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Abbas
Fotographer, Magnum Photos
Abbas is an Iranian photographer transplanted in Paris. He has dedicated himself to documenting the political and social life of societies in conflict and has covered wars and revolutions around the world.
While writing a diary during his journeys, Abbas has been interested for the past 40 years in studying religions and their events and consequences throughout the world. To him, the photographer is a writer using light as a pen.
His photographs in black and white express his emotions. Colour represents reality, black and white transcends it.
Literary consultant, writer
Alain Claude Sulzer
Literary consultant, writer
Alain Claude Sulzer's breakthrough came in 2004 with the novel "Ein perfekter Kellner (A Perfect Waiter)", which was translated into numerous languages and for which he received the prestigious Prix Médicis étranger in France in 2008. Other novel publications include "Zur falschen Zeit" (2010), "Aus den Fugen" (2012), "Die Jugend ist ein fremdes Land" (2017) and "Unhaltbare Zustände" (2019). This autumn his new novel "Doppelleben" will be published. Regular essayistic activity, e.g. for the NZZ. Musical-literary collaborations include Yaara Tal, Oliver Schnyder, the Sinfonieorchester Basel and the Joseph Haydn Foundation Basel (for the Haydn2032 project).
Writer
Albrecht Selge
Writer
Albrecht Selge, born in Heidelberg in 1975, works in Berlin as a freelance writer. In 2011 he made his literary debut with wach, which Die Zeit critic David Hugendick called one of the few really good Berlin novels. In 2016, Deutschlandfunk Kultur critic Jörg Plath said his zany experimental novel Die trunkene Fahrt was ‘the funniest book of the season’.
This was followed by Fliegen, about a woman who lives on a train, and Beethovn, which Jan Brachmann of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described as ‘one of the finest ever books about Beethoven of any kind’. His most recent book, Luyánta – Das Jahr in der Unselben Welt, published in 2022, is at once a family novel and a sprawling epic fantasy, aimed at both young and adult readers.
Writer
Alfred Brendel
Writer
After studying piano and composition in Zagreb and Graz, Alfred Brendel passed the state piano diploma in Vienna in 1947. From 1949 onwards he participated in masterclasses with Edwin Fischer. Otherwise, he is mainly self-taught. Brendel began giving concerts in 1948, with growing recognition, and is today regarded as one of the key interpreters of the Classical-Romantic repertoire. Since the late 1950s, he has also popularised Arnold Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto op.42 on four continents.
Alfred Brendel has lived in London since 1971. His repertoire focuses notably on the piano works of Beethoven and Schubert and the piano concertos of Mozart. The majority of his recordings are collected in two box sets: ‘The Complete Vox/Turnabout and Vanguard Solo Recordings’ on 35 CDs (2008) and ‘The Complete Philips/Decca Recordings’ on 114 CDs (2015).
Brendel has published numerous essays, collected in German by Hanser and Piper (Über Musik, complete essays and speeches, 2005) and in English as On Music. Collected Essays (2001) by Robson Books (London) and a capella (Chicago). A major volume of interviews in German, Die Kunst des Interpretierens, Gespräche mit Peter Gülke, appeared in 2020. Several volumes of poetry have been collected under the titles Spiegelbild und schwarzer Spuk (Hanser), Poèmes(Bourgois) and Playing the Human Game (Phaidon).
Alfred Brendel holds honorary doctorates from several universities (including Oxford, Cambridge and Yale), is an honorary member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and has received the Hans von Bülow Medal from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Writer
Bernhard Lassahn
Writer
Bernhard Lassahn is a German author, singer songwriter and cabaret artist. He is the first laureate of the cabaret award «Salzburger Stier» and member of the German P.E.N. association. Along with Walter Moers and Rolf Silber he wrote the stories around Captain Bluebear for «Die Sendung mit der Maus» (The Program with the Mouse). He is the author of the highly acclaimed novel «Aboard the black ship».
Lassahn lives in Berlin and performs regularily at poetry readings of Zebrano Theatre. He is also author for «The Axis of the Good» and «Cuncti» blogs.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Bruno Barbey
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Bruno Barbey is a Frenchman born in Morocco. He studied photography and graphic arts at the École des Arts et Métiers in Vevey, Switzerland. During the 1960s, he was commissioned by Éditions Rencontre in Lausanne to report from European and African countries. He also contributed regularly to Vogue. Barbey began his relationship with Magnum in 1964, becoming a full member in 1968, the year he documented the political unrest and student riots in Paris. A decade later, between 1979 and 1981, he photographed Poland at a turning point in its history, publishing his work in the widely acclaimed book Poland. Over four decades Barbey has journeyed across five continents and into numerous military conflicts. Although he rejects the label of 'war photographer', he has covered civil wars in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Middle East, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Northern Ireland, Iraq and Kuwait. His work has appeared in most of the world's major magazines. Barbey is known particularly for his free and harmonious use of colour. He has frequently worked in Morocco, the country of his childhood. He has received many awards for his work, including the French National Order of Merit; his photographs have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous museum collections.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins
Photographer, Magnum Photos
At the age of two Chris Steele-Perkins left Burma for England. Later he graduated in psychology and taught himself photograph, starting to work as a freelance photographer in 1971. He worked mainly in Britain in areas concerned with urban poverty and subcultures. His social work led him to join Parisian Viva agency in 1976, and Magnum Photos agency in 1979. Apart from his work on Britain, he has worked a lot in Afghanistan, Africa, and Japan.
Photographer
David Seymour, CHIM
Photographer
David Seymour, CHIM, legendary photojournalist and co-founder of Magnum Photos, produced some of the most memorable photos of the 20th century. Born in Warsaw, Poland, he studied graphic arts in Leipzig, and then turned to photography in 1933 during the continuation of his studies at the Sorbonne in Paris. He covered many important political events for leading magazines including Life, beginning with the Spanish Civil War. At the outbreak of World War II he made his way to New York. During the war he served as a photo-interpreter with the U.S. Air Force in Europe. In 1947, CHIM co-founded Magnum, the international photojournalists’ cooperative, with his friends Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert. His postwar series of photographs of the physically and spiritually maimed “Children of Europe” attracted worldwide attention, was published in a book by UNESCO, and became part of the posthumous exhibit, “CHIM’s Children.” The sympathetic and compassionate portraits of these small victims of war led a friend to note that to CHIM, wars were an enormous crime against children. Fluent in several languages, with deep affinities for many countries and peoples, CHIM was truly international. Among his many photographic essays are outstanding portraits of Audrey Hepburn and Pablo Picasso. CHIM was killed at Suez, while photographing for Newsweek, by an Egyptian machine-gunner in 1956, four days after the Armistice was signed.
