Radovan Cavallin
Radovan Cavallin was born in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1969. At age 13, Cavallin entered the Academy of Music at the University of Zagreb, becoming the youngest student ever admitted in the University’s history, graduating with honors and distinction in clarinet performance. In 1986, Cavallin was chosen from 76 candidates to enter at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he was awarded the following prizes: 1st Prize Chamber Music unanimously class Christian Lardé in 1988 and 1st Prize Clarinet unanimously in class of Guy Deplus in 1989. In addition, Cavallin received four scholarships: 1986, Ivo Pogorelich Scholarship; 1987 Scholarship Nadia and Lily Boulanger; and 1988 and 1989, French Government Scholarship. Radovan received awards in the following competitions: 1st National Prize for Clarinet in Yugoslavia on 4 occasions (1981, 1983, 1985, and 1986), 1st Prize of the International Clarinet Competition in Ancona (Italy) in 1984, 2nd Prize at the International Competition Clarinet “Dos Hermanas” in Sevilla (Spain) in 1995.
Mr. Cavallin has performed over 400 solo concerts in USA, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, China, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. He has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra RTV Zagreb, Zagreb Soloists, Orchestra of Belgrade, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre National de Gottwaldov (former Czechoslovakia), Orchestra del Teatro Bologna Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Béla Bartók, Orchestra Franco-Belgian Brussels and Extremadura Orchestra, Symphony Dubrovnik (Croatia), Opera Orchestra of Rijeka (Croatia), St. Giles Orchestra (Oxford, United Kingdom) among others interpreting concertos by Francaix , Mozart, Nielsen, Stanford,Copland, Weber, Tomasi, Takemitsu, Danzi, Strauss, Bruch, Lindpeintner, Krommer, Debussy, Stanford, Leloup, Palacios, Shaw, Grgin, Adamic, Kovacevic.
Radovan performed as a soloist with STING during his Symphonicity tour with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria. He has performed as a soloist at festivals in Ferrara (Italy), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Bad Hersfeld (Germany), Granada, La Orotava (Tenerife), Lanzhou (China),Brussels (Belgium), Lisbon (Portugal), Ibagué (Colombia), Lanzhou (China) and Baton Rouge (USA ). Radovan has made recordings for labels like Yugoton, Croatia Records, BMG Arte Nova, Maguelone, AgrupArte Productions, Cristal Records, Summit Records and ASV.
Cavallin is one of the founders of the following chamber groups; Atlantis Quartet, Trio Spohr, Reinecke Quartet, and Alisios Camerata with whom he has recently made a successful tour of 5 concerts in Japan. Currently, Radovan is the Artistic Director of the Agaete Clarinet Festival, VIMM (Virovitica International Musical Meeting), and the Cyprus Clarinet Festival. He also serves as regular faculty at Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo, Spain) and the International clarinet course “Julián Menéndez” (Ávila, Spain). Cavallin has taught more than 60 master classes in Japan, China, Portugal, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Cyprus, United States, and Serbia.
Recently, Radovan has taught masterclasses at the I Encontro da Clarinetes at the Universidade de Évora, Clar.Meet Porto (2016), Clarinetissimo, California State University (Northeridge), Arizona State University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also been a member of the jury of several international clarinet competitions in Spain, Croatia, Portugal and the United States.
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, Leopold Hager, Gabriel Chmura, Antoni Wit, 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.
Mr. Cavallin has performed over 400 solo concerts in USA, Italy, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, China, Portugal, Spain, Czechoslovakia, Colombia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro. He has performed as soloist with orchestras such as the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra RTV Zagreb, Zagreb Soloists, Orchestra of Belgrade, Sinfonia Varsovia, Orchestre National de Gottwaldov (former Czechoslovakia), Orchestra del Teatro Bologna Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria, Las Palmas Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Béla Bartók, Orchestra Franco-Belgian Brussels and Extremadura Orchestra, Symphony Dubrovnik (Croatia), Opera Orchestra of Rijeka (Croatia), St. Giles Orchestra (Oxford, United Kingdom) among others interpreting concertos by Francaix , Mozart, Nielsen, Stanford,Copland, Weber, Tomasi, Takemitsu, Danzi, Strauss, Bruch, Lindpeintner, Krommer, Debussy, Stanford, Leloup, Palacios, Shaw, Grgin, Adamic, Kovacevic.
Radovan performed as a soloist with STING during his Symphonicity tour with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria. He has performed as a soloist at festivals in Ferrara (Italy), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Bad Hersfeld (Germany), Granada, La Orotava (Tenerife), Lanzhou (China),Brussels (Belgium), Lisbon (Portugal), Ibagué (Colombia), Lanzhou (China) and Baton Rouge (USA ). Radovan has made recordings for labels like Yugoton, Croatia Records, BMG Arte Nova, Maguelone, AgrupArte Productions, Cristal Records, Summit Records and ASV.
Cavallin is one of the founders of the following chamber groups; Atlantis Quartet, Trio Spohr, Reinecke Quartet, and Alisios Camerata with whom he has recently made a successful tour of 5 concerts in Japan. Currently, Radovan is the Artistic Director of the Agaete Clarinet Festival, VIMM (Virovitica International Musical Meeting), and the Cyprus Clarinet Festival. He also serves as regular faculty at Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo, Spain) and the International clarinet course “Julián Menéndez” (Ávila, Spain). Cavallin has taught more than 60 master classes in Japan, China, Portugal, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Cyprus, United States, and Serbia.
Recently, Radovan has taught masterclasses at the I Encontro da Clarinetes at the Universidade de Évora, Clar.Meet Porto (2016), Clarinetissimo, California State University (Northeridge), Arizona State University, George Mason University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also been a member of the jury of several international clarinet competitions in Spain, Croatia, Portugal and the United States.
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, Leopold Hager, Gabriel Chmura, Antoni Wit, 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.
Laura Sanchez
Natural de Teror, empieza sus estudios de clarinete en la Banda Municipal del pueblo con Eusebio Bravo, continuándolos en la Academia de la OFGC, el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Las Palmas, el Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, el Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco – Musikene y la Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, en Alemania.
Ha estudiado con los clarinetistas Radovan Cavallin, José Luis Estellés, Anthony Pay, Henri Bok, Wolfgang Meyer, Joan Enric Lluna, Thomas Friedli, Vicente Alberola o Johannes Peitz, entre otros. En el mundo de la música de cámara, se ha perfeccionado con maestros como Almudena Cano, Ralph Gothoni, Kalle Randalu, Michael Uhde o Maurice Bourgue.
A lo largo de su trayectoria como músico profesional, Laura Sánchez ha realizado un gran número de conciertos como solista, recitales y música de cámara en Europa y Latinoamérica. Ha sido miembro del jurado del Concurso “Música de Cámara Ciudad de Guía” y miembro fundadora de grupos como “Con Fuoco Quintet” o “Ensemble Canaires”.
Ha colaborado con diversas orquestas como la Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, la Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Oviedo, la Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Granada, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, la Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester E. V. Mannheim y la Philarmonie der Nationen. Con ellas ha podido trabajar bajo la batuta de directores como Pablo González, Lutz Köhler, Günther Herbig, Pedro Halffter, Antoni Ros-Marbá, Andrés Orozco, Andrew Gourlay, Elim Chan, Thomas Hengelbrock, Gennady Rozhdestvensky o Karel Mark Chichon.
Actualmente es solista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas y Orquesta del Atlántico, además de colaborar con la Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, la Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y como concertino de la Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra.
Tiene gran interés por la música de este siglo para el clarinete, trabajando junto a compositores como Wolfgang Rihm o Peter Eötvös. Es socia de PROMUSCAN, a través de la cual promociona la creación musical actual en Canarias. Esto la ha llevado a estrenar obras de compositores de nuestros días como Laura Vega, Daniel Roca, Elizabeth Curbelo o Lothar Siemens, y próximamente de Ernesto Mateo.
Para impulsar la educación musical en general, y la enseñanza del clarinete en particular en las diferentes edades del alumno, Laura ha estudiado con grandes pedagogos como Anna-Corin Ahl, Arminda López, Anna Maria Freschi, Verena Maschat, Polo Vallejo, James Harding, Wolfgang Hartmann, Cecilia Rogier o Eduardo Marceillac, entre otros. Tiene un master en musicoterapia.
Laura ha desarrollado una intensa labor trabajando en diversas escuelas de música de Gran Canaria. Ha sido invitada como profesora de clarinete para impartir cursos y master class especializadas en España y Brasil. Desde 2009 es profesora de la Escuela Municipal de Música “Candidito” de Teror y directora del ensemble de clarinetes “ClariKids”, y desde 2013 es profesora en el importante y reconocido “Curso Musical de Verano” de la asociación musico-educativa Inegale.
Ha estudiado con los clarinetistas Radovan Cavallin, José Luis Estellés, Anthony Pay, Henri Bok, Wolfgang Meyer, Joan Enric Lluna, Thomas Friedli, Vicente Alberola o Johannes Peitz, entre otros. En el mundo de la música de cámara, se ha perfeccionado con maestros como Almudena Cano, Ralph Gothoni, Kalle Randalu, Michael Uhde o Maurice Bourgue.
A lo largo de su trayectoria como músico profesional, Laura Sánchez ha realizado un gran número de conciertos como solista, recitales y música de cámara en Europa y Latinoamérica. Ha sido miembro del jurado del Concurso “Música de Cámara Ciudad de Guía” y miembro fundadora de grupos como “Con Fuoco Quintet” o “Ensemble Canaires”.
Ha colaborado con diversas orquestas como la Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, la Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Oviedo, la Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Granada, la Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, la Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester E. V. Mannheim y la Philarmonie der Nationen. Con ellas ha podido trabajar bajo la batuta de directores como Pablo González, Lutz Köhler, Günther Herbig, Pedro Halffter, Antoni Ros-Marbá, Andrés Orozco, Andrew Gourlay, Elim Chan, Thomas Hengelbrock, Gennady Rozhdestvensky o Karel Mark Chichon.
Actualmente es solista de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Las Palmas y Orquesta del Atlántico, además de colaborar con la Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria, la Banda Sinfónica Municipal de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y como concertino de la Gran Canaria Wind Orchestra.
Tiene gran interés por la música de este siglo para el clarinete, trabajando junto a compositores como Wolfgang Rihm o Peter Eötvös. Es socia de PROMUSCAN, a través de la cual promociona la creación musical actual en Canarias. Esto la ha llevado a estrenar obras de compositores de nuestros días como Laura Vega, Daniel Roca, Elizabeth Curbelo o Lothar Siemens, y próximamente de Ernesto Mateo.
Para impulsar la educación musical en general, y la enseñanza del clarinete en particular en las diferentes edades del alumno, Laura ha estudiado con grandes pedagogos como Anna-Corin Ahl, Arminda López, Anna Maria Freschi, Verena Maschat, Polo Vallejo, James Harding, Wolfgang Hartmann, Cecilia Rogier o Eduardo Marceillac, entre otros. Tiene un master en musicoterapia.
Laura ha desarrollado una intensa labor trabajando en diversas escuelas de música de Gran Canaria. Ha sido invitada como profesora de clarinete para impartir cursos y master class especializadas en España y Brasil. Desde 2009 es profesora de la Escuela Municipal de Música “Candidito” de Teror y directora del ensemble de clarinetes “ClariKids”, y desde 2013 es profesora en el importante y reconocido “Curso Musical de Verano” de la asociación musico-educativa Inegale.
Kristine Dizon
An international artist and teacher, Kristine Dizon has performed in Europe, Asia, and South America. Recently, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Saint Joseph in Macau as part of the Faculty of Creative Industries. She has taught clarinet masterclasses in Armenia, Cyprus, Thailand, Perú, and Poland. An advocate for music education, Kristine has been a part of several socio-cultural projects that include the Philharmonie de Paris-Project DEMOS, Conservatoire de Montargis (OAE) and the Minnesota Project Opera. She has premiered works by Agnieszka Zdrojek-Suchodolska, Nicolas Bacri, Kryštof Maratka, and Reinaldo Moya. She had several performances at ClarinetFest 2018 in Oostende, Belgium with Barbara Borowicz, Cyprus Clarinet Choir, and the Canarian Clarinet Camerata with Radovan Cavallin. In 2017, she guest taught at the VI Taller para Jóvenes Clarinetistas organized by Clariperu, served as part of the international jury for the V Concurso de Bandas Escolares 2016 where she held a residency with PeruBandas and taught clarinet masterclasses in Cusco and Lima, Peru. Other notable performances include the VII Congreso Nacional de Clarinete in Madrid, Spain and at ClarinetFest 2017 in Orlando, Florida.
Ms. Dizon is a recipient of the Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia grant for the International Doctoral Program of Cultural Studies at the Universidade de Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon for her research “Remaking: The Reshaping of Sound in Portuguese Musical Comedies”. She 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 Dizon is the Co-Founder, Programming Director, and Resident Conductor of the Gran Canaria International Clarinet Festival. She is the Coordinator of the International Clarinet Competition of the American Single Reed Summit. Kristine performs exclusively on F.A. Uebel Clarinets, Silverstein Works, and Barkley Brazil Mouthpieces. www.kristinedizon.com
Ms. Dizon is a recipient of the Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia grant for the International Doctoral Program of Cultural Studies at the Universidade de Católica Portuguesa in Lisbon for her research “Remaking: The Reshaping of Sound in Portuguese Musical Comedies”. She 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 Dizon is the Co-Founder, Programming Director, and Resident Conductor of the Gran Canaria International Clarinet Festival. She is the Coordinator of the International Clarinet Competition of the American Single Reed Summit. Kristine performs exclusively on F.A. Uebel Clarinets, Silverstein Works, and Barkley Brazil Mouthpieces. www.kristinedizon.com
COLLABORATIVE PIANIST
IVAN PERNICKI
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.
Mr. Pernicki is especially praised for his work with singers and clarinetists. In 2014 he received a special award for best vocal accompanist at the International Singing Competition Lazar Jovanović in Belgrade (Serbia), and in 2016, he was a scholarship participant at the renowned Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, the first Croatian musician to perform there in the Institute’s thirty-year history. Pernicki has also played orchestral reductions for nine opera productions in Switzerland, Italy, and Croatia for which he received excellent reviews.
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.
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.
Mr. Pernicki is especially praised for his work with singers and clarinetists. In 2014 he received a special award for best vocal accompanist at the International Singing Competition Lazar Jovanović in Belgrade (Serbia), and in 2016, he was a scholarship participant at the renowned Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, the first Croatian musician to perform there in the Institute’s thirty-year history. Pernicki has also played orchestral reductions for nine opera productions in Switzerland, Italy, and Croatia for which he received excellent reviews.
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.