TRIO KANDINKSY - CVs RESUMES

AMPARO LACRUZ, Cello

A constant search for new challenges has led Amparo to a lively and enquiring interest in repertoire of all styles and periods, from classical to contemporary. Her interpretations reflect sensitivity, depth and feeling. She plays with a warm, rich sound, and a very expressive phrasing , full of nuance and colour.

The two great focal points of her musical life have always been a passion for chamber music and an enthusiastic involvement in teaching.

After her several years of study with distinguished teachers in Spain, England and the U.S.A., she became a founder member of Manon, an internationally known chamber ensemble that performed and made recordings during ten years together. Especially notable and well received was their version of the 'Quartet for the End of Time', by Messiaen.

Since 1999, Amparo has been a member of the Kandinsky Trio. They have toured extensively in Europe, America and Asia, and in 2009, their CD of music by Guinjoan was nominated as best album of chamber music by the magazine CD COMPACT. Two further CDs, 'Schoenberg and Barcelona', and 'Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms', have had excellent international reviews, and two new cds including trios by Dvorak and Granados and of chamber music by Montsalvatge are being published soon.

In sonata repertory, Amparo has partnered pianists Josep Maria Colom, Alba Ventura, Emili Brugalla and Andreu Riera. Her recording of the Sonata by Roberto Gerard for the Italian label Stradivarius has been highly praised. She will shortly be working with Andreu Riera on a new recording of sonatas by Frank Bridge and Chopin.

She has broadcast for numerous radio and TV stations throughout Europe, including Spanish National Radio, Catalunya Musica, Radio France, RAI, Sudwestrundfunk, National Finnish Radio, Euroradio, TV3 and Channel Mezzo.

CORRADO BOLSI, Violin

He was born in Rome, where he started studying violin at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. Afterwards he kept on studying violin with P. Vernikoy and chamber music with F. Rossi and P. Farulli, members of the Quartetto Italiano.

Due to his great interest in performing with original instruments, he travels to Paris, where he played with C. Coin’s Ensemble Mosaïque. Later on he developed a close collaboration with C. Hogwood, F. Biondi and J. Savall and they gave numerous concerts throughout Europe and recorded many pieces.

He had a very intense concert activity as a soloist, as a chamber performer,

as a first violin and as a concert leader, as well as a wide repertoire ranging

from early music to contemporary composers, as he played at the main

institutions, concert halls and festivals in Europe (Theatre des Champes

Elysee, Musikverein in Viena, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Palais des Meaux

Art Bruxelles, the Salzburg Festival, Aix en Provence, Spoleto...), in Japan

(Bunka Kankan and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Symphony Hall in Osaka...) and

Australia (Melba Hall in Melbourne and$ the Sydney Opera House).

As a soloist, he played conducted by R. Alessandrini, J. Cayers, H.

Christopher, C. Hogwood, R. King, E. Martínez Izquierdo, J. Pons, H.

Schellenberger and G. Van Waas.

He was invited to play as the first violin with renowned orchestras such as

the Beethoven Akademie from Antwerp, the Ciudad de Granada Orchestra,

the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid, the Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona,

the National Orchestra of Catalonia, the Belgium Radio Orchestra, the

Flanders Opera Orchestra, the Barcelona Opera House Orchestra and the

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Germany. These last years he has

collaborated with the P. Sarasate Orchestra from Pamplona and with the

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia.

With regard to the educational area, besides giving master classes in

Europe and Japan, he teaches at the Belgium Royal Conservatory and,

since 2002, he is the Head of the String Department at the Superior Music

Conservatory of the Lyceum of Barcelona.

Corrado Bolsi plays an A. Guarneri violin crafted in 1650.

EMILI BRUGALLA, piano

He started his studies at the Superior Music Conservatory of the Lyceum of Barcelona, where he got his Advanced Degree in Piano and his Degree in Chamber Music.

Afterwards, he collaborated with Eulàlia Solé and he met several important figures such as Bruno Canino and Maria Curcio, a fact that definitely made him opt for the musical profession.

In 1982 he took first prize at the Young Performers Competition awarded

by the Juventudes Musicales de Catalunya. Two years later he was awarded

a scholarship by this very institution to further his studies with Maria

Curcio, at the Campus Internacional de Torroella de Montgrí at first and in

London later on.

In 1995 he met Maria João Pires, who would help him from that moment

on to better define his own means to make music be closer to the public at

large.

Both as a soloist and as a member of chamber music ensembles, Emili

Brugalla has been a performer at the major concert halls in Spain in the

framework of the most renowned events such as the Festival Internacional

de Música of Granada, the Festival de Peralada, the International Festival in

Torroella de Montgrí, the Santander International Festival, Festival Pau

Casals in El Vendrell, the San Sebastian Musical Fortnight and at the

National Auditorium in Madrid.

Likewise, he has performed in different countries: at the Cagliari

International Music Festival in Italy, in France at the En blanc et noir-France

Musique, in Belgium at the Ars Musica, and Germany, Brazil, in Central

Amercia and in the Middle East.

Emili Brugalla’s repertoire shows his lively feelings, which made him be

interested in contemporary creation at first and in classical composers

afterwards, however keeping contemporary music always in mind. His

commitment to contemporary music can be seen in many activities:

composition and electroacoustic techniques studies at the Phonos

Foundation in Barcelona, contemporary piano studies with Eulàlia Solé and,

afterwards, in Paris with Claude Helffer, contemporary composers

premieres and several performances at the Young Composers National

Festival. He received the recognition he deserved in this field in 1989, when

he was awarded the Special Prize for the Best Contemporary Catalan Music

Performer by the Catalan Composers Association.

In 1997 he played as a soloist, with the National Symphony Orchestra of

Catalonia, the Concert Ibèric, by Manuel Blancafort, a piece he has critically

revised for the music publishing company Boileau. He has also been the

soloist for the Orquestra Nacional de Cambra de Andorra with his

performance of Shostakovich’s piano concerto no. 1 and for the Orquestra

Simfònica del Vallès with the previously unreleased recording of “Variations

for Piano and Orchestra” by Joaquim Serra (record company: Marco Polo).

He has been a regular collaborator with chamber music ensembles such as

the Instrumental Ensemble Barcelona 216 and the soloists of the National

Symphony Orchestra of Catalonia(OBC) and, since 1998, one of the

founder members of Trio Kandinsky.

His recordings include pieces from the 20th century Catalan compositions

for solo piano, the whole pieces of the Danzas Españolas and other works

by Enrique Granados for the “La Mà de Guido” record company and

chamber music pieces by Robert Gerhard, together with Barcelona 216, for

the Stradivarius record company; these recordings have been acclaimed by

critics worldwide.

He teaches chamber music at the Superior Music Conservatory of the

Lyceum of Barcelona.