– Ben Shneiderman and Helen Sarid, nephew and niece of David Seymour
www.davidseymour.com
Violin
Dmitry Smirnov
Violin
In recent years Dmitry Smirnov has performed solo works by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Nielsen, Bartók, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bernstein, Lloyd Webber and others with the Philharmonic State Orchestras of Moscow (Vladimir Fedoseyev) and of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg; the ‘Questa Musica’ chamber orchestra and Baroque orchestra of Moscow; the Minsk Chamber Orchestra; the Festival Strings Lucerne; and the Sinfonieorchester Basel.
He was among the ‘Jeunes Étoiles’ at the 2019 Menuhin Festival Gstaad. In 2021 he made his debuts at the Lucerne Festival and LuganoMusica. Also in 2021, his first CD, featuring works by Bach and Bartók, was released by FHR London.
Dmitry was born into a family of musicians in St Petersburg in 1994 and received his first music lessons from his parents. From 2001 onwards he studied at the special school of the St Petersburg State Conservatory, then at the conservatories of Lausanne (with Pavel Vernikov) and Basel (with Rainer Schmidt). He has taken part in masterclasses with Irvine Arditti, Vadim Gluzman and Gábor Takács-Nagy, among others.
Dmitry Smirnov has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Oistrakh Violin Competition (First Prize, Moscow 2006), Menuhin Violin Competition (Second Prize, Cardiff 2008), Tibor Varga Violin Competition (First Prize, Sion 2015), Concours International d’Interprétation Musicale (First Prize, Lausanne 2017), Rotary Excellence Prize (Lugano 2017), Concours International Long-Thibaud-Crespin (Third Prize, Critics’ Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music, and Étienne Vatelot Prize, Paris 2018) and ARD Competition Munich 2021 (Second Prize, GEWA and GENUIN Prize).
Among the prestigious artists with whom he works are Heinz Holliger in the Swiss Chamber Concerts, Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico in the Haydn2032 project, and Sol Gabetta at the SOLsberg Festival. In 2018 he founded his own ensemble, Camerata Rhein, in Basel.
He has made debuts at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Nikkei Hall in Tokyo, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Salzburg Festival, the Mariinsky Concert Hall and the Shostakovich Grand Hall of the St Petersburg Philharmonic.
Dmitry Smirnov plays an instrument by Philipp Bonhoeffer (2018).
Writer
Elke Heidenreich
Writer
After graduating from high school, Elke Heidenreich studied German and Theatre Arts. Since 1970 she has worked freelance for radio and television, writing screenplays, radio plays, short stories and several non-fiction books about music.
She lives in Cologne, where she worked for the Children’s Opera for twelve years; among other activities, she translated and adapted libretti of almost forgotten operas. She hosted her own programme Lesen! (Read!) on ZDF for six years and then edited forty music books for Random House. She has been a columnist for the programme booklets of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and works with numerous musicians and orchestras on and off stage. She is also a member of the team of critics for the Swiss television programme Literaturclub.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Pinkhassov's interest in photography began while he was still at school. After studying cinematography at the VGIK (the Moscow Institute of Cinematography), he went on to work at the Mosfilm studio and then as a set photographer. His work was noticed by the prominent Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited Pinkhassov to the set to make a reportage about his film «Stalker» (1979).
Pinkhassov moved permanently to Paris in 1985. He joined Magnum Photos in 1988. He works regulary for the international press, particularly for Geo, Actuel and the New York Times Magazine.
Orchestra
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra
The Basel Chamber Orchestra is deeply rooted in the city of Basel - with its two subscription series in the Stadtcasino Basel as well as its own rehearsal and performance venue, Don Bosco Basel. With world tours and more than 60 concerts per season, the Basel Chamber Orchestra is a popular guest at international festivals and in Europe’s most important concert halls.
As the first orchestra to be awarded the Swiss Music Prize in 2019, the Basel Chamber Orchestra stands out for its excellence and diversity as well as for its depth and consistency. Its interpretations are deeply immersed into the relevant thematic and compositional worlds: in the past with the "Basel Beethoven" or with Heinz Holliger and our "Schubert Cycle". Or as with the long-term project Haydn2032, the study and performance of all Joseph Haydn's symphonies up to the year 2032 under the direction of principal guest conductor Giovanni Antonini and together with the Ensemble Il Giardino Armonico. From the current season onwards, the Basel Chamber Orchestra has decided to devote itself to all the symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn under the direction of the early music specialist Philippe Herreweghe.
The Basel Chamber Orchestra frequently collaborates with selected soloists such as Maria João Pires, Jan Lisiecki, Isabelle Faust and Christian Gerhaher. The Basel Chamber Orchestra presents its broad repertoire under the artistic direction of the first violins and the baton of selected conductors such as Heinz Holliger, René Jacobs and Pierre Bleuse.
The concert programmes are as diverse as the 47 musicians and range from early music on historical instruments to contemporary music and historically informed interpretations.
An important element of the work is the future-oriented education programs in large-scale participatory projects involving creative exchange with children and young people.
The creative work of the Basel Chamber Orchestra is documented by an extensive and award-winning discography.
The Clariant Foundation has been the presenting sponsor of the Basel Chamber Orchestra since 2019.
Orchestra
Il Giardino Armonico
Orchestra
Founded in 1985 and conducted by Giovanni Antonini, has been established as one of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles, bringing together musicians from Europe’s relevant music institutions. The ensemble’s repertoire mainly focuses on the 17th and 18th century. Depending on the demands of each program, the group consists of three up to thirty musicians.
Il Giardino Armonico is regularly invited to festivals all over the world performing in the most important concert halls, and has received high acclaim for both concerts and opera productions, like Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Vivaldi’s Ottone in Villa Händel’s Agrippina, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, La Resurrezione and finally Giulio Cesare in Egitto with Cecilia Bartoli during the 2012 edition of the Salzburg Whitsun and Summer Festival.
Beside that, Il Giardino Armonico sustains an intense recording activity. After many years as an exclusive group of Teldec Classics achieving several major awards for its recordings of works by Vivaldi and the other 18th century composers, the group had an exclusive agreement with Decca/ L’Oiseau-Lyre recording Händel’s Concerti Grossi Op. VI and the cantata Il Pianto di Maria with Bernarda Fink.
