Valentina Seferinova, the pianist on this recording, gave her first public performance at age eight and has a reputation for championing neglected composers.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Boissier composes in a Neo-Romantic style, having created more than thirty works, and believes in exploring past styles to develop one's own.
Performer Biography
The Ukrainian Festival Orchestra (UFO), founded in 2014, aims to record and popularize Ukrainian classical music worldwide, describing it as "a festival that lasts forever."
Composer Biography
Composer and organist Thierry Escaich discovered Corentin Boissier as a child, noting his genuine sense of harmonic color, rhythmic invention, and understanding of thematic development.
Composer Biography
Corentin Boissier, born in 1995, was homeschooled and introduced to classical music at age two by his father, who allotted an hour per day for listening.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Corentin Boissier believes a living artist is naturally modern and that modernity involves creating something new without rejecting the principles and techniques of the past.
Performer Biography
John McLaughlin Williams, the conductor on this recording, is a Grammy winner whose conducting has received international attention and praise from various publications.
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