Pavel Sporcl, violin
Pavel Sporcl (b.1973) ranks among the foremost representatives of todays young generation of violinists. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory, and subsequently in Professor Vaclav Snitil's class at the Academy of Music in Prague. From 1991 to 1996 he pursued his schooling in the U.S.A., initially at the Southern Methodist University of Dallas (with Eduard Schmieder), then at Brooklyn College (under the well known vistuoso Itzhak Perlman and Masao Kawasaki). He finished his American studies at the famous Juilliard School of Music, with the legendary Dorothy DeLay. Beyond that, he frequented several seminars and masters classes conducted by Isaak Stern, Pinchas Zukerman and Ida Haendel.
He has won many major awards, including laureateship of the Prague Spring International Competition (1997), Bohuslav Martinu Society Prize (1996), victory in the Holland Music Sessions World Tour Competition (1993), which was followed by a world tour (Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles); and laureateship of the ARD Munich Contest (1992).
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Sophie Mautner, piano
Sophie Mautner, was born on the 27th of december 1977 in Berlin in a French-German family. From her childhood she was a student of Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Hanover Conservatory and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Nikita Malagoff conviced her to start a career as a pianist. Jan Eiker (Warsaw), Lazaar Berman (Imola) and György Sandor ( Julliard school, New York) were her professors and mentors.
At the age of 11 she started with the Philarmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo but it was at the age of 17, in 1994 with the Philarmonic Orchestra of Berlin during two remarkable concerts that marked the start of her international career. From this date she has been invited to the most important music festivals in Germany, and Europe, for exemple, the Ruhr-Festival, Rheingau-Festival, the musical summer of Gstaadt, the musical weeks of Ascona, the MDR-Musikfestival, the Ludwigsburger Festspiele, the Schleswig-Holstein-Festival and the Mozart Festival of Rovereto.
In 1998 Sophie Mautner replaced Vladimir Askenasy of the "Nuit Romantique" with the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra and Andrei Gavrilov for the "Greatest performers" series at the Semper Oper of Dresden. In spite of her young age, Sophie Mautner has played under the direction of the great conductors such as Daniele Gatti (of the Royal Philarmonic of London), Paavo Järvi (with the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen), Thomas Dausgaard (with the Sinfonietta of Stockholm), Aldo Ceccato (with the Czech Philharmonic of Brünn), Howard Griffith (with the Zurich chamber Orchestra) and Fabio Luisi (with the Symphonic Orchestra of the MDR) .
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