The group also released on Naïve La Casa del Diavolo, Vivaldi cello Concertos with Christophe Coin, and the opera Ottone in Villa winning the Diapason d’Or in 2011. On the label Onyx Vivaldi violin Concertos with Viktoria Mullova.
In 2009 a new cooperation with Cecilia Bartoli led to the project Sacrificium (Decca), Platinum Album in France and Belgium and prized by the Grammy Award.
Again on Decca Alleluia (March 2013) and Händel in Italy (October 2015) with Julia Lezhneva, acclaimed by public and critics.
The group published Serpent & Fire with Anna Prohaska (Alpha Classics – Outhere music group, 2016) winning the ICMA “baroque vocal” in 2017.
The recording of five Mozart Violin Concertos with Isabel Faust (Harmonia Mundi, 2016) stands as the result of the prestigious cooperation with the great violinist.
Il Giardino Armonico is part of the twenty-year project Haydn2032 for which the Haydn Foundation has been created in Basel to support both the recording project of the complete Haydn Symphonies (Alpha Classic) and a series of concerts in various European cities, with thematic programs focused on this fascinating repertoire. In November 2014 the first album titled La Passione has been published and won the Echo Klassik award in 2015. Il Filosofo, issued in 2015, has been “CHOC of the year” by Classica. The third one Solo e Pensoso has been released in August 2016, and the forth Il Distratto in March 2017.
The last volumes of the Haydn2032 project, as well as Telemann (Alpha Classics, November 2016) are available as CD and LP too. Telemann won the Diapason d’Or in January 2017.
Furthermore the ensemble worked with such acclaimed soloists as Giuliano Carmignola, Sol Gabetta, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Viktoria Mullova, and Giovanni Sollima.
Writer
Bruno Preisendörfer
Writer
Bruno Preisendörfer was born near Aschaffenburg (Lower Franconia) in 1957. He studied German language and literature, sociology and political science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Free University of Berlin. From 1987 to 1999 he worked as a magazine editor. Preisendörfer is a freelance journalist and writer with his own internet magazine (www.fackelkopf.de) and has published numerous books, including the short-story collection Die Beleidigungen des Glücks(2006), the polemic Das Bildungsprivileg (2008), the boarding-school novel Die Schutzbefohlenen (2013) and several non-fiction works of cultural history: Als Deutschland noch nicht Deutschland war. Reise in die Goethezeit (2015), Als unser Deutsch erfunden wurde. Reise in die Lutherzeit (2016, awarded the NDR-Kultur Non-Fiction Prize) and Als die Musik in Deutschland spielte. Reise in die Bachzeit(2019). These will be followed in the autumn of 2021 by Als Deutschland erstmals einig wurde. Reise in die Bismarckzeit.
Violin
Christian Tetzlaff
Violin
Christian Tetzlaff has been one of the most sought-after violinists and most exciting musicians on the classical music scene for many years. “The greatest performance of the work I’ve ever heard,” wrote Tim Ashley (The Guardian, May 2015) of his interpretation of the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor Daniel Harding.
Concerts with Christian Tetzlaff often become an existential experience for the interpreter and audience alike, old familiar works suddenly appear in a completely new light. In addition, he frequently turns his attention to forgotten masterpieces such as Joseph Joachim’s Violin Concerto, which he successfully championed, or the Violin Concerto No. 22 by Giovanni Battista Viotti, a contemporary of Mozart and Beethoven. To broaden his repertoire, he also commits himself to substantial new works, such as Jörg Widmann’s Violin Concerto, which he premiered in 2013. He has an unusually extensive repertoire and performs approximately 100 concerts every year.
Highlights of the 2021/2022 season include concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, NDR Radiophilharmonie and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester. In autumn 2021 he will be touring with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the baton of Christoph Eschenbach and will be soloist in the Haydn2032 project of the Kammerorchester Basel under the baton of Giovanni Antonini. He also performs several duo recitals with pianist Lars Vogt at the Rheingau Music Festival, MDR Musiksommer, Festival International de Musique de Menton, Weilburger Schlosskonzerte and the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker. Further duo concerts with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will follow, including the Boulez Saal Berlin, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées as well as the Moscow State Philharmonic Society.
Christian Tetzlaff is regularly invited as Artist in Residence to present his musical views over a longer period of time, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic. In the 2021/2022 season, he will have this honour at London's Wigmore Hall. The residency with the London Symphony Orchestra, originally planned for the 2020/2021 season, will probably be postponed to 2022/2023.
Throughout his career Christian Tetzlaff has appeared with all the major orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, the New York Philharmonic, the Concertgebouworkest and all of London’s leading orchestras. He has worked with conductors including Sergiu Celibidache, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel and Kurt Masur and more recently with Barbara Hannigan, Christoph von Dohnányi, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Andris Nelsons, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Tilson Thomas, to name but a few.
Christian Tetzlaff founded his own string quartet in 1994, and to this day chamber music is as close to his heart as his work as a soloist with or without orchestra. Every year he undertakes at least one extensive tour with the Tetzlaff Quartett, including the 2021/2022 season with concerts at the Kölner Philharmonie and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, among others, as well as a US tour including Carnegie Hall. The Tetzlaff Quartett was awarded the Diapason d’or in 2015 and the trio with his sister Tanja Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt was nominated for a Grammy award in 2016.
Christian Tetzlaff has also received numerous prizes for his CD recordings, including the “Jahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik” and the “Diapason d’or” in 2018 as well as the Midem Classical Award in 2017.
Of special significance is his solo recording of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas, which he has recorded for the third time and was released in September 2017. The Strad magazine praised this recording as “an attentive and lively answer to the beauty of Bach’s solos”. Most recently, a recording of the violin concertos by Beethoven and Sibelius with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Robin Ticciati was released on Ondine in autumn 2019 and has been enthusiastically received by both the press and the public.
Born in Hamburg in 1966 and now living in Berlin with his family, there are three things that make this musician unique, aside from his astounding skill on the violin. He interprets the musical manuscript in a literal fashion, perceives music as a language, and reads the great works as narratives that reflect existential insights. As obvious as it may sound, he brings an unusual approach in his daily concert routine.
Christian Tetzlaff tries to fulfill the musical text as deeply as possible – without indulging in the usual technical short-cuts on the violin – often allowing a renewed clarity and richness to arise in well-known works. As a violinist Tetzlaff tries to disappear behind the work – and paradoxically this makes his interpretations very personal. Secondly, Christian Tetzlaff “speaks” through his violin. Like human speech, his playing comprises a wide range of expressive means and is not aimed solely at achieving harmoniousness or virtuosic brilliance.
