Ana María Valderrama & David Kadouch
Biographie Ana María Valderrama & David Kadouch
Ana Maria Valderrama
Since her debut as a soloist with conductor Zubin Mehta at the celebration’s concert of the 70th birthday of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain, Ana Maria Valderrama has established herself as one of the most acclaimed Spanish violinist of the time.
Winner of the 1st prize and Special Audience Prize in the XI International Violin Competition Pablo Sarasate 2011, Ana María has become the first spanish violinist in the history to win this prestigious award. Ana María Valderrama has won other important competitions, such as “Lisbon International Violin Competition” (Portugal), “Primer Palau” (Barcelona), “Novosibirsk International Violin Competition” (Rusia), etc.
Ana María has developed an intense concert career performing in countries such as England, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Estonia, Russia, Jordan, Tunisia, Mexico, Colombia, Panama or USA.
She is regularly invited to perform as a soloist with the main Spanish orchestras, as well as with prestigious international orchestras. Her recent and future performances include collaborations with orchestras like Orquesta Nacional de España, L'Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, St. Petersbourg’s Academic Symphony Orchestra, Niederbayerischen Philharmonie, Sinfónica de Medellín and Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Tokio), among others, with conductors like Zubin Mehta, Manuel Hernández Silva, Michal Nesterowicz, Tadaaki Otaka, Yarom Traub, Salvador Brotons, Pablo González or Jesús López Cobos.
A dedicated chamber musician, Ana María has studied with Prof. E. Feltz and R. Schmidt and she has played in festivals such as “Open Chamber Music” (Prussia Cove), Festival Internacional de Santander, Festival Internacional de Segovia, “Yellow Barn” (USA), Festival de Música Española de Cádiz, or Festival Internacional de Música de Úbeda or Tardes de España Festival (St. Petersbourg) among others, performing in the major halls of Spain, such as the National Auditorium in Madrid, Palacio de Festivales of Cantabria, the Auditorium of Barcelona, Zaragoza and Valencia, or the“Palau de la Musica Catalana”.
Ana Maria Valderrama studied with professors Zakhar Bron and Yuri Volguin at the “Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía”, where her Majesty the Queen honored Ana Maria with the distinction as “Most Outstanding Student in the Violin section” in the years 2005 and 2007. She completed her Master studies at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Berlin with professor Antje Weithaas. Afterwards, she was awarded with the maximum distinction in the Master Instrumentalsolist at the UDK of Berlin, where she studied with Nora Chastain.
She has also attended lectures given by A. Chumachenco, G. Schulz, M. Fuks, M. Zweig, F. Andrievsky, W. Levin, R. Gothoni, R. Barshai, I. Ozim, M. Pressler, S. Isserlis and L. Kavakos.
Ana María’s discography, which has received excellent reviews and awards, includes “À Mon Ami Sarasate”, an homage to the Spanish composer and virtuoso Pablo Sarasate recorded with pianist Luis del Valle; “Brahms and Franck”, recorded with pianist Víctor del Valle; and two albums with Naxos Records, one with the OSCyL Orchestra conducted by J. López Cobos and with guitarist R. Aguirre, and the other with the OBC Orchestra conducted by D. Ang.
Since 2013 she is a violin professor at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid.
David Kadouch
is a French pianist and chamber musician. His international career began early when, at age 13, he was in concert with Itzhak Perlman in New York. A finalist in several competitions, he was named Young Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2011. He has performed and recorded with a focus on chamber music and contemporary music.
Life and career Born in Nice, Kadouch began his piano training at the Conservatoire de Nice and continued studies at the age of 14 with Jacques Rouvier at the Conservatoire de Paris. He then moved to the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, where he studied piano with Dmitri Bashkirov and chamber music with Márta Gulyás and Ralf Gothóni. He has also attended master classes with Daniel Barenboim, Murray Perahia, Maria João Pires, Maurizio Pollini, Stephen Kovacevich, and Eliso Virsaladze.
At the age of 13, Kadouch won the Young Talents Competition in Milan and was subsequently invited by Itzhak Perlman to give a joint concert in New York. In 2005 he came third at the Telekom Beethoven Competition as well as at the Kissinger Klavierolymp in 2007. He came fourth at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2009. Kadouch was Young Artist of the Year at the Victoires de la musique classique in 2010. That year, he played a solo recital at Metropolitan Hall in New York City. He was named Young Artist of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2011.
His repertoire includes not only the usual classical and romantic piano works from Bach to Beethoven and Mendelssohn to Saint-Saëns, but also less frequently performed music, for example Arvo Pärt's Lamentate, Guillaume Connesson's piano concerto The Shining One, and Sergei Taneyev's Prelude and Fuge, Op. 29.
Kadouch has played at international music festivals such as the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, the Jerusalem Festival, Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Verbier Festival, Colmar Festival, Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, and at La Folle Journée Nantes. He has worked with conductors Gábor Takács-Nagy, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Charles Dutoit, and Chung Myung-whun. His chamber music partners include for example the Quatuor Ébène, the Modigliani Quartet, Edgar Moreau, Renaud Capuçon, and Gautier Capuçon.
