This piano composition competition is open to composers of all ages and nationalities. Selection criteria are musical and no extra-musical parameters such as gender, level of difficulty, nationality and age quotas.
The quality of the text is examined by the jury. Unpublished works & worksworks (Modern scores for piano solo or piano 4 hands, duration 3 to 5 minutes) that have been performed previously and won competitions in the past may be submitted.
RMN Classical has release a album with Diemensions 7 selected through a call for piano recordings.
Modern Music for Piano will is available on every digital outlet and platform and also on RMN Classical.
Dimitris Anousis, composer, pianist, arranger and manager of “AN ART ARTISTRY”, has recorded a magnificent disc entitled “When a pianist goes to the Opera”. This album is a collection of highly interesting, virtuoso 19th-century piano transcriptions by composers such as Hummel, Liszt, Raff, Thalberg and Smith. These transcriptions are based on well-known and popular musical themes from operas by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, Wagner and Bizet.
Here are details of the works included on this album:
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Known for his virtuoso transcriptions, Hummel brings a new dimension to operatic works with his detailed, expressive arrangements
Franz Liszt: A master transcriber, Liszt captures the dramatic and emotional essence of opera with technical and musical mastery.
Joseph Joachim Raff: Raff transforms operatic themes into complex, challenging piano pieces, revealing a unique musical depth.
Sigismond Thalberg: With his distinctive approach, Thalberg creates transcriptions that showcase the pianist’s virtuosity while respecting the original work.
Sydney Smith: Smith brings a personal touch to transcriptions, with interpretations that combine technique and sensitivity.
I hope you will be interested to listen this excellent CD.
Northern Lights – An insight into nordic violin music Published by the record company Solo Musica, the CD « Northern lights » of the Duo Froschhammer allows us to discover with sensitivity and virtuosity several Scandinavian composers. This very successful record brings together works for violin and piano written between the 19th and 20th centuries (Tor Aulin, Edward Grieg, Jean Sibelius) and also folk pieces transcribed by Fritz Froschhammer and the Duo Froschhammer.
The Duo Froschhammer features siblings Felix Froschhammer, violin, and Julia Froschhammer, piano. Founded in 1998, the Duo has since performed in Switzerland, Germany, ltaly, France, Malta and al the famous Atheneum in Bucharest. Together they are prize winners of the International Wolfgang Jacobi Competition for 20th cenlury chamber music and have been recipienls of scholarships from the Bavarian Music Fund.
Felix Froschhammer is first Violinist of the casalQuartett and Concertmaster of both the Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel and Sinfonietta de Lausanne (Switzerland), Felix is also active as a soloist and plays an important role in the Ensemble Chaarts and Tri i Dve, a Quinte! specialising in Balkan music. Previous engagements include appearances al festivals including Salzburger Feslspiele, Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Rheingau Musikfestival and Lucerne Festival, as well as al worldrenowned venues in Shanghai, Bangkok, Moscow, Singapore, Milan and Paris. Felix’s performances have been broadcast on Radio France, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Ôsterreichischer Rundfunk, Südwestdeulscher Rundfunk, Deulschlandfunk, Radio Suisse Romande Espace 2, France 2, Arte TV and Mezzo. His chamber music parlners include Gautier Capuçon, Lawrence Power, Fazil Say, Felicity Lott and Maximilian Hornung. Since 2018 he has been the Artistic Director of the Festival du Jura in Switzerland.
Born in Munich, Julia Froschhammerbegan studying the piano at the age of six with her father, the pianist and composer Fritz Froschhammer. A prize winner of several national competitions, she obtained her artistic diploma with Vadim Suchanov al the Richard Strauss Conservatory, Munich, and joined the Haute école de musique de Lausanne (HEMU) in 2002, studying with Jean-François Antonioli. ln 2007, she completed her studies with the prestigious soloist’s diploma and was awarded the Paderewski Prize and the Ganz Prize. Julia performs regularly as a chamber musician and soloist throughout Europe. Together with harpist Céline Gay des Combes she also enjoys performing as part of the Duo Harpian, a rare harp and piano duo which con be heard on Radio France Musique, Radio Espace 2, SRF and Radio Classique. Recently they have performed for the Swiss Embassy in Washington (USA) and released a CD of French and Spanish music on the Swiss label VDE Gallo. The duo often commissions new works, and in 2016, the Swiss composer Jean Froidevaux dedicated a work to them. With her new ensemble, Pianofolie, Julia performs with three other pianists atone piano, combining music and comedy. Alongside her concert career Julia shores her passion for music through teaching, notably as Professor of piano al the lnstitute de Ribaupierre (EML) in Lausanne.
As an accomplished artist Julia also expresses herself through painting. Her work con be found on her online art gallery, JuArt, and al regular exhibitions and concerts combining music and art.
