Herman Krebbers

Herman Krebbers made his first appearance as a nine-year-old prodigy. After 1945 he toured throughout the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Argentina, Russia, Portugal and England.
He is the recipient of a gold record for his interpretations of the violin concertos of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and an Edison Award for the two concertos of Haydn. He has also recorded the violin concertos of Paganini, Dvorák, Bruch, Viotti no. 22, Vieuxtemps no. 4, Bach a minor, Brahms double concerto with cellist Tibor de Machula, Vivaldi and Bach double concertos with violinist Theo Olof, Vivaldi ‘4 Seasons’, Saint-Saëns ‘Havanaise’ and ‘Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso’ and Ravel ‘Tzigane’.
Herman Krebbers was professor at the Robert Schumann Institute in Düsseldorf for eight years, and at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, a position he held for more than forty years. He has been a member of the jury at international violin competitions in Tokyo, Brussels, Munich, Genoa, Geneva, London, Vienna, Salzburg, Augsburg, Folkstone, Hannover, Pretoria, Vercelli, Paris, Weimar, Poznan, Leipzig, Markneukirchen, Scheveningen, Cologne and Boulogne sur Mer. A member of the faculty of TIHMS since 1989, he has been invited to give numerous master classes in Japan, Canada, France, Spain, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and South Africa.
For his many contributions to the musical life of the Netherlands Herman Krebbers was appointed ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.
  

György Pauk

Recognized as one of today’s leading violinists, György Pauk was born in Hungary and received his musical education at the Franz Liszt Music Academy in Budapest. Before settling in London in 1961, he won 1st prize in the Paganini Competition in Genoa, Premier Grand Prix in the Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris and 1st prize in the Munich Sonata Competition.
In an outstanding international career, György Pauk has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. In 1962 he made his London debut with the London Symphony Orchestra under Lorin Maazel, and his debut recital there included an acclaimed performance of Bartók’s solo sonata. He made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1971 at the invitation of Sir Georg Solti. In Britain he has appeared with the major London orchestras and at prestigious festivals, with performances regularly broadcast by the BBC.
His broad repertoire includes some of the masterpieces of the 20th century and he has given premières of works by Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Schnittke, Maxwell Davies and Tippett under the baton of the composers.
György Pauk’s recordings include several award-winning releases and he has received honors both in Britain and in Hungary, notably the Hungarian Order of the Republic in 1998 for his contribution to music throughout the world. He plays the Massart Stradivarius of 1714.
He is currently Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland.
  

Anatoly Resnikovsky

Anatoly Resnikovsky is a Professor of the St.Petersburg Conservatory, an Honorable Guest Professor of the Petrozavodsk Conservatory (Carelia) and Kerava Music College (Finland). He is one of the foremost specialists in the world in the correction and development of violin technique. He studied at the St.Petersburg Conservatory and received his Doctor of Performing Arts degree under Professor Veniamin Sher, one of the last representatives of the famous Leopold Auer school (among his pupils are such well-known performers as Vladimir Spivakov and the late Viktor Liberman).
Anatoly Resnikovsky performs extensively in East- and West-Europe and South Korea. He collaborates with contemporary composers and has given many first performances of their works. Numerous compositions of leading St.Petersburg composers are dedicated to Anatoly Resnikovsky.
Professor Resnikovsky has also a great reputation as a conductor of the Youth Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared as a conductor in many cities of the former USSR, Estonia, Hungary, Netherlands, Germany and Greece and has broadcast on Russian, Estonian and Moldavian Radio.
Among his students are many prizewinners of international violin competitions and leaders of such orchestras as Budapest State Opera, San Francisco Opera, Mariinsky and Mussorgsky Theaters in St.Petersburg, Mexico Symphony and others.
Anatoly Resnikovsky gives regular master classes in Greece, Finland, Hungary, Estonia and South Korea (Seoul) and joins The International Holland Music Sessions in 2003.

