Artists

Second flute soloist, the Orchestre National de France

Michel Moragues enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player and educator. Second flute soloist with the Orchestre National de France since 1989, Mr. Moragues is a Professor of Chamber Music at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris and aChamber music teacher at Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Rueil Malmaison.

Michel entered the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in Paris, in the class of Jean Pierre Rampal and Alain Marion at age 14, and two years later, in 1979, won first prize for flute and first prize for chamber music in the class of Christian Lardé. In 1978, he won the International Competition of the Guild of Artists Soloists of Paris, then in 1981, the International Competition in Budapest.

Michel began his teaching career at the age of 17 as a flute professor at the National School of Music at Chalon. Since then, he has taught at the Conservatoire National de Region de Saint Maur des Fosses, and the International Academy of Les Arcs. In addition to his current posts at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, and Conservatoire Regional de Paris, Michel Moragues is highly sought after as a master clinician around the world.

An avid chamber musician, he is a founding member of the Quintette Moragues, which he formed in 1980 with his two brothers Pierre and Pascal, David Walter and Patrick Vilaire, and which performs world-wide to great acclaim. Michel Moragues also has collaborated in chamber music with partners such as Barbara Hendricks, Sandrine Piau, Nora Gubbich, Shlomo Mintz, Regis Pasquier, Gerard Poulet, Raphael Oleg, Gerard Causse, Bruno Pasquier, Nicolas Angelich, Philippe Cassard, Dalberto, Claire Desert, Brigitte Engerer, Christian Ivaldi, Naoumoff Emile, Jean claude Pennetier, Alain Planes, Emmanuel Strosser, Alexandre Tharaud, Pascal Rogé, Christoph Henkel, Anne Gastinel, Roland Pidoux, Xavier Phillips, Marc Coppey, Jerome Perno, Frédérique Cambreling, Christine Icart, Isabelle Moretti, Marielle Nordman, Julie Palloc, Melanie Dutreil, or the Ysaÿe Quartet, Parisii, Elysee, Kocian, Sine Nomine, Psophos, Manfred, and the Trio Wanderer. As an orchestral musician, Mr. Moragues has performed under the baton of conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, Daniele Gatti, John Elliot Gardinner, Neeme, Christian, and Paavo Jarvi, Eugen Jochum , Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, Georges Pretre, Kurt Masur, and David Zinman.

The discography of Michel includes an album of Ravel/Cras with Isabelle Moretti in Auvidis Valois, a disc with Mozart's Quintet Moragues which won the Grand Prix of the Charles Cros Academy, and a recording with Saphyr productions of the poems of Ronsard by Albert Roussel with Sandrine Piau, which was hailed by the journal World of Music in July 2006, as "the most beautiful version to date."

Michel was the founder and director of the festival "Music in Grésivaudan" from 1993 to 2003, and currently directs the summer festival of chamber music from Gourdon (Lot) with other members Moragues Quintet.

Professor, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz

David Seidel was born in 1976 in Salzburg. Bassoon studies under Milan Turkovic, Yoshinori Tominaga and Richard Galler at the Mozarteum University Salzburg (Austria) – Diploma with distinction and receiver of the Austrian Federal Ministry's appreciation award. Member of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (1998 - 2004 First bassoon; 2004 - 2019 Principal bassoon).

Further activities: Solo performances with the ORF Vienna RSO (Davies, de Billy, Meister), the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Moscow Soloists and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Chamber music: Co-founder of the Theophil Ensemble Wien", the Baole Quintett Wien, the Fagotes Locos and the Vienna Bassoon Quartet.

Professor of Bassoon at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz at the Institute of Oberschützen (since 2010) and at the Graz Institute for Wind Instruments (since 2014). Before that, Lecturer for chamber music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (2009-2014) and for bassoon at the Konservatorium Wien Private-University (2009-2010). Guest Teacher at the “Geidai” University Tokyo (2018 and 2019), the University of Southern California Los Angeles 2022 and the Conservatoire National Superieur Musique et Danse Lyon (CNSMDL) 2022.

Invitations to play with other orchestras, such as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera, the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR-Elbphilharmonieorchester Hamburg, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, the Camerata Salzburg, the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Milano, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Oslo Filharmonien Orchestra.

Recordings: Solo Debut CD "David Seidel – Bassoon and Piano" (2008), Ensemble Debut CDs with „Theophil Ensemble“ (2011), all under the labels Classic Concert Records and ORF. Ensemble Debut CD "Baole Quintett" (2014) under the label Camerata Tokyo. Since 2014 David Seidel is a “Yamaha Artist”.

Soloist

Heir to the large French school of the traditional saxophone, Jean-Yves FOURMEAU belongs to this race of musicians who, with enthusiasm, carry high the colors of their instrument. He makes radiate the saxophone under all his facets: Soloist, Chamber music, Orchestrate and Teaching.

he was guest saxophone solo in BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER , soloist in radio-France, Guest professor Indiana University Bloomington and Iowa University, Director of collection to the editions " Billaudot " .

J.Y. FOURMEAU gives concerts and master-class in Europe, Asia, Canada, the USA and Australia. He recorded many CDs and he is the only saxophonist in the world distributed under the label " PHILIPS classic ".

