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Artissimo.gr record entry date : Thu 09/06/2011
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Gabor Takacs-Nagy’s Inaugural Season as Music Director ushers in new era for Manchester Camerata
Distinguished Hungarian musician Gabor Takacs-Nagy comes to the city of Manchester this autumn as he joins Manchester Camerata for his first full season as Music Director. Looking forward to working permanently with the world-class chamber orchestra, Gabor describes his move to Manchester as “something of a homecoming” thanks both to his English wife’s local origins (Burnley, Lancashire) and his life-long love of football.
Internationally known as a chamber musician and a founding member of the Takacs Quartet, Gabor’s profile as a conductor is riding high after his recent appointment as Principal Guest Conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Following the announcement of this appointment Ivan Fischer commented: "There are many conductors in the world who can get orchestras to play together but there are very few who can profoundly inspire. Gabor Takacs-Nagy is one of them."
Gabor holds several other posts including Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and International Chair in Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Gabor Takacs-Nagy’s inaugural season with Manchester Camerata marks the beginning of a new era for the orchestra with a season entitled Portraits in Music. He characterises it as “drawing together programmes which are musical portraits of the great emotions and big subjects common to all of our lives.” Over the course of the 2011/12 season this imaginative venture will see Gabor work with a selection of outstanding international artists including percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie (28 Jan), pianists Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (24 Sept) and Kathryn Stott (10 Mar), and singers Rebecca Bottone (15 Oct) and Roderick Williams (4 Apr), as well as with Camerata's inspirational new Leader - Giovanni Guzzo.
Speaking about his Manchester Camerata appointment, Gabor commented:
“It is an honour to become Music Director of Manchester Camerata, an ensemble of international quality. Life is not easy in the 21st century; it is full of challenges and in some places conflict. For me music is a great leveller, it is a universal language often signified by its beauty and truth and I look forward to exploring and sharing this exciting mission with you all, my English friends. I invite you to join us for a season of discovery, as Manchester Camerata and I embark on our new journey together.”
Always keen to push the boundaries and try something new, Camerata’s 2011/12 season will include two brand new programme strands - Unwrapped and UpClose – both of which aim to give audiences intimate opportunities to get to know and connect with the orchestra’s musicians and Gabor:
· Unwrapped: Gabor Takacs-Nagy and Camerata’s musicians will guide audiences through a piece of music before a complete performance. Works featured include Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings (25 September, 3.00pm) and Elgar’s Serenade for Strings (30 April, 6.00pm.
· UpClose: an intimate and laidback series of chamber concerts in smaller venues around the city such as the Anthony Burgess Foundation (8 Nov and 16 May) and the Deaf Institute (7 February and 6 March). These performances showcase a new collaboration with artist John Hyatt, exploring the links between music and art.
An overview of Manchester Camerata’s 2011/12 Concert Season.
