Gilles Millet

Gilles Millet

Gilles Millett took second prize in the International Bach Competition in Paris in 1986 and the following year began to study at the Paris Conservatoire. He graduated in 1991, his teacher having been Régis Pasquier. He has been Professor of Violin at the Lyon Conservatoire and at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent. Currently he teaches in Amsterdam at the Netherlands StringQuartet Academy and in Belgium at the Namur Music Institute. Millet also teaches regularly in other places in Europe, the United States and Asia. He plays with the Danel Quartet, which tours the world giving more than 80 concerts each year and has appeared at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Bozar arts centre in Brussels, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, New York’s Frick Collection, and the Philharmonie de Paris. The Danels also regularly appear at well-known chamber music festivals and they collaborate closely with several ensembles, soloists and composers.

Programme

Danel-kvartetti

Tue
21.7.
40. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906—1975):

String Quartet No. 1 in C, Op. 49 (1938)

Tue
21.7.
40. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Mieczysław Weinberg (1919—1996):

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 3 (1940)

Tue
21.7.
40. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1 'Razumovsky' (1806)

Wed
22.7.
45. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Franz Schubert (1797—1828):

String Quartet No. 12 in C minor, D. 703 'Quartett-Satz' (1820)

Wed
22.7.
45. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Antonín Dvořák (1841—1904):

Allegro con fuoco from String Quintet No. 2 in G, Op. 77 (1875)

Wed
22.7.
47. Kuhmo Arts Centre 21.00

Alfred Schnittke (1934—1998):

Piano Quintet (1972/76)

Thu
23.7.
50. Kuhmo Arts Centre 18.00

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840—1893):

String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11 (1871)

Thu
23.7.
51. Kuhmo Arts Centre 21.00

Roxanna Panufnik (1968):

Cantator & Amanda for bassoon and string quartet (2011)

Fri
24.7.
52. Kuhmo Church 11.00

Arthur Bliss (1891—1975):

Connelly's Jig from Oboe Quintet, F. 21 (1927)

Fri
24.7.
56. Sotkamo Church 18.00

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770—1827):

Allegro from String Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59 No. 1 'Razumovsky' (1806)

Fri
24.7.
56. Sotkamo Church 18.00

Amy Beach (1867—1944):

Theme and Variations, Op. 80 for flute and string quartet (1916)

Sat
25.7.
58. Kuhmo Arts Centre 11.00

Anders Hillborg (1954):

Kongsgaard Variations for string quartet (2006)

Sat
25.7.
58. Kuhmo Arts Centre 11.00

Felix Mendelssohn (1809—1847):

String Octet in E flat, Op. 20 (1825)