Above all, however, he interprets the masterpieces of musical history as stories about first-hand experiences. The great composers have focused on intense feelings, great happiness and deep crises in their music; Christian Tetzlaff, as a musician, also explores the limits of feelings and musical expression. Many pieces deal with nothing less than life and death. Christian Tetzlaff’s aim is to convey this to his audience.
Significantly, Tetzlaff played in youth orchestras for many years. In Uwe-Martin Haiberg at the Lübeck Music Academy, he had a teacher for whom musical interpretation was the key to mastering violin technique, rather than the other way round.
Christian Tetzlaff plays a violin by the German violin maker Peter Greiner and teaches regularly at the Kronberg Academy.
Musicologist and scholary advisor
Christian Moritz-Bauer
Musicologist and scholary advisor
Born in Stuttgart and now resident on the shores of the Attersee in Upper Austria, Christian Moritz-Bauer studied musicology, English philology and European art history at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg, Exeter and Salzburg. He works as a music journalist and dramaturg, notably for the Linz-based ensemble L’Orfeo Barockorchester. In 2013 he was appointed musicological adviser to the Basel Haydn Foundation, with whose support he has been pursuing since the autumn of 2015 a research project supervised by Wolfgang Fuhrmann and Birgit Lodes, dealing with the rediscovery and historical significance of theatre music in the symphonic output of Joseph Haydn. In March 2021 Christian Moritz-Bauer was named Dramaturg of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Cristina García Rodero
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Cristina García Rodero graduated with a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1972. In 1973, she began a research and documentation on rituals, traditions and festivals in Spain, publishing 15 years later España Oculta (Spain Occult, 1989), España, fiestas y ritos (Spain, festivals and rites, 1993). Later, she traveled the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, publishing Rituales en Haití (Rituals in Haiti, 2001) and María Lionza, la diosa de los ojos de agua (Maria Lionza, the goddess of the eyes of water, 2008), Transtempo (2010), Con la boca abierta (With the mouth open, 2013), Tierra de sueños (Land of dreams, 2016) and Lalibela, cerca del cielo (Lalibela, near the sky, 2017).
She worked with the VU’ agency (1989-2005) and joined Magnum Photos in 2009.
She won various prizes such as the Erich Salomon Prize (1990), the National Prize for Photography (1996), the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (2005), Madrid’s Culture Award for an artistic career (2006), the prize of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (2013), Gold Medal of Merit at Work by the Spanish Government (2014), the Prize for the Photographic Career at PhotoEspaña (2017) and the Honorary Academic title by the Royal Academy of Belas Artes (2019).
Among others, Cristina García Rodero exhibitions include those at PS1, MOMA Contemporary Art Center in New York, at the 49th and 51th editions of the Venezia’s Biennal, at the Prado and Reina Sofia Museums in Madrid, at the International Center of Photography in New York, at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, the Seattle Art Museum in Washington, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Tucson, Arizona and at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
Her photography always manifests a strong interest in human behavior with a poetic style of great emotional depth.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Carl de Keyzer
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Carl de Keyzer started his career as a freelance photographer in 1982 while supporting himself as a photography instructor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. At the same time, his interest in the work of other photographers led him to co-found and co-direct the XYZ-Photography Gallery. A Magnum nominee in 1990, he became a full member in 1994.
De Keyzer likes to tackle large-scale projects and general themes. A basic premise in much of his work is that, in overpopulated communities everywhere, disaster has already struck and infrastructures are on the verge of collapse. His style is not dependent on isolated images; instead, he prefers an accumulation of images which interact with text.
Writer
Daniel Kehlmann
Writer
Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975. His works have won the Candide prize, the WELT prize, the Kleist prize and the Thomas Mann prize. His novel „Measuring the world“ is considered one of the greatest successes in postwar German literature. He is currently teaching at New York University.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Elliott Erwitt
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.
Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951 he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in a unit of the Army Signal Corps in Germany and France.
While in New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company, and subsequently commissioned him to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.
In 1953 Erwitt joined Magnum Photos and worked as a freelance photographer for Collier's, Look, Life, Holiday and other luminaries in that golden period for illustrated magazines.
In the late 1960s Erwitt served as Magnum's president for three years. He then turned to film: in the 1970s he produced several noted documentaries and in the 1980s eighteen comedy films for Home Box Office. Erwitt became known for benevolent irony, and for a humanistic sensibility traditional to the spirit of Magnum.
To this day he is for hire and continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits.
Writer
Eva Gesine Baur
Writer
Award-winning Eva Gesine Baur is a renowned expert in Cultural History with degrees in Literature, History of Art and Musicology. For a long time she worked as journalist, specialising in artist portraits, special features and essays. She is currently based in Munich, where she works as non-fiction author, publicist and freelance writer. She writes biographies (such as Mein Geschöpf sollst du sein. Das Leben der Charlotte Schiller; Chopin oder die Sehnsucht; Emanuel Schikaneder; and Mozart. Genius und Eros) as well as literary travel guides (including Schauplatz Salzburg; Freuds Wien; Amor in Venedig). Eva Gesine Baur also writes novels under the pseudonym Lea Singer with publications (such as Die Zunge. Wahnsinns Liebe; Mandelkern; Konzert für die linke Hand; Der Opernheld; Verdis letzte Versuchung; Poesie der Wolken). In 2009, Gesinge Baur held the coveted Poetics Lectureship in Padeborn. In 2010m she was awarded the Hannelore Greve Prize by the Hamburger Autorenvereinigung in Hamburg for her fiction works and in 2016 she received the Großen Schwabinger Kunstpreis in Munich for her lifetime work.
Writer
Eva Menasse
Writer
EVA MENASSE is an Austrian-born writer and essayist, living in Berlin. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for leading German and Austrian newspapers such as Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Die Zeit.
She reported on the David Irving Holocaust-denial trial in London in 2000 and wrote a nonfiction book on it, "The Holocaust on Trial". The English translation of her first novel, "Vienna", was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK. Her last novel "Quasikristalle" (Quasicrystals, 2013) was a bestseller in Germany, and was awarded the Heinrich Böll and Jonathan Swift prizes. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages.
