Mission
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ENG: We are affiliated with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Las Palmas and we are dedicated to educating and providing performance opportunities for the next generation of clarinetists. The festival takes place in one of the most beautiful parts of Cruce de Arinaga in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with our internationally acclaimed faculty, perform in large and small ensembles, attend workshops, and our international clarinet competition. |
ESP: Estamos afiliados con la Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas y estamos dedicados a educar y brindar oportunidades de rendimiento para la próxima generación de clarinetistas. El festival tiene lugar en una de las partes más hermosas del Cruce de Arinaga en Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, España.
Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de participar en clases magistrales con nuestro profesorado internacionalmente reconocido, actuar en conjuntos grandes y pequeños, asistir a talleres y nuestro concurso internacional de clarinete. |
Call for Proposals
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The Gran Canarian International Clarinet Festival is dedicated to creating performance opportunities for clarinetists. We are currently accepting performance proposals featuring programs with the clarinet. Deadline is December 15, 2019. If there are any questions, please contact us at grancanariaclfestival@gmail.com.
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El Gran Canaria International Clarinet Festival está dedicado a crear oportunidades de rendimiento para los clarinetistas. Actualmente estamos aceptando propuestas de desempeño que presenten programas con el clarinete. La fecha límite es el 15 de diciembre 2019. Si tiene alguna pregunta, comuníquese con nosotros al grancanariaclfestival@gmail.com
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Registration
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ENG: The registration deadline for active participants is for April 1st, 2020. Those who wish to attend as observers are welcome to register up to the first day of the festival. Our registration forms are available in both English and Spanish.
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ESP: La fecha límite de inscripción para los participantes activos es el 1 de abril de 2020. Los que deseen asistir como observadores pueden registrarse hasta el primer día del festival. Nuestros formularios de inscripción están disponibles en inglés y español.
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International Faculty
Alessandro Carbonare
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Alessandro Carbonare, born in Desenzano del Garda (Italy), is principal clarinet of the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia in Rome since 2003. Prior to this, for 15 years he lived in Paris where he served as principal clarinet of the Orchestre National de France. Carbonare was awarded many international music competitions around the world, among others, Geneva in 1990, Prague in 1991, Toulon in 1991, ARD Munich in 1991 and in 1992, and Paris in 1992. . As principal clarinet Carbonare also performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Personally invited by Claudio Abbado, he played with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and under him has live-recorded the Mozart clarinet concerto K622 for Deutsche Grammophon, which won the 49th Record Academy Awards 2013. He is an active member of FESNOJIV in Venezuela, teaching music for free to hundreds of poor young people in Caracas. He often works together with many famous musician friends, such as Leonidas Kavakos, Pinkas Zuckerman, Alexandre Lonquich, Lang Lang, Martha Argherich, Paquito D'Riveira, Luis Sclavis, Enrico Pieranunzi and Stefano Bollani. Carbonare is professor at Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and during summer courses at Accademia Chigiana di Siena. www.carbonare.com
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Philippe Cuper
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Principal Clarinet of the Paris National Opera Orchestra (since 1984), Philippe Cuper was invited by the Berlin Philharmonic, « La Scala de Milano », Bavarian Radio Symphonic, Czech Philharmonic, Moscow Symphonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre de Paris, National de France, Ensembles Contemporains in Paris… under the direction of the maestros Sawallisch, Ozawa, Abbado, Maazel, Mehta, Boulez, Prêtre, Dohnanyi, Barenboim, Gergiev, Salonnen, Conlon, Chung, Jordan. Born in Lille, Philippe Cuper wins many international rewards like Munich, Prague, Viotti, Slovak prize, medal in Geneva, Orvieto, Mravinsky medal in Saint Petersburg after his studies at the Sorbonne University and at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSM) where he got a first prize with exceptionnally high honours. His clarinet teachers were Gilbert Voisin (Cahuzac’s student), Guy Dangain, Guy Deplus, Henri Druart and he receive some advices from J. Lancelot, A. Boutard, S. Drucker (New York Philharmonic) and J. Hubeau, P. Pasquier (chamber music). Cuper taught at the CNSM : « Conservatorio Superior de Aragon » (Spain), he is now professor at the Versailles National Conservatory. www.philippecuper.com
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Jose Franch-Ballester
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A native of Moncofa, Spain, Jose Franch-Ballester is one of the most promising clarinetists of his generation. In 2008 he received the highly coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2007 was selected for a Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with Emmanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman. He has played with artists such as Charles Wadsworth, Arnold Steinhardt, Warren Jones, Ida Kavafian, Frederica von Stade and David Shifrin, the Saint Lawrence and Jupiter String Quartets, and as a soloist with orchestras such as Orquesta de la Radiotelevisión Española, I Musici of Montréal and Orchestra of Saint Luke’s. Mr. Franch-Ballester is in demand at numerous festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest, the Skaneateles Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, Usedomer Musikfestival, and Verbier Festival. He graduated from the Conservatoy Superior of Music Joaquín Rodrigo and entered the Curtis Institute of Music. He is a Backun Clarinet Artist and performs on MoBa Cocobolo Clarinets.
