In October 2005, the Wigmore Hall, London, UK, became the first concert hall to launch its own record label: Wigmore Hall Live, building upon the venue's existing reputation as a recital hall established early in the 20th century. One of the aims was to bring the musical programme to a wider audience. In the 2011 Gramophone Awards, Wigmore Hall Live won the special award: Label of the Year.^[1]

Before launching the label, state-of-the-art recording equipment and comprehensive sound insulation had to be installed. These improvements led to the Soile Isokoski disc (recorded live in 2006) receiving a Gramophone Award nomination.

Since 2005, the label has gone on to release discs featuring artists such as Dame Felicity Lott, Imogen Cooper, Christine Brewer, Trevor Pinnock, Jonathan Biss, the Gould Piano Trio, the Doric, Arditti and Kopelman string quartets, the Nash Ensemble, the Academy of Ancient Music and the Early Opera Company.^[2] Gramophone Award nominations have been linked to Wigmore Hall Live recordings by the late Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, and Roger Vignoles, Soile Isokoski and Marita Viitasalo, Peter Schreier and Andras Schiff, and Gerald Finley and Julius Drake.^[2] The Elias String Quartet CD of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schubert won a Newcomer Award in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2010.^[3] Wigmore Hall Live discs have been reviewed in The Times and The Guardian, as well as on BBC radio.

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External links[link]

• Wigmore Hall Live

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Wigmore Hall's entrance is framed by a distinctive iron and glass canopy

Wigmore Hall is a leading international recital venue that specialises in hosting performances of chamber music and is best known for classical recitals of piano, song and instrumental music. It is located at 36 Wigmore Street, London, UK and was built to provide London with a venue that was both grandly impressive yet intimate enough for recitals of chamber music. With near perfect acoustics, the Hall became quickly celebrated across Europe, acquiring almost legendary attraction for the greatest artists of the 20th century. Today the Hall promotes some 400 concerts a year and broadcasts a weekly concert on BBC Radio 3 attracting an audience of several hundred thousand listeners as well as a worldwide internet audience.^[1] The Hall also promotes an extensive education programme throughout London and beyond.

Originally named the Bechstein Hall, it was built between 1899 and 1901 by C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik, the German piano manufacturer whose showroom was next door. The hall was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt, who also designed the Savoy Hotel on The Strand. Similar concert halls were also built by Bechstein in Saint Petersburg and Paris.

The building follows the Renaissance style, using alabaster and marble walls to furnish a flat, rectangular hall with a small raised stage area complete with a cupola depicting the Soul of Music^[2] above. The hall is considered to have one of the best acoustics for classical music in Europe.^[3] It was refurbished in 2004 and was widely praised for being completed on time and on budget. The Hall's current capacity including stalls and balcony is 545 seats.^[4] In 2005, the Wigmore Hall Trust purchased a long lease of 300 years for £3.1m.^[5]

The "Bechstein Hall" opened on 31 May 1901 with a concert featuring the virtuoso pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni and violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.^[4] During its early period, the Hall attracted great artists like Artur Schnabel, Pablo Sarasate, Percy Grainger, Myra Hess, Arthur Rubinstein, Camille Saint-Saëns and Max Reger.

Because of its German ownership, the hall was seized as enemy property during World War I. The hall with over 130 pianos was sold at an auction to Debenhams for a fraction of its value and was re-opened as Wigmore Hall in 1917. Wigmore Hall has had an important relationship with living composers throughout its history; many great artists including Sviatoslav Richter, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Victoria de los Ángeles, Sergey Prokofiev, Shura Cherkassky, Paul Hindemith, Andrés Segovia, Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc have performed there. In 1929 Wigmore Hall hosted the third international congress of the World League for Sexual Reform.^[6]

The Wigmore Hall's current director is Limerick born John Gilhooly, a classical singer. He joined the Wigmore Hall as CEO in 2000 and became Artistic Director in addition in 2005 at the age of 32.^[7] On 31 August 2007 a new commissioning scheme for modern composers was announced by the Hall's Director.

The previous Artistic Director was Paul Kildea. William Lyne served as director from 1966 to 2003. Frequent current performers at the Hall include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Stephen Kovacevich, Andras Schiff, Joshua Bell, Maxim Vengerov, Thomas Quasthoff, Ian Bostridge, Susan Graham, Angela Hewitt, Mark Padmore, Steven Isserlis, Sir Thomas Allen, Matthias Goerne, Dame Felicity Lott, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Simon Keenlyside, Anne Sofie von Otter, Wolfgang Holzmair, Soile Isokoski, the Nash Ensemble, The King's Consort, the Beaux Arts and Florestan Trios and the Emerson, Endellion, Artemis, Hagen, Jerusalem and Zehetmair Quartets. The Hall's first Composer in Residence from 2009 was Luke Bedford;^[8] his successor from 2012 will be Julian Anderson.^[9][10]

The Wigmore Hall also publishes on its own record label Wigmore Hall Live recordings of concerts by prominent artists, receiving the special award Label of the Year in the 2011 Gramophone Awards.^[11] The label entered the classical charts with a recital by the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, which has also been nominated for a Gramophone Award.

The Hall also has a programme of educational events, including a series of concerts for under-5s called "Chamber Tots", and a number of concerts for schools.

It is sometimes referred to as "Wiggers".^[12]

See also[link]

• List of concert halls

References[link]

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Simon Trpcheski (Simon Trpčeski), OMM (Macedonian: Симон Трпчески) (born September 18, 1979, in Skopje, Macedonia), is a Macedonian classical pianist.

The youngest of three children, his father was a judge and his mother a pharmacist.^[1] In 2002, he received his degree in music from the University of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, where he studied with Professor Boris Romanov. By then he had already made his debut in recital at London's Wigmore Hall in 2001 and had won prizes in international competitions in the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, and Italy.

Building on his exposure as a member of the BBC New Generation Scheme 2001-2003, Trpčeski has since 2005 made a rapid series of debuts with orchestras worldwide—including the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Toronto Symphony—and has made recital tours in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In December 2005 he appeared for the first time in the International Piano Series in London, and he has performed with English orchestras including the London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras, the Hallé Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. In Scandinavia, he has performed with the Stockholm, Bergen, Gothenburg, and Helsinki orchestras and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

Trpčeski's first recital recording—an EMI Classics Debut Series compact disc including music of Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Stravinsky and Prokofiev—received both the Editor's Choice and Debut Album awards from Gramophone magazine. Trpčeski shifted to EMI's main label with his second disc; it and its two successors comprise single-composer recitals of Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Debussy respectively.

In both his concert appearances and his recordings, Trpčeski has received enthusiastic responses from critics and the public alike. Many consider him an unusually gifted new artist at the outset of what promises to be a major career.

Awards[link]

• December 2009,

Order of Merit for Macedonia^[2]

• April 2005.

Disc of the Month (April) - BBC Music Magazine

• May 2003.

"Young Artist Award" awarded by the Royal Philharmonic Society

• 2001-2003

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist

• April 2000.

"Millennium World Piano Competition London" - Second place

• December 1998.

World piano contest "Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe" in Skopje - First place

• September 2011

National artist of Macedonia - he is the first artist that got this award

Selected recordings[link]

• Rachmaninov 2010 - awarded Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2010

References[link]

• San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performer profile of November 15, 2006 [1]
• Biography on performer's Web page [2]
• Review of Music Toronto Concert, Tuesday, October 31, 2006, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto. [3]

External links[link]

• IMG ARTISTS LLC
• The official website of Simon Trpčeski (English)

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Sergio Daniel Tiempo (born February 24, 1972) is a Venezuelan-Argentine classical pianist. He has studied under some of the best known pianists.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Sergio Tiempo began playing the piano at an early age. His first teacher was his mother, Lyl Tiempo, who began teaching him before he turned three. He achieved early acclaim by appearing on Argentine television when he was four years old and gave concerts in London and France at age seven.

In 1980, eight years old, he received special recognition at the Ealing Music Festival (London). In 1985 he performed at Doelen Concert Hall in Rotterdam with his sister Karin Lechner who was born several years earlier in Buenos Aires in 1965. They performed music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georges Bizet, Darius Milhaud, and of Manuel Infantes. This concert was recorded live and issued on LP and CD. In the following year, 1986, he was awarded the Alex De Vries prize, named after the Belgian pianist of Dutch origin. That same year he gave a solo recital at The Concertgebouw. This live performance was recorded as well and released on LP and CD.

His list of teachers has included Tessa Nicholson, Maria Curcio, Pierre Sancan, Michel Béroff, Jacques Detiege, Alan Weiss and Nelson Freire. He has also attended the International Piano Academy Lake Como, where he worked with Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'ong, Murray Perahia and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He has also been taught by and performed with Martha Argerich. Argerich remains one of his staunchest supporters.

Since his emergence in 1986, Tiempo has performed and recorded regularly all over the world. His tours have included frequent trips to Japan, recitals in many of the greatest European concert halls, and performances in numerous North American cities. He frequently participates in music festivals, including the Progetto Martha Argerich, where he performs every year. He also performs regularly with his sister, pianist Karin Lechner. Among his most significant chamber-music collaborations are recordings and performances with the cellist Mischa Maisky, whose daughter, a concert pianist, has studied piano with Tiempo's mother.