Saturday 24 September 2011
PORTRAIT OF AN HUNGARIAN: PART I
RNCM Concert Hall
Haydn / Bartok / Liszt
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
Sunday 25 September 2011
Unwrapped
RNCM Concert Hall
Tchaikovsky
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Saturday 15 October 2011
PORTRAIT OF MUSIC AND WORDS
RNCM Concert Hall
Mozart / Michael Symmons Roberts / Britten
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Rebecca Bottone soprano
Tuesday 8 November 2011
UpClose
Anthony Burgess Foundation
Friday 18 November 2011
PORTRAIT OF AN ITALIAN
RNCM Concert Hall
Respighi / Boccherini / Sollima
Giovanni Sollima cello/director
Hannah Roberts cello
Saturday 31 December 2011
New Year’s Eve Gala Concert
The Bridgewater Hall
Stephen Bell conductor
Andrew Staples tenor
Ailish Tynan soprano
Sunday 1 January 2012
New Year’s Day Viennese Gala
The Bridgewater Hall
Stephen Bell conductor
Jane Irwin soprano
Saturday 21 January 2012
Manchester Camerata: Composers’ Project Workshop Day
RNCM Concert Hall
Saturday 28 January 2012
PORTRAIT OF AN HUNGARIAN: PART II
The Bridgewater Hall
Kodaly / Bartok / Haydn / Yoshihiro Kanno / Brahms
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Dame Evelyn Glennie OBE percussion*
Janet Fulton percussion+
Noriko Ogawa & Philip Smith pianos
Tuesday 7 February 2012
UpClose
The Deaf Institute – Cafe Bar and Music Hall
Tuesday 6 March 2012
UpClose
The Deaf Institute – Cafe Bar and Music Hall
Saturday 10 March 2012
Portrait of War
RNCM Concert Hall
Ravel / Mozart / Strauss
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Kathryn Stott piano
Wednesday 4 April 2012
PORTRAIT OF FAITH
Manchester Cathedral
Tavener / Beethoven / Bach / Arvo Part
Nicholas Kraemer conductor
Roderick Williams baritone
Adi Brett violin
Hannah Roberts cello
RNCM Chamber Choir
Saturday 28 April 2012
PORTRAIT OF LOVE
RNCM Concert Hall
Webern / Brahms / Dvorak / Tchaikovsky
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Anna Stephany mezzo soprano
Monday 30 April 2012
Unwrapped
RNCM Concert Hall
Elgar Serenade For Strings
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Wednesday 16 May 2012
UpClose
Anthony Burgess Foundation
Saturday 26 May 2012
PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN
The Bridgewater Hall
Elgar / Vaughan Williams / Haydn
Gabor Takacs-Nagy conductor
Giovanni Guzzo violin
Gabor Takacs-Nagy
Gabor Takacs Nagy was born in Budapest where he began to learn the violin at the age of 8. From 1975 to 1992, he was a founder member and leader of the renowned Takacs Quartet ,with whom he performed with many of the world’s most celebrated musicians and made many recordings for Decca and Hungaroton. He was awarded the Liszt Prize in 1982. After leaving the quartet in 1992 he founded the Takacs Piano Trio in 1996. In 1998 he formed the Mikrokosmos String Quartet with Zoltan Tuska, Sandor Papp and Miklos Perenyi, with whom he recorded the complete Bartok string quartets in 2008.
In 2001, Gabor began to concentrate on conducting as his principal activity and has already established a considerable reputation in this role. He became Music Director of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in 2007 and was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of both the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra and the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest in 2008. His own string orchestra, the Camerata Bellerive (which he set up in 2005) is orchestra-in-residence at Geneva’s annual Festival de Bellerive, of which he is also artistic director. His most recent appointment has been as Principal Guest Conductor for the Budapest Festival Orchestra.
Gabor is also a dedicated and highly sought-after teacher. He is Professor of String Quartet at the Geneva Conservatoire and regularly gives masterclasses at leading academies and conservatoires throughout the world. He is also a tutor with the European Chamber Music Academy and was recently appointed to an International Chair in Chamber Music at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
To hear Gabor Takacs-Nagy talk about the forthcoming 2011/12 season with Manchester Camerata, visit http://www.manchestercamerata.co.uk/interact/podcasts-library
Manchester Camerata
Manchester Camerata is one of the UK’s leading chamber orchestras and performs to nearly 70,000 people across the UK each year with residencies at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Royal Northern College of Music, and elsewhere in the North West. Manchester Camerata is committed to enhancing lives through music’s extraordinary power to inspire, communicate, educate and entertain.
For more about Manchester Camerata visit www.manchestercamerata.co.uk
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INFORMATION
The Bridgewater Hall
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The Deaf Institute
135 Grosvenor Street
Manchester M1 7HE
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Manchester Cathedral
Victoria Street
Manchester M3 1SX
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Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)
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Manchester M13 9RD
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www.rncm.ac.uk
Anthony Burgess Foundation
3 Cambridge Street
Manchester M1 5BY
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Box Office 0843 208 0500
www.quaytickets.com
Published by Manchester Camerata, May 2011
Artists and programmes correct at the time of going
to press but may be subject to alteration.
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