Pianist David Korevaar performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and spent two weeks teaching at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) in 2016.
Composer Biography
Paul Juon studied composition with Anton Arensky and Sergey Taneyev, both of whom were strongly influenced by Tchaikovsky.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Paul Juon's music, like that of his contemporaries Nikolai Medtner and Sergey Rachmaninov, remained firmly rooted in tonality and Romantic musical gestures.
Composer Biography
Paul Juon, the composer, was born in Moscow to a Swiss émigré father and received his education in a German school before studying violin and composition at the Imperial Conservatory.
Performer Biography
Violinist Charles Wetherbee has performed with numerous orchestras worldwide, including the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovitch and the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra.
Composer Biography
Paul Juon continued his studies in Berlin with Woldemar Bargiel, Clara Schumann's half-brother, which provided him a direct link to the German Romantic style of Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Paul Juon's compositional voice is largely Germanic, leading him to be called the 'Russian Brahms,' but his later music also incorporates Scandinavian sounds, possibly from arranging Sibelius's works.
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