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15:00 | Javier Bonet (French horn) clinic |
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 One of the best French horn players of the world, famous Javier Bonet has long been recognized as touring soloist, chamber ensemble musician, outstanding tutor, and assiduous scholar. He plays natural horn (without valves), and his playing is considered to be exemplary. Javier is a frequent collaborator of Jordi Savals’ Le Concert des Nations, a baroque orchestra, and he himself is the founding fathers of natural horns ensemble Corniloquio, while Bonet and Emilio Moreno together founded ancient music orchestra El concierto español. The musician’s discography includes 4 recordings of natural horn, an album called “Grandes conciertos románticos” (“Great Romantic Concerts”) with pieces of Glier, Weber, Strauss, Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrie, and many other music. Javier Bonet regularly holds musician clinics throughout the world, from Budapest to Berlin, Paris to Pekin, etc. He had a long tenure in the Conservatory of Salamanca. In the present time, he’s the professor of natural and modern French horn at Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya and Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio. Javier Bonet is also a permanent jury member of the most prestigious music competitions in Portia, Geneva, and Munich.
Zaryadye Concert Hall  |
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 Kodo is a Japanese group that has become an international phenomenon, based on the island of Sado, that has taken the world by storm with their new stylings on semi-traditional taiko drumming. Founded in 1981, the group's name has dual meaning; according to the group, it translates both to "heartbeat -- the primal source of all rhythm," and "children of the drum, a reflection of Kodo's desire to play their drums simply, with the heart of a child." The group spends one-third of an average year touring in Japan, one-third touring the rest of the world, and one-third in rigorous workouts in their village on Sado. They have toured in all continents except Antarctica in their attempts to spread world peace via the messenger of music. Among their projects, aside from straightforward taiko performances, are a collaboration with new age synthesizer genius Isao Tomita for Nasca Fantasy, instructing the über-eclectic Cirque du Soleil in taiko for their own performances, the soundtrack for The Hunted, and a yearly "Earth Celebration" festival on Sado for percussionists from around the world to attend. They are ambassadors of peace through music and the current top bearers of the living art form of taiko drumming.
Crocus City Hall |
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