the artists of recital

Gaidar beskembirov

was born on July 8th 1990 in Omsk, Russia. From 1997-2005 he visited the music school for children unter guidance of class teacher W.S. Samochwalowa. 

 

In 2014 he completed his studies under guidance of Prof. Elfiya Burnaschewa at the State Kasan Conservatory which is named after the renowned artists of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Russian Federation: N.G. Schiganow.

 

Between 2015-2019 he refined his pianistic abilities as student of Prof Eric Le Sage at Freiburg Music University. Since 2019 he is working as piano lecturer at the same institute.

 

Gaidar Beskembirov is price winner of different international competitions:  Rustam Latipow competition (2nd price, Kasan, 2008), D.B. Kabalewskij competition (1st price, Samara, 2009), S.A. Gubajdulina competition (3rd price, Kasan, 2011), A Aliyewa competition (2nd price, Gaillard, Frankreich, 2012), Almaty piano competition, semi-finalist (Almaty, 2013), Lepthien piano competition (1st Preis, Freiburg, Deutschland, 2017).

 

He took part in master classes of outstanding Russian musicians such as M.Woskressenskij und D.Baschkirow.

Since 2013 he is member of the Saint Petersburg Music House.

 

He is performing regularly with orchestras in the EU, Russia ans Kazakhstan.

Pietro Ceresini

Pietro Ceresini received his first piano lessons at the age of 6 and performed his first concert only at the age of 7 in the Teatro Regio in his hometown Parma. In the following years he refined his piano playing in master classes held by masters such as Paolo Bordoni and Filippo Gamba.

 

Between 2009-2011 he visited the Academy of Santa Cäcillia in Roma where he was taught by Sergio Perticaroli.

 

Afterwards he settled to Germany where he continued expanding his artistic and pianistic abilities in the master studies with Ms. Konstanze Eickhorst in Lübeck followed by an outstanding concert exam with honours at Freiburg Music University in the class of Prof. Christoph Sischka.

 

 

Pietro Ceresini is price winner of multiple national and international piano competitions. He performed several piano recitals in his home country: in Roma (concert hall "Concilliazione"; Mozart: piano concerto in d minor and Parma (Liszt 2nd piano concerto in A major).

 

He took part in important piano festivals in Italy such as the Spoleto piano festival and Misano piano festival. In Lima (Peru) he performed the 5th piano concerto of Beethoven together with the „Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional“ as part of the Beethoven cycle.

Furthermore he was on stage in Parma performing the 2nd piano concerto of Franz Liszt together with the orchestra "Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini“. During the music festival "Kunst am Kai" held in Lübeck he took over the piano part in Beethoven's Fantasy for Choir and Orchestra Op. 80. Finally he gave an acclaimed performance of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto no. 1.

 

In Germany is regularly on stage as soloist (chamber music hall of the Congress Hall Heidelberg,  Brigitte Feldmann hall Schwerin Conservatory, chamber husic hall University of Music Cologne, Freiburg, Villa Eschenburg Lübeck, Association of Musikfreunde Bremen, Mendelssohn Institute Berlin) as well as an active chamber music partner engaging in different concert series.

 

His performances were broadcasted in several countries (Antena 2 Portugal, Radio3 and Radio Classica Italy and NDR Podium of the Youth Hamburg and Kiel, Germany).

 

 

Currently he is teaching as piano lecturer at Freiburg Music University.

 

Yang Tai

Yang Tai was born in Beijing, China in 1990. At the age of only 9 years she appeared on stage as one of the most talented pianists of China in several Chinese cities.

 

After 6 years of professional musical education at the Central Conservatory in Beijing Yang Tai moved to Germany at the age of 18 and at first studied musical education majoring as instrumental teacher and obtaining the German Pedagogy Diploma under instruction of the world-wide renowned Russian pianist and pedagogue Prof. Vladimir Krainev at the University of Music and Performing Arts and Media Hannover.

 

The following master studies lead her to Prof. Ewa Kupiec at the same institute. In February 2018 she received her concert exam being an outstanding master student of the famous pianist and composer Prof. Gilead Mishory at Freiburg Music University.

 

Ms. Tai is regularly performing nationally and internationally and was an extinguished artist of several solo and orchestral recital in the US, Russia, China, Ukraine, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Spain, Netherland, Malta and the Czech Republik. 

In 2013 she gave the premiere of the piano concerto of Guiseppe Verdi together with the Munich Symphony Orchestra in the Cuvilliés Theatre Munich.

 

In 2017 she recorded piano solo pieces of Emilie Mayer in cooperation with Deutschland Radio Kultur. The recording was broadcasted in autumn while the CD was published at Capriccio in 2018.

 

Besides her career as pianist she was intensively dealing with musical research and mediation within her additional studies of historical musicology at the University of Music, Theater and Media Hannover. Her master thesis "Stravinsky as ballet composer, studies about aesthetics" supervised by Prof. Camilla Bork and Dr. Lorenz Luyken was graded with the highest mark. The main fields of research were the music of the 20th and 21st century, the gender study and the cultural transfer between Europe, North America and East Asia.

 

Currently she is analysing and finding new aspects regarding the relationship between traditional Asian music and the European art music during her on-going post-graduate PHD studies in musicology.

 

Yang Tai is often performing as free artist of Freiburg and Artist in Residence of House of Culture Freiburg within the concerts of the House of Culture. 

RAiner maria Klaas

Rainer Klaas is the European pianist wich the largest and richest repertoire having a performance history of around 2000 works by approx. 1200 composers.

 

Born in Recklinghausen he was student of Detlef Kraus and Klaus Hellwig (Folkwang-University Essen) and Yara Bernette (Music University Hamburg); concert exam 1977.

 

Courses with Guido Agosti (Siena), Czeslaw Marek (Zurich) and Jorge Bolet (Freiburg) amongst others. Concerts, master classes and jury appearance in Europe, Israel, the US, South America and East Asia (South Korea, Japan, China, Indonesia); several CDs and broadcasting productions. Founder of the integral::musiken Ruhr 1975, publisher and issuer of the Piano Year Book (1978-83, from 2021).

 

Initiator and programmatic planner of concert cycles in North Rhein Westphalia. Supervisor of a piano class at Dortmund Music University 1985-2001. Since 2002 increased activity also as conductor.