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With full commitment to the violin-cello formation, together with their dedication and way of understanding and producing music, Duo PrismA brings with passion and creativity the many different faces in which this art can be manifested.
They created the ensemble in 2016 when the the French violinist Ioan Haffner and the Spanish cellist Eva Otero met during an orchestra tour in China. That was the starting point of their journey across the world discovering music from various cultures, learning about other societies and getting inspired by the landscapes to finally translate it all into music. Going thoroughly into the existing classical repertoire for violin and cello, from the great gems to the lesser-known pieces, folk and traditional music, rediscovering other repertoire, arranging and adapting others genres to the formation, this two musicians exploit the possibilities to the maximum as well as the ways to present it to the audience, including audiovisual effects to the performances resulting to create a more dimensional and persuasive interpretation. |
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She was born 1989 in A Coruña, (Spain) and begins her cello studies at the age of eight with Gabriel Tanacescu and Carolina Landriscini. She continues her studies with Angel Luis Quintana obtaining her Bachelor diploma Bachelor in Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón and later on her Master in Classical Music Performance in Codarts Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, (Rotterdam) under the guidance of Herre-Jan Stegenga. As a solo experience, she performed A. Dvorak cello Concerto with Codarts Symphony Orchestra in Grote Zaal in De Doelen and P. I. Tchaikovsky Rococó Variations for cello and orchestra with with Rijnald Symphony Orchestra in Zoetermeer (Nederlands) under direction of Andras Cziffra. As orchestral experience, she has performed with Orquesta Nacional de España (ONE), Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (OSG), Orquesta Nacional de Cabo Verde, Orquesta GAOS, CSMA Symphony Orchestra, “Camerata Aragón”, Codarts Symphony Orchestra, performing in De Doelen, (Rotterdam), Auditorio Nacional (Madrid), Musikverein (Viena), Auditori Nacional de Cataluña, Palacio de la Ópera de A Coruña (Spain). She has received master classes of several renowned cellists as Jean Guilhem Queyras, Sol Gabetta, Daniel Müller Schott, Xabier Gagnepain, Alain Meunier, Mark Kosower. Polo, Marçal Cervera, Mario Brunello, Jan-Erik Gustaffson, Arnau Thomas, Dimitry Fershman, Monique Bartels, Laurentiu Sbarcea. With a broad chamber music experience, Eva combines her labor in DuoPrismA with other performances and cello teaching activities. Since March 2018, Eva plays on an cello from the french Ecole de Mirecourt, made in 1879 by Emile Manesson. Born in 1990, Ioan Haffner began to play violin at six graduating from the Créteil Conservatory and CRR de Boulogne Billancourt and CRR de Paris. In 2010, he continues his studies with Olga Martinova at the Rotterdam Conservatory where he completed a Master in Classical violin. Besides the classical repertoire, he is particularly drawn to modern and contemporary music. His curiosity led him to explore fields of new music premiering young composers, but also tango, jazz, world music… As a soloist experience he performed Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto Grosso with the Codarts Chamber Orchestra conducted by Patrick Ayrton at the Doelen - Rotterdam. As orchestral experience, he performed with Ensemble International Musiké with soloists such as Jean Bernard Pommier, Natalia Gutman, Olga Martinova, Henri Demarquette, Gabriel Bacquier; Kamerata Stradivarius Orkest, Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, RE:orchestra, Metropole Orkest, North Sea Jazz festival orchestra with musicians such as Ibrahim Maalouf, Jamie Cullum, E.S.T. Björn Trio. As chamber music experience, he is the winner of Fontys Competition in Tilburg with the AKOM Quartet and Finalist of De Grote Kammermuziekprijs in Rotterdam with the Ensemble MIR. He joined the bands VDRSH and Les Gars Dans L’Coin in 2011. From October 2014, he is first violin of AKOM Ensemble, contemporary music chamber ensemble premiering young composers. In 2016, he creates DuoPrisma after meeting Eva Otero Picado during an orchestra tour in China. Ioan plays on a violin from Dimitri Badiarov faciebat anno 2012, No.76, L’Haye. |
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