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Luca Cipriano
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He graduated in clarinet at Conservatory of music "S. Cecilia" in Rome. In 2011 he won the competition for the Clarinet Chair of pre-academic courses at the Conservatory of Music S. Cecilia in Rome, where he teached from 2011 to 2014. He is member of the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta since 2012, where he plays the role of first clarinet and he is a member of the "New Orchestra Scarlatti" of Naples since 2003, performing also as a chamber musician and soloist. He is also a permanent member of the PMCE (Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensamble) from 2009 as clarinet and bass clarinet. With this ensemble he had the opportunity to meet personally living composers such as Steve Reich, Jacob TV, Peter Eotvos, Arvo Part, Ivan Fedele, Sofia Gubaidulina. With these and other ensembles and orchestras he had many concerts in Italy and abroad (Paris, Brussels, Dublin, Stavangen, Budapest, Beijing, Tashkent, Batumi, etc...). Thanks also to the qualifications obtained, he collaborates in many orchestras such as the Orchestra of the National Academy of S. Cecilia, the Orchestra of the Teatro dell' Opera in Rome, the Orchestra of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and the Orchestra of the Istituzione Sinfonica Abbruzzese in L'Aquila.
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Radovan Cavallin, Director Artistico
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Since 1989, Radovan has been Principal Clarinet of Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra with whom he collaborated with conductors such as Rostropovich, Yurovsky, Norman del Mar, Gianandrea Noseda, Trevor Pinnock, Gunter Herbig, Adrian Leaper among many others. Currently, Mr. Cavallin is Professor of Clarinet at the Academy of OFGC. Between 2002 and 2010, he was the Professor of Clarinet, Chamber Music, and Orchestral Repertoire at the Conservatorio Superior de Musica in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Cavallin is a Selmer, Backun, Silverstein Works and D’Addario artist performing on Selmer “Privilege” clarinets, Backun MoBa “Arabesque” Mouthpiece and Silverstein “Carbon Black” ligature and D’Addario”Reserve Classic” Reeds.
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Laura Sanchez
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Laura is currently Principal Clarinet of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas and the Orquesta del Atlántico and has collaborated with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, the Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and as principal clarinet of the Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra. Since 2009, she has been the clarinet professor at the Escuela Municipal de Música "Candidito" de Teror and director of the clarinet ensemble "Clarikids". Since 2013, Laura has been a teacher at the well-known "Curso Musical de Verano" of the Asociación musico-educative Iengale.
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Ivan Pernicki, piano
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Croatian pianist Ivan Pernicki is equally at home on stage as a soloist or as a collaborative artist. He graduated from the Music Academy in his hometown of Zagreb, Croatia, after which he spent five years at La Schola Cantorum in Paris as a master’s-degree student of noted piano pedagogue Prof. Eugen Indjic. In 2009 and 2010 he had been awarded the International Keyboard Music Institute Scholarship at the Mannes College of Music in New York (USA).
Mr. Pernicki currently serves as a pianist in the vocal departments at both the Music Academy in Zagreb (Croatia) and the Music Academy in Ljubljana (Slovenia). He strongly advocates for music by Croatian composers, works by living composers and Art songs for voice and piano. In 2008, he gave the premiere of a new composition by Juilliard faculty member Eric Ewazen at Juilliard, and American composer Larry Alan Smith dedicated his “Three Pieces for Piano” (published in 2015) to Pernicki. In recent years, Pernicki has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in performances broadcast by Croatian Radio and Television and at festivals in Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Latvia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the United States. In recent time, Ivan has given numerous lecture recitals and masterclasses on chamber music and vocal coaching, on locations including several Universities in United Sates (University of Texas in Austin, Butler school of Music; University of Hartford, Hartt school of music; UMKC, Kansas City; Goucher college, Baltimore; Slippery Rock University, Pittsburgh; Kennesaw state University, Atlanta). Recently Ivan gave a concert at the National WWI Museum in Kansas City which was supported by House of Representatives at Washington 115th Congress, second session. For more information please also visit web page www.ivanpernicki.net or facebook account. |
Administration
Kristine Dizon, Programación
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Kristine Dizon is the Programming Director at the Gran Canaria International Clarinet Festival and Coordinator of the International Clarinet Competition at the American Single Reed Summit. Kristine is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon as a recipient of the Fundação para Ciência de Tecnologia. Her primary research focuses on “Remaking: The re-shaping of sound in Portuguese Musical Comedies." Ms. Dizon was awarded the J. William Fulbright/Camões Institute Scholarship to study clarinet and orchestral conducting at the Escola Superior de Música Artes e Espectáculo with António Saiote. Ms. Dizon received a Master’s degree in Clarinet Performance at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and degrees in European History and Music at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Kristine is an artist for F. Arthur Uebel Clarinets, Silverstein Works and Barkley Mouthpieces.
