Slava Grigoryan 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival
April 6th 2011 07:18
Slava Grigoryan announced as Artistic Director for
2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre CEO and Artistic Director, Douglas Gautier has announced Slava Grigoryan as the Artistic Director for the Festival Centre’s 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival which will be held from 9-12 August, 2012.
“Slava Grigoryan, one of Australia’s most significant cultural ambassadors, directed the very successful 2010 Adelaide International Guitar Festival and took the event to a whole new level so we are delighted that he will be directing the 2012 Festival. We are really looking forward to continuing to work with him,” Douglas said.
“Slava drew from his enormous musical expertise and international connections as one of Australia’s finest musicians to deliver a Festival that audiences well and truly embraced. It is testament to his great work that 13% of all tickets for the 2010 Festival were bought by interstate or overseas patrons,” he said.
“Following the incredible experience of last year’s Festival and the feedback from artists and audiences, I’m very excited to be working on a second Festival,” said Slava Grigoryan.
“There are so many extraordinary guitarists doing very exciting things with the instrument around the world and I’m really looking forward to bringing some of them together in Adelaide in 2012.”
The Adelaide International Guitar Festival continues to garner a reputation for presenting some of the finest musicians from around the world and Australia. Reviews and feedback from audience members and performing artists prove that the Festival is becoming an unmissable event:
“Organisers pulled off an impressive coup this time in securing Australia’s own internationally acclaimed virtuoso Slava Grigoryan as the festival’s artistic director. The classical guitarist has certainly put his stamp on the event, using his network and knowledge to attract some truly world class acts to Australia”
Chris Johnson, Canberra Times
“his (Manuel Barrueco) playing makes me want to get on a plane and fly to Adelaide. Lucky audiences there.”
Margaret Throsby, Classic FM
“It was great to be back at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival, just like the first time I performed in the Festival, audiences proved that they know how to rock!” Mason Rack, Australia
Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts, the Hon John Hill congratulated the Adelaide Festival Centre for again appointing such a distinguished classical guitarist as Artistic Director of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival.
“Slava put together a diverse and engaging program which was widely acclaimed and I am sure that the 2012 program will be just as amazing,” Minister Hill said.
Slava Grigoryan has forged a prolific reputation as an international classical guitar virtuoso. Born in Kazakhstan, he immigrated with his family to Australia in 1981 and began studying the guitar at the age of six. By the time he was 17 he was signed to the Sony Classical Label. His relationship with Sony Classical, ABC Classics in Australia, and now his own label Which Way Music has led to the release of more than 20 solo and collaborative albums spanning a vast range of musical genres.
His first tour, at the young age of 18 was with guitar legends Paco Pena and Leo Kottke. Since then he’s travelled the world as a soloist in recitals and with orchestras in Europe, Asia and North America, and has performed at dozens of national and international arts festivals and guitar festivals. He has won ARIA awards for Best Classical Album and performs regularly as a soloist with all of Australia’s major orchestras. Internationally, his performances have taken him to many of the world’s leading concert halls and festivals.
Collaborations have played a huge part in Grigoryan’s career, most notably the guitar duo with his brother Leonard Grigoryan. Their touring has seen them perform throughout Europe, America, Asia, Russia and the Middle-East. Other collaborations have been with ensembles such as Goldner, Flinders and Australian String Quartets in Australia, the Endellion, Skampa and Chillingirian quartets in Europe, the Southern Cross Soloists, pianist Michael Kieren-Harvey and baritone Jose Carbo and Grigoryan was a founding member of Saffire, the Australian guitar quartet. He has also collaborated with numerous composers and premiered many new works, significantly with composers William Lovelady, Nigel Westlake and Shaun Rigney.
Grigoryan has also had long term collaborations with MGT - a guitar trio featuring jazz icons Ralph Towner and Wolfgang Muthspiel, and a duo with Austrian electric bassist Al Slavik. A more recent project has been Band of Brothers, featuring Leonard Grigoryan and brothers, Joseph and James Tawadros, in a fusion of contemporary jazz, classical and middle-eastern music.
The New York Times describes Slava as “A guitar player of uncommon originality and authority. Musicality, expressivity and daring …a singular talent.”
Slava Grigoryan was born in 1976 in Kazakhstan and immigrated with his family to Australia in 1981. As a major prizewinner at the Tokyo International Classical Guitar Competition, Slava was signed by Sony Music Entertainment Australia under the Sony Classical Label in 1995 and has since released four solo albums.
Slava Grigoryan has performed at many national and international Festivals such as the Brighton International Festival, the Harrogate International Arts Festival, Dresden Misikfestpiel, the Newbury Festival in the UK, the Guitar Festival of Great Britain, the Darwin International Guitar Festival, the GFA Festival in La Jolla, California, the Wirral International Guitar Festival, the AL Bustan Festival in Beirut, the New Zealand Arts Festival and the Sydney Festival.
He has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Radio Orchestra and more recently the Klagenfurt Symphony Orchestra in Austria and the Halle Orchestra in Manchester, UK.
