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Slovakian conductor Juraj Valčuha studied
composition and conducting at the Bratislava
Conservatory. He spent two years in St.
Petersburg and studied conducting with Ilya
Musin. In 1998 he moved to Paris where he
studied conducting at the Conservatoire
National Supérieur with Janos Fürst and
attended Masterclasses of Jorma Panula.
Juraj Valčuha was Assistant Music Director
of the Orchestre et Opéra National de
Montpellier from 2003 to 2005. Contemporaneously
he made his debut with the
Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre
Philharmonique de Radio-France.
In the season 2005/2006 he conducted
the Orchestre National de France and the
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. He had his
German debut with the Rheinland-Pfalz
Philharmonie in Ludwigshafen. In the
2006/2007 season he made his Italian debut
with La Boheme at the Teatro Comunale Bologna.
He led the Filarmonica Toscanini in
Parma, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in
Palermo and the Orchestre Philharmonique
de Monte-Carlo in the New Year concert as
well as at the Festival Le Printemps des Arts
in Monaco. He started the 2007/2008 season
conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic,
followed by the RAI Orchestra in Turin, the
Philharmonia Orchestra in London, the
DSO Berlin, the Orchestre Philharmonique
de Monte-Carlo, the Oslo Philharmonic and
had a very successful debut with the Munich
Philharmonic. In 2008/2009 he had his debut
with the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the
Swedish Radio Orchestra. He led again the
Orchestra Verdi in Milano, the RAI Orchestra
Torino and the Philharmonia London.
In 2009/2010 he will have his debut with
the Bavarian State Opera Munich and
the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He will lead the
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in Venezia
and make his debut with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic. He will also open the season
of the Munich Philharmonic, will have his
debut with the Staatskapelle Dresden and
will appear again with the Philharmonia
and the RAI Orchestra Torino, the Pittsburgh
Symphony and the National Symphony Orchestra
Washington. Maestro Juraj Valčuha
has been appointed Chief Conductor of the
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI,
Torino from November 2009 until 2013.
Satu Vänskä
Rojena finskim staršem na Japonskem je
Satu v deželi vzhajajočega sonca violino
prvič prijela v roke pri rosni starosti treh
let. Ko se je leta 1989 z družino vrnila na
Finsko, je šolanje nadaljevala pod vodstvom
Perttija Sutinena na Konservatoriju
Lahti in na finski Akademiji Sibelius. Leta
1997 jo je pot ponesla na Bavarsko, kjer
se je na Visoki šoli za glasbo v Münchnu,
do diplome leta 2001, izobraževala
pod mentorstvom Ane Čumačenko. Z
enajstimi leti je bila sprejeta na prestižno
Violinsko šolo Kuhmo, ustanovljeno
za nadarjene mlade violiniste, kjer se je
učila pri Iliji Grubertu, Zinaidi Gilels in
Pavlu Vernikovu. S komornim orkestrom
Virtuozi di Kuhmo je nastopala na tamkajšnjem
Festivalu komorne glasbe Kuhmo.
Leta 1998 jo je Sinfonia Lahti imenovala
za »mlado solistko leta«, dve leti kasneje
pa je postala nagrajenka nemškega sklada
»Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben«. Med
študijem v Nemčiji je igrala v Münchenski
filharmoniji in v Simfoničnem orkestru
bavarskega radia, bila pa je tudi tutor Mladih
bavarskih filharmonikov. Ta mlada in
izjemno nadarjena glasbenica je trenutno
namestnica vodje slovitega Avstralskega
komornega orkestra in igra na violino,
ki je bila leta 1763 izdelana v delavnici
mojstra Tommasa Balestrierija.
Born into a Finnish family in Japan, she took
her first violin lessons at the age of three.
When her family moved back to Finland in
1989 she continued her studies with Pertti
Sutinen at the Lahti Conservatorium and
the Sibelius Academy. From 1997 Satu
was a pupil of Ana Chumachenco at the
Hochschule für Musik in Munich where she
finished her diploma in 2001. At the age of
11 Satu was selected for the Kuhmo Violin