The Strad
As emotionally wide-ranging
as one could hope for

Takeshi Kakehashi

Born in 1977, Takeshi KAKEHASHI lost his eyesight due to cancer one month after his birth. He received his musical education at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Elisabeth Dvorak Weisshaar. In 1994 he won the First Prize at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany, in 1995 the Second Prize at the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in the US. In 1997 he received the MURAMATSU Award in Japan.

In 1998 Takeshi won the Second prize at the Concours International Maguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud in Paris, also the SACEM prize (recital award) and the price of the Chevillion-Bonnand Foundation. At the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition 2000 Takeshi won a special prize of the Warsaw mayor.

Takeshi collaborated with famous conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Fabio Luisi, Gerd Albrecht,
Daniel Harding, Jean Fournet, Emmanuel Krivine, Gary Bertini, Hans Graf, Kenichiro
Kobayashi, and Hubert Soudant. He performed with many renowned orchestras including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Academic Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and the Dresdner Kapellsolisten.
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AMADEUS TRIO

Wolfgang David, violin
Wolfgang Panhofer, cello
Bernhard Parz, piano

The founding of the AMADEUS TRIO in 2020 brought together three internationally renowned Viennese musicians who share a common passion for chamber music and a deep connection to the tradition of this genre.

Although the trio’s core repertoire is focused on the Viennese and German Classics of the 18th and 19th centuries, they also venture into many different styles, including collaborating with living composers.

All three members of the trio have had successful careers as soloists. They have played with important orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and have appeared in such renowned concert halls as Carnegie Hall, New York, Wigmore Hall, London, Suntory Hall, Tokyo, Tonhalle, Zurich, in Wiener Konzerthaus and in Goldener Saal of the Wiener Musikverein.

Their concert tours include many international venues. Future performances include the Vienna Konzerthaus (Austria), Suntory Hall (Japan), and performances in China, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland.
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David Gompper

David Gompper has lived and worked professionally as a pianist, conductor and composer in New York, San Diego, London, Nigeria, Michigan, Texas and Iowa. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Jeremy Dale Roberts and Humphrey Searle. After teaching in Nigeria, he received his doctorate at the University of Michigan and taught at the University of Texas at Arlington. Since 1991 he has been professor of composition and director of the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa.

From 2002 to 2003 Gompper was in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching, performing and conducting at the Moscow Conservatory. He received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York City in 2009, a Fromm Commission in 2013, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.

Gompper’s compositions have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall (New York), Wigmore Hall (London), Konzerthaus (Vienna) and the Bolshoi Hall and Rachmaninov Hall at the Moscow Conservatory. His compositions have been released on 21 albums, including his Violin Concerto with Wolfgang David and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Naxos.

As a pianist, he continues to maintain an active profile accompanying instrumentalists and singers, including violinist Wolfgang David, baritone Stephen Swanson, clarinetist Michael Norsworthy, cellist Tim Gill and double bassist Volkan Orhon.
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