Kazunori Seo & Vicente Coves
Biography Kazunori Seo & Vicente Coves
Kazunori Seo
has a seamless, warm delivery that is perfect for the repertoire. Yet when called on to supply the requisite bravura, he confidently steps up to the plate and delivers. The performances also radiate a fine sense of energy and unforced stylish grace. (American Record Guide / USA)
The sonority, magnificently timbre without falling ever in the excess, serves the expression marvellously.... Kazunori SEO perpetuates with elegance, distinction and class, the best tradition of the French school of the flute of which he is descended. (La Traversière Magazine / FRANCE)
Prize-winner of the prestigious international competitions, notably "Carl Nielsen" and "Jean-Pierre Rampal in 1998, and more "Geneva" in 2001, Kazunori SEO has won attention as one of the world's outstanding flutists through numerous appearances as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician.
He has performed with especially Patrick Gallois, Jean-Michel Damase, Emile Naoumoff, Maurice Bourgue, Jörg Demus, the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, the Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra and the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, among others in Europe, in Asia, and in North and South America....
In 2005, he won the Pro Musicis International Award in Paris and he gives recitals regularly in Paris (Salle Cortot), New-York (Carnegie, Weill Recital Hall), Boston, Tokyo as the artist of Pro Musicis Association.
A passionate and dedicated as chamber musician, arranger & recording producer. He produce regularly many concerts and recordings for Naxos and his own labels "Les Ménestrels" & "Virtus Classics", with Svetlin Roussev, Nicolas Dautricourt, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Laurent Wagschal, Jong-hwa Park, Makoto Ueno etc.... In 2011, he was commissioned by the Shirakawa-Hall in Nagoya (Japan), arranged two symbolic symphonies to chamber music. Beethoven's Eroica Symphony for 6 players and Mahler's 9th Symphony for 12 players. These arrangements got a lot of attention in the Japan music scene.
The flutist Kazunori SEO was born in Kitakyushu (Japan) in 1974. He began his musical studies since the age of 6 years with his parents who are musicians, but it is especially in Paris that he accomplished the essential of his musical studies. He studied flute in Paris with Raymond Guiot, Kurt Redel, Patrick Gallois, Benoît Fromanger and Alain Marion at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (CNSMDP) where he was awarded the "Premier Prix" in flute in 1998. He also studied chamber music with Pascal Le Corre, Emmanuel Nunes, Christian Ivaldi, Ami Flammer, and he was awarded at the CNSMDP the "Premier Prix" in chamber music in 1999. He concluded his musical studies with Maurice Bourgue at the CNSMDP.
Vicente Coves
Born in the southern Spanish city of Jaén in 1982, classical guitarist Vicente Coves Merino is a disciple of the legendary Pepe Romero.
He has appeared as a soloist with the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonic Youth Orchestra Moscow, Orchestra della Toscana, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Community of Madrid Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic, Spanish National Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, and others. Countries he has toured include Italy, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Russia, Qatar, Ecuador, Germany and the UK, and has performed in some of the world’s most important auditoriums including the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory; Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; National Auditorium of Music of Madrid; Theatre Verdi, Florence; Kolner Philarmonie, Germany and Seoul Arts Center, South Korea.
As a recording artist Vicente Coves has issued seven solo discs for Naxos and Chandos. He is the founder and president of the European Guitar Foundation, and director of the Granada International Guitar Festival. In 2008 he was awarded the Rubinstein Medal by the Moscow Conservatory. Vicente Coves is a Pepe Romero Strings Artist.