Soprano
Francesca Aspromonte
Soprano
The Italian Soprano Francesca Aspromonte, despite her young age, is on the best way to starting an international career. Born in 1991, she studied piano and harpsichord and later began studying singing with Maria Pia Piscitelli and Boris Bakow at the Mozarteum Salzburg. Since 2012, she is studying in Renata Scotto’s opera studio at the roman Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. She has performed at the Festival Aix-en-Provence and the Musikfest Bremen, at the Opéra Royal de Versailles and the Opéra National de Montpellier with conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner, Leonardo García Alarcón and Stefano Demicheli. Francesca Aspromonte specialises in Italian vocal music of the 17th and 18th century.
Writer
Franz Hohler
Writer
Franz Hohler was born in Biel, Switzerland, in 1943 and studied German Literature in Zürich. He is one of the best known writers of Switzerland. His many short stories, novels, poems and plays have won a lot of prizes, amongst them "Kasseler Literaturpreis für grotesken Humor" (2002), "Kunstpreis der Stadt Zürich" (2005), "Solothurner Literaturpreis" (2013), Alice Salomon Poetik Preis Berlin (2014) and „Johann Peter Hebel-Preis“ (2014).
His books for both adults and children have been translated into 30 languages.
Autor
Hanns-Joseph Ortheil
Autor
Hanns-Josef Ortheil, born in 1951, is one of the most important contemporary German authors and has received many awards for his work, among them the Brandenburg Literature Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Nicolas Born Prize and the Hannelore Greve Literature Prize. His novels have been translated into more than 20 languages. He teaches creative writing and cultural journalism as a professor at the University of Hildesheim.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Jean Gaumy (b. 1948, France) is known for his eloquently evocative photography and cinematography, achieved through a deep engagement with his subjects. From his famous long-term projects on the fishing industry, arctic exploration and 1980’s Iran to his groundbreaking work on the French penal and healthcare systems, Gaumy produces work that is both vivid and impactful.
Since 2005 he has undertaken location scouting and shoots for the film Sous Marin spending four months underwater aboard a nuclear attack submarine. He was officially named Peintre de la Marine in 2008. His numerous works on human confinement have been coupled with a more contemplative photographic approach in recent years. In 2008, after his film aboard a nuclear submarine, he started photographic reconnaissance work that has already taken him from the arctic seas to the contaminated lands of Chernobyl and Fukushima. Concurrently, for the same project, he started a series of mountain landscapes and, in 2010, he received the Prix Nadar (for the second time) rewarding the book D’après Nature published with these pictures. The same year he was aboard the last and most modern submarine dedicated to nuclear deterrence.
Gaumy has received many accolades for both his film and photography and was elected as a member of the prestigious Fine Art Academy (Académie des Beaux Arts) of the Institut de France in October 2018. His work has been exhibited worldwide, most recently at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Matmut. Normandie. France in 2016 with “Les Formes du Chaos” (Arctique et Falaises) and at Abbaye de Jumièges. Normandie. France in 2014 as part of “La Tentation du Paysage” and “La Fabrique des Images” exhibitions.
Gaumy joined Magnum in 1977. He has been living in Fécamp, Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy, France) since 1995.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini (b 1968) is a member of Magnum Photos since 2016. He discovered his passion for photography through a photographer friend who showed him books on documentary photography. He began developing his own practice by capturing the people, landscapes and daily life of his native region in the east of France.
When he arrived in Paris, he was first hired by the photo agency Gamma to cover the ongoing conflict in Kosovo. He has since covered many international current events, from the second Intifada and the war in Iraq to the uprising in Libya and the conflicts in Syria. His work has been exhibited in a number of institutions and has been published in many prestigious newspapers and magazines, as well as receiving much international acclaim.
In 2008, he began his project So far from God, too close to the US, which plunges into the war between drug cartels in Mexico. This direct confrontation with violence led him to articulate a conviction that is at the heart of his work: “It is always the ordinary fellows who lose, be it in Iraq, Mexico or France.”
The same year, he photographed Cuba after Fidel Castro’s withdrawal from politics. In 2011, he covered the uprising in Lybia, photographing from the rebels’ point of view. In 2012 and 2013, he was in Aleppo, Syria. In February 2014, he seized the final fight for Euromaidan in Kiev, Ukraine. Those three series have in common an incredibly closeness to the fighters, the photographer seeming to share their hardships and emotions.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen’s sharply evocative images explore themes of community, faith and identity with unsparing honesty. He has made major bodies of work all over the world, at the same time as he always also photographs the daily rhythms of life at home. As well as many critically acclaimed long- form projects he has also produced significant work for many commercial and editorial clients.
Bendiksen was born in Norway in 1977. He began his career at the age of 19 as an intern at Magnum’s London office, before leaving for Russia to pursue his own work as a photojournalist. Throughout the several years he spent there, Bendiksen photographed stories from the fringes of the former Soviet Union, a project that was published as the book Satellites (2006). His most recent big project “The Last Testament” was an exploration of seven men who all claim to be the Messiah returned to earth. Bendiksen became a nominee of Magnum Photos in 2004 and a member in 2008.
In 2021, Bendiksen's latest book, The Book of Veles, makes the headlines. His project questions misinformation, trust and the representation of reality, by mixing computer-generated images, photography and mythology.
Writer
Lily Brett
Writer
Lily Brett is a German-born Australian novelist, essayist and poet who now lives in New York City. During World War II, Brett's parents Max and Rose survived six years in the Łódź ghettos in Poland, before being taken to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were eventually separated. It took them six months to find each other again after the war ended in 1945. Brett was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany in 1946. She was aged two (1948) before her parents were able to leave Germany and emigrate to Melbourne, Australia. By the mid-1960s, Brett was a young journalist working with Molly Meldrum at Go-Set, Australia's most renowned music magazine of the time, and on Uptight one of the first weekly TV shows devoted to pop music. Brett has published seven volumes of poetry, three collections of essays, and six novels. Brett has also contributed writings to a wide range of publications. Lola Bensky, Brett's most recent work of fiction, has been shortlisted for The Miles Franklin Literary Award. The stage adaptation of You Gotta Have Balls, titled Chuzpe in German, starring Otto Schenk, opened at the Kammerspiele theatre in Vienna in November 2012.
For the Haydn2032-project «Solo e Pensoso», Lily Brett writes an essay about Joseph Haydn and his music.
Conductor
Giovanni Antonini
Conductor
Born in Milan, Giovanni studied at the Civica Scuola di Musica and at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He is a founder member of the Baroque ensemble “Il Giardino Armonico”, which he has led since 1989. With this ensemble, he has appeared as conductor and soloist on the recorder and Baroque transverse flute in Europe, United States, Canada, South America, Australia, Japan and Malaysia. He is Artistic Director of Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Poland and Principal Guest Conductor of Mozarteum Orchester and Kammerorchester Basel.
