OSCAR HERRERO TRIO (Espagne)

An extensive concert career which began when he was very young is testimony to his abilities as a composer and concert performer.
He continued to advance his solo career, winning the first prizes awarded at the highest level in the world of flamenco; the Bordón Minero (Festival de La Union) and the National Flamenco Guitar Prize in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz.

He is the author of a complete teaching method, an area in which he is an absolute pioneer following an outstanding investigation into the pedagogy of the flamenco guitar. In his ample compositional repertoire one can find contrasting study and concert works: "La Guitarra Flamenca Paso a Paso" (series of video) and "Tratado de la Guitarra Flamenca" (in collaboration with Claude Worms).

He enjoys the enormous privilege of having been the first flamenco to teach in such places as Russia (Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow), Poland (Chopin Academy, Warsaw), and The University of Panama. He was also the first flamenco to give concerts in Iceland.
He has taken his guitar to the most prestigious theatres, from the Opera of Cairo in Egypt, Madrid’s Royal Theatre and the Hermitage Theatre of Saint Petersburg to Sydney, Beirut, Buenos Aires and Helsinki. He has also performed in the U.S.A, Brazil, Jordania, Germany and Chile among other countries.
Oscar Herrero has a unique vision of flamenco music, taking care of each note and using his guitar to subtly express this art.

www.oscarherrero.com

MARCO TAMAYO (Cuba)

Marco Tamayo, classical guitarist with Austrian Citizenship, was born in La Havana, Cuba, were he started to play guitar at the age of three under his father tuition. He studied with Antonio Alberto Rodríguez and Leo Brouwer, Harold Gramatges, and later in Europe at the University of Music in Munich (Germany, class of J. Clerch), and at the Mozarteum University of Arts in Salzburg with Eliot Fisk (guitar), Rainner Schmid (violinist), and Anthony Spiri (cembalist), Keneth Gilbert (cembalist), among others. His first concerts took place at the very early age of six, when the national TV chanels of Cuba presented him as a young talent of the guitar. At the age of ten, Tamayo was touring the former DDR and Bulgaria, performing also with his brother. Winner of major International Guitar Competitions like the Michele Pittaluga Int. Guitar Competition, Cittá de Alessandria, in 1999 and the Andrés Segovia Int. Guitar Competition in Granada, Spain, Marco Tamayo performed concerts together with the Chamber Orchestra of St. Petersburg, the Philarmonic of Torino under the batton of Paolo Ferrara, the Chamber Orchestra of Aix en Provence (France), under the batton of Philip Bender, the Philarmonic of Tampere (Finland), the Philarmonic of La Habana under the Batton of Leo Brouwer, the TransArt Orchestra of Salzburg conducted by Kurt Redel and performing in Aix en Provence, France, and many others.

www.moz.ac.at/user/tamayo/en/

CLAUDIO MACCARI - PAOLO PUGLIESE - 19th century guitars (Italie)

Born in 1970, Claudio Maccari and Paolo Pugliese started their studies and researches in 19th century music in 1988. Since then they have been redefining the musical language of the classic and romantic periods using   original instruments and historical methods.

Maccari and Pugliese are cited as specialists in the 1997 guitar history book, " The Classical Guitar " . After playing their New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1992 they have been asked to give concerts and masterclasses by famous Institutions and important international Festivals such as the Royal Academy and the Great Britain International Guitar Festival of London, the Academy of Music in Gröningen, the   Darwin International Guitar Festival, the Sydney Guitar Society, the Guitar Foundation of Australia, the Parco della Musica in Rome, and many American universities.

Their natural artistic talent, together with constant musicological research, have allowed them to cooperate with world wide famous artists such as John Williams and Malcolm Bilson. They teach 19th century guitar at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica (International Academy of Music) in Milan. Maccari and Pugliese have recorded works for guitar duo by Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor and Johann Kaspar Mertz. For the Italian music journal Amadeus (2 CDs – 50.000 copies), they have recorded for the first time in the world the complete works for guitar and orchestra by Mauro Giuliani with period instruments. These CDs were re-released by the label Brilliant in June 2005.

They are artistic directors of the “ Ensemble Ottocento ”, an Italian orchestra specialising in 19th century music performed on authentic instruments. Maccari and Pugliese play original guitars: Mauro Giuliani's and Nicolò Paganini's guitars (Fabricatore), Guadagnini, Lacote, Panormo, Vinaccia and Garganese, with gut strings according to historical criteria.

www.maccaripugliese.com

EMILE ELLBERGER (Suisse)
Compositeur, chercheur et professeur honoraire à la HEMGE (Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève).

Né au Liban en 1941, de nationalité américaine, il étudie la musique avec Nadia Boulanger, Pierre Monteux et Bruno Maderna. En Suisse depuis 1973, il réalise des commandes pour oeuvresélectroacoustiques au Centre de Recherches Sonores de la Radio Suisse Romande. A Genève, il crée le centre de musique informatique au Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique et collabore avec des cinéastes, des plasticiens, des metteurs en scène et des poètes à l'élaboration artistique de concerts, spectacles et expositions. Il se produit à la Biennale de Venise (1999), expose des vidéos à la Biennale de l'Image et du Mouvement (Genève, 2001) et collabore dans le cadre de différents projets multimédia avec l'Université de Genève, l'IRCAM et l'EPFL.

Depuis 2007, il dirige son équipe de chercheurs au ICST (Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology-Zurich) et développe une sémiologie de la notation symbolique
musicale de la spatialisation : SSMN. Actuellement (2011-2013), le Fond National Suisse
soutient cette recherche au sein de la ZHdK (Université de Zurich).