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Juan Mendez
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Durante muchos años fue el subdirector de la Banda Municipal de Música “San Miguel” de Sta. Cruz de La Palma. Ha participado desde sus inicios en el Encuentro Internacional de Música Cuidad del Paso de la mano de grandes intérpretes y maestros directores como; D. Vicente Ferrer, D. Guillermo Valverde, D. Juan José olives y D. kark bloemke, en las ramas de intérpretación, dirección de banda, orquesta y composición. Ha participado en numerosos cursos de dirección en Sta. Cruz de Tenerife, de la mano de D.Rafael Pascual Vilaplana y D. Rafael Sanz Espert, en la Banda Municipal de Sta. Cruz de Tenerife y Federación de Bandas de Tenerife. Ha sido director titular de La Banda Municipal de Música de Puntallana en la isla de La Palma durante 20 años. Creando y formando jóvenes valores, llevando un estilo a éste tipo de formación musical. Desde hace 20 años lleva la dirección de la academia insular de Inst. Musicales CajaCanarias. Ha participado en numerosos foros, ciclos, encuentros de música; Luis Cobiella, etc., de la, mano del los profesores D. Fernando Palacios, D. Vicente Ferrer, D. Juan José olives, D. Jaco Hans, Cesarini, Radovan Cavallín Zerjal, D. José Vicente Ega, D. Harald Hepner, etc. Ha formado parte en la orquesta del Encuentro Insular de Música Luis Cobiella de la isla de la Palma, Escuela Insular de Música y del Carro Alegórico de la Bajada de la Virgen del año 2000. El mes de enero del 2016 y 2018 formo parte del jurado del Carnaval de Santa Cruz de Tenerife en su concurso de agrupaciones musicales, celebrados en el recinto ferial. Participante del I Encuentro del Festival Mundial y concurso del monográfico del clarinete, celebrado en el municipio de la Matanza de Acentejo, Participante de 2 º Festival internacional de clarinete de Gran Canaria, 2019, 40 horas. Miembro del jurado calificador en nivel superior del concurso internacional de clarinete de gran canaria, celebrado en el municipio de Aguimes, 2019. En junio del 2019, fue asignado, pregonero de las fiestas patronales de san Juan bautista, en el municipio de punta llana, (ISLA DE LA PALMA), dentro del 40 aniversario de la banda municipal del municipio, donde ejerció de director 20 años.
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Daniel Gonzalez
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Daniel García González, nacido en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria el 14 de Noviembre de 1997, es un estudiante de clarinete desde los 8 años. A los 14 años empezó cursos profesionales en el Conservatorio Profesional de música de Gran Canaria, llegando hasta 5º año, donde pasaría a estudiar con Don Radovan Cavallin en la Sede de la Filarmónica de las Palmas de Gran Canaria; destaca también un Erasmus en Eslovenia donde recibió clases de Don Slavko Kovacic y clases magistrales de diferentes profesores como Ricardo Morales, Milan Milosevic, Barbara Borowicz, Laura Sánchez, Javier Llopis, Robert Spring y Lorenzo Iosco.
A nivel profesional ha impartido clases de clarinete en la escuela de música de Tenoya y ha tocado en diversas bandas y orquestas entre las que se destaca la Joven Orquesta de Gran Canaria, la Inegale Joven Orquesta, la Inegale Pop Orquesta y la Pihalni orkester KUD posta Maribor. |
International Clarinet Competition
May 3, 2020
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ENGLISH
We are pleased to announce the third edition of the international clarinet competition for two levels: Junior and Senior. Each clarinetist must prepare one compulsory work and one solo piece of their choice for up to 10 minutes. The festival will provide each competitor with a pianist. The deadline for the competition is April 1, 2020 |
SPANISH
Nos complace anunciar nuestra tercera edición de concurso internacional de clarinete en tres siguientes niveles: Junior y Superior. Cada clarinetista preparara una obra obligatorio y una solo de libre elección hasta 10 minutos. La organización se encargará de proporcionar el pianista si lo desea. La fecha Límite para la inscripción de concurso es 1 Abril de 2020. |
Nuestro objetivo"es inspirar el crecimiento musical y el aprendizaje en uno de los lugares más bellos del mundo." Radovan Cavallin Director Artistico Gran Canaria International Clarinet Festival |
Travel
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Airport
The Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria is a 10 minute drive to the Teatro Cruce de Arinaga. There is public transit that can take you near the theatre with bus line 1 or 36 from the airport to the theatre. |
Location
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Ubicación
Teatro Cruce de Arinaga Sede de la Orquesta Sinfonica de Las Palmas 35118 Cruce de Arinaga Gran Canaria, Spain |
Hotels
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Hay varias opciones económicas que están cerca del teatro a través de Airbnb a una distancia de 5 a 10 minutos a pie. Más información próximamente sobre opciones adicionales de hotel.
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There are several inexpensive options that are near the theatre via Airbnb within 5-10 minute walking distance. More information coming soon about additional hotel options.
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