Villa Aurora Events Archive
August 2014
Raskin & Fleischmann
VILLA AURORA (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Johannes Fleischmann and Philippe Raskin met in August 2009 during the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, France. In 2010, Fleischmann and Raskin created the Raskin & Fleischmann Two4music.com Duo. Since then the duo has performed in Europe, Africa and South America. Their concert at Villa Aurora is one stop on their tour to Bogotá, Medellin, Mexico City and Oaxaca.
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Born in Brussels in 1982, Philippe Raskin devoted himself to music at a very early age. He started piano lessons with Aleksandr Friedland, a Russian conductor, and continued working with Bernadette Malter and Loredana Clini.
At age 16 he graduated from the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels followed by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with the highest distinction and holds a Masters from Brussels Conservatorium.
In 2005 he entered the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid where he received the Sobresaliente Prize from H.M the Queen of Spain.
He has a “Diplôme de Spécialisation” from the Strasbourg Conservatory where he studied with Amy Lin.
Philippe has won several national and international competitions, amongst others: the J.S. Bach Competition, the Gretry Rotary Competition, the Paris International Piano Competition, just to name a few.
In 2012 he was a prize-winner at the Lyon International Piano Competition and won First Prize at the “Spanish Composers” International Piano Competition in Madrid.
Philippe has performed internationally as a soloist and with noted orchestras.
His focus on contemporary music earned him dedications from several composers including „Stringent” & Jean-Marie Rens, and Serkan Gürkan.
Born in Vienna in 1983, the violinist Johannes Fleischmann started piano lessons at the age of 5. After graduating at the Viennese „Musikgymnasium“ he founded the „o(h)!-on Ensemble, Wien“ in 2003, and began his studies at the University of Music and the Performing Arts Vienna, in the classes of Prof. Klaus Maetzl and Prof. Christian Altenburger, graduating with the highest distinction.
Johannes Fleischmann currently performs on a violin from Johann Georg Stauffer, dated 1826.
In May 2009, Johannes Fleischmann made his solo debut performing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Austrian-Slovakian Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, Johannes has worked with many well-known artists such as Christian Altenburger, Reinhard Latzko, and Rainer Küchl. He has performed at international festivals and can be seen in concert halls from Wiener Musikverein to Carnegie Hall. Fleischmann performs as a soloist and with renown chamber and philharmonic orchestras.
Silent Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Saturday, August 9 @ 8:00 p.m.
MICHAEL MORTILLA on Organ
Program (curated by Jeffrey Massino of Flicker Alley):
CHARLIE CHAPLIN in
The Adventurer (1917, 23:52 min.)
Easy Street (1917, 24:42 min.)
The Rink (1916, 23:37 min.)
Michael Mortilla is a composer, conductor, arranger, music director, and accompanist. In his native Manhattan, he worked with and composed for dance legend Martha Graham. For 14 years Mortilla taught music, production, and theater & dance accompaniment at the Deparment of Theater & Dance at UC Santa Barbara.
Michael has received numerous commissions including from The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Olympic Games Art Festival. Mortilla’s scores have been performed throughout the U.S. from the White House to the AMPAS and from Lincoln Center to the first ever broadcast of a feature over the internet (Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink”). He plays internationally on TV and in theaters.
Silent Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Saturday, August 23 @ 8:00 p.m.
CHRISTOPH BULL on Organ
Program (curated by Christoph Bull):
Buster Keaton in Cops (1922, 18 min.)
Koko’s Earth Control (Max Fleischer,1928, 6 min.)
A Trip To The Moon (Georges Méliès,1902, 15 min.)
Charlie Chaplin in Kid Auto Races At Venice (1914, 6 min.)
Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant (1917, 24 min.)
One of the world’s most unique organ artists, equally versed in classical and popular music, Christoph Bull has performed in Europe, the United States, El Salvador, Russia and India, at venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New York, the Catholic Cathedrals of Moscow, Salzburg and Saint-Denis, as well as rock clubs such as The Viper Room, The Roxy and The Whisky in Los Angeles.
He has won first and second prizes in numerous organ and songwriting competitions, including Jugend Musiziert, Chamber Music Competition of the City of Bad Dürkheim, Michael Masser Songwriting Competition, Berklee Songwriting Competition, International Organ Competition Marcello Galanti.