1. 7. 2023 – Saturday
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Zvolen / SNG 19:00
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Tickets will be available to buy before concert:
- Ticket 15 eur
- Discounted ticket 10 eur
DUO forteCELLO FR
The combination of a cello and a piano forms the very essence of the Festival of Nice Music, which was founded as a cello festival. From the huge amount of beautiful music written for this line-up, this Paris-based married couple – a cellist and a pianist – will focus on world repertoire.
Program:
„World tour with cello and piano“
- Georg Friedrich Händel
Largo and Allegro from sonata g minor for 2 violoncellos and piano (Germany) - Antonín Dvořák
Silent Woods, op.68/V (Czech) - Joaquim y Castellanos Nin
Spanish Suit Vieja Castilla / Murciana / Asturiana / Andaluza (Spain) - Edouard Lalo
Andante from Sonata a minor (France) - Adrien-Francois Servais
Fantasy on themes from Traviata (Italy and Belgium) - Pedro Datta
El aeroplano (Argentina) - Mariano Mores
Taquito militar (Argentina) - Osvaldo Pugliese
A evaristo Carriego (Argentina) - Fryderyk Chopin
Largo from sonata g minor, op. 65 (Poland/France) - Bohuslav Martinů
Variations on slovak folk theme (Czech and Slovak)
PHILIPPE ARGENTY – piano
ANNA MIKULSKA-ARGENTY – violoncello
EUGEN PROCHÁC – violoncello
Philippe Argenty
piano
enters the Music Academy in 2000 and in 2003 he decides to go to Paris in order to focus on music and piano. In 2005, after two years of formation in Paris, he joins the Conservatori Superior de Musica of Liceu in Barcelona, where he studies with the pianist and instructor Stanislav Pochekin. There, he obtains a diploma in “Piano Performance” in 2011 and he receives the best possible mark for the interpretation of the Franz Liszt 2nd Concerto for piano and orchestra. In 2005, he is awarded with the 2nd prize at the Grand Concours International de Piano in Paris, at the Cortot Hall. Since 2004, he has performed in France, Norway, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Andorra in solo or in chamber music. In 2011, he does a concert tour in solo with the Barcelona orchestra “ConjuntXXI” where he performs the Franz Liszt 2nd Concerto for piano and orchestra. Meanwhile he is invited to perform in several festivals in France and in other foreign countries. He plays in recitals and in chamber music in numerous formations (Duo Fortecello, Trio Gatti, in quintet with string quartet and in sextet with wind quintet or even in violin-piano duo… Since January 2016 he is as well member of NonStop Tango Trio that proposes tango argentino concerts and shows all around the Europe. Today he dedicates much part of his professional activity to organize festivals and musical seasons: “Festival Itinérant et Permanent les Clés du Classique”, “Musiques en Clain”, “Saint Savin Piano & Master Classes Festival”, “Concerts aux Châteaux” and “Jeudis du classique” in Montmorillon. In 2017 he joined the council of the Festival Pablo Casals in Prades. In addition, he is the Artistic Manager of the association Les Clés du Classique since 2008. In 2015, he is invited by the Festival Art Duo in Prague as a jury member of the piano competition, and plays in many concerts in Czech Republic and Hungary. He does several European Tours with the cellist Anna Mikulska (DuoforteCello) and will be on tour in China and USA in 2019.
Anna Mikulska-Argenty
violoncello
started her music studies when she was 6. In 2005, she starts at the Music Academy in Cracow, Poland, her hometown. In 2007, she also studies at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris in Paul Julien’s class. She receives advices from famous cellists such as Anner Bylsma, Arto Noras or Franz Helmerson and others. In 2010, she obtains a Master’s degree in Arts, as well as a Cello Aptitude Certificate. Since 2005, she has been playing in solo with the Symphonic Orchestra of Cracow Music Academy and the Young Philharmonic Orchestra. Meanwhile, she is the privileged partner of chamber music, in quartet, in trio, in quintet and in duo. She has been part of the Cracow Royal Quartet in Poland from 2007 to 2009 and has formed the Quator Volubilis in 2011, with which she performs since then. She also played in the orchestra of the famous English violonist Nigel Kennedy “Orchestra of Life” with whom she will participate in a European Tour of more than 30 dates in such a famous music halls as Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, Southbank Centre and Palais de Congrès de Paris. Since her arrival in France, she has been working regularly with the Limoges and Limousin Orchestra and orchestra of Soirées Lyriques in Sanxay. Since 2012 she specialized in chamber music in numerous formations (Duo Fortecello, Trio Gatti, Duo Slavo, Quatuor Volubilis, in quintet with string quartet and piano). The first album named “Cello and Piano World Tour” with the pianist Philippe Argenty (Duo Fortecello) was released in 2015 and the second “Soul of nations” in 2018 by KNS Classical label,. They several european tours and one China tour in 2019 and USA tour in 2019 as well. Since 2015 she is the co-director of several festivals in France as Musique et Patrimoine en Vienne et Gartempe. Since 2017 she is the member of administration council of Pablo Casals Festival in Prades.