The Four Seasons

Künstler

• Dennis Schneiderka (CZE) – violin

  Dennis Schneiderka is a Czech violinist. He focuses mainly on solo performance, and occasionally also on chamber music. He is a laureate of many important interpretation competitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. He focuses mainly on the repertoire of Romanticism, Classicism, and the twentieth century.

  He has been playing the violin since he was five years old. He began to learn to play at the Zdeněk Burian Elementary Art School in Kopřivnice in the class of Hana Vyhlídalová. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Brno Conservatory, where he studied in the class of Mgr. Pavel Suk. In the fourth year of the conservatory, he passed the entrance exams to the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno as the best of the candidates, where he began to study in the class of Prof. Peter Michalica and from which he graduated in 2021.

  He has countless concerts, performances, and competitions behind him. In 2013, he won 1st place and the title of laureate at the Pro Bohemia interpretation competition. In 2016, he won the Talents for Europe competition (1st prize), the International Violin Competition in Nová Paka (1st prize and the prize for the best performance of the compulsory piece "Dža more" by Sylvie Bodorová), and the International Violin Competition in honour of Váša Příhoda "New European Talents" (1st prize). He won the Classicism and String Instruments competition twice, in 2015 (1st prize) and 2016 (1st prize). He has also successfully presented himself at competitions: Mlody Paganini in Legnica (Poland), the Grażyna Bacewicz Competition in Łódź (Poland), the Leoš Janáček International Interpretation Competition (Czech Republic), the Concours Grumiaux in Brussels (Belgium), Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest (Romania), and the Societa Umanitaria competition (Milan). He has also participated in a large number of interpretation courses with leading world violinists - Alexandra Soumm, Julian Rachlin, Josef Špaček, Ivan Ženatý, Ricardo Odriozola, Peter Michalica, Dana Vlachová, Leoš Čepický, and others.

  His wide repertoire includes a large number of works from all stylistic periods - concertos and works for solo violin accompanied by orchestra, double concertos, chamber works, works and sonatas for violin and piano, and also works for solo violin.

  He has made several guest appearances in the chamber cycles of the Brno Philharmonic, has performed as a soloist with the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, the Žilina State Chamber Orchestra, and the Utrecht Chamber Orchestra. He currently collaborates with the pianist Doc. Vladimír Hollý and is the concertmaster of the Janáček Opera Orchestra of the National Theatre in Brno.

• Jamila Garayusifli (AZE) – violin

  Jamila Garayusifli is currently completing her Master’s degree in Specialized Music Performance - Soloist at the Zurich University of the Arts in the class of Professor Ilya Gringolts. She previously studied with Professors Svetlana Makarova-Vernikov and Julien Zufferey in Lausanne, Ilya Konovalov in Tel Aviv, and Zahra Guliyeva in Baku.

  She received the Buchmann-Mehta scholarship in Tel Aviv (2012), won 1st prize at the "Music Association of the 21st Century" international competition (2011), received the Hans Schäuble Prize in Arosa (2019), and won 2nd prize in the "Interpretation of Contemporary Music" competition (2021).

  Jamila has actively participated in various festivals, such as the Schubertiade in Freiburg (2022), the Festival les Amplitudes (2022), the Lucerne Festival (2021), the Opera du Rhône (2022), the Festival des Combins (artist in residence and guest teacher, 2021), the Rostropovich International Festival (2007-2010), Musica Mundi (2011-2015), the Internationale Kalamata Musiktage (2018-2019), the Tibor Varga Music Academy (2017-2019), and others.

  As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as the Caspian Virtuosos (Austria), the Hajibeyov State Symphony Orchestra and the State Chamber Orchestra (Azerbaijan), the Slovak Chamber Orchestra Bohdan Warchal, and others under the direction of Maxim Vengerov, Roman Belishev, or Rauf Abdullayev. She is actively involved in various chamber music formations in Switzerland, such as CHAARTS (under the direction of Gabor Takacs-Nagy), CameratAmoyal (under the direction of Pierre Amoyal), the Sinfonietta de Lausanne, the Sedunum String Orchestra (under the direction of Sebastien Bagnoud), and the Jura Festival Chamber Orchestra.

  In 2020, Jamila founded the trio "Areal" with cellist Sandro Meszaros and pianist Daria Korotkova in Zurich. The trio actively performs in Switzerland.

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• Sébastien Bagnoud (CH) – conductor

  Originally from Switzerland, he began his musical education at the Fribourg Conservatory, studying wind ensemble conducting in the class of J.-C. Kolly. He completed his bachelor’s degree in music education with a focus on singing at the University of Music (HEMU) in Lausanne. In 2015, he obtained a master’s degree from the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne under the guidance of Prof. A. Azan Zielinski and P. Beran in conducting, and in the same year, a DAS diploma from the academy in Bern in the class of D. Roggen. In 2018, he completed his master’s degree in conducting at the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) in Prague with Doc. Koutník, N. Baxa, and Doc. Svárovský. He attended conducting courses with J. Dobrzelewski and G. Contratti. In the summer of 2017, he received the Yuri Simonov Prize at the international conducting competition in Radom, Poland. As part of the prize, he completed a week-long internship in Moscow in September with the Moscow Philharmonic, under the direction of conductor Yuri Simonov. Sébastien Bagnoud has had the opportunity to collaborate with the following orchestras: Palermo Giovanile Mediterranea Orchestra, Brno Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia PKF, Academic Chamber Soloists AKS Prague, Orchestre de l’Opéra du Rhône, Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic, Collegium Magistrorum Mikulov, J. K. Tyl Theatre Orchestra in Pilsen, Olomouc Philharmonic, Radom Chamber Orchestra (PL), Valais Chamber Orchestra VOC, and the orchestra of the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne. He has participated in many festivals, such as the Beirut Chants festival in Lebanon, the Sion Festival (CH), the Crans-Montana Classics Festival (CH), the Bohuslav Martinů Days festival (CZ), and the Opera Prague Festival (CZ).

  In 2012, he founded the Sedunum String Orchestra SSO in Switzerland, with which he regularly organises and conducts concerts with leading soloists (A. Baranov, Ch. Croisé, G. Moix, A. Fournier, M. Guttman, etc.). He is the co-author of the project and founder of the "Opera Studio Prague" association, which has staged four critically acclaimed performances since 2016. The monologue opera by G. Frida, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the ballet by B. Martinů, Kitchen Revue, and in 2018, for the 100th anniversary of the republic, the opera by L. Sommer, Časoplet. Both performances were included in the programme of the Opera Prague music theatre festival in 2018 and 2020. The opera Časoplet will also be presented at the Smetana’s Litomyšl festival in 2021.

  He made his debut in the opera literature in 2014 in Lausanne, where, as an assistant to A. Zielinski, he conducted a performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. In December 2015, he conducted a concert as part of the Beirut Chants festival in Lebanon. In 2015, he was approached by the Opéra du Rhône to study and conduct Rossini’s William Tell in the Martigny amphitheatre. In December 2017, he conducted J. Offenbach’s opera Orpheus in the Underworld at the Martolet Theatre in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. From 2015 to 2017, he served as an assistant to conductor N. Baxa and conducted productions of Der Freischütz (Weber) and Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) at the J. K. Tyl Theatre in Pilsen. In the summer of 2018, he became an assistant to conductor J. Fiore at the Grand Théâtre de Genève for a new production of the opera Carmen. In 2020, together with the Opéra du Rhône, he conducted G. Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville at the Martolet Theatre (CH). In 2021, he conducted the ballet Le Corsaire by A. Adam at the National Theatre in Ostrava, concerts with the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, and with the Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic. In the summer of 2022, he will present Puccini’s opera Tosca with the Opéra du Rhône in the Martigny amphitheatre (CH).

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