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Creative Muses: Works by Female Composers & Their Contemporaries
Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre (c. 1664-1729)(France)
From Suite in A minor
I. Prélude
II. Allemande
III. Courante 1
V. Sarabande
VI. Gigue
Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812) (Austria/Spain)
Sonata en A major
I. [Moderato]
Adagio
Tempo di Minuetto
Clara Schumann (1819-1896) (Germany)
Andante und Allegro, Op. 11, No. 2
From Drei Romanzen (1839)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) (France)
The Sunken Cathedral from Préludes (Book I)
Elena Katz-Chernin (b. 1957) (Australia)
Dance of the Paper Umbrellas
Leonardo Coral (b. 1962) (Mexico)
Constellations (2012)
Dedicated to M. Tsalka
Aspasia Nasopoulo (b.1972) (Greece)
OCHTO (2016)
Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910) (France/Spain)
Sérénade
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)(Spain)
Dance of the Ritual Fire
From El amor brujo (1915)
BIOGRAPHY
Pianist and early keyboard performer Michael Tsalka (Netherlands/ Israel) has won numerous prizes and awards in Europe, the U.S.A., the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. A versatile musician, he performs with equal virtuosity a wide span of repertoire from the early Baroque to our days on the harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, square piano, chamber organ and modern piano. Tsalka was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. After obtaining a Bachelors degree from Tel-Aviv University, he continued his studies in Germany and Italy. In 2001, he received a piano solo diploma from the Scuola Superiore Internazionale del Trio di Trieste, where he studied with Dario di Rosa. From 2002-2008, he studied at Temple University under the guidance of Joyce Lindorff, Harvey Wedeen, and Lambert Orkis. Tsalka holds three degrees from that institution: a Masters degree in chamber music/accompanying, a Masters degree in harpsichord performance and a Doctorate in piano performance. Other teachers included Sandra Mangsen, Klaus Schilde, Malcolm Bilson, and Charles Rosen.
Dr. Tsalka maintains a busy concert schedule. Recent engagements include performances at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Forbidden City Hall in Beijing, Bellas Artes Theater in Mexico City, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, St. Denis Festival in Paris, Der Gasteig in Munich, Beethoven House in Bonn, Tokyos City Opera, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Volksbuehne Hall in Berlin, the Jerusalem Music Center, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Jerusalem Music Center, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and interviews and live performances for radio stations in Hong Kong, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Munich, St. Petersburg, Beijing, Stockholm, Helsinki, Auckland, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, London, and Jerusalem. From 2006 to 2016, he has been an artist-in-resident every July at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Red Wing, Minnesota, U.S.A. (http://www.andersoncenter.org).
Dr. Tsalka has recorded 16 CDs for labels such as Naxos, Grand Piano, Ljud & Bild (Stockholm), Brilliant Classics (Amsterdam) Paladino (Vienna), and IMI (Israel). Current and future recording projects include CDs dedicated to keyboard works by Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Carl Dittersdorf, Ferdinand Ries, Franz Schubert, F. Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Viktor Ullmann, Leonardo Coral, a CD dedicated to Australian Keyboard Music, and Yehezkel Braun.
Together with Dr. Angelica Minero Escobar, he is preparing a critical edition of Türks 30 keyboard sonatas for Artaria Editions in New Zealand (artaria.com). Sonatas 112 were published in 2013. Sonatas 13-24 will be published in 2016:
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Dr. Tsalka often collaborates with composers: In 2015-2017, he will perform sixteen world premieres dedicated to him by composers of fourteen different nationalities.
Dr. Tsalka performed as a soloist with orchestras, to name a few: The Sydney Consort (Australia), University of Birmingham Chamber Orchestra (U.K.), Temple University Chamber Orchestra (Philadelphia, U.S.A.), Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra (Russia), Guatemala Symphony Orchestra, Musica Raritana (New Jersey, U.S.A.), Silvestre Revueltas Chamber Orchestra (Guanajuato, Mexico), City Orchestra (St. Louis, U.S.A.), Hermitage Festival Orchestra (St. Petersburg, Russia), Saarbrucken Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Baroque Camerata (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
He has presented more then eighty master classes and lecture-recitals in academic institutions in all continents. Seven of his scholarly articles have been published by music journals, including De Clavicordio (Italy), Piano Bulletin EPTA (Netherlands), Early Keyboard Journal and Early Music America (U.S.A.). He taught at the Esther Boyer College of Music, the National Center for the Arts (Mexico City), and Lilla Akademien (Stockholm). Currently, he is a visiting professor at Celaya Conservatory in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Dr. Tsalka is on the board of directors of ECMTA (European Chamber Music Teachers Association) and the HKSNA (Historical Keyboard Society of North America). In 2011, he was the artistic director of the Bach Festival, at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, Qingdaos Grand Theatre and Wuhans Qintai Concert Hall. From 2012 to 2015, he was the co-artistic director of the Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival in Kuopio, Finland. In December 2014, he was the artist director of a mini-festival, titled Fanfares and Ornaments for the Dutch Embassy in Stockholm. From 2014 to the present, he is the artistic director of the Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival in the Netherlands (www.geelvinckfestival.nl). This year, he is also the artistic director of Across Bridges International Piano Festival in Shanghai (July 2016).
For further details, please see: www.michaeltsalka.com
SOME REVIEWS:
Michael Tsalkas recital at the Boston Early Music Festival was interpretatively revealing, . . . showing almost incredible virtuosity throughout? The Berkshire Review, International Journal for the Arts, N.Y. and Boston.
On his CD of Viktor Ullmanns Piano Sonatas? "Tsalkas articulate and sensitive reading gives each sonata palpable musical life, the works coming across as contemporary and as relevant to current musical thought today as when they were written. This is a great and lasting strength of Viktor Ullmanns writing. Michael Tsalka finds a fine balance between his understanding of the background and circumstances of each sonata and his objective playing of some of the finest piano music composed in the first half of the 20th century." Concert Critique Blog, Pamela Hickman, April 2015
On his CD of J. S. Bachs Goldberg Variations (Paladino Label)? Una versione, questa, che dovrebbe essere il punto di partenza, e non di arrivo, per affrontare lascolto del mistero sublime di questa pagine"? CD Classico (Italy), Andrea Bedetti, Sept. 2013
This is a brilliant recording by an artist with a passion. Stepping outside the well- worn path of keyboard music, he creates a performance that make you sit up and listen. T echnicality and creativity meet in a beautifully balanced performance. Music Web International. RECORDING OF THE YEAR, Dec. 2013
Tsalka demonstrated control of a pearly, brilliant touch, as well as a subtle phrasing, full of nobility and expression (El Siglo, Argentina)
Two sonatas by Daniel Gottlob Türk, played on clavichord, were another high point. The sound of the clavichord made the audience listen with increased concentration and created a highly intense atmosphere" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
The concert was a smashing success... (Global Times, Beijing)
Tsalka is evidently a true, brilliant musician (Clavichord International, Amsterdam)
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