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YOSSIF IVANOV
Acclaimed as “a player of impressive authority and presence” (The Strad), Yossif Ivanov has
quickly established himself as one of the most exciting violinists of his generation. At age 16, he
was awarded First Prize at the Montreal International Competition, and two years later the Second
Prize, as well as the Public Prize, at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
The 2014/2015 season includes a number of debut appearances for Yossif, with the Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Pau Pays de Béarn, Orchestra de Opera Toulon, Stuttgarter
Philharmoniker, Kunming Symphony Orchestra, Kaoshiung Symphony Orchestra and the Japan
Century Symphony Orchestra (Alan Buribayev). Recital and chamber music appearances include
Djanogly Hall Nottingham, Genova and the Rencontres Musicales d’Evian.
These follow acclaimed appearances with orchestras such as the Orchestre Symphonique de
Montréal, London Philharmonic Orchestra (tours in the UK and USA), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester,
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, Konzerthausorchester
Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Residentie Orchestra The Hague, English
Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sinfonica della RAI Orchestra, Sinfonia
Varsovia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Filarmonica A. Toscanini, Orchestre de
Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre Chambre de Paris, Brno
Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong
Sinfonietta, Malaysian Philharmonic and Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of
conductors including Neeme Järvi, Marin Alsop, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vladimir Jurowski, Kazushi
Ono, Hans Graf, Gerard Schwarz, Walter Weller, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Philippe Herreweghe,
Jaap Van Zweden, Jesús López-Cobos, Ion Marin, Yuri Simonov, Louis Langrée and John
Axelrod.
Yossif Ivanov has been invited to perform at the Menton, Marseille & Montpellier Festivals
(France), Mozarteum Salzburg, Wigmore Hall, Philharmonie Essen, Beethovenfest Bonn, the
Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Roma, Ravenna Musica, Ferrara Musica, Tokyo’s Kichijoji
Theatre, Carnegie Hall and the Ladies’ Morning Musical Club in Montréal. As well as his regular
recital partners Itamar Golan and Julien Quentin, Yossif has collaborated with Javier Perianes,
Ingrid Fliter, Frank Braley, David Kadouch and Plamena Mangova. With fellow Belgium violinists
Lorenzo Gatto and Hrachya Avanesyan, Yossif formed the ensemble Trilogy, which aims to break
down barriers between musical genres, presenting classical masterworks alongside film music and
jazz standards.
His first recording on the Ambroisie/Naïve label (sonatas by Franck, Ysaye & D'Haene) was
awarded a Diapason d’Or de l’Année. Both his concerto recordings (Bartók/ Shostakovich, and
Dutilleux) also received high critical acclaim. Yossif’s next recording will present the complete
works of Prokofiev for violin and piano.
Yossif Ivanov studied the violin with Zakhar Bron, Igor & Valery Oistrakh and Augustin Dumay.
Since 2008, he has taught violin at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, the youngest person to
ever do so.
Yossif Ivanov plays on the 1699 “Lady Tennant” Stradivarius, kindly lent by the Stradivarius
Society of Chicago.
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LORENZO GATTO
« Creative artist », « libertarian violinist », « passionate virtuoso»: such are some of the
expressions used by a unanimous press to describe Lorenzo Gatto's talent and passion and it has
to be said that he maintains a vibrant relationship with his public.
A true revelation in the eyes of the greater public and international critics through his second prize
and Public's prize at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition (Concours
Musical International Reine Elisabeth ) 2009, Lorenzo Gatto's talent has also been recognized with
his winning of many other prizes of which the 1st prize and Public's Prize at the International
RNCM Competition in Manchester (age 18) and the 1st prize at the International Andrea
Postacchini Competition in Italy (age 16).
Born in Brussels in December 1986, Lorenzo Gatto began studying the violin at the age of 5. At the
age of 12 he joined the Brussels' Royal Conservatory of Music in Véronique Bogaerts' class where,
at 17, he earned a diploma for violin with the highest distinction. After which he continued to perfect
his playing under Herman Krebbers in Holland, Augustin Dumay at the Chapelle Musicale Reine
Elisabeth (Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Belgium), and Boris Kuschnir in Vienna.
He also worked with other great musicians such as Salvatore Accardo, Zakhar Bron, Pamela
Frank, Robert Mann, Midori, Seiji Ozawa, Julian Rachlin, ...
Having been elected Rising Star 2010-2011, Lorenzo started to perform on the major European
stages, such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Wiener
Musikverein, and also in Athens, Baden-Baden, Barcelona, Birmingham, Cologne, Hamburg,
Luxemburg, Newcastle and Stockholm.
In Belgium, he has become a major artist for Bozar - the Palais des Beaux-Arts (artist-in residence
for the 2010-2011 season), and Flagey in Brussels, as well as on the other major musical stages of
the country.
He is regularly invited as a soloist by the Belgian National Orchestra, the Flanders Philharmonic
Royal Orchestra (de Filharmonie), the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra
of Wallonia.
