Improvisation masterclass with Noam Sivan

 

Festival Prečkanja - Sconfinamenti offers also piano masterclasses with top-level artists and pedagogues. In 2024, two master classes are taking place: Alexander Gadjiev and his father, the renowned pedagogue Siavush Gadjiev, will lead a piano masterclass, and the second masterclass led by Noam Sivan, a world-renowned pioneer of classical improvisation, will be dedicated to improvisation in classical music.

Noam Sivan, a pioneer of improvisation in classical music, is professor of piano improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart, where he founded and directs an improvisational ensemble. In October 2020, he opened a master's program in piano improvisation, one of the first such programs in the world.

The improvisation masterclass, the only one of its kind in Italy, is intended for pianists of all ages. The course will take place July 26–29 2024, at Glasbena matica in Gorica (IT).

Alexander Gadjiev: “There are several elements that can contribute to the creation of a truly individual artistic persona, and I believe that the practice of improvisation can foster several qualities. It is a powerful means of expression and important knowledge that opens up another dimension of research, discipline and creativity. I believe in its coexistence with the art of interpretation, which is ultimately a crystallized, refined and perfected version of what was inevitably born only as a seed, a glimpse, an idea, a potential."

The participants of the masterclass will present themselves at a concerts within the framework of the Festival Prečkanja - Sconfinamenti:

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• July 29 at 19.00, Kulturni dom Gorica (IT)

Participants of the masterclass 2024:
Ku Yu-Wei
Mack Simon
Rocha Simao
Sung Sumi
Yagi Daisuke
Jukichio Yokota
Gabriele Lucherini