In 1998 Slava was named Young Australian of the Year for the Arts and in September 2000 he appeared as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra as part of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Arts Festival.
In January 2001, he was soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in their annual “Symphony in the Domain” concert before an audience in excess of 100,000. Later that year, he toured extensively for Musica Viva Australia with the Australian pianist, Simon Tedeschi and appeared for Andrew McKinnon Concert Presentations in recital at Angel Place. Other 2001 performances included appearances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The City of London Festival, the Australian String Quartet and a tour to Japan in September.
In 2002, Slava appeared as soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra and toured for Musica Viva with his brother, Leonard Grigoryan. Slava Grigoryan was appointed Artist in Residence at the Victorian College of the Arts, and received the ‘Mo Award’ for Instrumentalist of the Year.
His debut classical album for ABC Classics – Sonatas and Fantasies - was released in March 2002 and was awarded Best Classical Album at the 2002 ARIA Awards. 2003 saw the release of two new albums on the ABC Classics label – Play (with Leonard Grigoryan) and Saffire (The Australian Guitar Quartet), which went on to win the 2003 Best Classical Album ARIA.
2003 engagements included solo appearances with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and for the Queensland Biennial of Music, national tours with his brother Leonard and with Saffire, extensive appearances for Musica Viva and performances in Japan with baritone José Carbó. Slava also collaborated with many colleagues in Slava and Friends for Carnivale in Sydney.
In 2004, Slava appeared as a soloist with the Melbourne and West Australian Symphony orchestras, Orchestra Victoria and toured extensively for Musica Viva. He also recorded and released a new CD with Saffire and performed extensively with the guitar quartet, including a concert at the Brisbane Festival and regional tours. His album release Brazil (with flautist Jane Rutter) went straight to No. 1 on the ARIA classical charts.
2005 saw Slava Grigoryan appear as a soloist with some of Australia’s leading orchestras, complete a Guest-Artist residency at Geelong Grammar in Victoria, where he performed concerts and workshops, undertake a tour to the United Arab Emirates and South Africa and record a new CD with his brother, Leonard Grigoryan, through ABC Classics, of the Rodrigo Concerto for two guitars with the Queensland Orchestra.
In the latter half of 2005, he undertook major tours to Europe and the USA both as a solo artist and with Saffire – The Australian Guitar Quartet. In 2006, Slava toured New Zealand, the UK, Russia, Japan and South-East-Asia including a major recital with Leonard at Wigmore Hall, London.
In 2007, brothers Slava and Leonard toured as a duo throughout Australia, Asia and the Baltic States as well as recording with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Slava also appeared as a soloist with The Queensland Orchestra, the Song Company and with Leonard for the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and at the Queensland Music Festival.
2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival
Adelaide Festival Centre CEO and Artistic Director, Douglas Gautier has announced Slava Grigoryan as the Artistic Director for the Festival Centre’s 2012 Adelaide International Guitar Festival which will be held from 9-12 August, 2012.
“Slava Grigoryan, one of Australia’s most significant cultural ambassadors, directed the very successful 2010 Adelaide International Guitar Festival and took the event to a whole new level so we are delighted that he will be directing the 2012 Festival. We are really looking forward to continuing to work with him,” Douglas said.
“Slava drew from his enormous musical expertise and international connections as one of Australia’s finest musicians to deliver a Festival that audiences well and truly embraced. It is testament to his great work that 13% of all tickets for the 2010 Festival were bought by interstate or overseas patrons,” he said.
“Following the incredible experience of last year’s Festival and the feedback from artists and audiences, I’m very excited to be working on a second Festival,” said Slava Grigoryan.
“There are so many extraordinary guitarists doing very exciting things with the instrument around the world and I’m really looking forward to bringing some of them together in Adelaide in 2012.”
The Adelaide International Guitar Festival continues to garner a reputation for presenting some of the finest musicians from around the world and Australia. Reviews and feedback from audience members and performing artists prove that the Festival is becoming an unmissable event:
“Organisers pulled off an impressive coup this time in securing Australia’s own internationally acclaimed virtuoso Slava Grigoryan as the festival’s artistic director. The classical guitarist has certainly put his stamp on the event, using his network and knowledge to attract some truly world class acts to Australia”
“his (Manuel Barrueco) playing makes me want to get on a plane and fly to Adelaide. Lucky audiences there.”
Margaret Throsby, Classic FM
“It was great to be back at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival, just like the first time I performed in the Festival, audiences proved that they know how to rock!” Mason Rack, Australia
Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts, the Hon John Hill congratulated the Adelaide Festival Centre for again appointing such a distinguished classical guitarist as Artistic Director of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival.
“Slava put together a diverse and engaging program which was widely acclaimed and I am sure that the 2012 program will be just as amazing,” Minister Hill said.
Slava Grigoryan has forged a prolific reputation as an international classical guitar virtuoso. Born in Kazakhstan, he immigrated with his family to Australia in 1981 and began studying the guitar at the age of six. By the time he was 17 he was signed to the Sony Classical Label. His relationship with Sony Classical, ABC Classics in Australia, and now his own label Which Way Music has led to the release of more than 20 solo and collaborative albums spanning a vast range of musical genres.
