Homero Francesch
Homero Francesch (December 6, 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay ) is a Swiss pianist.
Life
Homero Francesch studied with Santiago Baranda Reyes in Uruguay. In 1967 he received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service and studied in Munich under Hugo Steurer and Ludwig Hoffmann.
He has given concerts throughout Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, the USA and Latin America.
Francesch was of the most prestigious orchestras in the world as a soloist as committed by the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. He played under conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Colin Davis, Riccardo Chailly, Eliahu Inbal and others. Numerous festivals invited him, among other Berlin Festival, Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, Vienna Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, the Salzburg Festival and Aix -en- Provence.
Homero Francesch has been a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts and taught there for 30 years a soloist class. His students included the Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder. 2004 Francesch was appointed as the new Artistic Director of the Summer Academy in Lenk Switzerland. He is a jury member at numerous international piano competitions. He is artistic director of the annual since 2006 Viersener music summer.
Work
Homero Francesch took for the German Grammophon works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Bartók, Henze, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Ravel, Schumann, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky on, for Tudor works by Scarlatti, Ravel, Chopin, Mozart, Reinecke and counterpoint all the sonatas and all Mozart piano concertos.
He played numerous works for television, including the G major Piano Concerto by Ravel in 1973 won the Prix Italia, and the choral fantasy of Beethoven Leonard Bernstein with the Vienna Philharmonic, Hans Werner Henze's " Tristan " under the direction of Composers with the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne, Haydn's D major Concerto and Mendelssohn's D minor Concerto with The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields under Neville Marriner. These programs come with solo works by Mozart, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Isaac Albéniz, de Falla, Villa -Lobos and Alberto Ginastera.
Prizes and awards
- Homero Francesch was awarded the 1978 German Record Prize.
Recordings (selection)
- Robert Schumann: Fantasy Pieces op 12 Scenes from Childhood, Op 15, Arabesque, Op 18
- Igor Stravinsky: Les Noces
- Bela Bartok: Mikrokosmos
- Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas L 281, 203, 333, 413, 122, 187, 465, 5, 422, 118, 164, 391
- Carl Reinecke: Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano in A major, op 264; Sonata for flute & piano in E minor, op 167
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola & Piano in E flat major, K. 498; the complete piano sonatas and piano concertos
- Maurice Ravel: L' oeuvre pour piano I; Le Tombeau de Couperin; Menuet sur le nom d' Haydn; Sérénade grotesque; Gaspard de la Nuit; Pavane pour une infante défunte
- Frédéric Chopin: Polonaises