He has recorded several collections of classical music, and has received particular praise for his interpretation of Gaspard de la nuit by Ravel and for his versions of the Chopin Nocturnes.^[1]

References[link]

1. ^ Intermusica / Artists / Sergio Tiempo / Reviews

External links[link]

• SergioTiempo.com

• Arts Management Group Biography

Inessa Galante (in Latvian Inese Galante) (b. Riga) is a Latvian soprano opera singer.^[1] Galante is known for a great beauty of tone, nuanced pianissimos and sensitive command of dynamics and colour. Her performance of Ave Maria by Caccini, an aria by Vladimir Vavilov, from her "Debut" album 1995 started spreading worldwide interest in the piece.

Career[link]

Galante was born in Riga to a musical family. She entered the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga in 1977. While still a student at the Academy she became a soloist of the Latvian National Opera. Parallel to her work in Riga she was engaged in opera productions at other theatres, particularly at the Kirov Opera (Mariinsky theatre) in Saint Petersburg, Russia where she had a fruitful collaboration with conductor Valery Gergiev.

From 1991 until 1999 Galante was soloist at National Theatre Mannheim and Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Since then she has been touring and performing all over the world. Galante's voice has been heard at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier (France), at the St Denis Festival, the Newport Music Festival and the Gibson Hall (USA), at the Barbican Centre, the Royal Albert Hall, the Wigmore Hall and Kensington Palace (London), at the Royal Swedish Opera, and at the Kremlin and the Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow), where she made her debut as Adriana in Francesco Cilea's opera Adriana Lecouvreur in the La Scala production. In 2001 Galante appeared in concert in Rotterdam together with José Carreras.

Galante has worked with such conductors as Yehudi Menuhin, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Evelino Pidò, Myung-whun Chung, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Neeme Järvi, Carl Davis, John Mauceri, Stefan Soltesz, Eric Klaas, Antonio Pappano, Steven Mercurio, Alexander Vedernikov, Dmitri Kitayenko, Vassily Sinaisky, Alexander Rahbari, Lawrence Renes and Vladimir Fedoseyev.

Operatic Roles[link]

The first major operatic role of Galante was Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata at her graduation exam at the Music Academy. Since that time Galante has performed this role more than 100 times on various stages of the world. Among Galante's roles are:

• Olympia (in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann),
• Snegurochka (in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden),
• Gilda (in Verdi's Rigoletto),
• Leonora (in Verdi's Il Trovatore),
• Aida (in Verdi's Aida),
• Adina (in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore)
• Lucia (in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor),
• Rosina (in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia),
• Corina (in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims),
• Marguerite (in Gounod's Faust),
• Magda (in Puccini's La Rondine),
• Cio-Cio-San (in Puccini's Madama Butterfly),
• Mimi (in Puccini's La Boheme),
• Liu (in Puccini's Turandot),
• Lauretta (in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi),
• Micaela (in Bizet's Carmen),
• Adriana (in Cilèa's Adriana Lecouvreur)
• Vivetta (in Cilèa's L'arlesiana),
• Pamina (in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte),
• Elvira (in Mozart's Don Giovanni),
• Nedda (in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci),
• Beauty (in Oliver's The Beauty and Beast),
• Naiad (in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos),
• 3rd Norn (in Wagner's Götterdämmerung),
• Ortlinde (in Wagner's Die Walküre),
• Euridice (in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice),
• Giuditta (in Lehár's Giuditta),
• Iolanta (in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta),
• Lisa (in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades),
• Manon Lescaut (in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut")

In addition to performing in operas Galante frequently sings in concerts in Verdi's Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, in the works of Bruckner, Poulenc, Schubert, Brahms and other composers. In 2008 Galante performed Richard Strauss's The Four Last Songs for soprano and orchestra which was at the same time premiere of this work in Russia.

Galante is patroness of the international music festival Summertime. She has been awarded The Order of the Three Stars by the President of Latvian Republic.

Discography[link]

Galante's album "Debut" was awarded Gold (1999) and Platinum (2001) disc in Holland after its sales exceeded 200,000; the disc Arietta was recognized by BBC to be the best in the nomination of classical music (2000). The disc of opera arias by Tchaikovsky (BMG, the Royal Opera orchestra, conductor Neeme Järvi) was considered to be exceptionally brilliant, marking out the scene of Tatyana's letter as the best interpretation of recent 20 years. The disc Arias from Verdi's late operas got the Gramophone editor choice (October, 2003). Classic CD described her Cavatina of Norma as "...a Norma to rival that of Callas...". She is described as one of the most notable followers of the legendary singer. Her concerts are recorded by Classic FM and BBC.

LP[link]

• Mendelssohn, Three motets for female voice and organ. Woman's Folk Сhorus "Amber" (Sieviešu tautas koris "Dzintars") Conductor Imants Cepītis, Aivars Kalējs Riga Cathedral organ, solistes Inessa Galante, Antra Bigača, Olga Žarikova, Ingūna Lazdiņa. Melodiya 1987
• Jewish folk songs - Inessa Galante & Jānis Sproģis & The Latvian SSR Chorus (Recorded live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory June 9 1987) Melodiya 1989
• Spiritual music ("Gariga muzika") music of Jāzeps Vītols. Melodiya, Latvia 1991
• Сhorus "Versija" - Ziemas svētkos / "Šai svētā naktī". Ritonis, Latvia, 1991

CD[link]

• "Songs of Amber" - Songs of Women's Folk Chorus Dzintars (solo Inessa Galante) - 1990
• "Inese Galante. Soprano" - Latvian National Symphony Orchestra Conductor Aleksandrs Vilumanis 1995 (Gold and Platinum CD). Released as "Debut" on Campion.
• "Heroines" – Gounod, Cilea, Puccini - Campion Records 1995
• "Velreiz" ("again, encore") - Albinoni arias 1996
• Maks Goldins Eighteen Jewish Folk Songs & Rachmaninov - Romantic Songs - Campion 1996
• "Encore" - Johann Strauss, Weber (compilation) 1997^[2]
• "Musica Sacra" – From Riga Cathedral. Paula Licite Ave Maria etc. cond. Juris Klavins (compilation of live recordings 1989-1996) - Campion 1997
• "The Tchaikovsky Experience" – Sergei Leiferkus, Marina Shaguch, Alexander Fedin. Covent Garden Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi, BMG ^[3] 1997
• "Latvian Sacral Music" - solisti Inessa Galante, Dita Kalniņa (soprano), Ingus Pētersons (tenor), Aivars Kalējs (organ), Dita Krenberga (flute), cond. Kaspars Putniņš - 1997
• "La Traviata" – Verdi. (2 CD's Live recorded. Latvian National Opera. 1989) - 1998
• "Arietta" – Baroque Arias, London Musici. Conducted by M. Stephenson (Best recording of the year 2000 –as reviewed by BBC, FM classics.) - 1999
• "Russian Recital" – at the Wigmore Hall. Roger Vignoles (piano). (BBC live recording 1999) - 2000
• "ABC (Adagio in C minor)" – Albinoni. Conducted by Alexander Vilumanis, „Soprano arias“ – Bach J.S., „Amarilli mia bella“ – Caccini. Conducted by Mark Stephenson (conductor) - 2001
• "The Galante Choice" - 2001
• "Galante forever ..." - 2001
• "Mass in C major ,Exultate, jubilate Ergo interest" – Mozart. Czechoslovakian Chamber Philharmonic. Conducted by D. Bostock - 2001
• "Verdi Galante. Arias from Verdi’s late works" – Latvian National Symphony Orchestra. Conducted by Terje Mikkelsen Campion - 2003
• "Confesso" - Inessa Galante & Henk van Twillert (baritone saxophone) - 2006
• "Requiem" - Mozart. conducted by Andres Mustonen - 2007
• "Stabat Mater" - Pergolesi. Stradella - Pieta Signore. Vivaldi Stabat mater. Inessa Galante, Sergejs Jēgers (alto) chamber ensemble conducted by Andris Veismanis - 2008
• “Ave Maria” Inessa Galante. Organ: Aivars Kalejs in Riga Cathedral - Release December 17. 2008
• "LA GALANTE THE SOUL OF RIGA" (2 CD's) Inessa Galante. Organ: Aivars Kalejs and Mattias Wager. Release 14-07-2011 Dom Riga

Not published live records[link]

• "Iolanta" - Tchaikovsky. Live records. Paris Theatre Chatelet. 15.3.1996
• "L Arlesiana" - Cilea. Live records. Montpellier, Festival de Radio France 07.1996
• "Gianni Schicchi" - Puccini. Live records. Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht. 25.04.1996
• "Madame Butterfly" - Puccini. - Live records. Latvian National Opera. 1999, 2000
• "Manon Lescaut" - Puccini. Live records. Royal Operahouse in Stockholm, Sweden. 13.02.2006, 07.02.2009

References[link]

Listen to the complete opera Manon Lescaut with Inessa Galante. Music is extremely copyrighted © ÏnessaGalanteFan" ® Act 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swoCleM6Tes Act 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHqkYuqGn8 Act 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3e7DsjRb9c Act 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dpocOy-QM

Inessa Galante in Opera Queen of Spades (complete) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKXezcc4c6c

Sources[link]

Silvija Lice: "Inessa Galante", by Publishing House "Liktenstasti", Riga, 1999,ISBN 9984-611-29-9

External links[link]

MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE - I met INESSA GALANTE in Amsterdam December 18. 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00kkbohfH7A

http://www.youtube.com/user/InessaGalanteFan

• Her Web site

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