Michal Stahel

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Michal Stahel (born August 13, 1979 in Bratislava ) is a Slovak cellist . He specializes in historical performance practice from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Life

education

Michal Stahel (Slovak: Sťahel) grew up in a musical family in the Slovak capital, Bratislava . He began taking cello lessons at the age of six. In 1991 he entered the State Conservatory in Bratislava, where he attended Karol Filipovič's cello class from 1993–1999. After graduating from high school, he continued his studies there from 1997–1999 with an additional course in pedagogical direction with teaching internship (teaching license). In 1999/2000 Stahel took an undergraduate course at the Royal College of Music in London with Steven Doane, in 2000/01 he was a student of Valentin Erben at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, 2001-2003 with Reimund Korupp at the State University for music and performing arts Mannheim , where he received his diploma "Artistic Education" (Mag. art.). In 2004/05 he did a postgraduate course (cycle supérieur) at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris CNR with Marc Coppey. In 2009/10 there was also a year of study at the Chair of Aesthetics of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Prešov in the field of musical aesthetics of the 17th and 18th centuries.

International concert activity

As a soloist, Stahel has given concerts with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, the Slovak Philharmonic , the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Košice State Philharmonic, the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, the Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, the Karlovy Vary Marianske Lazne Symphony Orchestra, and the West Bohemian Chamber Orchestra the Bohdan Warchal Chamber Orchestra under conductors such as Andrew Parrott , Dennis Russell Davies , James Judd , Jiří Bělohlávek , Oliver Dohnányi , Mário Košík , Ronald Zollman , Bystrík Režucha , Charles Ansbacher , Stephen Somary , Peter Feranec and Jan Latham Koenig .

Before beginning his specialization in baroque and classical music, Stahel played several world premieres of works by Slovak composers, including "Aztécke piesne II" for bass, four bongos, flute and violoncello (1998) by Ilja Zelenka , and "Agnus Dei" for Soprano and two cellos (1998), “Magnificat” for soprano and three instruments (2005), “Arcus” for solo cello and “Cantus per Elisabeth” for flute and cello (2006) by Pavol Malovec , “Violončelo sólo 2005” and “ Little Concerto ”for cello and string orchestra (2005) by Lucia Koňakovská . He also regularly plays works by Vladimír Godár .

Specialization in historical performance practice

Stahel has been working with the Slovak ensembles for early music Solamente Naturali and Musica Aeterna since 2005, whereby his artistic and musical attitude has developed entirely in the direction of what is known as "historical performance practice". In 2007 he founded the Duo Speculatio for chamber music literature of the 18th century and the Amaranth Ensemble for concert repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, his main focus of work in recent years. His knowledge and views in this area became decisive through master classes, workshops and regular lessons with the baroque violinist and former director of the Musica Antiqua Köln Reinhard Goebel , the gambist Lorenz Duftschmid , the clarinetist Lorenzo Coppola , members of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the baroque cellist and musicologist Marc Vanscheeuwijck influenced. Stahel's partners in the field of “early music” also include Andrew Parrott , Steven Stubbs , Skip Sempé , Simon Standage , Amandine Bayer , Riccardo Masahide Minasi , Enrico Onofri , Martin Haselböck , Marek Štryncl , Stephan Möller-Spaemann , Alessandro Commellato , Jana Semerádová , Monika Toth , Václav Luks , Miloš Valent and Peter Zajíček . He performs regularly with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra , the Vienna Academy , the Ensemble 1756 , L'Eclisse , Das Neue Orchester , Capriccio Stravagante , Haydn Sinfonietta Wien , Spira mirabilis , Academia Montis Regalis , Collegium Marianum Prague , Musica Florea , Collegium 1704 , Solamente Naturali and Musica Aeterna .

Project "Vienna 1720"

Stahel plays a cello made by Anton Posch (Vienna, around 1720), which was made available to him in 2008 by the Esterházy Foundation Eisenstadt. Based on this, he developed the concert and CD project “Vienna 1720”, in which, after intensive research in various Central European libraries and archives, he composed the diverse and high-quality musical culture in Vienna and the surrounding region using the example of the cellists who work here and composed by them Depicts music at the time his instrument was made. Francesco Alborea , Giovanni Perroni , Francesco Supriano , Antonio Caldara as well as Giovanni and Antonio Bononcini are just a few of these personalities who made careers in Vienna in the first half of the 18th century in the court ensemble of the Habsburg emperors.

Prizes, awards, grants

  • 1995: 1st prize, Ludwig van Beethoven Prize and Bohuslav Martinů Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in Hradec nad Moravicí, Czech Republic
  • 1997: 1st prize in the Slovak Conservatoire Competition
  • 1998: Finalist at the International Grand Prix Eurovision Young Musicians in Vienna
  • 1999: Winner of the international competition “Talent roku” (Talent of the Year) in Prague
  • 2000: Finalist at the TIJI UNESCO (International Tribune for Young Performers) in Lisbon, Music Critic Award at the Central European Music Festival for Concert Art in Žilina
  • 2004: Scholarship from the French government, Cité des Arts Paris
  • 2007: Scholarship from the Solti Foundation
  • 2008/09: Scholarship from Academia Montis Regalis

Own compositions (selection)

  • La folia . 7 Variationi per violoncello solo (2011)
  • Arpeggio in G minor . Praeludium for violoncello solo in scordatura (2012)
  • A Song of Solitude for violoncello solo (2012)

Recordings (selection)

  • Lucia Koňakovská: Violončelo sólo 2005 (2006, Slovak Music Fund)
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Piano septets on period instruments (2007, Brilliant Classics)
  • "Solitude". Works for cello solo by Domenico Gabrieli, Domenico Galli, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph MC Dall'Abaco, Francesco Paolo Supriano and Michal Stahel (2012, Pavlík Records; 2013, Gramola)

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personal data
SURNAME Stahel, Michal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovak cellist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Bratislava