| Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen – Organ |
Studied at the Conservatoires in Esbjerg, Copenhagen, Paris and Vienna.
Diploma in church music 1979 and soloist’s diploma in church music
1982. 1979-91 organist at Simon Peter kirke, Kolding.
From 1991 to 2003 principal organist at the ancient abbey church in Løgumkloster,
Denmark. 1985-94 teacher at the Academy of Music, Esbjerg, and since 2003 organist at the royal church at the Frederiksborg
Slotskirke.
Has held courses and given lectures at conservatoires in Denmark,
Sweden, Germany and USA. Appointed examiner for diploma examinations
in church music at the conservatoires by the Ministry of Culture.
Many concerts as an organ recitalist and chamber musician in several
European countries and USA. Has broadcast as a soloist in Denmark
and other countries.
Has made solo appearances with several symphony orchestras. CD
recordings including the complete organ works of Nicolaus Bruhns and
Georg Böhm and an anthology over 400 years of danish organ music. (3
CD-box)
| The Duo Jochen Brusch - Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen |
Since
1988 Jochen Brusch and Sven-Ingvart Mikkelsen have given a large number of
concerts together. Their repertoire has included both original
compositions for violin and organ and transcriptions. They have mostly
played baroque and romantic music, but their programs have also included
modern music.
CD-recordings
includes "Scandinavian romantic Music", "Poéme", Max Bruch:
Suite for Organ and Orchestra and 2nd Violin Concerto,
Wolf von Siebenthal: "Phantasie" and "Metamorphosen",
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, J.S. Bach: Six Sonatas.
Frederic
Chopin once said: "Nothing is more beautiful than the sound of
a guitar, except perhaps the sound of two guitars."
With all due respect to the old maestro, we have to contradict him. We feel that the sound of a violin together with that of a guitar is the most beautiful, and we formed our Duo in 1992 in order to be able to make music with this delicate
combination. |
| |
Jochen & Finn |
Finn
Svit
Finn Svit completed his studies of music teaching at the North Jutland
Music Conservatoire. He received a Danish Music Association
Scholarship and participated in master-classes given by some of the
most renowned guitarists in Europe.
Svit has taught at the international guitar seminar in
Barmstedt (Germany) since 1989 and has given lectures at the
New Bulgarian University, the National University and at the
National Palace of Culture in Sofia (Bulgaria). He was on the jury
at the International Competition for Guitar Duos in Bubenreuth and
has also judged the International Guitar Competition in Plovdiv (Bulgaria)
several times. For a number of years he has been conductor of the
North Jutland Guitar Orchestra.
Svit is the founder and artistic director of the Aalborg
International Guitar Festival, which is held every year and attracts
some of the most famous names of the guitar world.
He has appeared
as soloist and champer musician in various musical formations,
performing in numerous concerts all over Denmark, Germany, Sweden,
Austria and Bulgaria.
Svit has featured in several radio programmes and
has been in television productions in Denmark and Bulgaria. He has
also recorded premiere performances of new Danish music.
Finn Svit is leader of the Music School of Hobro.
| The Duo Jochen Brusch - Finn
Svit |
The Duo has specialised in concerts for the young. They have
given hundreds of these concerts in Danish schools for the Ministry of Culture.
Here a press-review of one of these concerts:
Violin
art for children
Jochen Brusch and Finn Svit took some hundreds of children into
a new musical world.
Read more.
"The young
audience"
Press-reviews of some of the recordings:
"Treasures"
Classical Guitar:
"… Care has been taken to include a wide variety of styles and
periods in a first rate recording. The playing of both musicians is
never less than totally commited and the mind never wanders. The
whole recital is clear and naturally balanced and the end result is
a joy."
Henry Roth, Strad-Magazine, Los Angeles:
"The playing is very clean, warmly vibrant in tonal projection and
exudes purity of line and sincerity of purpose. Bravo!"
"More
Treasures"
Nordjyske Tidende:
"The music misses nothing concerning intensity, expressiveness and
professional mastering. The works are all small gems of high quality
and they get an interpretation that with great lightness and
facility show both poetic spirit and vibrating virtuosity."
|