Faculty
GORAN FILIPEC
One of the most distinguished Croatian pianists whose interpretations were described as “…Powerful and subtle in exact degrees, with an infinite capability of frasing and poetical deepening in the most tremendous passages...“ (Pablo Cohan, La Nacion, Buenos Aires) or „...Brillant and refined...“ (Edith Eisler, New York concert review), was born in 1981 in Rijeka, where he obtained primary and secondary musical education at the School of music “Ivan Matetich Ronjgov”.
From 1997 to 2001 he studied piano (with Marina Ambokadze) and musicology at the Music Academy “Ino Mirkovich” in Lovran, under license of Moscow state conservatory “P. I. Tchaikovsky”.
His later trainings include postgraduate studies at Hochschüle für Musik Köln (with Arbo Valdma, 2003 - 2004), Schola Cantorum in Paris (with Eugen Indjic, 2003 - 2006), Zagreb Music Academy (with Evgeny Zarafiants, 2006 – 2007), at the Oxana Yablonskaya Piano Institute in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Italy, and at the Moscow State Conservatory “P. I. Tchaikovsky” (with Natalia Trull).
His concert engagements led him to the Carnegie Hall in New York, Auditorium di Milano, National Concert Hall in Dublin, Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris, Bela Bartok National Concert Hall in Budapest, and numerous other concerts halls in Switzerland, France, Italy, Holland, Argentina, Japan, Croatia, and other countries of former Yugoslavia.
Mr. Filipec is laureate at several international piano competitions:
1st Prize winner - International piano competition F. Liszt, premio Mario Zanfi, Parma, Italy, 2011
2nd Prize winner – Concours de piano Ille de france, 2011
2nd Prize winner – Concurso de Parnassos, Mexico, 2010
2nd Prize winner – José Iturbi International Music Competition - Piano, California, 2009
1st Prize winner – Gabala International Piano Competition, Azerbaijan 2009
He performed with several renowned orchestras, such as Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Reggio, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Ushuaia Philharmonic Orchestra, Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra, Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Croatian Chamber Orchestra, under direction of Jorge Uliarte, Vjekoslav Sutej, Leonid Nikolaev, Pavle Despalj, Matteo Pagliari and other renown conductors.
His performances where recorded and broadcasted by Croatian National Television and Radio, Radio Suisse Romande and several Argentinian television and radio channels.
NAUM GRUBERT
Was born in 1951 in Riga. He originally studied at the Emil Darzin music college for young talent. He continued his training with the famous professor Theodore Gutman in Moscow.
Naum Grubert was laureate at various prestigious piano competitions, including the Russian National Competition, the Tchaikovsky Competition and the Montréal piano competition. After numerous extended tours in a variety of countries, including an impressive Dutch debut in 1982, he moved permanently to The Netherlands.
Naum Grubert has performed with various top orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Gürzenich Orkest Cologne, the Tonkünstler Orchestra Vienna, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Kirov Orchestra St. Petersburg, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Residentie Orkest The Hague.
He has performed at the Lichfield Festival (United Kingdom), the Cadaqués Festival (Spain), the Lockenhaus Festival (Austria, with Gidon Kremer and Tabea Zimmerman) and the Gergiev Festival. As well as this Naum Grubert has performed at large venues such as the Concertgebouw, the Golden Hall, Musikverein Vienna, the Queen Elizabeth and Barbican Halls in London, and the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona.
Naum Grubert has worked with renowned conductors such as Paavo Berglund, Sergiu Commissiona, Jean Fournet, Horst Stein, Christopher Seaman, Vernon Handly, Matthias Bamert, Isaac Karabtschevsky, Ernest Bour, Vassili Sinaiski, Thomas Sanderling, Valery Gergiev, Richard Dufallo, Aldo Ceccato, Evgeny Svetlanov, Claus Peter Flor, Ed Spanjaard, and Stanislav Skrovachevsky.
He has recorded successful CDs, with solo works by Schubert, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky, and Schubert's Winterreise with the highly regarded bass baritone Robert Holl.
Naum Grubert has appeared on Dutch television on numerous occasions including in the series “Het Meesterwerk” on the subject of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and in the Saturday Matinee with the first piano concerto by Brahms with the NPS.
EDUARDO HUBERT
He received a diploma from the National Conservatory in Buenos Aires, where he studied with Antonio De Raco, of Vincenzo Scaramuzza’s School. In 1974 he moved to Italy for further piano studies with Fausto Zadra, Carlo Zecchi and Guido Agosti as well as conducting studies with Franco Ferrara and Leonard Bernstein. He received the “Licence de concert” and “Prix de virtuosité” from the Lausanne Conservatory. He has dedicated himself mainly to chamber music, which is the subject he teaches at the Karlsruhe and Pescara conservatories. He has worked together with artists of the caliber of Martha Argerich, Sandor Vegh, Franco Petracchi, Ivry Gitlis and so on. He attended Franco Evangelisti’s courses in electronic music at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, and he undertakes research projects as a founding member of the Suono-Immagine [Sound-Image] group. He has created and conducts the “A. Lualdi” Molise Chamber Orchestra and the Adriatic Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2000 he is the artistic coordinator of the Festival Martha Argerich that takes place in Buenos Aires. Since 2006 he has been working with Venezuela’s youth orchestra network.
EPIFANIO COMIS
He studied music at the “Vincenzo Bellini” music institute in Catania under the guidance of Agatella Catania, graduated in piano performance with full marks, praise and honorable mention.
