The National Music Conservatory is very pleased to host a piano, violin and cello masterclass with internationally-renowned musicians Paavali Jumpannen (piano), Mark Gothoni (violin) and Yuko Miyagawa (cello).

Date: Monday November 7, 3-6 pm at the National Music Conservatory
Tuesday November 8, 3-6 pm at the National Music Conservatory

The professors will be teaching a select group of students from the National Music Conservatory and the University of Jordan. All classes are public, and music students and interested musicians from all levels are invited to observe the lessons and benefit from the insights offered by the professors.

The masterclasses are part of the International Exchange program by the Savonlinna Music Academy in Finland. The Academy is a renowned musical institution dedicated to teaching classical music at the highest standard and hosts summer master-classes in Lied, Opera, Chamber music, violin, viola, cello, and piano. After the success of the “Finland-Egypt Musical Bridge”, which over ten years gave many Egyptian musicians the opportunity to study at the Savonlinna Music Academy, pianist-conductor Ralf Gothóni introduced the project to Jordan, and the “Finland-Jordan Musical Bridge” is now in its second year.

About the musicians:
Paavali Jumpannen (piano) is an internationally renowned pianist, a versatile performer equally at home as a concerto soloist, chamber musician, and a recitalist. His vast repertoire spans piano literature from Bach to the Avant- garde. He has worked with numerous contemporary composers and premiered many solo piano and chamber works. His collaborations with esteemed composers including Pierre Boulez, William Duckworth, and Henri Dutilleux as well as composers of his native Finland–among them Perttu Haapanen and Lauri Kilpiö–have opened for him a broad perspective into the dynamic nature of new music. His expanding discography includes “the best recorded disc of Boulez’s piano music so far” (The Guardian, about the three sonatas recording made upon the composer’s request) and the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, the first four discs of which were released by Ondine between 2014–2016.

Finnish-German violinist Mark Gothóni is first violinist of Orpheus String Quartet and professor of violin at the prestigious Berlin University of the Arts (UDK). A major prizewinner at a number of international competitions, including the Johannes Brahms Violin Competition in Hamburg in 1990, Gothoni has performed as a soloist and chamber musician around the globe and has been a guest at numerous festivals (Kuhmo, Pesaro, Ravello, Aschau, Salzburg, Vienna, St. Gallen, Charleston, Newbury, Brussels, Bratislava, Biarritz). He has been working as concertmaster of the Zurich and Munich Chamber Orchestras and leads the European Union Chamber Orchestra as its permanent guest conductor. He previously taught violin at McGill University in Montreal. He is the artistic director of chamber music classes at the Savonlinna Music Academy in Finland.

Yuko Miyagawa (cello): Born into a well-known musician family in Tokyo, Ms Miyagawa received her Bachelor at the renowned Toho Music Academy and completed her studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg and Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome where her cello teachers were Heidi Litschauer and Arturo Bonucci.
A first-prize winner at several competitions, including the 6th International Chamber Music Competition in Tokyo, Ms Miyagawa has also recorded music by Bach, Mayuzumi, Grieg and Sibelius to high critical acclaim. In 2007, Miyagawa founded the “Aqua Trinity”-trio, a rare formation of harpsichord, violin and cello, which performs repertory from early baroque to modern arrangements in concerts, radio and TV throughout Japan. She is also well-known for her collaboration with famous representers of traditional Japanese art, such as Noh-Theatre.

The musicians will be joining the Jordanian National Orchestra in a performance of the Beethoven concerto for piano, violin and cello Op. 56 on Wednesday November 9, 2016 at 7:30 pm.
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