Mr Gabriel Prynn – Curriculum Vitae Current address:
Ramlerstr. 19a, 13355 Berlin, Germany
E-mail:
[email protected]
Tel: +49 30 4660 8662 Handy: 0177 49 77 494
Civil status: Single (without children)
Date of birth: 14/2/73
Nationality: Canadian and British Languages spoken: Bilingual English/French; intermediate level German; notions of Spanish and Japanese Professional overview: •
Founder and permanent member of the Trio Fibonacci piano trio since 1998 (repertoire: Classical to the present day; international tours and recordings; internationally recognised authority on contemporary repertoire for the medium)
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Permanent cellist of the new music group Ensemble Alternance in Paris
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Guest musician with contemporary music ensembles in Canada and Germany
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Extensive teaching and coaching experience (see below)
Education and studies in cello: 1984-1991 – Kidbrooke Comprehensive School, London, UK; 8 GCSE’s and 3 A-levels (in Music, English and Sociology) 1991-1994 – University of Manchester, UK (Bachelor of Music, Upper Second; composition studies with John Casken) 1991-1995 – Royal Northern College of Music, UK (Diploma in performance); teacher: Clive Greensmith of the Tokyo String Quartet 1995-1996 – University of Hartford, Connecticut, and New York, USA; teacher: David Finckel of the Emerson String Quartet 1996-1998 – Private classes with Daniel Domb, then Principal Cello of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Masterclasses: Janos Starker, Yuli Turovsky, Frances Marie Uitti
Professional performances as cello soloist, as guest musician and as member of Trio Fibonacci (highlights): • • • •
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Tour of England, 1999 (Sussex University; Holywell Room, Oxford; University of Southampton; BMIC, London) South American tour, 2000 (Buenos Aires; Performance for Brazilian national TV, Curitiba, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, UK (2000 & 2006) South American tour, 2001 (São Paulo, Brazil; Interview and performance for Brazilian TV, Curitiba, Brazil; São Leopaldo, Brazil; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Televised performance, Brasília, Brazil; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Rosario, Argentina; Buenos Aires, Argentina) Merkin Hall, New York, USA (2002) Tour in China and Japan, 2002 (Canadian Embassy, Beijing; Conservatory of China, Beijing; University of Ningbo, near Shanghai; Shanghai Conservatory; Forbidden City Concert Hall, Beijing; Central Conservatory, Beijing; Conservatory of Sechuan, Chengdu, China; Teiarakoto Recital Hall, Tokyo, Japan) Musica Strasbourg, France (2002) Royal Academy of Music, Stockholm, Sweden (2002) Japan Tour 2003 (Nagoya College of Music; Chubu University, Aichi Prefecture; University of Nagoya; Huso Cultural Centre, Huso, Aichi Prefecture; Conference, Irino Foundation, Tokyo; Institut franco-japonais, Tokyo; Daikanyama Classics, Tokyo) Aldeburgh Festival, UK (2003 & 2005) XIII Festival Música Contemporánea Chilena, Chile (2003) Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur, Montreal (ensemble-in-residence, 20042007) Concert series in Granada and Seville, Spain (2004) Tour of ex-Yugoslavia, 2004 (Belgrade, Podgorica, Montenegro, Prishtina) Ars Musica Festival, Belgium (2004 & 2005) Ultraschall Festival, Berlin, Germany (2005) Muziegebouw an 't Ij, Amsterdam, Holland (2005) Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK (2005) Cutting Edge concert series, The Warehouse, London, UK (2005) Flanders Festival, Belgium (2005 & 2006) Guest performer with ensemble musikFabrik, Berlin (2006) Quincena Musical Festival, San Sebastián, Spain (2006) Cambridge Summer Music Festival, UK (2007) Centro Candiani, Venice, Italy (2007) Festival traiettorie’07, Parma, Italy (2007) Guest performer with Ensemble Alternance (Paris), in association with IRCAM and Radio-France (2008) Tour in South Africa (2008) Concert at the Sala Casella, Rome (2008)
Recordings (solos, duos and piano trios) •
CD recording of Reflexos for piano trio by Guilherme Bauer (Rio Arte, Brazil, 2000)
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CD devoted to music of British composer Jonathan Harvey (Atma Records, Canada 2001) - In reference to the recording of Advaya for cello and electronics, which appears on the CD, British critic Steve Lomas wrote: “The brilliant performance of Gabriel Prynn more than holds its own against that of Pierre Strauch on an Ensemble InterContemporain CD of Harvey’s music.”
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CD recording of Espaços Imaginários for piano trio by Harry Crowl (Rio Arte, Brazil, 2003)
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CD devoted to the music of Belgian composer Denis Bosse (Cyprès, Belgium, 2005)
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CD of previously unrecorded solo and trio works by James Clarke, Gerald Barry and Michael Finnissy (NMC, UK, 2005)
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CD recording of Piano Trio by Benoît Mernier (Cyprès, Belgium, 2006) Trio Fibonacci performances have been televised in Canada, Brazil and China, and their concerts have been broadcast on numerous occasions by RadioCanada and CBC Radio
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Teaching experience Mr Prynn has maintained a private cello studio since 1999. He has also given masterclasses, coached chamber music, and given workshops for composition and instrumental students at the following institutions: • •
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University of Oxford, UK (2000) Erdberg Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (2001) Hanns Eisler Hochschule, Berlin (2001) Universities of Porto Alegre and Sao Paulo, Brazil (2001) Conservatory of Cheng Du, China (2002) Conservatory of Nagoya, Japan (2003) Conservatory of Belgrade, Serbia (2004) Residency at Young Composers Program, University of Ottawa (2004) Royal Academy of Music, London (2005) University of Curitiba, Brazil (2007) – gave masterclasses and directed rehearsals of university orchestra cello section Centro Candiani, Venice, Italy (2007) Short-term residency at University of Calgary, Canada (2007) University of Western Ontario, Canada (2007) University of British Columbia, Canada (2007) Ecole normale de Musique, Paris (2008) University of South Africa and in South African townships (2008) Collège Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Canada (2009)
Grants and awards 1995 – Scholarship from University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA, for studies with David Finckel, Emerson String Quartet 1996 – Awards from the King Edward VII Foundation (UK) and D.A.A.D (Germany) 1996 – Winner, Paranov Concerto Competition, Connecticut, USA 1998-2005 – Grants for exploration of new repertoire and for artistic development from the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec
Other work experience: Manager of a music ensemble in Canada for seven years, involved daily work in both English and French, including translating documents, preparing grant applications in both languages, tour planning and promotion in both languages, handling budgets. I am fully computer literate. Taught English for a year at the English Academy in Brussels.
Hobbies/interests: Dancing tango, yoga, history, architecture, nature, health, the environment, literature, cinema, the arts in general, travelling, other cultures