Mario Hossen & MeU Academic Orchestra

Mario Hossen – Violine

A Paganini reincarnation… The soloist with magnificent creativity interprets the famous violin concert of Paganini with superb sound, clear tone and vigor..."
Standart, Austria

"Hossen's lyrical reading bears out the composer's own evaluation of this work, with a rare depth of expression and dazzling passagework. His ardently simple presentation of the main themes, particularly the opening Adagio, goes to the heart and soloist and orchestra achieve a sympathetic partnership that does Bruch's Second Violin Concerto in D minor full justice…"
Music Teacher Magazine, USA

Mario HOSSEN is a virtuoso with an impressive style of performance, masterfully combines the classical approach with a filigree romantic expressiveness.

Mario Hosen began playing the violin in Bulgaria. He made his debut as soloist with Orchestra at the age of eight. His work with prominent performers and music pedagogues like Frischenschlager (Vienna), Gerard Poulet (Paris) lent an important impetus to his musical career.

He is a Soloist with international reputation. He has performed with orchestras including the English Chamber Orchestra, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nord West Deutsche Rundfunk, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera de La Scala di Milano, Sofia Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ankara Presidential Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltic Philharmonic, Budapest Philharmonic etc

He has been met with a storm of applause in USA (Carnegie Hall), Austria (Konzerthaus Vienna, Brucknerhaus Linz), Italia, France (Salle Gaveau Paris), Switzerland (Victoria Hall Geneva, Tonhalle Zürich), Spain, Latvia, Turkey, Albania (UNESCO), Mexico, Hungary, Slovenia, China, Croatia, Russia, Serbia, and Japan. Hossen performs and records with such household names as Adrian Oetiker, Philippe Bernold, Jean Bernard Pommier, Gerard Caussé, Dong Suk Kang, Imants Resnis, Felix Carasco, Milena Mollova, Vladimir Fedossejev, Lior Schambadal, Hansjörg Schellenberger,  

He is one of the most fascinating Paganini Performer of his generation. The concert appearances with all 6 Paganini Concerts and the 24 Capricci have been met with acclaim by critics and audience alike. The violinist is holder of many international prices and awards. He is founder of Orpheus Academy Orchestra and serves as artistic director of the International Music Academy Orpheus (organised by the New Bulgarian University Sofia in cooperation with universities and academies of Vienna, Basel, Madrid, Milan and Paris). He is Associated Professor in Sofia (New Bulgarian University) and in Madrid (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía).
Hossen is Artist of the world leading string producer- Thomastik Infeld Vienna.

He plays the on 1749 “G. B. Guadagnini” violin, which has been lent to him by Austria National Bank.

 

Burak TÜZÜN - Conductor
Burak Tuzun graduated from the Violin Department, Ankara State Conservatory in 1992. With the Turkish government scholarship, he finished his advanced studies at the Operatic and Symphonic Department (1996-2000) and Musicology Department from Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (2000-2002). In Turkey, Tuzun studied under Server Ganiev (violin), Sami Hatipoglu (harmony and counterpoint), Alfred Mishurin (conducting); and in Moscow with Leonid Nikolaev (conducting), Yuri Butsko (orchestration) and Margarita Karatigina (musicology). In 2004 he was appointed the Conductor and General Music Director of Anadolu University Symphony Orchestra. National awarded, Burak Tuzun has been recognized for his rarely heard Turkish music repertoire, premiers of orchestral works by new generation of Turkish composers and recordings many cds. Tuzun gives concerts and master classes abroad and teaches at Anadolu University. He frequently conducts the Presidential Symphony Orchestra and all major symphony orchestras in Turkey.

 

Mersin Academic Chamber Orchestra

The Mersin Academic Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1999 by artists from Istanbul settled in Mersin.

The main purposes of the Mersin Academic Chamber Orchestra are: to provide an opportunity for musical activities to have a link with the wider community, to encourage young musicians by participating in artistic performances at both a local and international level, to contribute to education of young audience, to represent our country at festivals and competitions, to introduce our old as well as new music into the world, to offer besides works of baroque, classic, romantic and contemporary music examples of Turkish compositions at the international level.

The orchestra gained its official identity thanks to interest in art and enormous efforts of the former rector of Mersin University Prof. Dr. Uğur Oral and the present rector Prof. Dr. K. Suha Aydın and it has been working since this season under the auspices of the Center for Chamber Music Performance and Research at Mersin Universitity.

In September the orchestra recorded a cd participated by the Turkish flutist living in France Sibel Pensel and the French flute player Maxence Larrieu with Naci Özgüç as a conductor.  An other recording project with Sibel Pensel, the clarinet player Ayşegül Kirmanoğlu and the conductor Naci Özgüç will be realized in February 2010. The orchestra with Münif Akalin as a conductor is starting in January 2011 the first recording of the cd series with compositions by Nevid Kodallı, Turgay Erdener, Hasan Uçarsu, Server Acim,  Serdar Yalçın and Ertuğ Korkmaz.