Live cello masterclass with Lionel Cottet & student Antons Trocjuks / RJAcademy 2020/21

Masterclass of the Riga Jurmala Online Music Academy – live cello by Lionel Cottet, the principal violoncellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Lionel Cottet has studied at the Geneva’s Conservatoire as well as at the Salzburg Mozarteum, at the Zurich University of the Arts and at New York’s Juilliard School of Music. He is particularly fond of performing chamber music and has appeared alongside artists of the eminence of Itzhak Perlman, Mitsuko Uchida, Clemens Hagen, Nobuko Imai, Arnold Steinhardt and Pierre Amoyal. He also appears regularly in partnership with the pianist Louis Schwizgebel and has performed in this capacity at many major festivals, including the Marlboro Festival in the United States, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and others. Lionel Cottet plays on a violoncello made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in 1852. Since February 2016 he has been the principal violoncellist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

More information about the artist: https://www.br-so.com/instrumentation...

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Student of the masterclass:
Antons Trocjuks, Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of music / prof.emeritus E.Testeļeca class

Repertoire:
J.S.Bach - Prelude and Sarabande from Cello Suite No.1, BWV 1007
E.Elgar - Cello Concerto, I and II mvts

Cellist Antons Trocjuks began his studies as a musician at the 1st Children’s Music School, before studying with Eleonora Testeļeca at the Emīls Dārziņš Music Secondary School and with Dmitri Skolov at the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory.

After graduating, Antons turned his attention to creative work and concerts, playing as part of the fusion ensemble DAGAMBA.

He has participated in masterclasses with Natalia Shakhovskaya, Peter Bruns, Jeroen Reuling, Stephan Schrader and others, and has won many international competitions.

He has performed many times with orchestras as a soloist. He is now studying again at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music with professor emeritus Eleonora Testeļeca.

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