Discover Philippe Mathis’s new album, featuring nine works between modernity and tradition. Available on Apple Music and Amazon.
The brand-new album produced by Elsio Records is now available! The CD features nine previously unpublished works for modern and neoclassical piano composed by Philippe Mathis. An invitation to a musical journey between tradition and modernity.
In this new opus, Jean Froidevaux has composed 33 unpublished compositions inspired by the photographs and poems of Anna Muscatiello.
For each photo, Anna Muscatiello has written a poem. A QR code with your smartphone allows you to listen to the music of Jean Froidevaux, which is inspired either by the photograph or the poem.
« A la croisée des arts » is published by Farga. The creation with projection of the photographs and reading of the poems will take place on Saturday December 10, 2022 at 5:00 pm in Nyon at the Villa Thomas, route de Genève 4.
The works for violin, clarinet, cello and piano will be performed by :
Sarah Velasco is a Canadian violinist who performs regularly in North America, Asia and Europe as a soloist. She is member of the Lausanne Soloists ensemble with Renaud Capuçon for the third consecutive year. She also performs as a chamber musician. Sarah Velasco has played at numerous festivals in France, the United States, Canada, Austria and Switzerland.
Haoran Wang, clarinetist of Chinese origin, studied at the HEMU in the class of Pascal Moraguès. Winner of several competitions, he won the first prize at the Concours National de Clarinette en Picardie, at the Concours Béllan, and is selected for the prestigious Carl Nielsen Competition in 2022.
Lina Luzzi has played in various ensembles in Europe and the United States and is regularly invited to various festivals. Influenced by many horizons, the cellist is involved in several ensembles in Valais, notably Valéik Philarmonik Orchestra and 7 Sed Unum, her baroque collective.
Mertol Demirelli is one of the most gifted pianists of his generation in Turkey. Thanks to a prize obtained at the age of 7, he performed at Carnegie Hall (NY). His musical studies took him from Istanbul to Moscow, and from Munich to Waterloo. After obtaining his Master’s degree as a soloist at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, he continues his studies in Genève with Ricardo Castro.
Passionate about theater and literature, Anna Muscatiello obtained a first prize in diction and a second prize in comedy at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Strasbourg. Then, to answer the call of photography, she followed a training in Paris and became a photographer for a few years. Her inclination for pedagogy and music led her to study music theory and history at the University of Strasbourg to obtain a master’s degree in musicology before starting to teach.
Jean Froidevaux wrote a wonderful story by bringing together the piano and the harpsichord, two instruments with dissimilar sounds. Originally the promise of a composer to two musicians to compose a work for them. From this promise springs a story. China for the crystalline sounds of the harpsichord, an initiatory tale that allows all the nuances of the piano.
The famous painter Cheng-Bô saw his soul mate one night and stopped painting: his hand was tightened and could no longer even hold a brush. From then on, Cheng-Bô never stopped finding this woman seen in a dream…
The book is beautifully illustrated in watercolour by the French-speaking painter Gilles-Emmanuel Fiaux (www.gef-art.ch).
The CD of Jean Froidevaux allows you to hear this tale through the voices of Vincent Favrod (reciter and percussion) and the storyteller Daphnée Béguin. And to appreciate the musical work, a marriage of the piano of Hjalmar Berg, professor at the Vevey Conservatory, and the harpsichord of Martine Reymond, organist at the Saint-Vincent temple in Montreux.
A wonderful book, which will delight children and adults alike with its aesthetic appeal
Jean Froidevaux studied piano with Ernest Vuillemin and organ with François Demierre. He obtained his higher diploma as an organist at the Institut de Ribaupierre in Lausanne (with honors). He then studied harmony, counterpoint, music history and composition with Aloÿs Fornerod and obtained a teaching diploma in the theoretical branches of music at the Conservatoire de Fribourg (with summa cum laude). Interested in the training of young musicians, he joined the Swiss Society of Musical Pedagogy, where he spent several years on its committee. With Mrs. Marie-Louise Sérieyx he co-wrote a treatise on counterpoint. He composed for piano, organ, harpsichord, chamber music, brass band, orchestra, voice and choir.
Northern Lights – An insight into nordic violin music
The Duo Froschhammer features siblings Felix Froschhammer, violin, and Julia Froschhammer, piano. Founded in 1998, the Duo has since performed in Switzerland, Germany, ltaly, France, Malta and al the famous Atheneum in Bucharest. Together they are 
Born in Munich, 
In this new opus, Jean Froidevaux has composed 33 unpublished compositions inspired by the photographs and poems of Anna Muscatiello.
For each photo, Anna Muscatiello has written a poem. A QR code with your smartphone allows you to listen to the music of Jean Froidevaux, which is inspired either by the photograph or the poem.
