From the End
to the Beginning of Time
to the Beginning of Time
concert of
Ensemble SILAKBO
Angelina-Ogniana Gotcheva
clarinet (Bulgaria)
Edgar Gomes
violin (Portugal)
Miguel Nicolas (Mikko) Lee Pablo
cello (The Philippines/USA)
Bogdan Ivanov
piano (Bulgaria)
Olivier Messiaen (1908 – 1992, France):
Quartet for
the End of Time (1941)
I. Crystal Liturgy
II. Vocalise for the Angel Who Announces the End of Time
III. Abyss of Birds (for solo clarinet)
IV. Interlude (for violin, cello and clarinet)
V. Praise to the Eternity of Jesus (for cello and piano)
VI. Dance of Fury for the Seven Trumpets
VII. Tangle of Rainbows for the Angel Who Announces the End of Time
VIII. Praise to the Immortality of Jesus (for violin and piano)
Adam Vincent Clarke (b.1992, Canada/Belgium):
Still Life:
Quartet
Quartet for
the Beginning of Time (2018) **
I. Adagio
II. Atelier
III. Reflection
IV. Furioso
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** World premiere
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Ensemble
SILAKBO is comprised of Bulgarian, Portuguese and
Filipino musicians as an extended version of the previously formed in Antwerp
piano trio with the same name. The name comes from a Filipino word which
roughly translates as a sudden outburst of emotion. It describes the nature of
this young, multi-national and passionate music ensemble.
Angelina-Ogniana Gotcheva
(b. 1992) started playing clarinet at the age of 13. She graduated from the
“Lyubomir Pipkov” National School of Music (Sofia) and from the “Prof. Pancho
Vladigerov” National Academy of Music (Sofia) in the class of Prof. Borislav
Yotsov. From 2013 to 2015, she was an Erasmus Student at Royal Conservatory in
Antwerp in the class of Prof. Ivo Lybeert and assist. Raymond Dils. She has
also studied with Pascal Moraguès, Chen Halevi, Eli Eban, Evgeni Petrov, Sharon
Kam, Luis Lossi, Jean-Luc Votano and others. Additionally, she has participated
in master classes of Jörg Widmann, Ralph Manno and Philippe Cuper. Among the
festivals she has attended are the Chamber Music Course and Festival Musica Mundi in Belgium (2009, 2010 and
2011), where she worked with Sir Walter Boeykens. She has also participated at
the International Summer Academy ISA (Austria, 2013), where she worked with
Jiří Hlaváč and the Accademia Chigiana
in Siena (Italy, 2017), working with Alessandro Carbonare and David
Krakauer.
She
has been awarded numerous prizes at national and international competitions
such as: Magic (Burgas, Bulgaria,
2011 – first and special prize), Young Musicians
Chamber Music Competition in Edirne (Turkey, 2012 – second prize),
International Chamber Music Competition in Plovdiv (Bulgaria, 2015 – third
prize and special prize in duo with Bogdan Ivanov), Young Virtuosos International Competition (Sofia, 2017 – first
prize and two special prizes).
She
has been soloist of the New Symphony
Orchestra, Classic FM Orchestra,
the philharmonic orchestras of Sofia, Vidin and Shumen, the Orchestra of the
Royal Conservatory in Antwerp and others. In 2009–11, she was first clarinet in
the Sofia Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and, during 2011–15, in the student
orchestras of the National Academy of Music (Sofia) and of the Royal
Conservatory in Antwerp. During the
season 2016/2017, she was an intern at the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra.
She
is featured on recordings at the Bulgarian National Radio.
Edgar Gomes
(b. 1994) began playing violin at the age of five and entered the Conservatory
in Oporto (Portugal) at the age of seven, where he finished his studies at the
top of his class. Subsequently, he entered the Oporto High School of Music and
Performing Arts, where he graduated with bachelor’s degree. Supported with a
full scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, he is
currently studying in a master’s programme at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp
under the mentorship of renowned violinist Tatiana Samouil. He attended the
violin master classes by Serguei Kravchenko, Ludovico Tramma, Gerardo Ribeiro,
Yuri Nasushkin, Gyula Stuller, Svetlana Makarova, Pavel Vernikov, Bartek
Niziol, Massimo Quarta, Gordan Nikolić, Stephan Picard and Midori Goto among
others, as well as the chamber music master classes of Raphael Wallfish and
Nicolas Dautricourt.
