ensemble360 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ensemble360) wrote,@ 2007-02-05 16:24:00 |
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Hi everyone,
Sorry for being away from the blog for some time...I know it is very late to wish you all a very happy new year, but better late than never...
I hope you had great holidays. I really enjoyed my second Christmas ever, celebrating with Claudia's family in London. Right before that I was very priviledged to play in Carnegie Hall in New York with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Barenboim as part of a USA tour that we had. Such an experience!
It's finally a free day for me today since the beginning of the year...as you might know, we had a crazy month which was a great fun and also quite exhausting... I guess the "highlight" of this month for me started with our concert in Tickhill (the quartet and myself), playing Haydn London Trio, Beethoven Serenade (which we are about to record in our Beethoven cd in May - looking forward!) and then quartets by Kurtag and Beethoven.
I came back home around 11:30pm and figured out that since I had to wake up at 3am it would be better to stay awake and have a "white night" (do you say it in English?? or maybe it is just a Hebrew expression for a no sleep night....)
The reason for waking up so early was not to watch a match from the Australian Open Tennis Championship (I wish...), but to catch a train to Manchester Airport and then a flight to Duesseldorf where I had a concert that evening with Elena Bashkirova on piano and friends from the Jerusalem International Chamber music festival at the beautiful Schumann Hall. So after rehearsing in the morning with red eyes,meeting Claudia afternoon (she has concerts in Germany for two and a half weeks...) and performing in the evening, we were invited for a 4 courses meal in a fantastic italian restaurant, such a treat! it was worth the travel and the hard work....
Right after that I played a week with the Manchester Camerata, performing Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, Shostakovich's first cello concerto with Natalie Clein and Beethoven's 4th symphony all conducted by Dougie Boyd. It was so nice to join forces again with Ben Hudson and Naomi Atherton, both members of the orchestra and to finish the week with a concert in the great Bridgewater Hall and recording the Beethoven symphony. I had such a lovely time!!
So, back to rehearse tomorrow...
Hope to see you all very soon.
Take care,
Guy
Sorry for being away from the blog for some time...I know it is very late to wish you all a very happy new year, but better late than never...
I hope you had great holidays. I really enjoyed my second Christmas ever, celebrating with Claudia's family in London. Right before that I was very priviledged to play in Carnegie Hall in New York with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Barenboim as part of a USA tour that we had. Such an experience!
It's finally a free day for me today since the beginning of the year...as you might know, we had a crazy month which was a great fun and also quite exhausting... I guess the "highlight" of this month for me started with our concert in Tickhill (the quartet and myself), playing Haydn London Trio, Beethoven Serenade (which we are about to record in our Beethoven cd in May - looking forward!) and then quartets by Kurtag and Beethoven.
I came back home around 11:30pm and figured out that since I had to wake up at 3am it would be better to stay awake and have a "white night" (do you say it in English?? or maybe it is just a Hebrew expression for a no sleep night....)
The reason for waking up so early was not to watch a match from the Australian Open Tennis Championship (I wish...), but to catch a train to Manchester Airport and then a flight to Duesseldorf where I had a concert that evening with Elena Bashkirova on piano and friends from the Jerusalem International Chamber music festival at the beautiful Schumann Hall. So after rehearsing in the morning with red eyes,meeting Claudia afternoon (she has concerts in Germany for two and a half weeks...) and performing in the evening, we were invited for a 4 courses meal in a fantastic italian restaurant, such a treat! it was worth the travel and the hard work....
Right after that I played a week with the Manchester Camerata, performing Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, Shostakovich's first cello concerto with Natalie Clein and Beethoven's 4th symphony all conducted by Dougie Boyd. It was so nice to join forces again with Ben Hudson and Naomi Atherton, both members of the orchestra and to finish the week with a concert in the great Bridgewater Hall and recording the Beethoven symphony. I had such a lovely time!!
So, back to rehearse tomorrow...
Hope to see you all very soon.
Take care,
Guy
