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from across various art forms and artistic<br />
styles, including Joseph Tawadros, Dawn<br />
Upshaw, James Crabb, Emmanuel Pahud,<br />
actor Jack Thompson, singers Peter Garrett,<br />
Neil Finn, Tim Freedman and Paul Capsis,<br />
photographers Bill Henson and Jon Frank,<br />
and poet/cartoonist Michael Leunig. In<br />
2003, Richard was co-composer of the score<br />
for Peter Weir’s Master and Commander:<br />
The Far Side of the World; violin tutor for<br />
its star, Russell Crowe; and can also be<br />
heard performing on the award-winning<br />
soundtrack. In 2005, together with Michael<br />
Yezerski he co-composed the soundtrack to<br />
Tom Carroll’s surf film Horrorscopes and,<br />
in 2008, created The Red Tree, inspired by<br />
illustrator Shaun Tan’s book.<br />
Alongside numerous recordings with the<br />
ACO, Richard Tognetti has recently recorded<br />
Bach’s solo violin repertoire for ABC Classics.<br />
The unaccompanied sonatas and partitas<br />
were released in 2005 to critical acclaim and<br />
awarded the 2006 ARIA Award for Best Classical<br />
Album. The concertos were released in<br />
2006 and awarded the 2007 ARIA for Best<br />
Classical Album. The final instalment, the<br />
accompanied sonatas, was released in 2007<br />
and recently collected the 2008 ARIA for Best<br />
Classical Album. Future recordings include a<br />
set of Mozart concertante violin works and<br />
the Dvorak Violin Concerto for the BIS label.<br />
A passionate advocate for music education,<br />
Tognetti established the ACO’s Education<br />
and Emerging Artists <strong>program</strong>s in 2005<br />
and toured regional Australia with a concert<br />
based on the inspiring documentary<br />
film, Musica Surfica (recently awarded best<br />
feature at the New York Surf Film Festival).<br />
Richard Tognetti holds honorary doctorates<br />
from three Australian universities and was<br />
made a National Living Treasure in 1999.<br />
He performs on a 1743 Guarneri del Gesù,<br />
made available exclusively to him by an<br />
anonymous Australian private benefactor.<br />
ter študiral na Pariškem konservatoriju pri<br />
Janosu Fürstu, nato pa se izpopolnjeval<br />
še na mojstrskih tečajih pri Jormu Panuli.<br />
Med leti 2003 in 2005 je bil pomočnik<br />
umetniškega vodje orkestra Narodne<br />
opere v Montpellierju, istočasno je debitiral<br />
s Francoskim nacionalnim orkestrom<br />
in Filharmoničnim orkestrom francoskega<br />
radia. V sezoni 2005–2006 je vodil Francoski<br />
narodni orkester, Ensemble Orchestral<br />
de Paris ter debitiral v Nemčiji z Deželno<br />
Filharmonijo Rheinland-Pfalz v Ludwigshafnu.<br />
V sezoni 2006–2007 je debitiral<br />
v Italiji (La Boheme, Teatro comunale di<br />
Bologna) ter med drugimi vodil orkestre,<br />
kot so: Toscaninijeva filharmonija (Parma),<br />
Sicilijanski simfonični orkester (Palermo),<br />
Filharmonija iz Monte Carla ter sodeloval<br />
na festivalu Le Printemps des Arts v Monaku.<br />
Sezono 2007/2008 je pričel s Filharmonijo<br />
iz Rotterdama, sledil je Orkester<br />
italijanskega radia iz Torina, Londonski<br />
filharmonični orkester, Nemški simfonični<br />
orkester iz Berlina, Filharmonija iz Monte<br />
Carla, Filharmonija iz Osla ter odmeven<br />
debi z Münchenskimi filharmoniki. V sezoni<br />
2008/2009 je debitiral v leipziškem<br />
Gewandhausu ter v Stochkolmu (Orkester<br />
švedskega radia), gostoval v Milanu<br />
(Verdijev orkester), Torinu (orkester RAI)<br />
ter Londonu (Philharmonia London). Sezona<br />
bo tudi v znamenju debija v Bavarski<br />
državni operi v Münchnu ter Nemški<br />
operi v Berlinu, v Benetkah bo vodil Orkester<br />
opere La Fenice in v Los Angelesu<br />
debitiral s Losangeleškimi filharmoniki.<br />
V prihajajoči sezoni ga med drugimi že<br />
pričakujejo Münchenski filharmoniki,<br />
Saška državna kapela iz Dresdna, Bavarska<br />
državna opera, Pittsburški simfoniki<br />
in Washingtonski nacionalni simfonični<br />
orkester. Z novembrom 2009 bo postal<br />
Maestro Juraj Valčuha šef dirigent Nacionalnega<br />
simfoničnega orkestra RAI<br />
Torino.<br />
IZVAJALCI / PERFORMERS<br />
Juraj Valčuha<br />
Slovaški dirigent Juraj Valčuha je študiral<br />
kompozicijo in dirigiranje na konservatoriju<br />
v Bratislavi. Po diplomi je dve leti<br />
študiral dirigiranje v St. Peterburgu pri Ilji<br />
Musinu, leta 1998 pa se je preselil v Pariz<br />
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