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Curriculum Vitae
Vincent Corver
Manager, Artistic Director & Pianist
 

Vincent started his professional education at the Royal Conservatoire in Holland in 1993, at the age of 12. Here he was accepted to the “Young Talent” course, taking lessons with Marlies van Gent. It was here where he graduated 6 years later, being accepted to the Royal Conservatory Bachelor of Music course, studying with Geoffrey Madge.

From 1998 till 2004 Vincent performed in numerous concert series of The Royal Conservatoire between 2000 and 2004, Holland Festival 2003 and the Steve Reich Festival 2003. He performed in a large number of professional orchestras in Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague.


Vincent Corver

Vincent has performed regularly with The Loos Ensemble between 2003 and 2004 and lately with the Horgen Symphony Orchestra, Zurich, Switzerland where he performed Gershwin’s Raphsody in Blue. Over the years Vincent has been specialising on a wide range of contemporary repertoire from living, Dutch composers such as Cornelis de Bondt and Louis Andriessen, to the works of John Cage and Steve Reich with pieces specially dedicated to him. Vincent is considered highly for his performances on the works of Bach, Debussy and Stravinsky.

Vincent graduated Bachelor of Music at the Royal Conservatoire in Holland in 2004, were he received a commendation and numerous sponsorships for his proceeding studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London, were he was accepted for the course Master of Music in Performance.

Vincent is graduating Master of Music at Royal Academy of Music in 2007, having studied with Joanna MacGregor and Daniel-Ben Pienaar. In January 2005 he founded the London Steve Reich Ensemble and is running it as 1st pianist and Artistic Director. During his dedicated involvement with the ensemble Vincent initiated a collaboration with William Tuckett, choreographer Royal Ballet, London and their principal dancers. With a successful world premiere choreography on Piano Phase in October 2006 he is shaping a new area of music performance and dance together on the concert stage. Together with Kevin Griffiths they form the Artistic Duo behind the success of the London Steve Reich Ensemble.

Kevin Griffiths
Conductor
 

The young conductor Kevin Griffiths, born 1978 in London, has already experienced conducting professional orchestras such as the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Vidin Philharmonic, Kammerphilharmonie Westfalen, Zurich Chamber Orchestra and La Camerata Strumentale - Citta di Prato.

He is principal conductor and co founder of "The London Steve Reich Ensemble", with whom he has performed in Holland, London and Zurich, putting particular emphasis on Steve Reich's music. Recently they have recorded their first CD of Reich's music for the German label CPO which will be released in 2007.


Kevin Griffiths

Kevin enjoys performing contemporary music and has personally worked with composers such as Rudolph Schacher, Luigi Laveglia, Dmitri Smirnov, Elena and Alissa Firsova. In summer 2006 he conducted five first performances at the Dartington Summer Festival with great success. Other well-known artists he has worked with include Boris Pergamenschikov, Ricardo Castro, Dmitri Ashkenazy, the Tecchler Trio and the Dante Quartet.

In the year 2001 he founded his own orchestra, "Ensemble Classique", with whom he toured Japan in 2004, one of the concerts in Tokyo was dedicated to the Aichi World Exhibition in the presence of Joseph Deiss, the then President of the confederation of Switzerland.

After successfully conducting and narrating concerts for young people with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, performing Beethoven with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, and several New Year concerts with the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, he has been invited back for future concerts with all three Orchestras.

Having lived in Switzerland for most of his life, he completed his education as a violinist with Adelina Oprean (teaching diploma), Igor Ozim and Giuliano Carmignola (Concert Diploma, PGdip). Kevin then received his first conducting lessons from his father Howard Griffiths, assisted him on various occasions and participated in several master classes such as the "Accademia Musicale Chigiana" in Siena, the "Vienna Master classes" and worked with the conductors Sir Colin Davis, Jorma Panula, Lothar Zagrosek, George Hurst, Julius Rudel (opera). In September 2003 he was one of the finalists of the first "Orpheum Conductors Master class" in Zurich, and was given the opportunity to conduct the Zurich Chamber Orchestra in the Tonhalle, Zurich.

Major influences in his development as a conductor were studying with David Zinman who gave him a fellowship for the "Aspen Music Festival and School" in 2004 and 2005 and Colin Metters, with whom he has been studying at the Royal Academy of Music on the Postgraduate Conductors course since 2004.

In September 2007 he will commence the new position of a Junior Fellow at the Royal Northern College of Music. He will be conducting the RNCM Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, the New Ensemble as well as Opera productions, and will receive tuition from Mark Elder CBE. There will be opportunities to work with orchestras such as the Hallé Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic and the Northern Sinfonia.

 

 

   
 
   
 
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