Friday, May 29, 2009
WELCOME TO SEBASTIAN FORSTER'S MUSICAL UNIVERSE
Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Sebastian Forster studied with Maestro Aldo Antognazzi, former pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and finished his studies at he Liszt Academy of Budapest.
He has been hailed as the best young Argentine pianist by the world- renowned master pianist Ralph Votapek, judge of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Performing since the age of ten, he has been a featured soloist in Argentina, Uruguay, The Netherlands, Chezc Republic, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Germany, Ukraine, and USA.
He lived most of his life in Holland, where he has regularly performed in the world- famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Mr. Forster made his debut at the Concertgebouw with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart Piano Concerto N 23, which was recorded live by BMG Victor Red Seal.
Since then, his international career includes tours with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, the Budapest Concert Orchestra Mav, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Flemish Radio Orchestra. At the Sala Verdi in Milan , he gave Solo Piano Recitals that included works by Ginastera, Liszt, Prokofieff, and Mozart.
In Buenos Aires he opened the season of the very prestigious Concert Series like Asociation Wagneriana Serie & Mozarteum Argentino at the Colon Theatre.
Performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, under Franz Paul Decker and others.At the Colon Theatre Filarmonica Series and with the National Symphony Orchestra of Buenos Aires under its principal chief conductor, Pedro Ignacio Calderon.
He recorded the following CD's, Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos with the Radio State Ukrainian Orchestra in Kiev, conducted by Dwight Bennett; Solo piano Works with music of Argentinean Composer Uña Ramos; the Beethoven third Piano Concerto for "Clasica Magazine" of Argentina; Muzio Clemente's sonatas; The 23rd Mozart Piano Concerto for "BMG Victor Red Seal" and Volume I of the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
He is the founder member of the “Trio Fundacion Astor Piazzolla " which toured in Belgium , The Netherlands, USA , and Argentina , including concerts through Holland , with the Argentinean Mayo Chamber Orchestra, and a CD released by "World Connection" Seal sold worldwide, with Piazzolla's Nacar Concerto World Premiere.
He opened the 47th Chopin Festival in Marienbad, 50th anniversary celebration for Edelman World Public Relations Firm at the Historical Society in NYC, and for the Raoul Wallemberg Foundation at the East Park Synagogue in NYC,commemorating the life of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat that saved many lives in the Holocaust,the Endless Mountain Music Festival in Pennsylvania, Jazz at Lincoln Center for the PSNYC, Steinway Hall in NYC and the Harvard Club in NYC.
Mr.Forster lives in the US as a teaching artist and Faculty at the Piano School of NYC since 2005 and is actually recording the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas as part of his artistic legacy.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Forster plays & records Beethoven's 32 Sonatas in "Magnificent Obsession"
This is what the Argentine pianist, Sebastian Forster feels while playing his cycle of 32 Sonatas that will be recorded during the next18 months.
The first 3 are already recorded, “Volume I”, and the four pairs of CD’s will make history.
Sebastian thinks that after concluding this project he will be feeling like climbing the Andes Mountains in the Patagonia.
Sebastian is a real and unique "Beethovenian" and shows his talent and strength in every strophe, building the most deep and strong Beethoven of this generation.
He is a poet, a real romantic, one of the “last Mohican” of this century.
Sebastian Forster, with all the Beethoven experience he has on his shoulders, will be a different person when this project ends.
If you listen carefully, you will feel that your soul is highly elevated and risen above convention during the playing of each note.
Soon you will experience the possibility of listening Forster live, and I guess that will reveal the real and true story of this magnificent and overpowering program that only a few can create.
Forster’s intensity is so strong that creates an atmosphere of some tension without loosing his outstanding technical and emotional control.
The Sonatas are being amazingly recorded under the supervision and engineering of Patrych Sound Studios in New York.
The first three Sonatas show an early Beethoven and Forster brakes down the barriers, showing during the second movement of the Second Sonata the best character and harmony between association and a sense of a truth revolution, between sound and melody.
March 2009
The first 3 are already recorded, “Volume I”, and the four pairs of CD’s will make history.
Sebastian thinks that after concluding this project he will be feeling like climbing the Andes Mountains in the Patagonia.
