WOLTECHE Bernard
Bernard WOLTECHE, violoncelliste de formation, est professeur de musique de chambre aux Conservatoire de Bruxelles et à l'Académie de Woluwé-Saint-Lambert
25 February 2016
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Bernard WOLTECHE, violoncelliste de formation, est professeur de musique de chambre aux Conservatoire de Bruxelles et à l'Académie de Woluwé-Saint-Lambert
Guy Penson was born in Ronse (Belgium) in 1958.
After having finished his piano studies with C.C. Coppens and the harpsichord with Johan Huys at the Royal Conservatoire of Ghent, he has built up a solid reputation as a musician in Belgium and abroad.
He distinguished himself in various international competitions, a.o. the famous harpsichord contest of Bruges in 1980.
Very much in demand as a harpsichord performer and a great specialist of the ' basso continuo ' (figured bass) he appeared with various remarkable ensembles and orchestras at the most important Belgian and European music festivals (France, Holland, Scandinavia, Rumania, Russia, Great Britain, Germany etc), as well as in Canada, the U.S.A. and Japan.
Besides his solo recitals he mainly performs in duet or trio formation. Among his favourite partners we should mention the flutists Frédéric de Roos, Patrick De Necker, Geert Van Gele, Tomma Wessel and Patrick Beuckels, the hoboists Paul Dombrecht and Marcel Ponseele, the violinists Florence Malgoire and Dirk Vandaele, the gamba-player Sophie Watillon and the lute-player Philippe Malfeyt.
Above all he has a perdilection for the repertoire for two harpsichords. As this is rather limited, Guy Penson made a number of arrangements of works by J.S. Bach, such as the 3rd and the 6th Brandenburg concertos. His chosen partners for this repertoire are Johan Huys and the Japanese Mutsuko Miwa.
Moreover Guy Penson is frequently heard on the piano or the pianoforte as an exquisite accompanyist for singers, especially with the soprano Greta de Reyghere and the tenor Guy de Mey.
In 1986 he formed a piano duet with Sylvia Bernier. Together they have built up a fine repertoire for four-handed piano as well as for two pianos and have played numerous concerts in Belgium, Germany, Japan and Latin America. They realized a recording of Mozart's complete works for four-handed piano and for two keyboards on the tangent piano ('Tangentenflügel') and a C.D. with transcriptions for keyboard instruments of works by A.M. Grétry.
Guy Penson has recorded an impressive number of CD's, for various labels (Ricercar, Polydor, Vox Temporis, RGIP, Hyperion, Passacaille, Musique en Wallonie) with ensembles such as ' Il Fondamento ', Ex Tempore, Flanders Recorder Quartet and I Fiamminghi.
His solo recordings, especially those of the concertos and keyboard works by W.F. Bach, (edited by Ricercar) were highly praised by the belgian and international press.
Guy Penson is piano-accompanyist at the Conservatoire and at the academy of music in Ghent.
Over the last five years, Lathika Vithanage has established herself as one of Australia and Europe’s up and coming baroque violinists.
On arrival in Europe, with the assistance of Italian Government scholarships, Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grants and an Australia Council Skills and Development Grant, Lathika was able to profit from the musical and career guidance of baroque violin professors including: Stefano Montanari, Susanne Scholz, Judy Tarling, Richard Gwilt, Gottfried von der Goltz, Petra Mullejans, Olivia Centurioni, Elisa Citterio, Enrico Onofri, Manfredo Kraemer and Amandine Beyer.
Following training projects with the Montis Regalis Orchestra (A De Marchi), Festival Aix en Provence opera orchestra (L G Alarcon) and the Ambronay European Baroque academy (S Kuijken), she was launched into the freelance baroque music scene in Europe.
She is regularly called to perform and record with high profile European groups including: Accademia Bizantina (Italy), Freiburg Baroque Orchestra (Germany), Ensemble Clematis (Belgium), Concerto Italiano (Italy), La Cappella Mediterranea (France), Montis Regalis orchestra (Italy) and La Divina Armonia (Italy). Her passion lies in chamber music and single string work which she gets to explore not only with the two ensembles of which she is a founding member since 2011: Il Caleidoscopio and AbChordis Ensemble, but also with established European groups including; Concerto Italiano, Ensemble Clematis, Cappella Mediterranea, Montis Regalis orchestra, Les Cyclopes and Silete Venti.
Lathika regularly returns to Australia to take part in the flourishing baroque music scene there, and is currently completing a specialised masters in baroque violin performance at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Amandine Beyer.
Née à Bruges, Stéphanie de Failly commence l’étude du violon dès l’âge de 4 ans. Après avoir exploré le violon classique auprès de Véronique Bogaerts (Bruxelles), d’Hermann Krebbers (Amsterdam) et de Carlo Van Neste. Elle se consacre au violon baroque chez Sigiswald Kuijken. Passionnée par la musique du XVIIe siècle, Stéphanie de Failly se perfectionne au Centre de Musique Ancienne du Conservatoire de Genève auprès de Florence Malgoire où elle obtient son diplôme de perfectionnement en 2002.
Stéphanie de Failly participe à de nombreux concerts tant en Belgique qu’à l’étranger avec les ensembles : Il Fondamento (Paul Dombrecht), Ricercar Consort (Philippe Pierlot), Les Agrémens, Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roi (Jean-Claude Malgoire), La Fenice (Jean Tubéry), Capriccio Stravagante (Skip Sempé), A sei Voci (Bernard Fabre-Garrus), les Arts Florissants (William Christie), les Paladins (Jérôme Correas), les Dominos (Florence Malgoire) et la Cappella Mediterranea (Leonardo García Alarcón). Elle participe également à de nombreux enregistrements radiophoniques et discographiques.
En 2001, Stéphanie de Failly crée son propre ensemble, Clematis . Les enregistrements et concerts de Clematis illustrent bien les centres d’intérêt de Stéphanie de Failly : la musique italienne du XVIIe siècle (Carlo Farina, Girolamo Frescobaldi…), mais aussi la découverte des compositeurs originaires de Belgique (Nicolaus A Kempis, Carolus Hacquart, Gioseffo Zamponi, Matheo Romero…)
Les enregistrements de Stéphanie de Failly et de Clematis sont publiés chez Ricercar. En 2012 a été édité un disque entièrement consacré aux pièces pour violon et basse continue de Giovanni Battista et Tomaso Antonio VITALI, y compris la très célèbre Chaconne de ce dernier pour laquelle elle est retournée à la source manuscrite originale.
En tant que pédagogue, Stéphanie de Failly est titulaire de la classe de violon baroque à l’académie de musique de Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (Bruxelles). Elle est également invitée par le Conservatoire de Liège pour diriger des projets d’initiation au répertoire baroque.
Stéphanie de Failly joue sur le violon Giovanni Paolo Maggini (1620) qui a appartenu à la virtuose belge Edith Volckaert.