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Inspired Minds: One to One with Crime Writer Minette Walters
Minette Walters latest thriller, “The Chameleon’s Shadow” has shot to the top of bestseller charts all over the worldCrime writer Minette Walters first book ”The Ice House” became a worldwide best-seller just months after it’s publication. It won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award in the UK for best first novel and was translated into several languages within six months of initial publication. Her second novel, “The Sculptress” won the Edgar Allen Poe Award an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: Remembering the late Mauricio Kagel, one of the 20th century’s most influential composersIn this special programme we remember the late composer Mauricio Kagel, who died on September 18th. His compositions universally demonstrate his deep awareness of musical history, the same considered engagement with music’s many meanings and its place in human life.Although born and educated in Argentina, Mauricio Kagel had been a long-time resident of Germany, and was for more than half a century one of the most inventive and wide-ranging figures in contemporary music.
Kagel’s work de ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to one with peace worker Alfons SchabarumThe International Day of Peace provides an opportunity for individuals, organisations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by the United Nations in 1981 and since 2002 has been observed on September 21st.
The tragic events of September the 11th, seven years ago shocked people around the world. While the American President waged a war on terror as a consequence, war seemed not to be the right answer for Alfons Schabarum. The management consultant ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to one with conductor Daniel HardingAt just 33 Daniel Harding is already a well established name on the concert circuit. This week he appeared at Bonn’s Beethoven Festival at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra, in a programme of Beethoven and Bruckner. Born in Britain in 1975 Daniel Harding initially attended the University of Cambridge, but after his first year there, Claudio Abbado named him his assistant with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Harding’s career had begun earlier when he assisted Sir Simon Rattle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Grete Pedersen conductor of the Norwegian Soloist's ChoirThe Norwegian Soloist's Choir occupies a unique position in the musical life of Norway. The ensemble has given over two hundred premier performances of which over seventy have been of works by Norwegian composers.Grete Pedersen studied at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo where she took her exam in choir conducting and since 1995 has also taught the same subject. She is the conductor of the Oslo Chamber Choir which she founded in 1984. In 1990, she succeeded Knut Nystedt as artis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to one with Ilona Schmiel, Director of Bonn’s Beethoven FestivalBonn’s annual Beethoven Festival got underway a few days ago. The event which features 60 concerts, plus an extensive accompanying programme, has grown to become a musical highlight in the region.Ilona Schmiel initially studied music before completing further studies in arts and media management in Berlin and Oslo. Her career in arts management began as an assistant to the director of the Donaueschinger Musiktager. She has also worked in this field in Scandinavia, as a concert agent in Ge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Singer Robert Dean SmithThe critically acclaimed Heldentenor is currently performing the title role in the Bayreuth Wagner Festival production of “Tristan and Isolde”Heldentenor Robert Dean Smith studied singing at Pittsburgh State University and at New York’s Juilliard School of Music. Not unlike many other heldentenors, he began his career as a baritone. His first professional engagements were in Germany. In 1995 he joined the Wiesbaden National Theatre and since then has sung all the major heldentenor par ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman, Part Two“Klezmer, Jazz, Classic - all these labels for music don’t mean a thing to me – it’s all music!”This week we continue our conversation with the remarkable musician Giora Feidman.It is over fifty years since the clarinettist he started his legendary musical career. Born in Argentina in 1936, his parents were Bessarabian Jews. Feidman comes from a family of Klezmer musicians - his father, grandfather and great-grandfather performed for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and holiday celebratio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman, Part One“Long live Giora, his clarinet and his music! He builds bridges between generations, cultures and classes and he does it with perfect artistry” conductor Leonard BersteinIt is over fifty years since the clarinettist Giora Feidman started his legendary musical career. Born in Argentina in 1936, his parents were Bessarabian Jews. Feidman comes from a family of Klezmer musicians - his father, grandfather and great-grandfather performed for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and holiday celebrations i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Turid Birkeland, Director of the Risör Festival of Chamber MusicThe Risør Festival of Chamber Music was established in 1991 and is today one of the Norway’s most popular summer music events. For one week each summer, the sleepy seaside Norwegian village, becomes the stage for an international festival of chamber Music. Some of the biggest names in classical music make their way to Norway for the event. At the helm of the event are three directors – the musicians violist Lars Anders Tomter and the internationally acclaimed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to one with the pianist and composer Marc-André HamelinHamelin is renowned for his exploration of unfamiliar piano repertoire and has performed all over the world. The Canadian Marc-André Hamelin began his piano studies at the age of five and was just nine years old when he won the top prize in a Canadian music competition.
His father, a pharmacist by trade who was also a pianist, introduced him to the works of Alkan, Godowsky and Sorabji when he was still young.
Hamelin studied at the in Montréal and then at Temple University in Philadelp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Cory Doctorow - Author and BloggerCory Doctorow is a Canadian blogger, journalist and science fiction author. Among his numerous occupations, he is a co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a advocate of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of their licenses for his books. Doctorow was the former Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Violinist Christian TetzlaffMusical America named him “Instrumentalist of the Year” in 2005 and he is in demand as a soloist the world over. Christian Tetzlaff is renowned for his interpretations of the violin concertos of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky as well as Berg, Ligeti and Shostakovich.
Among his musical partners are the pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Lars Vogt. He often performs at major festivals such as BBC Proms, Edinburgh and Lucerne Festival and all major US summer festivals.
In this week’s Ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with singer Thomas QuasthoffGerman bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff is recognised as one of the most remarkable
singers of his generation.Quasthoff began his vocal studies with Professors Charlotte Lehmann and Huber-Contwig in Hannover, Germany and has to date been the recipient of numerous international awards. He appears regularly with the world’s leading orchestras under such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle, to name but a few, and is also a vocal professor at the Hanns E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Ludwig Baumann Baritone and Festival DirectorBaumann established the Gut Immling Opera Festival 12 years ago. Today this event presents three major opera productions each summer.
Ludwig Baumann grew up on a farm, surrounded by many animals. Indeed this early aspect of his life has continued to be an import part of his life today. After studying singing at Richard Strauss's Conservatoire in Munich, Baumann enjoyed a long career where he was engaged by many of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including Los Angeles Rome, Pa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with author Margriet de MoorMargriet de Moor's many acclaimed books include “First Gray, Then White, Then Blue,” “The Virtuoso,” “The Kreuzer Sonata” and “The Duke of Egypt.”The acclaimed Dutch writer Margriet de Moor initially trained as a singer and pianist. She achieved early recognition in the Netherlands with the publication of her first work of fiction, the 1988 short-story collection titled “Seen at the Back.” This was followed by “Three Novellas” for which she was awarded the Van der Ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to one with composer/conductor Matthias PintscherPintscher is one of Germany’s most exciting young composers, whose awards include first prize in the Hitzacker Composition Competition, the Salzburg Easter Festival Composition Prize and the Hindemith Prize from the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival .Matthias Pintscher gained his early experience playing the violin in local youth orchestras and conducting them. He studied composition with Giselher Klebe and Manfred Trojahn and formative influences included encounters with the composers H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Christopher MooreMoore is the author of nine novels, including the international best-seller "Lamb."Christopher Moore’s biography is wide-ranging. Before publishing his first novel, “Practical Demon Keeping” in 1992, he worked as a roofer, a grocery clerk, a hotel night auditor, an insurance broker, a waiter, a photographer, and a rock and roll DJ. Moore has drawn on all of these work experiences to create the characters in his books.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Christopher Moore talks to Breand ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Christopher MooreMoore is the author of nine novels, including the international best-seller "Lamb."Christopher Moore’s biography is wide-ranging. Before publishing his first novel, “Practical Demon Keeping” in 1992, he worked as a roofer, a grocery clerk, a hotel night auditor, an insurance broker, a waiter, a photographer, and a rock and roll DJ. Moore has drawn on all of these work experiences to create the characters in his books.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Christopher Moore talks to Breand ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Performance Artist Meow MeowMeow Meow has wowed audiences with her own special brand of cabaret performance art around the globe. She has just appeared at David Bowie's High Line Festival in New York, and is currently appearing to sold-out houses in Berlin. It is difficult to find an exact description that fits the performance artist Melissa Madden Gray – known the world over as Meow Meow. She is quite careful to protect her true identity, but observing her on stage, it becomes quite evident that she is an experienc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Performance Artist Meow MeowMeow Meow has wowed audiences with her own special brand of cabaret performance art around the globe. She has just appeared at David Bowie's High Line Festival in New York, and is currently appearing to sold-out houses in Berlin. It is difficult to find an exact description that fits the performance artist Melissa Madden Gray – known the world over as Meow Meow. She is quite careful to protect her true identity, but observing her on stage, it becomes quite evident that she is an experienc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Violinist Frank Peter ZimmermannThe world-renowned soloist plays a Stradivarius from 1711, which once belonged to the legendary violinist Fritz Kreisler.Frank Peter Zimmermann started playing the violin when he was just 5 years old, giving his first concert with orchestra at the age of 10. Today his many concert engagements with major orchestras take him all over the world including international music festivals in Europe, the United States, Japan, South America and Australia.
