‘Fortepiano is in the air’ : in Zaandijk vindt op 23 maart de laatste dag van het drie-daags pianofortefestival plaats en wordt er in de Geelvinck Salon een hommage aan dit instrument gebracht door fortepianiste Megumi Tanno en fluitiste Ana Lopez Suero met ‘Lieder ohne Worte’.

Megumi speelt op de Böhm vleugel (1820), ons vriendelijk ter beschikking gesteld door Gijs Wilderom.

 

Programma:

 

F. Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Lieder ohne Worte

– Duetto op. 38-6 (1837)

– Gondellied op. 53-3 (1841)

– Frühlingslied op. 62-6 (1844)

F. Schubert – T. Böhm (1794-1881): Sechs Lieder für Flöte und Klavier (1870)

– Am Meer

– Das Fischermädchen

C.E. Hartknoch (1796-1834): Trois Nocturnes caractéristiques, op. 8 (ca.1833)

– La tendresse

– La plainte

– La consolation

F. Schubert (1797-1828):

Introduktion und Variationen über “Trockne Blumen” für Flöte und Klavier D 802 (1824)

 

Megumi Tanno:

Japanese fortepianist Megumi Tanno is an active and engaging performer, and her activities are internationally acclaimed for both as a soloist, recitalist and as a chamber musician. After Megumi completed master degree with Bart van Oort and Stanley Hoogland at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (NL, 2007), she was awarded Musica Antiqua in Brugge (BE, 2007) as honorable mention, John Kerr Award  the accompanist’s prize (UK, 2008), the Van Wassenaer Concours (NL, 2009) as 1st prize winner, and Clementi Award (UK, 2011). She has also been featured in live radio and TV broadcasts which she performed with pianist Antonio Piricone at Royal Concertgebow and Muziekgebouw on Radio 4 and on Nederland 1. Megumi also appears at major international festivals, including Oude Muziek Utrecht (NL, 2011) and Hokutopia Music Festival (JP, 2007, 2008 and 2012). Since 2011 Megumi is under guidance of Sally Sargent in France for performance practice on historical pianos and music esthetics. 

 

Recent projects include

German song recital series at Yokohama Minatomirai (Schubert’ s Winterreise) and at Shiodome Bechstein Salon (Schubert’ s Schoene Muellerin) with bass baritone Eiji Miura (JP, 2013); recital at Ginza Pioneer with pianist Antonio Piricone and Eiji Miura (JP, 2013); Solo recital of Haydn’ s Last Seven Words with historical broadwood resorted by Itaru Ohtagaki (JP, 2013); Schubertiade projects with flutist Ana Lopez Suero and Eiji Miura (JP, 2012-3); Lecture concert at Takagi Klavier in Tokyo, organized by Yu Takagi who is a renown concert tuner (JP, 2013); Tour in North Japan with Eiji Miura in Aomori and Akita (JP, 2013). 

 

Megumi completed BA degrees in Musicology at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and enrolled at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 2001. While she was pursuing Master, she received scholarship from Royal Conservatory to enable to participate in summer academy at Cornell University (USA) with Malcolm Bilson, David Breitmann and Andrew Willis. 

 

In 2013, she received an appointment as a piano teacher at Euro Piano. She is a member of Piano Teacher National Association (JP) and International Franz Schubert Society. 

 

 www.megumitanno.net

 

 

Born in 1977 in Caceres, Spain, Ana López began studying the flute at the Conservatory Manuel de Falla with Luis Orden in Sevilla. Thanks to a scholarship from the andalusian government she finished her studied in The Netherlands with Marieke Schneemann at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Since 2001 she was regularly invited to several orchestrasin Spain like Orquesta de Córdoba, Orquesta de Extremadura, Asturias Symphony and Orquesta Manuel de Falla de Cádiz.

In 2004 her interest on historical instruments made her explore the possibilities of historical flutes from renaissance, baroque and classical periods, receiving regular lessons with flautists Guillermo Peñalver and Wilbert Hazelzet. In 2011 she achieved a Master of Music in Early Music in the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht.

Ana López has performed through Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal and Japan and is one of the founding members of the chamber music ensembles Carmen Veneris and Canto Divino. She is regular guest in some of the most international orchestras and festivals on period instruments like Forma Antiqva, Aranjuez Festival’s Orchestra, Capilla Peñaflorida, Festival de Musica Antigua del Monasterio de la Valldigna en Simat (Valencia), Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca, Festival de Música Antigua de Aranjuez, FEMÁS Sevilla and Festival de Saintes. She has recorded with Lindoro Label (Works by J. Chr. Fr. Bach, J. F. Tapray, F. Devienne and T. Giordani, 2008) and Arsis (Pastime – The Henry VIII Manuscript, 2013). Moreover she is now preparing the presentation of the new CD of Canto Divino with Renaissance and Early Baroque music performed on flutes consort. Ana López is also regular flute and traverso teacher at the Conservatory of Music “Cristóbal de Morales” in Seville.

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