'Performance was truly magical… Anatoly Resnikovsky is a violinist of great potential, a master of shades, the sound of his violin pouring directly into the audience… Favorite of the Kozani Music Festival.' ('Proinos Logos', Greece)

'Anatoly Resnikovsky’s performance fully demonstrated the best features of St.Petersburg school of playing: exquisite taste, sense of style and diversity of bowing technique and sound palette.' ('Kaleva', Finland)
  

Johannes Goritzki was born in Tübingen, Germany, and studied cello with such musical legends as Gaspar Cassadò, André Navarra and Pablo Casals. It was Cassadò, in particular, who introduced Goritzki to the 'sound of the cello'. As teacher and father-figure alike, it was he who turned the instrumentalist Goritzki into a musician. Goritzki collaborates with pianist Pavel Gililov and with many chamber music ensembles. One of the highlights of his extensive discography is Otmar Schoeck's cello concerto, a recording which filled a gap that had only become apparent after the release of this brilliant production. Johannes Goritzki has also enjoyed an extensive career as a conductor. He has conducted at the Philharmonie in Berlin, in Cologne and Munich, at the Berlin Schauspielhaus, the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Düsseldorf Tonhalle; he has led orchestras in Rome's Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Paris's Salle Gaveau, and conducted the gala performance for the reopening of the Teatro Felice in Genoa. He conducted Graun's ‘Montezuma’ and Mozart's ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Bellas Artes opera house in Mexico City, and has guested at the Berlin Festwochen, Bucharest's Enescu Festival, Finland's Kuhmo Festival and, at the request of Gidon Kremer, in Lockenhaus. Under Goritzki's baton, great musicians such as Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Nikita Magaloff, Radu Lupu, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Aurèle Nicolet have performed a musical spectrum from the Baroque to the avant-garde. As principal conductor of the Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss am Rhein, Goritzki also dedicates himself to his own special projects whenever he can. Among them are the symphonies of Max Reger's pupil Johanna Senfter which, in the words of their discoverer, are of truly Brucknerian dimensions. They will soon be recorded with the Bamberg Symphony for the BIS label. Johannes Goritzki is professor of cello at the Robert Schumann Hochschule für Musik in Düsseldorf. He joins the faculty of TIHMS in 2003.
  

Harro Ruijsenaars

Harro Ruijsenaars, born in 1945, is one of the most outstanding cellists of his generation. His career as a soloist has brought him to most European countries, the USA, the former Soviet Union and the Far East. He has performed with all orchestras in the Netherlands and many orchestras abroad under the batons of such distinguished maestros as Antal Dorati, Sir Charles Groves, Bernard Haitink, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Okko Kamu, Riccardo Chailly, Neeme Järvi, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Hans Vonk and Jaap van Zweden.
Ruijsenaars, who studied with the French master cellist Maurice Gendron, has a repertoire of over 30 cello concertos varying from Vivaldi to Gubaidulina. As a chamber musician he has partnered pianists Ronald Brautigam, Roland Pöntinen, Viktoria Postnikova and recently Rian de Waal as well as such illustrious chamber music ensembles as the Alban Berg and Orlando quartets and the Nash ensemble on all stages in the Netherlands and in Europe, Asia and North and South America.
As principal cellist he held positions with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (1968-1977) and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (1977-1989). After a break of 12 years, during which time he moved to Sweden to take up a post as professor at the Conservatories of Aarhus and Göteborg, he returned to the Netherlands as principal cellist of the The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra (Residentie Orkest), a position which he currently combines with a professorship in cello at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and at the University of Göteborg (cello and chamber music).
Harro Ruijsenaars has recorded for a number of labels, among then Canal Grande (Mozart, Schubert, Schumann: Complete works for cello and piano with Ronald Pöntinen), Donemus Composer’s Voice (Escher: Sonata Concertante with Ronald Brautigam), Amsterdam Classic (Bach: Solo Suite no. 3) and recently for Classico (works by Liszt - originals and transcriptions - with pianist Rian de Waal). Also for Classico (Reger and Ysaÿe: complete solo works), and for Classico DK (trios by Brahms and Dvorák).
  

