TROTOVSEK & CANYIGUERAL
"THE TRUE FEEL OF LIVE INTUITIVE PERFORMANCE"
- THE STRAD
" A DUO THAT UNDOUBTEDLY BELONGS TO THE FIRST CLASS OF CHAMBER MUSIC INTERPRETERS" - NUVOL
THE DUO
The Strad has described one of their recitals at the Wigmore Hall as "remarkable" and highlighted their "true feeling of live intuitive performance". In August 2020 Trotovšek and Canyigueral recorded and performed all Beethoven Violin Sonatas in three consecutive evenings at the 68th Ljubljana Festival, which was followed by Prešeren Fund Award for Lana Trotovšek, the highest recognition in the Republic of Slovenia for achievements in the field of artistic creation . The recitals were published on 4 CDs under the Slovenian Radio and TV label ZKP in collaboration with Festival Ljubljana. The CDs received 5 stars in the Musical Opinion magazine (UK), an outstanding review in Revista Musical Catalana and "Melomano de oro" in the Melomano magazine. Lana Trotovsek and Maria Canyigueral began their collaboration in 2014 embarking on the CD recording project including works by Granados, Škerjanc, Finzi and Franck, for which they received a Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards in California in 2016. Since then they have performed across UK, Japan, France, Belgium, Spain and Slovenia. In May 2023 they premiered works by Catalan composer Jordi Cervello in Barcelona's L'Auditori, receiving a standing ovation and a rave review. The concert was broadcast by Spanish National Radio. Their recent CD Prokofiev Milestones Vol.1, was released by SOMM Recordings in January 2024.
LANA TROTOVSEK
Lana Trotovšek was a student of Ruggiero Ricci. She made her solo debut with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in 2012. Since then she performed concertos with orchestras such as the Moscow Soloists and Yuri Bashmet, the London Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, the Shanghai Philharmonic under Tan Dun, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Rafael Payare and Vasily Petrenko. She also performed concertos with several orchestras in the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center at the Shanghai International Spring Festival and in Nanjing, Qingdao and Chengdu. Lana has toured the USA, where she was described as "Radiant" by the Washington Post and "an emerging voice to watch" by the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has also appeared in Japan touring in Tokyo, Kyoto, Nagoya and Yokohama, where she performed in Minato Mirai Hall. In 2020 her performance of violin concerto by Deirdre Gribbin with the Ulster Orchestra, was broadcast on radio BBC 3. Following summer she performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas in three consecutive concerts with her duo partner pianist Maria Canyigueral at the Ljubljana Festival for which she was awarded the Prešeren Fund Award. In February 2021 it was Lana's fourth appearance at the Wigmore Hall, this time an online broadcast on Classic FM with over 500 thousand views, where she performed all the Beethoven program with pianist Maria Canyigueral. Lana has recorded all Brahms piano trios with the Greenwich trio in 2022. The first volume published in March 2023 has received a 5 star review in the BBC Music Magazine.
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MARIA CANYIGUERAL
Maria Canyigueral has been described by Pizzicato as a pianist who »convinces with a finely nuanced sensitive playing, that one wants to listen to« and »Pianist of great personality« by La Vanguardia. Maria Canyigueral has inspired collaborations with outstanding contemporary composers such as Antón García Abril, Benet Casablancas, Nicolas Bacri and Konstantia Gourzi. Recent highlights include recitals at Palau de la Música Catalana and Auditori Barcelona, at Fundación Juan March, at the Wigmore Hall and Ljubljana Festival. She recently made her debut at Gran Teatre del Liceu performing Beethoven Choral Fantasy Op.80 with Fundació Liceu orquestra and Manel Valdivieso. Maria has performed in Spain, the UK, Japan, Belgium, Slovenia and France. In addition to her live performances, Maria has made an impact with her recordings. Her solo album Avantguarding Mompou for Audite (2020) has been critically acclaimed by International Piano, Pizzicato, Revista Musical Catalana and Melómano. The project was awarded by Arts Council and supported by Instituto Cervantes, Fundació Mompou and Institut Ramon Llull. Trotovsek-Canyigueral first album (Hedone Records, 2016) received a Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards. She recorded two more albums for Hedone Records (2017, 2021), one alongside flutist Boris Bizjak and a recent live recording from a solo recital at Palau de la Música Catalana. Her live performances with Lana Trotovsek at Festival Ljubljana 2020 of the complete Sonatas for violin and piano by Beethoven were published by ZKP RTV (2021). The recordings were awarded 'Melómano de Oro'. Canyigueral-Bassal Beethoven complete works for cello and piano for Da Vinci Classics (2023) is the recipient of ‘Melómano de Oro’ and nominated for the ICMA awards 2024.
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