He has performed with many prestigious artists including Cecilia Bartoli, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Giuliano Carmignola, Isabelle Faust, Sol Gabetta, Sumi Jo, Viktoria Mullova, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Emmanuel Pahud and Giovanni Sollima. Renowned for his refined and innovative interpretation of the classical and baroque repertoire, Antonini is also a regular guest with Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
His opera productions have included Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Bellini’s Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he conducted Orlando at Theater an der Wien and returned to Opernhaus Zurich for Idomeneo. In the 21/22 season he will guest conduct the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Stavanger Symphony, Anima Eterna Bruges and the Symphonieorchester de Bayerischer Rundfunks. He will also direct Cavalieri’s opera Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo for Theatre an der Wien and a ballet production of Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten for Wiener Staatsballett with the Wiener Philharmoniker.
With Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni has recorded numerous CDs of instrumental works by Vivaldi, J.S. Bach (Brandenburg Concertos), Biber and Locke for Teldec. With Naïve he recorded Vivaldi’s opera Ottone in Villa, and, with Il Giardino Armonico for Decca, has recorded Alleluia with Julia Lezhneva and La morte della Ragione, collections of sixteenth and seventeenth century instrumental music. With Kammerorchester Basel he has recorded the complete Beethoven Symphonies for Sony Classical and a disc of flute concertos with Emmanuel Pahud entitled Revolution for Warner Classics. In 2013 he conducted a recording of Bellini’s Norma for Decca in collaboration with Orchestra La Scintilla.
Antonini is artistic director of the Haydn 2032 project, created to realise a vision to record and perform with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel, the complete symphonies of Joseph Haydn by the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The first 12 volumes have been released on the Alpha Classics label with two further volumes planned for release every year.
Magnum Photos
In 1947, following the aftermath of the Second World War, four pioneering photographers founded a now legendary alliance. Combining an extraordinary range of individual styles into one powerful collaboration, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour started, over a celebratory bottle of champagne, the most important artists’ cooperative ever created: The Magnum Photos agency.
Magnum represents some of the world’s most renowned photographers, maintaining its founding ideals and idiosyncratic mix of journalist, artist and storyteller.
Magnum has documented most of the world’s major events and personalities since the 1930s; covering industry, society and people, places of interest, politics and news events, disasters and conflict. In short, when you picture an iconic image, but can’t think who took it or where it can be found, it probably came from Magnum.
Magnum Photos reaches a global audience and has established itself as the authentic, storytelling photographic brand. It remains loyal to its original values of uncompromising excellence, truth, respect and independence.
Writer
Margriet de Moor
Writer
One of the most prominent Dutch authors of her generation, Margriet de Moor studied piano and voice before she turned her talents to writing. Her first novel, Erst grau dann weiß dann blau (Hanser, 1993) was an immediate bestseller and garnered sensational success. Her novels and stories have been translated to languages all over the world. Her works are published by Hanser and include highlights such as Die Verabredung (The Meeting, novel, 2000), Der Jongleur (The Troubadour, A Divertimento, 2008), Der Maler und das Mädchen (The Painter and the Girl, novel, 2011), Mélodie d'amour (novel, 2014), Schlaflose Nacht (Sleepless Night, 2016) and Von Vögeln und Menschen (Of Birds and Humans, novel, 2018). Margriet de Moor lives in Amsterdam.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Mark Power
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Mark Power was born in 1959, in Harpenden, UK. As a child, Mark discovered his father's home-made enlarger in the family attic. His interest in photography probably began at this moment, though he later went to art college to study life-drawing and painting instead.
After graduating, he travelled for two years around South-East Asia and Australia. While travelling Power began to realize he enjoyed using a camera more than a pencil and decided to 'become a photographer' on his return to England, two years later, in 1983.
He has published eight books and his work has been seen in numerous galleries and museums across the world. It is in several important collections, both public and private, including the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Art.
Mark Power joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002, and became a full Member in 2007. He lives in Brighton, a city on the south coast of England, with his partner Jo, their children Chilli and Milligan and their dog Kodak.
Photographer
Martin Parr
Photographer
Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established.
Parr also acts as a curator and editor. He has curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently Parr curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar.
Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from 2013 - 2017. In 2013 Parr was appointed the visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster.
Parr’s work has been collected by many of the leading museums, from the Tate Moderne, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. In 2019 the National Portrait Gallery in London held a major exhibition of Parr’s work titled Only Human.
Writer
Mathias Énard
Writer
Mathias Enard (born in 1972) is a French novelist. He studied Persian and Arabic and spent long periods in the Middle East. He has lived in Barcelona for about fifteen years, interrupted in 2013 by a writing residency in Berlin. He won several awards for Zone, including the Prix du Livre Inter and the Prix Décembre, and won the Prix Goncourt/Le Choix de l’Orient, the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée (fr), and the Prix du Roman-News for Rue des Voleurs (Street of Thieves). He won the 2015 Prix Goncourt for Boussole (Compass).
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Nikos Economopoulos
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Nikos Economopoulos was born in the Peloponnese, Greece. He studied law in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist. In 1988 he started photographing in Greece and Turkey, and eventually abandoned journalism in order to dedicate himself to photography. He joined Magnum in 1990, and his photographs started appearing in newspapers and magazines around the world. In the same period, he started traveling and photographing extensively around the Balkans. This won the "Mother Jones Award" (San Francisco, CA) for work in progress. Upon the completion of his Balkans project in 1994, he became a full member of Magnum. His book "In The Balkans" was published in 1995 in New York (Abrams) and in Athens (Libro).
In the 1990s, he started working on borders and crossings, photographing the inhabitants of the "Green Line" in Cyprus, the irregular migrants on the Greek-Albanian borderline, and the mass migration of ethnic Albanians fleeing Kosovo. In the mid-1990s, he started photographing the Roma and other minorities. In 2000 he completed a book project on the Aegean islands storytellers, commissioned by the University of the Aegean. A retrospective of his work titled "Economopoulos, Photographer" was published in 2002, and later exhibited at the Benaki Museum, Athens. Subsequently, he returned to Turkey to pursue his long-term personal project on the country, where he received the Abdi Ipektsi award (2001), for peace and friendship between Greek and Turkish people.
