2, 3, 4 Aprile 2016
Maestro: JOSE’ VAZQUEZ
Chamber music, viola da gamba and Baroque violin.
These courses, geared for professional and amateur alike, offer a pedagogically well balanced program of technique classes, master classes and ensemble playing.
Associazione La Musica Interna, Via Altabella, 11 – 40126 Bologna
CONCERT: MONDAY, 4 APRIL
Information / Enrollment: Orpheon@gmx.at - mostacci@admb.it – Tel: +34-600-607515
ISCRIZIONE/FEE
lezioni individuali/solo lessons + Chamber Music: 100 €
Only Chamber Music: 60 €
José Vázquez was born in La Habana, Cuba, a city founded around 1500 in the reign of Charles V by Spanish colonists, which soon became the gateway to the New World. Having lived next to the then rabble-rouser student, Fidel Castro, with whose son he often visited the zoo, his family knew what to expect: so after the delusion of the Revolution, José left his native land with his family for North America, where he spent the ensuing 13 years of his life. He studied at Northwestern University (Chicago) and performed in the Collegium Musicum of the University of Chicago under the direction of Howard Meyer Brown for four years before undertaking professional studies of the viola da gamba with Hannelore Müller and Baroque violin with Jaap Schroeder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. In 1980 he was appointed to the Conservatory of Music in Winterthur, Switzerland, where he teaches performance practice, viola da gamba and baroque violin. In 1982 he was appointed professor for viola da gamba at the University of Music in Vienna, Austria. Concerts as soloist (viola da gamba concerti, passions) with various European orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra Amsterdam, Zürich Opera Orchestra, Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, Dublin Radio Orchestra, Thessaloniki State Orchestra, The Smithsonian Chamber Players under directors such as, Riccardo Chailly, Roy Goodman, Florian Heyerick, Günter Jena, Helmut Rilling, Franz Welser-Möst. Recordings with diverse ensembles (Ex Tempore, Belgium; Hans-Martin Linde, Switzerland; Musica Antiqua Köln, Germany…). Founder and director of the Orpheon Baroque Orchestra and Orpheon Consort, with which numerous recordings have been made.
In recognition of his artistic achievements the Austrian Government awarded José Vázquez the Silver Cross-of-Honour for Merit of the Republic of Austria. (Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich).