The exceptional Spanish trumpetist, professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Valencia, Dr. Vicente Campos, and the internationally award-winning pianist, professor at the Conservatorio Superior del Liceo de Barcelona, Michael Davidov Butusov, will perform a program featuring works by Haydn, Albinoni, and others.
A few details about the artists
VICENTE CAMPOS
Vicente Campos took his first studies at the Musical School of Montserrat (Valencia). Later on he continued them at the Superior Conservatory of Music in Valencia, being Vicente Prats his teacher. He has been awarded with the Extraordinary Honourable Prize in his final Superior Degree of the trumpet specialty; he has won the first Prize of the Young Musicians and the first Prize ‘Mariano Puig’. He has done a Master in Aesthetics and Musical Creativity by the University of Valencia, General Study. He has recently achieved the Advanced Studies Diploma and at the moment he is doing his doctoral thesis at the University of Valencia, General Study.
He has performed as a principal trumpet in the main orchestras and groups of the Spanish musical scene. He has released several records and Cd’s as a soloist, standing out his recording of the Concerti Accademici by Francisco José de Castro and the Collegium Instrumentale, with an excellent review of the Goldberg Magazine. Since 1996 he manages the musical courses and the Montserrat Festival Chamber Music (Valencia).
Nowadays he is the soloist of the Grup Instrumental in which he has been priced with National Prize of Music 2005 in the interpretation specialty. Moreover, he is the soloist of the Valencia Symphonic Orchestra and the Brass Ensemble ‘Valencia Brass Quintet’. He usually collaborates with the Collegium Instrumentale and he is also trumpet professor and headmaster of the Superior Music Conservatory of Castellón.
MICHAEL DAVIDOV BUTUSOV
Michael Davidov entered the Barcelona Conservatory (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) in the class of the world’s renowned Catalan pianist Prof. Ramon Coll being just 16 years old. He finished his studies obtaining a total amount of nine honors and was given the University Director’s personal recommendation. His constant will of refining his knowledge and his artistic development, pulled him to study at European most prestigious music centers with world famous professors such as the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Postgraduate) under Prof. Mikhail Petukhov, the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany, under Prof. Grigory Gruzman (Concert Diploma) and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, Austria (Master degree and Postgraduate) under Prof. Pavel Gililov. Michael Davidov performed as soloist with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, the Symphony Orchestra of Rostov, Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Granada, the Orquestra J. Strauss of Roma, under the conductors Enrique García Asensio, Paul Mann, Salvador Mas, Valery Khlebnikov, Dariusz Mikulski, Rastislav Stur, Nicola Samale, to name a few. Davidov is also a prizewinner of many international piano competitions such as the International Piano Competition Delia Steinberg in Madrid (1st Prize), the International Piano Competition A. Skavronsky–Inspiration in Volgodonsk (1st Prize and Audience Prize), the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale G. Pecar in Gorizia (1st Prize), the Concorso Pianistico Internazionale F. Chopin in Roma (2nd Prize) and many others. His wide artistic activity made him win other prizes and scholarships. He won four consecutive times the Catalonian’s State Council Scholarship for the Culture and the Arts (2008-12), the Prize of the Foundation R. Parramon (2009), a Medal given by the Town hall of Palau Solità i Plegamans (Barcelona, 2011) and two scholarships given by the Association of Interpreters and Performers of Spain (2013 and 2014).
Besides his concert career, Davidov is also a pedagogue and a composer. In 2010, Michael Davidov became Germany’s youngest piano dozent, after winning an Associate Professor position at the Hochschule für Musik F. Liszt in Weimar. In 2013 he has founded the Marbella International Music Festivaland became its Artistic Director. The MIMF organizes yearly the Marbella International Music Competition and a Piano Masterclass Series with world top piano professors. Michael Davidov has been invited as a juror at international piano competitions and has headed piano masterclasses in different countries. Nowadays, he is professor for piano at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu in Barcelona.
