MaYDuo
The MaYDuo is a piano duo consisting of the two Cologne pianists Mark Kantorovic and Yuhao Guo.
history
The piano duo MaYDuo was founded in Cologne in summer 2005 and was supervised by Carola Köhler (Rheinische Musikschule Köln) until 2007. The two pianists Mark Kantorovic (* 1992) and Yuhao Guo (* 1992) are young students at the Cologne University of Music and Dance , where they take lessons from Anthony Spiri, Nina Tichman and Arbo Valdma. In 2009 the duo received a scholarship for an international master class in Heek (North Rhine-Westphalia) with Anthony Spiri and Dirk Mommertz and in 2010 a scholarship for an international master course in Montepulciano / Italy with Anthony Spiri.
The MaYDuo made its debut in 2010 at the Philharmonie Essen , where it opened the 2010/2011 season with a duo evening. It also appeared in the Cologne Philharmonic , the Tonhalle Düsseldorf , the Gürzenich Cologne and the Frankfurt (Oder) concert hall. There are also appearances in Poland and Italy. In autumn 2009 it played two concerts in Brandenburg with the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) under chief conductor Howard Griffiths . In addition, the duo played in the context of the winners' concert of the Classical Prize of the City of Münster and the WDR in Erbdrostenhof Münster, where the concert was recorded and broadcast by the radio station WDR 3 .
Prices
- 2006 - 2nd prize national competition " Jugend musiziert " in Freiburg im Breisgau
- 2009 - 1st prize with the highest number of points in the “Jugend musiziert” national competition in Essen
- 2009 - Winner of the Classical Prize of the City of Münster and the WDR
Discography
In October 2010 the piano duo's first CD was released under the name MaYDuo - piano duo on the HVB-Ton label. Works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Milhaud, Gershwin and Guo will be performed.
"Innocent in concert?" - A musical-literary "tragedy"
In 2010 the piano duo, with the help of Ute Hasenauer, wrote a play that shows the life of a young person who has no access to classical music, but is forced by his grandmother to attend a piano duo concert and does a number of things wrong there. It is intended to bring classical music closer to children, young people and adults in an entertaining way. Innocent in Concert has been performed twice so far.