Hugo Ticciati and Henrik Mawe
Biographie Hugo Ticciati and Henrik Mawe
Hugo Ticciati
was born in London in 1980 and moved to Sweden at the age of 20 to study with the Russian violinists, Nina and Oleg Balabina.
Hugo embraces the world of contemporary music, collaborating with composers such as Sven-David Sandstrøm, Albert Schnelzer, Anders Hillborg, Djuro Zivkovic, Leonardo Coral, Andrea Tarrodi, Tobias Broström, Thomas Jennefelt, Sergey N. Evtushenko, Esaias Järnegard, Thomas Sleeper and Volodymir Runchak. He has performed concertos dedicated to him across the world in venues including Carnegie Hall, Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, Cadogan Hall and Berwaldhallen. Hugo also loves devising concerts and events that combine music with the other arts, notably dance and literature. He is currently working with the English composer Bill Connor on ‘An Improvised Violin Concerto’.
Hugo has a passion for chamber music and gives regular recitals in prestigious halls across Europe and the Far East, collaborating with artists such as Anne- Sofie von Otter, Steven Isserlis, Angela Hewitt, Michael Collins, Torleif Thedeen, Leslie Howard, Staffan Scheja, Michael Tsalka and Henrik Måwe. He is also regularly invited to renowned music festivals such as The Baltic Sea Festival, Hermitage Music Festival, Bachwoche Ansbach, St-Denis-Festival, Cervantino, Edinburgh Festival and Gotland Chamber Music Festival. Hugo directs his own festival O/MODERNT at Ulrikdals Palace Theatre Confidencen, Stockholm. Selected programmes from the festival will be presented as a series of concerts at Wigmore Hall in London and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam.
Hugo regularly gives masterclasses and seminars on violin teaching, and lectures on music-related subjects all over the world. In autumn 2008, he was invited to the post of guest violin teacher and lecturer in music history at a newly-started university in New York. At the heart of Hugo’s teaching is the exploration of ways to apply the physical and spiritual aspects of meditation to the art of practising, playing and living in music. He is currently working on a series of articles with Simone Kotva which explore music-making and repetition through the lens of various strands of Continental Philosophy.
Together with many scholarships Hugo has won the international competitions Giovani Talenti and Rovere d’Oro at San Bartolomeo al Mare, Italy (2002), and the Mendelssohn Cup in Bari, Italy (2004). In 2007 he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Schools of Music in the United Kingdom. Hugo plays on a 1752 Giovanni Battista Guadagnini.
Henrik Måwe
born in Sweden 1981, is considered one of the most prominent Swedish pianists of his generation. He studied with Prof. Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and with Prof. Staffan Scheja at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Since his debut in 2008 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Stockholm, Henrik has performed regularly all over Europe and the USA.
Henrik plays with the leading Swedish orchestras, collaborating with conductors such as B Tommy Andersson, Hannu Koivula and Mats Rondin. He is also invited to festivals such as Savigny le Temple, Moulin d’Andé, Gotland Chamber Music Festival, Malar Music, Festival O/MODERNT. Being a passionate chamber musician, he has collaborated with the foremost instrumentalists and singers of Sweden, notably the renowned baritone Håkan Hagegård.
Henrik has also branched out into the field of jazz and improvisation, and has worked with bass player and composer Georg Riedel. Furthermore he loves devoting entire recitals to improvisation, often asking the audience to provide a theme that he can then elaborate on!
Besides his active performing career, Henrik enjoys teaching and hold the position of chamber music coach at the specialist music school Lilla Akademien in Stockholm.
In 2008 Henrik was awarded the ‘Rosenborg-Gehrmans’ scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship for young musicians in Sweden. He has received many other important scholarships in Sweden. Prizes won in competitions include 3rd prize at the FLAME International Piano Competition in Paris, 4th prize at the Val Tidone Competition in Italy, 2nd prize at the Blüthner Nordic Piano Competition in Malmö. Henrik is supported by the world’s leading piano manufacturer, Steinway & Sons, as a ‘Young Steinway Artist’.
