Waltmans International Music Services

Granados: Introduction from Valses Poeticos
Live Concert in Seoul 2010

LUCA PIER PAOLO D’AMORE was born in Terni (Italy) in 1977. Revealing early musical inclinations, he entered Terni's "Giulio Briccialdi" Conservatory where he earned an honours degree in classical guitar with Mario Jalenti. He also attended courses with Alberto Ponce who quickly recognized his outstanding technical and musical skills. He moved to Paris in 2001, where he entered the Conservatoire National de Region d’Aubervillers-La Courneuve in the Alberto Ponce’s class. There he received the First Prize in classical guitar. In 2003 and 2004 he studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris “Alfred Cortot” with Alberto Ponce,

  Ewelina's composition: Stravinskana

EWELINA NOWICKA (*1982 Gdansk Poland), violinist and composer, now based in Hamburg Germany. She graduated with honours in violin and violin related training at Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Hamburg, and she has been perfecting her further violin skills under the eye of Prof. Katrin Scholz at Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Ewelina has been awarded many prizes at national and international violin competitions. She received prizes from the Radio Hessen Frankfurt a. M., International Violin Competition Goch (Germany),

Telemann allegro

Telemann: Double Concerto recorder/flute

Link to YOUTUBE Vivaldi Concerto RV 100 in F major
Link to YOUTUBE Handel Sonata in A minor for recorder and harpsichord

ENSEMBLE ESTRO CROMATICO - MARCO SCORTICATI (Milan - Italy)
Marco Scorticati recorder and direction, Mónika Tóth violin, Stefano Rossi violin, Gianni de Rosa viola, Eva Sola cello, Filippo Calascibetta double bass, Evangelina Mascardi theorbo, Davide Pozzi harpsichord

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): Sonata

DUO GUITARTES (Dresden - Germany)
Concerts - Master Classes - Workshops
Audio Samples www.guitartes.eu

Anne-Kathrin Gerbeth and Bernhard Dolch formed the DUO GUITARTES after the two of them had already enjoyed international success as soloists. They gave numerous concerts on European festivals and are among the few German guitarists of their generation who have been awarded prizes at renowned international competitions. They were awarded diplomas in the classes of Carlo Marchione, Joaquín Clerch and Tadashi Sasaki at the universities of Berlin (Hanns Eisler), Munich, Düsseldorf and Maastricht.
DUO GUITARTES offers preferably masterclasses for guitar chamber music and baroque music (and how to transcribe compositions ...) but also for the established solo repertoire.

Arte Musica: Monteverdi

Cera-Serino: von Biber

ENSEMBLE ARTE MUSICA - FRANCESCO CERA - MARCO SERINO (Rome - Italy)
Top soloists performing their programs on early music festivals.
Ensemble Arte Musica performed among others at Festival van Vlaanderen in Bruges, Resonanzen at Konzerthaus in Vienna, Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Bologna Festival and Les Gouts Reunis in Lausanne. In 2010, together with Ensemble Oltramontano (Wim Becu), they have performed Monteverdi's Vespers 1610 at Barocktage in Melk (Austria), being recorded by ORF Radio.

Padre Antonio Soler (1727-1783): Sonata nr. 43
from CD José Imhof - Alte Spanische Klaviersonaten

JOSÉ IMHOF (Madrid - Spain) is a Spanish pianist of German origin. He was born in Santander in 1978 and started playing the piano at the early age of six years old. His career has not followed the typical pattern; rather he has developed his musical education with mainly private maestros in parallel with his conservatory studies. He received his first significant piano lessons from Michel Mañanes, an inspiring teacher with whom he continued until his recital debut at Santander Festival Hall at the age of eighteen, when the critics were astounded by his “beautiful sound and astonishing talent”.

Johnson: Talking/Singing

EIJA RÄISÄNEN, Finnish soprano (spinto), jugendlich/dramatic, moving towards more dramatic direction, a voice like there was a "Cathy Barberian". Eija is well known in Finland and is working as a freelancer singer.
Eija wants to cooperate with classical and modern opera institutes and with ensembles performing contemporary music in Europe and worldwide. She studies music in a short notice, and she can substitute the leading singer in case of urgency. Eija graduated from Sibelius-Academy opera department in 2002 and she has also graduated from Conservatory of Kuopio as a teacher of singing.

 

Kurt Schwaen: Schlafe wohl zur Nacht
Link to YOUTUBE. Music for the Mystic Lamb (Van Eyck). Flemish promotion
Link to YOUTUBE. Kanon Pokajanen (Arvo Pärt)

ENSEMBLE AQUARIUS (Etikhove - Belgium)
Chamber choir with a warm heart for contemporary music.
In 1995 a Flemish chamber choir – consisting of 24 members -  was founded with the aim of singing the classical music of its time. Classical music is, and has always been, very diverse. Various in more than one sense. On the esthetical level you have the conservative and the progressive composers. On the social level you have the religiously inspired composer and the secularly motivated one. This chamber choir chose deliberately to lend its voice to each and every artistic witness of its time.

VIDEO Rashid Skuratov and Vadim Repin in Beethoven Violin Concerto

RASHID SKURATOV symphony conductor (Kazan - Russia) is specialist in Russian music: P. Tchaikovsky, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, S. Rachmaninoff, S. Prokofiev, D. Schostakovich. Skuratov received his musical training at the Novosibirsk conservatoire studying orchestra conducting with one of the leading conductors Prof. Arnold Katz. Skuratov graduated in 1987, and that same year he accepted an appointment with the Novosibirsk conservatoire as a conducting instructor of students symphony orchestra, a position he had held for several years. In 1988 he was finalist at the All-Soviet Union competition of Symphony conductors. In 1990 he got the position as a leading conductor of the Kazan Symphony Orchestra. His diverse training and enthusiasm have helped the Kazan Symphony Orchestra to gain national recognition as one of the finest regional orchestras in Russia.