Beata Halska & Claudio Chaiquin
Biography Beata Halska & Claudio Chaiquin
Beata Halska
Born in Poland, Beata Halska, has chosen France as her adoptive homeland. She has achieved a considerable international reputation. In addition to the greatest violin concerts, she intensively dedicates herself to chamber music as well as to rarely executed works and world premieres.
She debuted with Mozart’s Violin Concert in Salzburg at the age of 15, and three years later she played Brahms’s Concert at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Her artistic development has been strongly influenced by famous pedagogues like Y. Menuhin, J. Jankielewicz, S, Vegh and H. Szeryng.
She obtained the highest distinction (Premier Prix) in J. Fournier’s class at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique of Paris. She has attended, as guest soloist, great festivals like Menton, Radio France, Paris and Reims; well-known concert halls such as the Theatre of the Champs Elysees, the Opera Comique, the Salle Gaveau, Radio France, the great Theater of Brescia, Milan and Lisbon, the Philharmonic af Warsaw, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, GEVANDHAUS of Leipzig… and orchestra ensembles such as the Sinfonia Varsovia, the Mozarteum of Salzburg, the Pameriggi Musicali di Milano, the Audo/iEnsemble, the Classica of Porto, the Capella Cracoviensis, the RTV Symphonic Orchestra of Warsaw as well as the Polish Philharmonic Orchestra.
Claudio Chaiquin
French-Argentine pianist Claudio Chaiquin was born in Buenos Aires, where he studied at the Conservatorio Manuel de Falla with Dora Castro, a former pupil of Walter Gieseking. He was a prizewinner at the Young Soloists Competition of Radio Nacional Argentina. On the advice of Magda Tagliaferro he moved to Europe, continuing his studies in Paris under Dominique Merlet and Marie-Claude Équoy. Success in the Claude Kahn Competition led to an appearance as soloist at the Palais dʼUnesco in 1987. In 1989 he became an assistant to Aquiles delle Vigne, who introduced him to the Arrau technique. In the same year he was awarded the Diplôme Supérieur dʼExécution of the Ecole Normale Alfred Cortot in Paris. In 1991 he won first prize in the Caltanissetta Vincenzo Bellini International Competition, and in 1993 was awarded the coveted diploma of the Rotterdam Conservatorium. He has performed in most of the major cities of the world, and appeared with leading orchestras and distinguished conductors. Well known as a teacher, he is a regular member of juries for national and international piano competitions. Claudio Chaiquin is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and a laureate of the Cziffra Foundation, Senlis.