Zimmermann has recorded virtually all the maj ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Tom Rob Smith"Child 44" is Smith's first book and is presently storming the bestseller lists around the world.
"Child 44" is a thrilling, intense piece of fiction set in Stalin's Russia. The book attracted a great deal of attention at the London Book Fair, when, after fierce bidding, it was sold in 22 countries and the film rights were bought.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Tom Rob Smith talks about his ideas in writing this book, his fascination with the Stalin era and how his soap opera author bac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with author Alain de BottonIn Botton’s latest book, "The Architecture of Happiness," he discusses beauty and ugliness in architecture. The writer Alain de Botton is a frequent contributor to numerous newspapers, journals and magazines. He has published three novels, “Essays in Love,” “The Romantic Movement” and “Kiss and Tell.”
He is also the author of a number of works of non-fiction, including the titles, "How Proust Can Change Your Life," "The Consolations of Philosophy" and "The Art of Travel."
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Inspired Minds: One-to-One with Writer John BurnsideJohn Burnside is the author of nine collections of poetry and six works of fiction. He's achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for "The Asylum Dance," which was also short-listed for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes.John Burnside studied English and European Languages at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. After working for a time as a computer software engineer, he became a freelance writer in 1996. He is a former Writer-in-Residence at Dundee U ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Crime Writer Minette WaltersMinette Walters latest novel, "The Chameleon’s Shadow," was published in late 2007 and already has shot to the top of best-seller charts. Crime writer Minette Walters' first book "Ice House" became a worldwide bestseller just months after it’s publication. It won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award in the UK for best first novel and was translated into several languages within six months of initial publication. She has gone on to write a string of successful novels includi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Novelist Esther FreudEsther Freud was named as one of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine. Esther Freud's debut novel, "Hideous Kinky," evokes the bohemian childhood of two young children accompanying their mother in her search for freedom and adventure in 1960s Morocco. The book was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. Further titles by Freud include "Peerless Flats" and "Gaglow."
Her most recent novel is "Love Falls." It is about this latest novel that the author talks this week to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Irish author John BoyneBoyne's novel "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" quickly found an audience with adults and children alike and has now been published in 18 languages. His first novel, “The Thief of Time,” was published in 2000 and was followed by five others including the titles “The Congress of Rough Riders,” “Crippen” and later this year “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
In this week’s Inspired Minds, John Boyne talks to Breandáin O’Shea about the process that went into writing “The Boy in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Jazz Singer Dianne ReevesThe American jazz singer Dianne Reeves is a four-time Grammy award winner. She has just released her latest album "When You Know," which features many of her favorite standards, plus some of her own compositions.Reeves has toured with Harry Belafonte and sang in Billy Childs' jazz band "Night Flight." More recently, Reeves starred in George Clooney’s film "Good Night and Good Luck" and won the Grammy for best jazz vocal for the film's soundtrack.
In this week’s Inspired Minds, Dianne R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Cory Doctorow - Author, Journalist and BloggerCory Doctorow is a Canadian blogger, journalist and science fiction author. Among his numerous occupations, he is a co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing and an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a advocate of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of their licenses for his books.Doctorow was the former Director of European Affairs for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standard ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Ken FollettAround 100 million copies of Ken Follet’s books have been sold world-wide. His latest book "World Without End" is the long-awaited sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth."Ken Follett was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1949 and graduated from University College, London, with a degree in philosophy. He first worked as a journalist. He then went to work for a small London publishing house, Everest Books, eventually becoming Deputy Managing Director, but he continued to write novels in his spare time ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Crime Writer Val McDermidMcDermid has been the recipient of numerous major crime fiction awards and her work has been translated into over 30 languages
The crime writer Val McDermid, grew up in Scotland, and studied English at Oxford University. She trained as a journalist and worked on various national newspapers before becoming a writer. She has written a large number of crime novels and these include three different series of books: The Lindsay Gordon, The Kate Branningan and the Tony Hill and Carol Jordan myst ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III of CameroonPrince Kum'a Ndumbe III, a poet and playwright, believes Africa needs a renaissance and is determined to make it happen.
Prince Kum' a Ndumbe III of Cameroon is a renowned international scholar, poet and playwright. He was sent to Germany at the age of 15 to be educated and later moved to France and earned doctorates in History, Politics, and German Studies from the University of Lyon.
At an early age, Prince Kum 'a Nadumbe became frustrated by what he saw as western indifference to Afric ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Poet Joachim SartoriusDr. Joachim Sartorius is renowned as a poet and translator of works by the likes of Malcolm Lowry, Robert Gray and John Ashbery.
Born in 1946 in Germany, Sartorius is the son of a diplomat and grew up in Tunis. After studying law and political science, he served as a diplomat and lived for extended periods in New York, Istanbul and Nicosia.
Sartorius has held many prestigious positions in the field of international cultural policy and was director of the Goethe Institute until he was appo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: Inspired Minds Berlinale SpecialOne to One with film director Miguel Kohan, whose latest film "Café de los Maestros" about tango musicians in Buenos Aires has just been released at the Berlinale Film Festival.
A film catching the attention of many attending the Berlinale this year is called "Café de los Maestros". It traces the musical development of tango in Buenos Aires since the middle of last century and features many of that country's great tango musicians, many now in their eighties. "Café de los Maestros" is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Berlinale Talent Campus Director Dorothee WennerThe filmmaker and journalist Dorothee Wenner has directed the Berlinale Campus since 2006
The Berlin International Film Festival has encouraged young filmmakers from all over the world and all professional fields to apply to the Berlinale Talent Campus since it was established in 2003. Over 350 of them are invited to Berlin each year to reflect on their ideas about film in lectures, ateliers and panel discussions, and to work on their projects in specialised hands-on workshops. Since 2006 t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Dieter Kosslick, Director of the BerlinaleThis week, Germany’s biggest film festival gets underway in Berlin and we meet the man at the helm, Berlinale director, Dieter Kosslick.
Germany’s biggest film festival, "The Berlinale", as it is called, is not only the city’s largest cultural event, but also one of the most important dates on the international film industry’s calendar. More than 19,000 film professionals from 120 countries, including 4,000 journalists, are accredited for the Berlin International Film Festival every ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to with One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman (Part 2)"Klezmer, Jazz, Classic - all these kind of labels for music don’t mean a thing to me – it’s all music!"
This week we continue our conversation with the remarkable musician Giora Feidman. It is over fifty years since the clarinettist he started his legendary musical career. Born in Argentina in 1936, his parents were Bessarabian Jews. Feidman comes from a family of Klezmer musicians - his father, grandfather and great-grandfather performed for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and holiday celeb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with the King of Klezmer Giora Feidman (Part One)"Long live Giora, his clarinet and his music! He builds bridges between generations, cultures and classes and he does it with perfect artistry" (Conductor Leonard Bernstein)
It is over fifty years since the clarinettist Giora Feidman started his legendary musical career. Born in Argentina in 1936, his parents were Bessarabian Jews. Feidman comes from a family of Klezmer musicians -- his father, grandfather and great-grandfather performed for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and holiday celebrations ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Architect, Curator and Author Deyan Sudjic" I think buildings work in two ways – when they are brand new then they are like a - gosh look at me - the subject of a picture postcard. But really their strongest effect - when they really change the way people think and operate - is when they are almost invisible - when they are taken for granted". Deyan Sudjic was born in 1952 to Serbian parents. He originally trained as an architect at Edinburgh University and is currently the director of the Design Museum in London. Deyan’s illus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Jazz Singer/Pianist Eliane Elias and the Music of Bill Evans"I've been influenced by a number of pianists, starting with Art Tatum and Bud Powell and going to Wynton Kelly, and I can go on... Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett..."