Sebastian is a real and unique "Beethovenian" and shows his talent and strength in every strophe, building the most deep and strong Beethoven of this generation.
He is a poet, a real romantic, one of the “last Mohican” of this century.
Sebastian Forster, with all the Beethoven experience he has on his shoulders, will be a different person when this project ends.
If you listen carefully, you will feel that your soul is highly elevated and risen above convention during the playing of each note.
Soon you will experience the possibility of listening Forster live, and I guess that will reveal the real and true story of this magnificent and overpowering program that only a few can create.
Forster’s intensity is so strong that creates an atmosphere of some tension without loosing his outstanding technical and emotional control.
The Sonatas are being amazingly recorded under the supervision and engineering of Patrych Sound Studios in New York.
The first three Sonatas show an early Beethoven and Forster brakes down the barriers, showing during the second movement of the Second Sonata the best character and harmony between association and a sense of a truth revolution, between sound and melody.
March 2009
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Welcome to Sebastian's Universe of Music
Born in Buenos Aires in 1975, Sebastian Forster studied with Maestro Aldo Antognazzi, former pupil of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and finished his studies at he Liszt Academy of Budapest.
He has been hailed as the best young Argentine pianist by the world- renowned master pianist Ralph Votapek, judge of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Performing since the age of ten, he has been a featured soloist in Argentina, Uruguay, The Netherlands, Chezc Republic, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Germany, Ukraine, and USA.
He lived most of his life in Holland, where he has regularly performed in the world- famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Mr. Forster made his debut at the Concertgebouw with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart Piano Concerto N 23, which was recorded live by BMG Victor Red Seal.
Since then, his international career includes tours with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, the Budapest Concert Orchestra Mav, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Flemish Radio Orchestra. At the Sala Verdi in Milan , he gave Solo Piano Recitals that included works by Ginastera, Liszt, Prokofieff, and Mozart.
In Buenos Aires he opened the season of the very prestigious Concert Series like Asociation Wagneriana Serie & Mozarteum Argentino at the Colon Theatre.
Performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, under Franz Paul Decker and others.At the Colon Theatre Filarmonica Series and with the National Symphony Orchestra of Buenos Aires under its principal chief conductor, Pedro Ignacio Calderon.
He recorded the following CD's, Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos with the Radio State Ukrainian Orchestra in Kiev, conducted by Dwight Bennett; Solo piano Works with music of Argentinean Composer Uña Ramos; the Beethoven third Piano Concerto for "Clasica Magazine" of Argentina; Muzio Clemente's sonatas; The 23rd Mozart Piano Concerto for "BMG Victor Red Seal" and Volume I of the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas.
He has been hailed as the best young Argentine pianist by the world- renowned master pianist Ralph Votapek, judge of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Performing since the age of ten, he has been a featured soloist in Argentina, Uruguay, The Netherlands, Chezc Republic, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Chile, Germany, Ukraine, and USA.
He lived most of his life in Holland, where he has regularly performed in the world- famous Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Mr. Forster made his debut at the Concertgebouw with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart Piano Concerto N 23, which was recorded live by BMG Victor Red Seal.
Since then, his international career includes tours with the Stuttgart Philharmonic, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, the Linz Bruckner Orchestra, the Budapest Concert Orchestra Mav, the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, and the Flemish Radio Orchestra. At the Sala Verdi in Milan , he gave Solo Piano Recitals that included works by Ginastera, Liszt, Prokofieff, and Mozart.
In Buenos Aires he opened the season of the very prestigious Concert Series like Asociation Wagneriana Serie & Mozarteum Argentino at the Colon Theatre.
Performed as a soloist with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires, under Franz Paul Decker and others.At the Colon Theatre Filarmonica Series and with the National Symphony Orchestra of Buenos Aires under its principal chief conductor, Pedro Ignacio Calderon.
He recorded the following CD's, Rachmaninoff's Second and Third Piano Concertos with the Radio State Ukrainian Orchestra in Kiev, conducted by Dwight Bennett; Solo piano Works with music of Argentinean Composer Uña Ramos; the Beethoven third Piano Concerto for "Clasica Magazine" of Argentina; Muzio Clemente's sonatas; The 23rd Mozart Piano Concerto for "BMG Victor Red Seal" and Volume I of the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas.