We present a specially commissioned work by EMANUIL IVANOV for CULTURAMA 2025
Children under 15 years of age - free admission.
In the program:
G. Fauré - Nocturne No. 6, Op. 63, D-flat Major
F. Chopin - Nocturne No. 13, Op. 48 No. 1, C minor
F. Chopin - Berceuse, Op. 57, D-flat Major
F. Say - Black Earth
C. Debussy -Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
E. Ivanov Nocturne
L. Godowsky - The Gardens of Buitenzorg
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M. Ravel - La Valse ( 4 hands)
M. Ravel - Boléro ( 4 hands)
Tamayo Ikeda
Born in 1971 in Japan, Tamayo IKEDA began her musical studies at the age of three. She joined ‘Toho Gakuen’ in Tokyo before being admitted to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1989. She obtained two First Prizes in piano and chamber music disciplines before joining the advanced cycle.
A scholarship holder of the A.P.E.F. and Société Générale, she received valuable advice from masters such as Dimitri Bashkirov, Halina Czerny-Stefanska, and Léon Fleisher.
Her intuitive and passionate playing was rewarded with a Second Prize and the Special Claude Debussy Prize at the Yvonne Lefébure International Competition (no first prize awarded), a Special Prize (Claude Debussy) at the Porto International Competition, and the First Prize at the Francis Poulenc International Competition in 1999 (as well as the Special Casadessus Prize).
Tamayo IKEDA has performed in Europe, Norway, Finland, Japan, Indonesia, South Africa, and the United States in prestigious venues such as Hamarikyu Hall (Tokyo) or Carnegie Hall (New York). She regularly appears on the airwaves of France-Musique and particularly with the greatest soloists or conductors such as Gérard Poulet, Régis Pasquier, Roland Daugareil, Naoto Otomo, Dominique de Williencourt, etc.
Her discography includes a recording of works by Poulenc and Fauré. She also recorded a DVD dedicated to the works of Ravel and Stravinsky in piano four hands with the Duo YKEDA. With the latter, she recorded a Schubert disc (Warner Music) released in June 2009, and a Piano Dance disc (Harmonia Mundi) released in 2015, unanimously acclaimed by critics. Her disc dedicated to the works of Schubert-Liszt released at the end of 2022 was praised by international critics and selected among the best CDs of the year in Canada by the Textura review. She just recorded a Fauré Chopin disc on the 1905 Pleyel Piano with double escapement from the Balleron Collection restored by Sylvie Fouanon, which will be released in 2024.
She founded the Festiv’ des Musiques Festival of the Entre-Deux-Mers (Gironde) and in Yokohama (2006) in Japan, and takes care of the artistic direction for the Honganji Cercle Âme du Japon foundation (Kyoto). She taught at the École Normale de Musique in Paris (Cortot), and has been on the jury of several international competitions. Holder of the Certificate of Aptitude, she currently teaches at the Conservatories of the city of Paris.
Emanuil Ivanov attracted international attention after receiving the First prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Italy. This achievement was followed by concert engagements in some of the world’s most prestigious halls including Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Herculessaal in Munich and the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg philharmonic. Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the town of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. From an early age he demonstrated a keen interest and love for music. He regards the presence of symphonic music, especially that of Gustav Mahler, as tremendously influential in his musical upbringing during his childhood. He started piano lessons with Galina Daskalova in his hometown around the age of seven. He later studied in and graduated from the Bertolt Brecht language high school in Pazardzhik. Ivanov studied with renowned bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018. He is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt. Ivanov has won prizes in competitions such as “Alessandro Casagrande”, “Scriabin-Rachmaninoff”, “Pavel Serebryakov”, “Liszt-Bartok”, “Young virtuosos” and “Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti”. He was also awarded the honorary Crystal lyre and the Young Musician of the Year Award – some of the most prestigious awards in Bulgaria.His participations in masterclasses include those of Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitri Alexeev, Stephen Hough, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Peter Donohoe, etc. In February 2021, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ivanov performed a solo recital in Milan’s famous Teatro alla Scala. The concert was live-streamed online and is a major highlight in the artist’s career.Emanuil Ivanov has also performed at many festivals in Bulgaria and has also given solo recitals in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Cyprus, the United Kingdom and Poland. He has played with leading orchestras in Bulgaria and Italy.