Mario Hossen: Hidden method of Paganini

Professor Mario Hossen will give a lecture about the hidden method of Niccolo Paganini.

Performers

  • Professor Mario Hossen, lecture
  • Victor Vasilev, violin
  • Nona Krincheva, piano

Programme

  • N. Paganini – Caprice № 5, 13, 23
  • P. Tchaikovsky – Valse-Scherzo, op.34

Mario Hossen is an Austro-Bulgarian soloist, considered as one of the leading interpreters of Paganini’s Music. As a soloist of international acclaim, Mario has performed with renowned orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, the Orchestra della Scala di Milano, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Sofia Philharmonic, the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Hailed for his incredible virtuosity and charismatic stage presence, he plays a repertoire all the way from Renaissance to Classical music and to contemporary works and Jazz. Together with music by leading last centuries composers, he performs and promotes the works of the great Bulgarian composers Pancho Vladigerov, Marin Goleminov and Peter Christoskov.

Viktor Vasilev was born in 2007 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He started playing the violin with Mrs. Darina Dankova when he was four years old. Nowadays Viktor is a pupil at Dobrin Petkov National School of Music and Arts in Plovdiv. He is also a junior student at New Bulgarian University in Sofia where he has been studying under the guidance of Prof. Mario Hossen for six years now. Viktor is a laureate of first prizes of many international competitions such as the Grumiaux International Violin Competition – Belgium, 2018; XXV Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition – Italy, 2018; Bohdan Warchal International Competition in playing the bow-string instruments – Slovakia,2017; Kocian International Violin Competition – Czech Republic, 2016 etc.
Viktor has performed as a soloist with most of the Bulgarian symphony and string orchestras. He has taken part in many master classes of world-renown violinists and pedagogues.

The visit of Victor Vasilev and Nona Krincheva is supported by New Bulgarian University.

Further details: Pauli Raitakari, pauli.raitakari@uniarts.fi 

Time

17.11.2022 at 17:30 – 18:30

Tickets

Free admission