Artists Index
Branka Parlić
Exclusively focused on Erik Satie music
Pianist Branka Parlić is one of the most prominent interpreters and promoter of New Music in ex-Yugoslavian region. She is one of the leading pianists dedicated to New Music, Branka Parlić is performing the music of minimalist and postminimalist composers from the second half of the 20th century, and the first decade of the 21st century. Since 1986 Branka Parlić exclusively focused her work on the music of French composer Erik Satie as well as to 20th and 21st Century New Music.
New double album Eric Satie - Initiés was released in 2019 by Triston Master in Switzerland, for which she received Silver Medal at Global Music Awards in 2020. Parlic here offers a fascinating and beautifully thought-through album featuring performances that are impressively textured throughout and rich in personality. This is an album of thoughtful, elegant and compelling playing by Branka Parlic.
- Serbian professional pianist
- The most prominent interpreters and promoter of New Music
- Silver Medal Winner At Global Music Awards 2020
Henriette Faure
French pianist Henriette Faure (1907-1985) made the music of Maurice Ravel sing on the performing stage.
Henriette Faure greatest claim to fame is that she studied with Maurice Ravel and was one of the first artists to extol the virtues his music and play them in public. She also studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Louis Diémer, one of the leading exponents and most accomplished pianists of the French school at the turn of the 20th century. Her interpretations of Ravel music are considered by some to be definitive and the few records she made, particularly those of Ravel's music, are sought after and in short supply.
Johanna Martzy
The Violinist Revered by Music Lovers.
Johanna Martzy won 1st prize at Geneva competition in 1947. She is remembered for her short career. Martzy began studying violin at age six. Soon afterwards she started lessons with Jeno Hubay at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and continued with him until 1937. By age 13 she was already touring Hungary and Romania. She did comparatively little recording: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvorak, Bartok, and Stravinsky, mostly for the Britsh Columbia Label, today very sought-after and collectable LPs, on the other side, though many tapes of radio broadcasts still exist. Martzy mostly played a Carlo Bergonzi, 1733, violin though she also owned the Strad, Huberman, 1733 and a Peter Guarnerius the Carl Flesch’s old violin.
Tibor Varga
Tibor Varga was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, developed pedagogic methods for teaching string music.
In 1964, he founded the Festival Tibor Varga (1964–2001), which during nearly four decades was one of the leading international music festivals with concerts broadcast all over the world. In addition, in 1967, he added the annual International Tibor Varga Violin Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions of its genre. Varga collaborated with eminent conductors such as Ernest Ansermet, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Ferenc Fricsay, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Igor Markevitch, Hans Rosbaud, Georg Solti and others. He performed with the greatest orchestras such as the Philharmonia Orchestra London and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded for labels such as Deutsche Grammophon and EMI. Tibor Varga have become major references of musical interpretation.
- Hungarian violinist, conductor
- World renowned music teacher
- Contemporary music a pioneer
Semyon Isaevich Snitkovsky
Snitkovsky brings to the composer’s concept a soaring luminosity ...
Semyon Snitkovsky was Ukrainian classical violinist, a professor and laureate of various international competitions. Semyon Snitkovsky won 1st prize, which he shared with Romanian born Hungarian violinist Stephan Ruha. He also, along with the pianist Olga Stupakova, won the second prize for the best performance of Enesco’s Third Sonata for violin and piano. In 1963 Snitkovsky received a 2nd prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. In 1967, the International Foundation of Eugène Ysaÿe in Belgium awarded Snitkovsky a gold medal – an honor bestowed only once every five years.