made for the Dutch label Channel Classics, recitals in Athens, Brussels, Cologne, Vienna, Paris, ‘Divertissements’, got some raving reviews. Classics Birmingham, Stockholm, Luxemburg and Amsterdam. Today wrote about it: ‘If you have room in your She also played at Carnegie Hall in New York and collection for only a single solo harp recital, then let made her debut with the Korean Symphony it be this disc’, giving two 10s for both artistic and Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Center in January 2009. sound quality. In her second solo CD, ‘Visions’, ‘her In Holland she played as a soloist with the Radio brilliance as a harpist is amply demonstrated in all Kamer Philharmonie, the Residentie Orkest of The of the pieces making up this recital’ (Gramophone). Hague and the Concertgebouw Kamerorkest, For her third solo CD ‘Fantasies & Impromptus’ she consisting of members of the Royal Concertgebouw won the Edison Audience award 2012. In 2011 she Orchestra. met Philip Glass and performed with him in concert. From a young age on she has won major music With his approval she transcribed several of his prizes, such as first prizes at the Dutch Harp compositions, which resulted in the highly acclaimed Competition and the International Harp Competition album ‘Philip Glass, Metamorphoses, The Hours’, for in Brussels, a second prize at the International Harp which she received a platinum album. 8 9 SWEDISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA More than one hundred first­class musicians have 2006 Manfred Honeck gave the orchestra a strong the Berwald Hall in Stockholm as their home base. Viennese flavour. Together they form the Swedish Radio Symphony Today the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra ranks Orchestra, and since all concerts are broadcast live among Europe’s foremost orchestras. During the they also serve as a symphony orchestra for the current artistic leadership of Daniel Harding the whole of Sweden. orchestra has become one of the most interesting and diverse orchestras in the world, collaborating The high calibre of the ensemble has been de­ continuously with leading conductors, soloists and veloped over the years by a series of prominent composers. principal conductors. Founded in 1936, the Swedish A strong commitment to contemporary music is Radio Symphony Orchestra developed into an clearly reflected in the orchestra’s repertoire, and ensemble of world standard in the 1960s under the works by Swedish and international composers are leadership of the great Rumanian maestro Sergiu frequently commissioned.

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