In recent seasons, Lorenzo also played with the BBC Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic
Orchestra, the Gelders Orkest, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxemburg, the Sinfonia Varsovia,
the Moscow Virtuosi, the "New Russia" State Symphony Orchestra, and the Romanian National
Radio Orchestra … Outside Europe, Lorenzo Gatto recently performed in Japan, South Korea, the
United States and Abu-Dhabi.
Lorenzo has thus appeared as a soloist under the direction of J.C. Casadesus, A. Dumay, S.
Goetzel, P. Goodwin, P. Herreweghe, E. Krivine, Y. Nézet-Séguin, V. Sinaisky, V. Spivakov, J. Van
Zweden, G. Varga, and W. Weller …
Lorenzo has also been Artistic Director of several original productions by the Brussels Chamber
Orchestra and the Kamerorkest.
His usual partners in chamber music are Roberto Giordano (piano), Denis Kozhukhin (piano),
Eliane Reyes (piano), Denis Sungho (guitar), Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (piano) and also
Camille Thomas (cello) and Béatrice Berrut (piano) within the new Trio Saint-Exupéry.
In a more experimental venture, Lorenzo played in front of 50.000 people in the Royan open air
festival "Un violonsur le sable" ("a Fiddler on the Sand") in 2011; he also performs in the unusual
trio, Trilogy, with his violinist friends Hrachya Avanesyan and Yossif Ivanov.
Lorenzo's discography was recently enlarged with a recording of Martinu's Concerto n°2 for violin
with the Belgian National Orchestra under the direction of Walter Weller. In 2010 he recorded with
the pianist Milos Popovic the works of Enescu, Martinu and Mokranjac ("Deconstructing the Wall"
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album), as well as Vieuxtemps's Concerto n°4 with the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra under the
direction of Patrick Davin. He had previously recorded Schubert's String Trios and Trout, as well as
Mozart's String Trio "Divertimento".
As a committed musician, in 2007 Lorenzo cofounded the Cl4ssiK association with the aim of
raising young people's awareness of classical music. An accomplished athlete, Lorenzo is also an
airplane pilot and enjoys paragliding.
Lorenzo plays a 1864 J.B. Vuillaume violin
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HRACHYA AVANESYAN
Hrachya Avanesyan is considered as one of the most inspiring artists of his generation. In April
2006, when he was a teenager, he won the first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition. In 2008
his talent was recognized once more in the musical world, when he won the prestigious Carl
Nielsen Competition in Denmark.
During the last years Hrachya Avanesyan has made acclaimed debuts with orchestras such as
Belgian National Orchestra with W. Weller in Brussels, London Chamber Orchestra with C.
Warren-Green in London, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra with E. Inbal, National
Orchestra of Lille with Joji Hattori, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie with P. Goodwin, BBC
National Orchestra of Wales and P. Watkins in Cardiff, Gulbenkian Orchestra with J. Carniero,
Lisbon Metropolinan Orchestra, Odense Symphony with A. Vedernikov, South Jutland Symphony
with Joshua Weilerstein, Liège Philharmonic with P. Davin, Belgrade Philharmonic with Daniel
Raiskin, Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia and Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen
with M. Soustrot.
Avanesyan has given concerts in prestigious venues like the Wigmore hall in London, Salle
Gaveau and Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris, Santury hall in Tokyo, Moscow Kremlin's
Grand Hall, Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, National Auditorium in Madrid and the
Palais des Beaux-Art in Brussels.
Highlights have been appearances in David's Hall, Cardiff with the BBC National Orchestra of
Wales, where he shared the stage with Joshua Bell and Maxim Vengerov, in Wigmore Hall where
he debuted with the American pianist Ashley Wass and numerous recitals at the Montpellier
Festival, Menton Festival and Strasbourg Music Festival in memory of Yehudi Menuhin.
Avanesyan has toured extensively in Scandinavia with pianist Marianna Shirinyan and appeared
with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra,
debut with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and a recital tour in Japan. In 2012 he performed as
soloist with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and Copenhagen Philharmonic for the first time, and next
season will see his return to South Jutland Symphony Orchestra.
His first cd with Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto no. 2 was released in summer 2010 in a box with all
Vieuxtemps' concerti with the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra and Patrick Davin. Avanesyan's first
solo cd with music by Dvorak was released in October 2011 with Sinfonia Varsovia and Augustin
Dumay.
Born in Armenia in 1986, Hrachya Avanesyan moved to Belgium with his family at the age of 16
and is now settled there.
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From 2003-2008 he has studied at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in the class of Igor
Oistrakh, son and the pupil of legendary David Oistrakh. From 2007 he is studying at the Queen
Elisabeth College of music in Belgium with Augustin Dumay.
Hrachya Avanesyan plays on the violin of Antonio Stradivarius "Piatti" from 1717.
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