Afterwards he attained the High specialization course diploma at the Euterpe Academy under Boris Petrushanskj achieving from the very first year an honorable mention for Liszt and Rachmaninoff performances.
His meeting with Piero Rattalino was very profitable since this completed his musical training.
He achieved success in more than 30 national and international music competitions, he started the concert career by performing in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Romania, Hungary, U.S.A., Thailand, and China with the most famous orchestras such as the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, the Radio Orchestra of Bucharest, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Kiev, the Karlovy VarySymfonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Szeged, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj, the Tulare County Symphony Orchestra of California, the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra, the OrquestraSinfonica UANL of Mexico, the Orchestra Sinfonicadel Teatro Bellini di Catania, the Orchestra SinfonicaSiciliana, The Orchestra Filarmonica del TeatroBellini, the Osaka Symphoniker, the Kioto Symphony and in prestigious halls such as the State Discotheque in Rome, the Massimo Bellini Theatre in Catania, theSala delle Erbe in Milan, the Athenйe Roman in Bucharest, the Chankaichek Theatre in Taipei, the Concert Hall in Kyoto, the Archaic Hall of Amagasaki and the Symphony Hall in Osaka.
His debut in a recital at the Carnegie Hall in New York obtaining a great success from both the audience and from the critics; appreciations extended even to his conductor career and chamber music activity that led him to work together with prestigious American ensembles such as the Ciompi String Quartet.
He is invited yearly to piano Master Classes at the Hunter College in New York, at the North Carolina University, at the Duke University of Durham, at the Ecole Normale de Musique of Paris, at the Thessaloniki State Conservatory, at the Monterrey University in Mexico,at the Manhattan School of Music NY, at the West Chester University Philadelphia, at the State Moscow Conservatoire by Tchaikovsky and at Chopin Academy in Warsaw and Chopin college in Moscow where he also gives a Superior Music Course on the Concert for piano and orchestra.
Epifanio Comis is active also as conductor and he is permanent guest conductor of the Donetsk Philharmonic Orchestra and the Medtner symphony Orchestra in Moscow.
He is on the teaching staff for the main piano course at the Vincenzo Bellini’s conservatory in Catania and at Accademia Pianistica Siciliana. His students have already a lot of International Prizes. In 2013 his student Alessandro Mazzamuto won International Classical Music Awards – ICMA as an ‘Young Artist of the Year’.
Comis’s frequently invited as a juror in international competitions.
May 2013 E. Comis will conduct Filharmony Symphony Orchestra in Donetsk on Rachmaninoff Festival. All Piano concertos and the second Symphony.
Anniversary Rachmaninoff's 2013 year Maestor Comis was invited as a member of jury to the Fifth International Rachmaninoff piano competition in Moscow.
Epifanio Comis is Artistic Director of ConcerFest Pianistica Siciliana festival in Moscow.
VIOLETTA EGOROVA
Internationally renowned Russian pianist Violetta Egorova is on the forefront of a new generation of young keyboard artists who are making the world their home.
Winner of many international competitions such as G. Viotti in Vercelly (Italy), Gina Bachayer in Salt Lake City, UT (USA), Alessandro Casagrande in Terni (Italy), Sigizmund Thalberg in Naples (Italy), and the International Music Competition in Vienna (Austria), Ms. Egorova has performed in some of the most famous concert halls in the United States, Italy, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, Monaco, Russia, and China.
In 1991, while still studying under Professor L. N. Naymov at the P.Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Art and Electronics a joint Russian-American recording enterprise honored Ms. Egorovas talent by recording a CD with the music of Mozart and Prokofiev in celebration of the anniversary of those two composers birth. Furthermore, Ms. Egorova has recorded several CDs under the various labels, such as Universal Music & V., Teichiku Records and has been featured on radio and television broadcasts in Italy, Turkey, Canada, Egypt, Ecuador, France, and Russia.
Ms. Egorova is a regular guest artist with many renowned ensembles such as the State Academic Orchestra of Russia, Utah Symphony Orchestra, the chamber orchestra Kremlin, Orchestra del Festival Pianistiñî Internazionale di Bergamo e Brescia, Orchestra Sinfonica di Perogia, Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Symphonic Orchestra, as well as the orchestra 'Young Russia', and has played under the direction of Pavel Kogan, Joseph Silverstain, Arnold Katz, Epifanio Comis, Mark Gorenstein, Juliano Silvery, Urij Tsuruk, Ahmed AlSaedy, Augustino Orizio, Constantine Orbeljan, and Misha Rahlevsky.
She has also appeared at international musical festivals in Spoletto 'Del Due Mondi' and Sermonette 'Pontino di Musica' (Italy), 'Sanat Haber in Istanbul (Turkey), as well as 'Music of 20th Century', Christmas at the Kremlin and 'Russian Winter' in Moscow (Russia), among others.
V. Egorova is a teacher of Piano High Specialization Courses at the Accademia Pianistica Siciliana of Catania.
Ms. Egorovas pianistic repertoire encompasses a wide variety of eras and styles, from concertos and solo monographic works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Liszt to those by contemporary composers. Through her well-established relationship with Vladimir Markovich, Eva Gosser, Nina Kotova, Vladislav Bezrukoff, Robin Meyforf, Anna Kruger, Astrid Shvinn, Lark String Quartet and other musicians, Ms. Egorova has also built a reputation as world-class chamber musician.
