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Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Eivind Gullberg Jensen's highly successful first season as Chief Conductor of NDR Radiophilhar- monie
Hannover saw the orchestra appear at the Bergamo and Brescia Festivals with Khatia Buniatishvili,
and the Bergen Festival with pianist Gabriela Montero. This season he will lead the orchestra on a
tour of Spain and France. 2010/11 season highlights included debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker
(with Vadim Repin performing Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium Concerto for Violin and Orchestra),
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (with clarinetist Martin Fröst performing the Dutch premiere
of Victoria Borisova-Ollas' Golden Dance of the Pharaohs), and with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra. Eivind conducted the Wiener Symphoniker with soloist Hélène Grimaud in June 2011, and appeared
with the orchestra again at the Bad Kissingen Festival later that month. In the 2011/12 season his concerts
include debuts with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and the
Pacific Music Festival, Sapporo and a return to Müncher Philharmoniker, Orchestre National Bordeaux
Aquitaine and SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg. After studying violin and musical theory
in Trondheim, Eivind Gullberg Jensen went on to study conducting with legendary Professor Jorma Panula
in Stockholm, and in Vienna with Leopold Hager. He has participated in the Aspen Music Festival with
David Zinman and in master classes with Kurt Masur in Poland and New York.
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Andrea Bacchetti
Born in Recco in the Italian Riviera, Andrea Bacchetti received at an early age the counsel of musicians
such as Karajan, Magaloff, Berio, and Horszowski. Formal training took place at the Universität Mozarteum
Salzburg, Conser- vatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris and the Conservatory Niccolò
Paganini in Genoa. "Master" graduate at the International Piano Academy of Imola with Franco
Scala. In 1996, Bacchetti took first prize at the "Premio Venezia" International Piano Competition
as well as the prize at the International Competition "Umberto Micheli" in Milan in 2006. After
his debut, aged 11, at the Sala Verdi di Milano with I Solisti Veneti under the baton of Claudio Scimone,
he began an early start to a brilliant career that brought him to some of the most important European
festivals and to many capital cities. He has appeared in recital at the Salle Pleyel and Salle Gaveau in
Paris, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Tonhalle Zürich, Konzerthaus Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatro Coliseo
Buenos Aires and the Gewandhaus Leipzig. He has toured in Japan and South America, and collaborates regularly
with the Prazák Quartet and the Ysaÿe Quartet. His recent Dynamic release of the Inventions and Sinfonias
of Bach has been named "Disc of the Month" in the September 2009 issue of BBC Music Magazine, an
outstanding honor for a young pianist.
This is his first appearance at PMF.