He has recently turned to the use of color. Currently, he is spending most of his time away from Greece, traveling (mostly in S.America and Africa), teaching and photographing around the world, in the context of his long-term “On The Road” project.
Writer
Nora Gomringer
Writer
Nora Gomringer, Swiss and German, lives in Bamberg, where she is director of Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia. She was born in 1980 in Neunkirchen/Saar and grew up in the countryside of Upper Franconia. After graduating from high school in Pennsylvania in 1998, she took her Abitur in Bamberg in 2000, where she went on to study German, English, and History of Art. She has been a published poet since 2000, and performs both readings and musical collaborations. Her work has spread to radio, TV, and the Internet, she is a regular columnist in print and radio. Her YouTube channel shows her works in film; her Facebook and Instagram accounts show the author as poeta activa in many situations and phases of work. She’d be happy for you to click there. She has been honored for her work with the Jacob Grimm Prize for German Language (2011) and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2015), as well as numerous international residency scholarships.
Since 2016, she has performed regularly with jazz drummer Philipp Scholz, presenting the duo’s program Peng Peng Peng, and the Dorothy Parker homage Peng Peng Parker. Their shared paths led them to Japan, where they were able to take advantage of a 3-month residence in 2016, and where Nora Gomringer’s last volume of poetry „MODEN“ (2017, Voland & Quist) was written. All her books – she has to date published 9 volumes of poetry and 2 of essays, as well as editing numerous works – are collaborations with esteemed visual artists and graphic artists. She is keen to actively cite her numerous translators, and she is committed to fostering greater appreciation for this greatest of all arts.
Beautiful things in the near future: the Max Kade guest professorship 2019 in Oberlin, Ohio; a planned collaboration with author and illustrator Line Hoven; the trilogy appears as an anthology; appearances with Philipp Scholz (see CALENDAR); a new volume of poetry on the subject of faith with graphic artist Zara Teller; a video work with Claus Wagner, and much more.
Fotograf, Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann
Fotograf, Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann is a French photographer, born in Choisy-le-Roi, in 1955. He has been a freelance photographer since 1976 and joined Magnum Photos in 1985. His immersive and strikingly beautiful photography has allowed him to explore, over the span of forty years, the themes of cultural identity, memory and immigration in a number of detailed and touching projects. He has documented the Chinese Diaspora, Jewish identity and the plight of migrants in Marseille, all the while pushing himself to subvert his ‘style’ by working with both analogue and digital, color and black and white, and using multimedia formats. In almost all of his work, we feel a deep connection with his subjects, which Patrick Zachmann carefully cultivates.
He has also worked on a project covering illegal immigration in Europe and recently has been documenting the extensive renovation work at Notre-Dame. His work from this project has been published in TIME, Stern, Le Figaro, Le Monde, Libération, L’Obs, De Standaard and others.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Peter Marlow
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Although gifted in the language of photojournalism, Peter Marlow (B. 1952, d. 2016) was not a photojournalist. He was initially, however, one of the most enterprising and successful young British news photographers, and in 1976 joined the Sygma agency in Paris. He soon found that he lacked the necessary appetite for the job while on assignment in Lebanon and Northern Ireland during the late 1970s; he discovered that the stereotype of the concerned photojournalist disguised the disheartening reality of dog-eat-dog competition between photographers hunting fame at all costs.
After those days, Marlow’s aesthetic shifted – in that he made mainly color photographs – but his approach was unchanged. The color of incidental things became central to his pictures in the same way that the shape and mark of things had been central to his black-and-white work.
Marlow had come full circle. He started his career as an international photojournalist, returned to Britain to examine his own experience, and discovered a new visual poetry that enabled him to understand his homeland. Having found this poetry, he took it back on the road: he photographed as much in Japan, the USA and elsewhere in Europe as he did in the UK.
Writer
Péter Nádas
Writer
Péter Nádas, born in Budapest in 1942, is a photographer and writer. Until 1977, Hungarian censorship prevented the publication of his first novel "End of a Family Novel" (Engl. 1979). His "Book of Memory" (Engl. 1991) received numerous international literary prizes. Most recently, the major novel "Parallel Stories" and his memoirs of a narrator: "Illuminating Details" were published.
Among others, Nádas was awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1991), the Kossuth Prize (1992), the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (1995) and the Franz Kafka Literature Prize (2003). In 2014 he was awarded the Würth Prize for European Literature. Péter Nádas lives in Budapest and Gombosszeg.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael was born in Washington DC in 1981. He studied history at Yale.
His work largely concentrates on America, looking at issues of conflict, identity, power, race and class. He has worked extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine.
He has won the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer, the Lumix Freelens Award, the Aaron Siskind Grant, a Magnum Foundation Grant as well as multiple awards from World Press Photo, American Photography Annual, POYi, The Pulitzer Center, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, FOAM and Photo District News.
His book, 'Disco Night Sept 11,' on America at war in the post-9/11 era was released in 2014. Disco Night Sept 11 was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award and was named a ‘Book of the Year’ by The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Mother Jones, Vogue, American Photo and Photo Eye.
"Buzzing at the Sill," a book about America in the shadows of the wars, was released in the Spring of 2017. Upon pre-release, it was named one of Time’s “Photo Books of the Year” for 2016.
He is a founder and partner of Red Hook Editions, a publishing company based in Brooklyn. He is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut.
Peter joined Magnum Photos in 2008 and became a member in 2013.
Writer
Philippe Claudel
Writer
Philippe Claudel was born in 1962 in Lorraine where he still lives as a writer, film director and dramaturge.
His books have been published all over the world.
Baritone
Riccardo Novaro
Baritone
Riccardo Novaro is an internationally sought after baritone for Belcanto repertoire. He trained at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and studied with Alessandro Corbelli.
He has performed in major international opera houses and festivals such as Teatro alla Scala (Un Giorno di Regno), Opéra National de Paris (La Cenerentola, L’Italiana in Algeri), Bayerische Staatsoper (La Cenerentola), Lincoln Center New York (Don Giovanni), National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing (Le Nozze di Figaro), Glyndebourne Festival Opera (La Bohème, Gianni Schicchi, Cosi fan tutte, L’Elisir d’Amore), Opéra de Bordeaux ( L’Italiana in Algeri, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Bohème), Teatro San Carlo in Naples (L’Elisir d’Amore), Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Le Comte Ory), La Monnaie Brussels (Il Viaggio a Reims), Freiburg Konzerthaus (La Scala di Seta), Opéra Comique de Paris (Carmen), Opéra de Lausanne (Le Nozze di Figaro, Rinaldo, Il Turco in Italia), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Don Pasquale, Chérubin), Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, (Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo), Festival de Beaune (Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Orlando Furioso), Garsington Festival Opera (Die Zauberflöte, La Pietra del Paragone, Don Pasquale).
