Homero Francesch
Homero Francesch (born December 6, 1947 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan - Swiss pianist .
Life
Homero Francesch studied with Santiago Baranda Reyes in Uruguay. In 1967 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service and studied in Munich with Hugo Steurer and Ludwig Hoffmann .
He has given concerts all over Europe as well as Canada, Japan, Australia, the USA and Latin America.
Francesch has been engaged as a soloist by the most renowned orchestras in the world, such as the Berlin Philharmonic , Munich Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic , the Concertgebouw Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchester National de France, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich . He played under the conductors Leonard Bernstein , Kurt Masur , Colin Davis , Riccardo Chailly , Eliahu Inbal , Neville Marriner and many others. Numerous festivals have invited him, including the Berliner Festwochen , Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival , Wiener Festwochen , Prague Spring , Salzburg Festival and Aix-en-Provence , George Enescu Festival Bucharest, Cervantino Festival Mexico, Chopin Festival Duzniki / Poland.
Homero Francesch was a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts , where he taught a soloist class for 33 years. His students included the Swiss pianists Adrian Oetiker, Oliver Schnyder , Maki Wiederkehr, Benjamin Engeli, Christian Chamorel as well as the pianists See Siang Wong , Arta Arnicane, Dmitri Demiashkin, Daniel Vaiman, Tomasz Herbut, Filippo Gamba, Simone Gragnani and many others. From 2004 to 2011 Francesch was the artistic director of the Lenk Summer Academy in Switzerland. He is a jury member at numerous international piano competitions. He is the artistic director of the Viersen Music Summer, which has been held annually since 2006.
Interpreter
Homero Francesch recorded works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Bartók , Henze , Mendelssohn , Mozart , Ravel , Schumann , Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky for Deutsche Grammophon , works by Scarlatti , Ravel , Chopin , Mozart , Reinecke for Tudor and all sonatas and all of them for counterpoint Piano concertos by Mozart .
He played numerous works on television, including Ravel's G major piano concerto , which was awarded the Prix Italia in 1973 , as well as Beethoven's choral fantasy under Leonard Bernstein with the Vienna Philharmonic , Hans Werner Henze's "Tristan" under the direction of Composers with the WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln , Haydn's D major concerto and Mendelssohn's D minor concerto with The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner . There are also solo programs with works by Mozart , Ravel , Rachmaninow , Isaac Albéniz , de Falla , Villa-Lobos and Alberto Ginastera .
Prizes and awards
- Homero Francesch was awarded the German Record Prize in 1978 .
- He later received the Golden Medal in the Duzniker Festival and the Golden Note in Zurich.
Recordings (selection)
- Robert Schumann : Fantasy Pieces op.12, Scenes from Children op.15, Arabesque op.18
- Igor Stravinsky : Les Noces
- Béla Bartók : Microcosm
- Domenico Scarlatti : Piano Sonatas L 281, 203, 333, 413, 122, 187, 465, 5, 422, 118, 164, 391
- Carl Reinecke : Trio for clarinet, viola & piano in A major, op. 264; Sonata for flute & piano in E minor, op.167
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Trio for clarinet, viola & piano in E flat major, KV 498; all piano sonatas and piano concertos
- Maurice Ravel : L'Œuvre pour Piano I + II; Le Tombeau de Couperin ; Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn; Sérénade grotesque; Gaspard de la Nuit; Pavane pour une infante défunte etc.
- Frédéric Chopin : Polonaise
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musinfo (Engl.) ( Memento of 6 March 2016 Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Francesch, Homero |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan-Swiss pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |