1. biografia

[amministratore_1]

Giorgio KOUKL
MUSIC PLAY MANAGEMENT
6945 Origlio,Lugano, Switzerland
tel.(004176)3857340 fax. (004191)9309418
e-mail: musicplay@freesurf.ch
http://www.luxnova.com/~musicplay/koukl/
luogo e data di nascita: Praga (Repubblica Ceca), 1953

Giorgio Koukl is a pianist/harpsichordist and composer.
He was born in Prague in 1953, and studied there at the state music school and conservatory. In 1968 he moved to Switzerland and continued his studies at both the conservatories of Zürich and Milan. While studying there he took part in the masterclasses of Nikita Magalov, Jacques Février, and Stanislaus Neuhaus, and with Rudolf Firkušný, friend and advocate of Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. It was through Firkušný that Koukl first encountered Martinů’s music, prompting him to search out his compatriot’s solo piano works. Since then he has developed these into an important part of his concert repertoire and is now considered one of the world’s leading interpreters of Martinů’s piano music, having recorded that composer’s complete solo piano music, together with a disc of Martinů’s vocal music and two discs of his piano concertos. As a logical continuation of this work, and a nod to his own maternal Russian ancestry, Koukl has now tackled the complete solo piano works of Alexander Tcherepnin, a Russian composer who belonged to the same Parisian group of composers as Martinů, along with Arthur Honegger, Tibor Harsányi, Marcel Mihalovici and Théodore Beck, a group which Albert Roussel referred to as “Les Constructeurs”.