In the baroque repertoire, several acclaimed productions deserve particular attention: Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Berlin State Opera, L’Opera Seria by Gassmann at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, which were both conducted by René Jacobs, L’Olimpiade at the Garsington Festival Opera conducted by Laurence Cummings, Orlando Furioso in Madrid conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Giulio Cesare in Lausanne and Bremen, Rinaldo at Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducted by Ottavio Dantone, Agrippina at the Opéra de Dijon and Lille conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm.
He has also collaborated with further leading conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandini, Maurizio Benini, Bruno Campanella, Ivan Fischer, Riccardo Frizza, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Vladimir Jurowski, Jérémie Rhorer, and directors such as Annabel Arden, Robert Carsen, David McVicar, Adrian Noble, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Luca Ronconi, Daniel Slater.
Recordings include Charpentier’s Te Deum with the Accademia of Santa Cecilia in Rome conducted by Myun-Whun Chung (Deutsche Grammophon), Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade with Rinaldo Alessandrini (Naïve), Händel’s Floridante with Alan Curtis (Deutsche Grammophon Archiv), Mercadante’s I Normanni a Parigi (Opera Rara), Vivaldi’s Orlando Furioso with Federico Maria Sardelli (Naïve) and Vivaldi’s L’Incoronazione di Dario with Ottavio Dantone (Naïve). Recent and forthcoming engagements include: Cosi fan tutte (Guglielmo) at the Vlaamse Opera, Giulio Cesare (Achilla) at the Opéra de Toulon, L’Elisir d’Amore (Belcore) at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, L’Elisir d’Amore (Dulcamara) at La Monnaie, Die Zauberflöte (Papageno) at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
Photographer, Magnum Fotos
Richard Kalvar
Photographer, Magnum Fotos
Richard Kalvar is American, born in New York in 1944. At the age of 20 he fell into photography by chance, and moved to Paris five years later. He has worked extensively in the US, Europe and Asia, generally in black and white for his personal photography. He often sees the world with a dark but tender irony, and likes to work on the edge where reality and appearances collide. In 1975 Kalvar joined Magnum Photos, and has served as its vice president and president.
Soprano
Sandrine Piau
Soprano
A renowned figure in the world of Baroque music, Sandrine Piau regularly performs with conductors such as William Christie, Ren. Jacobs, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset and Ivor Bolton. She has sung the roles of Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare), the title role in Alcina, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) and Soeur Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites).
She has appeared at leading opera houses including the Paris Opéra, La Monnaie Brussels and the Dutch National Opera, as well as the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals.
A celebrated recitalist, she performs with renowned accompanists including Jos van Immerseel and Roger Vignoles.
With an extensive discography, Sandrine Piau now records exclusively for Alpha Classics. Her first collaboration, Chimère, recorded with Susan Manoff, was awarded the Diapason d’Or and Gramophone Editor’s Choice.
She was awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and was named ‘Lyrical Artist of the Year’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2009.
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Stuart Franklin
Photographer, Magnum Photos
Stuart Franklin was born in Britain in 1956. He studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design and geography at the University of Oxford (BA and PhD). During the 1980s, he worked as a correspondent for Sygma Agence Presse in Paris before joining Magnum Photos in 1985.
Franklin was the elected President of Magnum Photos from 2006-2009.
Franklin is best known for his celebrated photograph of a man defying a tank in Tiananmen Square, China, in 1989, which won him a World Press Photo Award. Since 2004 he has focused on long-term projects concerned primarily with man and the environment.
Writer
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
Writer
Sibylle Lewitscharoff, geboren 1954 in Stuttgart, Studium der Religionswissenschaften in Berlin. Etliche Veröffentlichungen, mehrere Li-teraturpreise, u.a. Kleistpreis, Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis, Büchnerpreis. Jahresaufenthalte in der Villa Massimo/Rom und im Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Letzte Romane: Das Pfingstwunder, erschienen 2016 im Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017 im Insel-Verlag Pong III. In Verbindung mit Najem Wali 2018: Abraham trifft Ibrahim, ebenfalls im Suhrkamp Verlag. 2019 erschien dort der Roman Von oben. Im September 2020 erschien Warten auf Gericht und Erlösung im Herder Verlag, ein Jenseitsgespräch mit Heiko Michael Hartmann. Ebenfalls wieder im Insel-Verlag erscheint Anfang 2021 Pong IV.
Musicologist and publicist
Wolfgang Fuhrmann
Musicologist and publicist
Wolfgang Fuhrmann is Professor at the Institute of Musicology in Leipzig. He studied musicology and German literature and language at the University of Vienna and has worked for many years as a freelance music journalist for Austrian and German newspapers such as the „Berliner Zeitung“ and the „Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“. He graduated with a Ph. D. thesis on medieval musical ethics/aesthetics (Herz und Stimme. Innerlichkeit, Affekt und Gesang im Mittelalter, published in 2004 by Bärenreiter publishers). His second thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Berne dealt with the reception of Joseph Haydn’s music during the lifetime of the composer (Haydn und sein Publikum. Die Veröffentlichung eines Komponisten, ca. 1750 bis 1815). From 2010 to 2016, he teached music history at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna, from 2016 to 2018 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 2013/14, he substituted as an interim professor for Sociology and Historical Anthropology of Music at Humboldt University, Berlin. Wolfgang Fuhrmann has worked as Scholarly Editor of Haydn2032 since 2015.
Writer
Zora del Buono
Writer
Zora del Buono, born in Zurich in 1962, studied architecture at ETH Zurich and UdK Berlin. After years as a construction manager in Berlin, she changed careers and became co-founder of the marine and culture magazine mare, where she is still employed as interim editor. Her first book, Canitz’ Verlangen (Canitz’s desire), was published by mareverlag in 2008. Since then she has written seven novels and literary travel books, including Das Leben der Mächtigen - Reisen zu alten Bäumen (The life of the mighty – journeys to old trees: Matthes & Seitz) and a novella about construction workers, Gotthard (C.H.Beck). In 2020, she published Die Marschallin, a novel of family life about her communist grandmother Zora Del Buono, who venerated Marshal Josip Broz Tito and ruled the family with an iron hand. Zora del Buono lives with her two southern Italian hounds in Zurich and Berlin.