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The artists are:
Carl Mansker – Pianist and composer
Carl Mansker, born in Los Angeles, California in 1935, started to learn piano at the age of nine. From the beginning he preferred to improvise rather than practice.When he was twelve his teacher at the time, Samuel Ball, a student of Leopold Godowsky, encouraged him to write down these improvisations.Years later, following a short stint in the U.S.Navy and a year in New York City he went to the University of California and took his bachelors degree in music. After a further year of study in New York City he went to Munich where he received a scholarship from the Bavarian State to study piano with Prof. Rosl Schmid at the Musikhochschule München. After graduating (1967) he spent several years concertizing throughout Europe.
In 1965, during a concert tour of Spain, he fell in love with the mountain village of Deià on the island of Mallorca. He has actively participated in the Deià International Music Festival, founded by Patrick Meadows in 1978, as composer and performer. In 1987 he was commissioned to write an opera for the festival's tenth aniversary. He composed El bon senyor Karnak to a libretto in Catalan by Josep Maria Llompart, based on the radio play Hunger by Jakov Lind. It was premiered in June 1988, opening the Deia music festival in the Teatro Principal in Palma de Mallorca. Since 1969 Carl and his wife, the Swiss painter Antoinette Mansker, divide their time between Munich and Deià.Though he still concertizes and teaches, he devotes himself mainly to composition. His works have been performed in many countries from Australia to Turkey and many have been recorded by the Bavarian State Radio. In addition to opera, he has written many songs (including 23 settings of Japanese Haiku), chamber music, a concerto grosso, a piano concerto, two symphonies and 9 "Danzas y Fugas".
Ilja Berg – Pianist and composer
Ilja Bergh has led an itinerant life staying in Copenhagen, Riga, Kiev and Munich. He received his first proper piano tuition in Kiev between 1935 and 37. Later he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen, where he graduated in 1957. After that he went to Munich between 1960 and 64, where he studied with the renowned Australian concert pianist Bruce Hungerford and later with Prof. Rosl Schmid. After having finished these studies Ilja Bergh stayed in Munich, where he was busy with educational activities as well as taking part in the local musical life by giving lots of recitals. It was at this time he developed his compositional skills, and since then he has written numerous important works for piano as well as chamber orchestra. Between 1983 and 85 Ilja Bergh was in Turin as an employee for the theatre company "Compagnia Sperimentale Drammatica" for whom he wrote the music for several performances.
Apart from his compositional activities Ilja Bergh has regularly given recitals in Italy, Spain and Germany, where his repertoire – apart from his own compositions - often includes music by Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Aleksander Scriabin and Olivier Messiaen. In 1983 - with the support of the Danish Augustinus Foundation – Ilja Bergh made a record including works by Liszt and Scriabin as well as his own piano music. In 1989 he made the live recording Bergh plays Bergh at Gammelgård, Herlev Arts- and Culture Centre; a recording which was released on cassette. In the same year the work Sound/ Colour/ Injections had its first performance at the Tivoli Concert Hall. It was co-written by Ilja Bergh and the painter Nes Lerpa with support from the Danish Composers’ Society and the Danish Arts Foundation. The work attracted lots of attention and was later performed at the "Scala" in Hamburg and at the "Studio für neue Musik" in Munich. Between 1990 and 95 Ilja Bergh performed five new piano works at Tivoli in Copenhagen, Ispra in Italy, "Scala" in Hamburg, "Studio für neue Musik" in Munich and "Institut für neue Musik" in Berlin.
Music Program:
1. Für Ilja (Carl Mansker)
2. Nocturne op. 23 no 1 (Carl Mansker)
3. Deadline (Ilja Berg)
4. Labyrinth (Ilja Berg)
5. 2 Ballade op. 41 no. 2 (Carl Mansker)
6. Firenze (Ilja Berg)
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