He
has participated in several national and international competitions in
Portugal, in which he received several prizes, having recently won the “Helena
Sá e Costa Prize” in his university and the second prize in the Young Musician
Competition with the sFourzato Quartet.
He has had concerts in Portugal, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and France.
He has also participated in the Harmos
Festival, which takes place in Brazil and Portugal.
He
has played in national and international orchestras from around Europe. His
dedication has earned him the position of concertmaster in several of these
orchestras, and has connected him with conductors such as Martin André, Pedro
Neves, Ivo Venkov, Eduardo García Barrios, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Stefan Geiger,
António Saiote, Johannes Gustavsson and Kurt Masur among others.
Miguel Nicolas (Mikko) Lee Pablo
(b. 1992) began playing the cello in the Philippines at the age of 15 under the
guidance of renowned Filipino cellist and pedagogue Amador Tamayo. Three years
later, he received a full scholarship to study with Bongshin Ko and Daniel Rothmuller
of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the California State University in
Fullerton, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in cello performance,
cum laude. As a student, Mikko has participated in master classes of cellists
such as Nathaniel Rosen, Alexander Rudin, Vagram Saradjan, Richard Bamping,
Emilio Colón, Petr Prause, Josep Bassal, Julie Albers, Mario de Secondi,
Young-Chang Cho, Peter Bruns and Julian Steckel. Currently, he is pursuing a
master’s degree with German cellist Justus Grimm at the Royal Conservatory of
Antwerp in Belgium.
As
a performer, he has participated in several music festivals worldwide,
including: 1000 Cellist Festival in Hiroshima (Japan), Philadelphia
International Music Festival in Pennsylvania (USA), Summit Music Festival in New York (USA), Roundtop International Music Festival in Texas (USA), Schlern
International Music Festival in Bolzano (Italy), International Music Academy in
Tignes (France), Aurora Music
Festival in Vänesborg (Sweden), Saarburg Music Festival (Germany) and
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany). He also performed concerts across
Germany and Denmark under the batons of conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach
and Michael Sanderling.
Mikko
Pablo is also one of the two cellists accepted for the 2017–18 season of the
Orchestral Academy of the National Orchestra of Belgium and the Royal Theatre
of the Mint (the National Opera of Belgium).
Bogdan Ivanov
(b. 1993) graduated from the National School for Music and Dance Arts in
Plovdiv (Bulgaria), where he studied in the piano class of Elena Velcheva. He
obtained a master’s degree at the “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov” National Academy of
Music (Sofia), where he studied in the piano class of Prof. Iovcho Krushev. In
2016–17, he was an Erasmus student at the Royal Conservatory of Music of
Antwerp in the class of Eliane Rodrigues. He has also attended the master
classes for Daniel Pollack, Johannes Kropfitsch, Miri Yampolsky, Milena
Mollova, Stella Dimitrova-Maystorova, Tamara Poddubnaya, Sandu Sandrin and
others.
He
is a winner of ten national and international music competitions, including the
“Dimitar Nenov” International Piano Competition in Razgrad (2014) and the
“Liszt – Bartok – Kodaly” International Piano Competition in Sofia (2017). In
2015, he was awarded third prize at the International Chamber Music Competition
in Plovdiv for his duo Agitare bene with clarinetist
Angelina-Ogniana Gotcheva. In 2016, he was awarded the prize of the “Lyuba
Encheva” Foundation.
Over
the years, Bogdan Ivanov has given many solo recitals throughout Bulgaria and
participated in a number of concerts in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Macedonia and
Serbia. He has also appeared as soloist with the philharmonic orchestras of
Sofia, Plovdiv, Ruse, Vratsa and Razgrad, as well as with the Academic Symphony
Orchestra of the National Academy of Music in Sofia.
Since
2017, he has been teaching piano at the “Lubomir Pipkov” National School of
Music in Sofia. As of 2018, he also pursues a PhD at the National Academy of
Music in Sofia.