PIANO

Marie-Françoise Bucquet

French pianist Marie-Françoise Bucquet began her studies at the Vienna Music Academy and continued this tradition by further studies with the legendary pianist Wilhelm Kempff and later with Alfred Brendel. Influenced by Edouard Steuermann and Max Deutsch, who were both pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, and by the French composer Pierre Boulez, she is a specialist in 20th-century music. Many contemporary composers, among them Jolas, Xenakis and Bussotti, composed works especially for her. Her concert tours as a soloist and with orchestra have brought her all over the world. For the Philips label she recorded works by, among others, Bizet, Bartók, Stockhausen and Stravinsky. In 1976 Marie-Françoise Bucquet was awarded an Edison for one of her Schoenberg recordings. She has given master classes in Italy, Spain and the United States and, since 1988, at The International Holland Music Sessions.
Since 1996 she has been professor of piano at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris where she was appointed Head of the Pedagogical Department and member of the Board in 1991. Since 1979 Marie-Françoise Bucquet has formed a duo with her husband, baritone Jorge Chaminé. Their discography includes several award-winning recordings: Brahms Lieder (Lyrinx-Harmonia Mundi), Carlos Guastavino Songs (Movieplay Classics), Hebrew Songs (ADDA) and in 2002 a new release of a recording of Spanish Songs by De Falla, Turina and Nin for Lyrinx-Harmonia Mundi. With her husband she organizes each year an ‘Atelier Musical’ in Paris in collaboration with the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian for special lessons in interpretation and performance. Marie-Françoise Bucquet has been a jury member at many international piano competitions. In 2003 she will join the jury of the International Piano Competition in Dublin.
  

Jan Marisse Huizing

Jan Marisse Huizing has been involved with TIHMS since 1989 as advisor and faculty member. He studied piano at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Jaap Spaanderman and harpsichord at the Brabant Conservatory with Jaap Spigt. After graduating with soloist degrees in both instruments, he continued his piano study with Heinz Scholz at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Jan Ekier at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw. In 1961 he won the 1st prize at the national piano competition of the Jeunesses Musicales and from then on performed as soloist, with chamber music ensembles and in productions with the Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT). In 1973 he was appointed professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory where he has established a reputation as a renowned piano pedagogue. Mr. Huizing has been involved as artistic advisor in many productions, among them the Grand Piano Festival in Amsterdam and the Chopin Festival in Groningen and was for many years a member of the board of EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) in the Netherlands. He regularly publishes articles about music and interpretation in such magazines as ‘Piano Bulletin’ and ‘Mens & Melodie’ and, under the name 'John Marisse', he has published piano music for children. His book 'The Chopin Etudes in Historic Perspective', published by De Toorts in Haarlem, appeared in 1996. Jan Marisse Huizing is regularly invited to give master classes at the conservatories of Berlin, Paris and St. Petersburg and he participates in Festivals in Antwerp, London and Prague. He is a sought-after jury member at competitions such as the Petrof Competition, International Johannes Brahms Piano Competition in Hamburg, the European Gina Bachauer Competition, the Quatre-Mains Piano Competition in Antwerp and the 'Jeunesses Musicales' international piano competition in Bucharest.
He was appointed artistic director of TIHMS in 2003, and he is currently professor of piano at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
  

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Renowned pedagogue Karl-Heinz Kämmerling is a graduate in piano of the Musikhochschule in Leipzig in the class of Anton Rohden and Hugo Steurer. He is currently professor of piano at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and at the Musikhochschule in Hannover where, in addition to being vice-chairman for six years, he also conducts seminars and master classes. Many of his students are currently working as professors at various schools of music in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and many others have received widespread recognition and prizes at piano competitions worldwide.
Professor Kämmerling has led numerous master classes abroad - in China, Japan, England, the United States, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Norway and Finland, as well as in Holland where he has been a faculty member of TIHMS since its inception in 1988. He has served on the juries of nearly all the major international piano competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels, Tchaikovsky in Moscow, Chopin in Warsaw, Leeds, Rubinstein in Tel Aviv, and ARD in Munich. He has been awarded the Arts and Sciences Prizes of Lower Saxony and the first class ‘Bünderverdienstorden’ of Germany.