Kammerkonzert Bach 333 I

Puschan Mousavi Malvani

The mixture of tradition and modernity characterize his playing to this day. Born in Frankfurt, his education at the University of the Arts led him to Prof. Uwe-Martin Haiberg, with whom he completed a highly gifted course of study. As a contrast, he chose the English violin virtuoso Prof. Priya Mitchell for his further studies. She encouraged his joy in experimenting, which always allows him to tread new paths in his playing.

In 2009, he won the Rotary Club's Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement at the Radolfzell International Music Festival on Lake Constance. The Südkurier wrote about his interpretation of Edvard Elgar's Violin Concerto: "There seems to be an almost magical agreement (...)". In the same year he was appointed top talent of the Stiftfestival (Netherlands) in the master class of violin legend Ivry Gitlis. Yoshika Shibata invited him to a master class for soloists in Berlin, where he repeatedly performed the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky and Brahms with the Neue Sinfonie Orchester Berlin in the French Cathedral under the baton of Gerd Herklotz. Since then concert tours have taken him to Europe, South Africa, Egypt and South Korea.

In 2015 he was awarded the concert prize of the city of Fermo (Italy) In 2016 the city of Frankfurt am Main supported him to realize his idea of an intercultural music festival for the Persian New Year and Spring Awakening in an unusual concert ambience. Since this performance at the Frankfurter Künstlerclub Montez, Puschan Mousavi Malvani has passionately pursued his goal of presenting classical music outside the usual concert scene. This is how his first CD "Zwischenwelten" (Intermediate Worlds) came into being, which builds a bridge between his oriental origins and his western musical education. Since 2017 he has been working with the "Dinu Lipatti Trio Berlin". He plays an instrument from the studio of master violin maker Jonas Gierten in Wiesbaden.

Janne Saksala
Janne Saksala was born in Helsinki in 1967. At the age of seven he received his first piano lessons at the Music School West Helsinki, where he also became a double bass student of Jiri Parviainen in 1981. After graduating from high school in 1986, he studied double bass at the Berlin "Hochschule der Künste" under Prof. Klaus Stoll. He found further important inspiration in master classes with Duncan McTier and Frantisek Posta, as well as with Prof. Ilan Gronich (violin). In 1991 he won a prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

Janne Saksala took up his first orchestral position with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1993 and has been the first solo bassist in the same orchestra since 2008. Janne Saksala has appeared as a soloist with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach, the Pori Sinfonietta and the Prague Philharmonic.

Janne Saksala has been performing for many years in various chamber music ensembles with musicians such as Isabelle Faust, Leonidas Kavakos, Guy Braunstein, Rainer Kussmaul, Renaud and Gautier Capucon, Kolja Blacher, Jan-Arne Söderblom, Pekka Kuusisto, Benjamin Schmid, Wolfgang Christ, Jan Vogler, Thomas Demenga, Jan-Erik Gustafsson, Leif Ove Andsnes, Olli Mustonen and Igor Levit. He has played worldwide with the Ensemble Oriol, the Stradivari Soloists, the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic Jazz Group.

Janne Saksala teaches double bass at the "Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler" in Berlin. He also teaches at the Carl Flesch Academy Baden-Baden and as a guest lecturer at the Escuela Superior de Musical Reina Sofia in Madrid, at the Royal College of Music in London, at the Toho Gakuen School of Music Tokyo and the Juilliard School of Music in New York, among others, and holds workshops with youth and professional orchestras and their bass groups.

He spends his free time with his family, reading, playing baritone guitar and occasionally enjoying a good whisky.

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