His first tour, at the young age of 18 was with guitar legends Paco Pena and Leo Kottke. Since then he’s travelled the world as a soloist in recitals and with orchestras in Europe, Asia and North America, and has performed at dozens of national and international arts festivals and guitar festivals. He has won ARIA awards for Best Classical Album and performs regularly as a soloist with all of Australia’s major orchestras. Internationally, his performances have taken him to many of the world’s leading concert halls and festivals.
Collaborations have played a huge part in Grigoryan’s career, most notably the guitar duo with his brother Leonard Grigoryan. Their touring has seen them perform throughout Europe, America, Asia, Russia and the Middle-East. Other collaborations have been with ensembles such as Goldner, Flinders and Australian String Quartets in Australia, the Endellion, Skampa and Chillingirian quartets in Europe, the Southern Cross Soloists, pianist Michael Kieren-Harvey and baritone Jose Carbo and Grigoryan was a founding member of Saffire, the Australian guitar quartet. He has also collaborated with numerous composers and premiered many new works, significantly with composers William Lovelady, Nigel Westlake and Shaun Rigney.
Grigoryan has also had long term collaborations with MGT - a guitar trio featuring jazz icons Ralph Towner and Wolfgang Muthspiel, and a duo with Austrian electric bassist Al Slavik. A more recent project has been Band of Brothers, featuring Leonard Grigoryan and brothers, Joseph and James Tawadros, in a fusion of contemporary jazz, classical and middle-eastern music.
The New York Times describes Slava as “A guitar player of uncommon originality and authority. Musicality, expressivity and daring …a singular talent.”
Slava Grigoryan has performed at many national and international Festivals such as the Brighton International Festival, the Harrogate International Arts Festival, Dresden Misikfestpiel, the Newbury Festival in the UK, the Guitar Festival of Great Britain, the Darwin International Guitar Festival, the GFA Festival in La Jolla, California, the Wirral International Guitar Festival, the AL Bustan Festival in Beirut, the New Zealand Arts Festival and the Sydney Festival.
He has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Radio Orchestra and more recently the Klagenfurt Symphony Orchestra in Austria and the Halle Orchestra in Manchester, UK.
In 1998 Slava was named Young Australian of the Year for the Arts and in September 2000 he appeared as soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra as part of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Arts Festival.
In January 2001, he was soloist with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in their annual “Symphony in the Domain” concert before an audience in excess of 100,000. Later that year, he toured extensively for Musica Viva Australia with the Australian pianist, Simon Tedeschi and appeared for Andrew McKinnon Concert Presentations in recital at Angel Place. Other 2001 performances included appearances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The City of London Festival, the Australian String Quartet and a tour to Japan in September.
In 2002, Slava appeared as soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Youth Orchestra and toured for Musica Viva with his brother, Leonard Grigoryan. Slava Grigoryan was appointed Artist in Residence at the Victorian College of the Arts, and received the ‘Mo Award’ for Instrumentalist of the Year.
His debut classical album for ABC Classics – Sonatas and Fantasies - was released in March 2002 and was awarded Best Classical Album at the 2002 ARIA Awards. 2003 saw the release of two new albums on the ABC Classics label – Play (with Leonard Grigoryan) and Saffire (The Australian Guitar Quartet), which went on to win the 2003 Best Classical Album ARIA.
2003 engagements included solo appearances with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and for the Queensland Biennial of Music, national tours with his brother Leonard and with Saffire, extensive appearances for Musica Viva and performances in Japan with baritone José Carbó. Slava also collaborated with many colleagues in Slava and Friends for Carnivale in Sydney.
In 2004, Slava appeared as a soloist with the Melbourne and West Australian Symphony orchestras, Orchestra Victoria and toured extensively for Musica Viva. He also recorded and released a new CD with Saffire and performed extensively with the guitar quartet, including a concert at the Brisbane Festival and regional tours. His album release Brazil (with flautist Jane Rutter) went straight to No. 1 on the ARIA classical charts.
2005 saw Slava Grigoryan appear as a soloist with some of Australia’s leading orchestras, complete a Guest-Artist residency at Geelong Grammar in Victoria, where he performed concerts and workshops, undertake a tour to the United Arab Emirates and South Africa and record a new CD with his brother, Leonard Grigoryan, through ABC Classics, of the Rodrigo Concerto for two guitars with the Queensland Orchestra.
In the latter half of 2005, he undertook major tours to Europe and the USA both as a solo artist and with Saffire – The Australian Guitar Quartet. In 2006, Slava toured New Zealand, the UK, Russia, Japan and South-East-Asia including a major recital with Leonard at Wigmore Hall, London.
In 2007, brothers Slava and Leonard toured as a duo throughout Australia, Asia and the Baltic States as well as recording with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Slava also appeared as a soloist with The Queensland Orchestra, the Song Company and with Leonard for the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and at the Queensland Music Festival.
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