Professor, Tokyo University of Arts

He has been invited to over 30 countries and hold recitals and master classes. He gave solo recitals at prestigious concert hall such as Wien Musikverein, Suntory Hall and so on. He has performed with almost all orchestras of Japan including NHK Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit and Alan Gilbert. Outside Japan, he has also performed with BBC Philharmonic, The Philharmonia Orchestra, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Aargau Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra d’Harmonie de la Garde Républicaine, among others. He has also played with world class artists include Fazil Say, Ron Carter, Martin Taylor, Itamar Golan, Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Arno Bornkamp, Kenneth Tse, etc.

Since his debut, he has actively commissioned new works for saxophone to many remarkable composers. Many of these works have become internationally popular and been added to the important classical saxophone repertoires of the 20th and 21st centuries. Some examples among many are; ‘Fuzzy Bird Sonata’ and ‘Cyber Bird Concerto’ by Takashi Yoshimatsu, ‘Saxophone Concerto’ by Edward Gregson, ‘Cinnamon Concerto’ by Martin Ellerby, ‘Dance of Uzume’ by Piet Swerts, ‘Concerto du Vent’ by Toshiyuki Honda, ‘La lune en paradise’ and ‘Paganini Lost’ by Jun Nagao, and ‘BIRDS - A Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Band’ by Toshio Mashima, ‘SUITE for Alto Saxophone and Piano, Op.55’ and ‘Ballad for alto saxophone and orchestra, Op.67’ by Fazil Say, ‘Sonata for Alto Saxophone & Piano Florida to Tokyo’ by Chick Corea, ‘Fantasia for alto sax and piano’ by Ryuichi Sakamoto. He has recorded over 30 CDs includes solo album from CHANDOS and published “Play Along Series” by De Haske. In 2020, he has arranged 3 Partitas for violin solo by J. S. Bach to solo saxphone. His latest CD “Bach Sequence” is highly acclaimed among critics and won the Arts Festival Award for excellence.

He had assumed a role of the concert master of Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra for almost 22 years from 1989 through 2010, and the resident conductor of Yamaha Symphonic Band for 13 years.

Solo Trombone, Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Lars Karlin is a Swedish trombonist and Arranger from Borlänge, Sweden living in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been solo trombone with Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Denmark since 2020. Before that He was solo trombone with Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Germany.

He he started playing the trombone the age of twelve under Hans-Göran ”Bullas” Olsson at the Music School in Borlänge, Sweden. Further studies were made at the Conservatory of Music in Falun, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm under Prof. Sven-Erik Eriksson, The Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover under Prof. Jonas Bylund and at the University for Music and Arts in Berlin under Andreas Klein.

Lars also studied private courses in "Performance Mastery under Peak Performance" by Psychologist Ph.D. Don Greene in Los Angeles.

Lars is a Prizewinner of numerous National and International Music Competitions including: The Lieksa International Trombone Competition in 2008, The Aeolus International Competition for Winds in 2010 and Deutsche Musikwettbewerb in 2011.

From 2007 to 2020 Lars he was member of the Trombone Unit Hannover where he also created much of their repertoire in form of Arrangements. Their CD "Living on the Edge" was recorded exclusively with arrangements by Lars Karlin.

Lars also in 2018 joined forces with Basstrombonist Tomer Maschwkowski & Pianist Ohad Ben-Ari in the newly formed Show ”Sliding thru the opera”.

Principal, Porto Symphony Orchestra

Collector of music works, records, awards, compliments, reputation, sunglasses, hashtags and selfies. Source of creativity and virtuosity. Eclectic, original and visionary. Curious by definition. Adventurous by choice. Breathes musicality and works to achieve excellence. Passionate about life, loves cinema, mythology, reading, fishing and spending time with his friends. Anyone who crosses will never forget him and leave, of that encounter, humanly and professionally richer.

He has always shown great curiosity and ability to explore different musical paths and languages.

Currently his international reputation has been established by his interpretation of the standard and contemporary repertoire for tuba and his stylistic approach to jazz, funk and improvised music.

Sérgio Carolino, is one of the most acclaimed tubists, with constant activity as a soloist and teacher in the most prestigious festivals, conservatories and universities of the five continents. Received for six times the Roger Bobo Award Prize for Excellence in Recording (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017 e 2021), the Award for Emerging Jazz Artist (2004), the Carlos Paredes Prize (2004) and won the SPA Award 2013 - Classical Music Category (Portuguese Author’s Society) for the works published in 2012 and for promoting Portuguese music throughout the World.

TGB, TUBAX Duo, TUBAB Duo, R’B&MrSC, The Postcard Brass Band, XL Duo, Surrealistic Discussion, Duo AR., SubWoof3r, Tuba&Drums Double Duo, Duo Adamastor, Funky Bones Factory!, Yamaha Tuba Duo, Moderato Tangabile, T’N T, Mr.SC & The Wild Bones Gang, European Tuba Trio, Massive Brass Attack!, Intergalactic Vibes!, Crossfade Ensemble, run in his veins.

Sérgio Carolino is, since 2002, principal solo tuba in the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música and he was professor of tuba at the Porto Superior Music and Arts from 2006 to 2019. Since 2010 he is also artistic director of GRAVÍSSIMO! Alcobaça International Low Brass Festival & Academy. He is on the faculty of Musical Arts Madrid as professor of tuba and creativity. Sergio has been guest professor for one semester at the prestigious Indiana University- Jacobs school of Music in Bloomington, Indiana USA.