Leopold von Loppenskjolds Forunderlige Fantasterier
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 May 2012 will be most interesting for the theatre going public in Copenhagen when a newly written play will be introduced to the audience. The story about the relation of a small girl and an excentric hero is going to hit the headlines, for sure. Incidental music to the play is written by four young award winning composers from Scandinavia and Canada, these are; Gordon Wiliamson, Ville Raasakka, Ansgar Beste and Lasse Schwanenflügel Piasecki. The music enseble will consist of Sofia Kayaya, Anna Sairanen, Carl Petersson and Ying-Hsueh Chen.
Please click on the picture to believe and a link to the trailer is easily found on www.youtube.com
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 The released discs Carl made for Sterling keep on getting glowing reviews. The CD with Godowskys "Java Suite" was picked as the classical album of the month in the Swedish edition of Hi-Fi & Music and the acknowledged swedish newspaper "Göteborgsposten" called it a baffeling showcase of virtuosity. American Record Guide does not only say that Carl executes the showmanship of the works but that he also is a very fine musician and that he should record Debussys preludes. Fanfare Magazine recommends and agrees that this is an impressive performance captured; a significant alternative to the famous Budiardjo recording. The CD with Flotows piano concertos is by the American Record Guide called a fascinating disc - and they are not alone, the German "Klassik Magazin" wrote that it is due to Peterssons spirited interpretation the music is as good as it is and the French "Diapason" awarded the disc a prestigious recommendation. |
Gothenburg Piano Festival - Master Classes
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 The 2011 edition of the Gothenburg Piano Festival takes place from October 29 to 31, and Carl Peterson has been invited as a guest teacher in piano and chamber music together with among others Maria Rostotsky and Romuald Sztern. This year the festival also boasts the french world pianist Doninique Merlet. The years composer is without any doubt Franz Liszt, who would have his 200th birthday on October 22. The festival, which in part will take place at the Music Academy in Gothenburg, has become one of the cities most important cultural attractions thanks to pianist Ha-Young Sul.
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Luxfestivalen - Beijing/Västerås
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 Carl has been invited to participate during Patrik Jablonski's music festival in Västerås, Sweden: the Lux Festival. "Luxfestivalen" which this year will focus on China, its culture and its artists will include Carl to show up with Far Eastern inspired music and other assorted classic pearls. The festival takes place from September 29 to October 2.
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Duo Setareye - Cello and Piano
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 In the spring of 2011 Carl and Polish cellist Estera Rajnicka established a cooperation and formed "Duo Setareye". Their first Swedish tour will take place in July 2011 where they will perform a program that will consist of well-known classic pearls for cello and piano as well as for solo piano. The concerts in July are presented in Scania (south of Sweden), where they will appear in Degeberga, Ängelholm, Österslöv and Helsingborg.
In February 2012 they are scheduled to record their first CD together with the duets that Jacques Offenbach wrote together with Friedrich von Flotow during the time they both were active in Paris. The CD will be out just in time to Flotows 200th birthday. |
Chopin competition in Poland
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 Carl Peterson received the first prize "Grand Prix" in the the 24th piano competition, to the memory of Fryderyk Chopin in the castle in Antonin, Poland in 2011. The castle was one of Chopin's favorite places where he spent a great deal of time to compose before he left for Paris.
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 After the successful concert tour in Skåne together with mezzo soprano Petra Jablonski and London National Opera tenor John Hudson, Carl continued with a collaboration together with Mrs. Jablonski with a CD recording consisting of only Jewish composers.
The CD was recorded in November 2010 and will be out in February 2011 on the British Altara label. |
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 In October 2009, Carl started his PhD. studies at the renowned Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland.
In his dissertation, under the direction of Prof. Andrzej Pikul, he will research in the exotic influences in Western music of the post Romantic period.
Read more about the Academy of Music in Kraków |
Upcoming record: Godowsky's Java Suite
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 After the successfull Flotow recording, Carl and Sterling get together for a new project.
The CD will include the fabled Java Suite by the Polish pianist composer Leopold Godowsky.
Godowsky, often described as the "Pianist of Pianists" was mostly renowned for his paraphrases of piano pieces by other composers, which he enhanced with ingenious contrapuntal devices and rich chromatic harmonies. In his original Java Suite he captured impressions of scenes in Indonesia,gleaned during his tour of 1922 to Singapore, Java, Bali, and beyond.
The result is a colourful fresco, painted in traditional Indonesian harmonies with a touch of European impressionism.
The recording, which will also contain some of the Studies on Chopin's Etudes, will be released in the summer of 2010.
Read more about Leopold Godowsky |
 "Zig, zig, zag, on his violin.
The winter wind blows, and the night is dark,
Moans are heard in the linden trees.
White skeletons pass through the gloom,
Running and leaping in their shrouds..."
Carl's new 2009 programme "Danse macabre" explores sheer virtuosity, theatricality and mystique of piano Romanticism. The seventy-minutes-long recital includes brilliant works by Fryderyk Chopin, Franz Liszt and Vladimir Horowitz, that have profoundly shaped all music of the period, and culminates in a mysterious atmosphere of Saint-Saëns' famed "Danse macabre", based on an old French superstition.
Concerts booked in Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic, the United States and Canada. |
Carl awarded for Flotow CD
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 Carl was awarded the Helsingborg cultural prize for his achievements with Flotow's Piano concertos.The prize was handed over at a ceremony held at the Dunkers Kulturhus on Friday, 3th December 2008, by a delegate of the Swedish Ministry of culture.
The CD has already been widely acclaimed by international critics, e.g. The Gramophone, Klassikmagazin, Klassieke Zaken and Classical Lost and Found.
Carl's performance was recognized as one to perfection with great sensitivity and precision, and he was said to be a fine advocat for both concertos, playing in a spirited and rythmically bouyant way.
Click here to read more reviews |
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