A native of Brazil, Singer/Pianist Eliane Elias started piano at age six. Her mother was a classical pianist who often played jazz records in the family home - something that ended up influencing the young musician a great deal. At just 17 she started composing and, more notably, performing her own jazz pieces. Whi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: Inspired Minds End of Year SpecialFeaturing Nobel Literature Laureate Doris Lessing, Renowned Conductor John Eliot Gardiner and Award Winning Author Andrea Levy
In this special edition of Inspired Minds we continue our journey through some of 2007 programme highlights. This week includes a personal favourite of host Breandáin O’Shea's - the author Andrea Levy reading from her award-winning novel Small Island .We also hear from world renowned conductor, John Eliot Gardiner and the 2007 Nobel literature laureate Doris Le ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: Inspired Minds End of Year SpecialFeaturing the Musicians Sting and Joan Baez and Renowned Crime Writer Elizabeth George. On this special edition of Inspired Minds we have the chance to hear again some of 2007 programme highlights. Breandáin O’Shea has been delving into the achieves and selecting some of his favourite guests from the year. Today we will hear once again from one of the world’s most successful crime writers, Elizabeth George, the legendary American folk singer Joan Baez, and of the course, from the forme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One With the Late Karlheinz StockhausenKarlheinz Stockhausen was one of the most innovative German composers of the post-war era and his influence in contemporary classic circles is indelible.
On this week’s Inspired Minds we pay tribute to the late Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died on December 5th. The composer was born near Cologne on August 22, 1928, and studied at that city’s Musikhochschule until 1951. Stockhausen composed over 300 works and consistently ventured into unknown musical territory. Both Björk and the Beatle ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Film Historian and Author - Peter Cowie"European film by it’s nature is not ostentatious, it’s not big budget, it’s not special effects, it’s not glamour. European Film is about serious issues and actually tries to say something about this brief life we have on earth and our relations one with another. "Peter Cowie - born 1939 in England - is a film historian and the author of some thirty books on cinema. Among them biographical studies of Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola , to name a few, as well as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Conductor Helmut Rilling and the Music of Advent" Bach’s musical language is very strong and so relevant to today’s world and problems "Over his career, Helmuth Rilling has become one of the most respected choral conductors in the world. He grew up in a musical family in southern Germany, where he received his early musical training, later studying choral conducting, composition and organ at the Stuttgart Academy of Music and in Italy with Fernando Germani. Then he travelled to the Untied States where he studied conducting with the r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Author Jordi PuntíPuntí is considered one of the most promising new voices of contemporary Catalan literature
The author Jordi Puntí was born in 1967 and is currently the editor of the literary supplement, Quadern, published by the newspaper, El País. Having received much critical acclaim, Puntí is considered one of the most promising new voices of contemporary Catalan literature. He has published short-story collections such as Pell d’armadill and Animals tristos, and his work has been included in sev ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One with Author A. L. Kennedy“My books are character-based. If you want to make something appear fresh, you rely on the fact that no person has a voice quite like any other.”A.L. Kennedy was born in Scotland in 1965. She studied drama at Warwick University and during this time began writing her first short stories and dramatic monologues. She then served as a community arts worker at a youth centre in Glasgow and worked, among other things, with prisoners before becoming a Writer in Residence at that organisation. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Inspired Minds: One to One With Soprano Gabriele Fontana“When you decide to sing - it’s not just a career – it is your life”.The Austrian soprano Gabriele Fontana, studied in Vienna, where already, during her studies she was the recipient of a number of awards in international singing competitions. Fontana's operatic debut came in 1980 in Frankfurt and since that time she has been celebrated in the opera houses of Salzburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelona, Trieste, Geneva and Tokyo, to name but a few. Fontana has also worked alongs ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |
