Repertoire
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano and cello in G minor, op. 5 / 2
Robert Schumann: “Fantasiestücke” for cello and piano, op. 73
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for cello and piano No. 2 in Fa Major, op. 99
Artists
Vesselin Stanev
Born in Varna (Bulgaria). Studied at the Academy of Music in Sofia, with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow, with Alexis Weissenberg, and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Has additionally received guidance from Peter Feuchtwanger in London. Awarded prizes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and at the Concours Marguerite Long – Jacques Thibaud. Has performed at such major European concert halls as Wigmore Hall in London, the Alte Oper Frankfurt, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Has toured in the Nordic countries, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, and Japan. He has worked with such conductors as Paul Daniel, Alexander Lazarev, Hubert Soudant, and David Zinman. He also performs regularly as a chamber musician with the violinist Ekaterina Frolova. CDs for RCA, Sony Classical, and the Bulgarian label Gega New.
Zoltan Despond (born 1992) belongs to the new and promising generation of Swiss cellists. His teachers were Pierre-Bernard Sudan (Fribourg), Marc Jaermann (Lausanne), Thomas Grossenbacher (Zürich) and Enrico Dindo (Pavia).
In January 2018 and after four years under the instruction of Thomas Grossenbacher at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), he obtained higly successful the “master performance specialised soloist”.
Then he kept perfecting his skills at the “Pavia Cello Academy” in monthly lessons with the renowned Italian cellist Enrico Dindo. Additionally, he took part in masterclasses with Franz Helmerson, Antonio Meneses, Christophe Coin, Martin Ostertag, Christian Proske, Giovanni Sollima.
Zoltán Despond plays alongside musicians such as Ilya Gringolts, Silvia Simionescu, Claudius Hermann, Tanja Sonc, Marko Milenković, Anahit Kurtikyan, Thomas Grossenbacher. He also regularly collaborates with the pianists Anna Bertogna and Richard Octaviano Kogima.
Program
Vesselin Stanev piano
Zoltan Despond, violonchelo
