Piano & Cello: The Swan, Vocalise, Oblivion... (Cihan Ycel & Ignacy Gaydamovich)

Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello Cihan Yücel, piano 00:00 Camille Saint-Saëns: The Swan 02:08 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise 07:38 Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion 10:58 Felix Mendelssohn: Songs without Words These tracks are available for sync licensing in web video productions, corporate videos, films, ads and music compilations. For further information and licensing please contact info@ ♫ Buy the MP3 album “Schubert & Schumann: Cello Works“ on the Official Halidon Music Store: 🎧 Stream it on Spotify: 🍎 Get it on iTunes / Apple Music: Subscribe to our channel: Like us on Facebook: ABOUT IGNACY GAYDAMOVICH Award-winning cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich is an active soloist, recitalist, teacher, chamber musician, researcher and recording artist who enjoys performing from a historically informed perspective. Recently, he performed Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 with the Manchester Symphony Orchestra. His latest album, recorded with his father, Janusz, features cello works by Schumann and Schubert. Born into an artistic family, Dr. Gaydamovich spent his formative years in Poland studying piano, cello, and composition. After winning several prizes at international competitions in Austria and Poland, he moved to the United States to continue his graduate studies. There his interests expanded to include conducting. Dr. Gaydamovich has received degrees from F. Chopin Music Academy, Texas Christian University, Boston Conservatory, Longy School of Music, and the doctorate from the University of Hartford. He has studied with Terry King, Jesús Castro-Balbi, Rhonda Rider, Andrzej Bauer, and Kazimierz Michalik. Dr. Gaydamovich regularly performs in Europe, Lebanon, Japan, and the United States. He is a founding member of the Atlas Piano Trio and the principal cellist of the Boston Chamber Orchestra. A passionate teacher and organizer, Dr. Gaydamovich has been a frequent guest at the Conservatory Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado. He has also presented master classes at the first middle-east orchestra program in Beirut, as well as at festivals in Japan, Poland, Lithuania, and at several American colleges and schools. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and has been on the cello faculty at Texas Christian University and Mount Holyoke College. Furthermore, he organized the first Amherst (Massachusetts) Cello Camp, and is now the director of Amherst Art Academy. He is on the faculty of Indian Hill Music School, the U Conn Joy Program, and Avon Old Farms School, coaches cello sectionals at Smith College, and is a cellist with the Indian Hill Orchestra. In addition to performance and pedagogical work Dr. Gaydamovich is the author of a dissertation about Alfred Schnittke’s Cello Sonata No. 1, and the cello method book Beyond the Octave, which expands upon the work of Janos Starker. He has lectured on historically informed performance practices relating to the classical cello repertoire. In his spare time, he likes to make arrangements and transcriptions. Thanks to Chabner Family Foundation, Gaydamovich is playing on a modern copy of an Amati The King 1566 cello made by Wojciech Topa and on gut strings with a variety of bows. Thank you so much for watching this video by Halidon Music channel, we hope you enjoyed it! Don’t forget to share it and subscribe to our channel #cello #halidonmusic #ignacygaydamovich All rights reserved