Lina Tur Bonet & Jadran Duncumb
Biographie Lina Tur Bonet & Jadran Duncumb
Lina Tur Bonet
Considered by the international press for her virtuosity (“Fiery virtuoso”, The Strad, “True Devil Violinist” Bayerische Rundfunk, “Superbement joué, flamboyante Lina” Diapason) combined with exceptional musicality, (“honest and heartfelt music-making” Gramophone, ”the violinist of the soul" Sankei Shinbun) Lina Tur Bonet develops a career as a violinist and conductor that is as versatile as it is personal.
Her love for music and his inexhaustible curiosity allow her to perform and research a repertoire that covers more than 400 years of music, from Monteverdi to Kurtag, always with the original instruments.
After working from a very young age with many of the most recognized artists of baroque, romantic and contemporary music of the moment, and dedicating herself as a soloist to the interpretation and recording of both great composers and unpublished music, Lina Tur Bonet has already become a reference in the musical scenario, being invited all over the world as a soloist and to lead world-class groups.
She brings together the most important musical heritages, including the pioneers of historicism and also some of the most consecrated directors and performers of music of all time, thus becoming the repository of the great European tradition. Awarded, among a dozen national and international awards and scholarships, in the Bonporti Prize.
She has made first versions and first world recordings of many scores: trios by Boccherini op.34, music by Brunetti, Montali, Reynaldi, works for solo violin by Matteys, Boxberg, Wranitzki, Leo, and even two CDs with unknown music by Antonio Vivaldi himself, as well as several contemporary pieces that have been dedicated to her.
Her recording of op. Corelli's V with her own ornamentations, rose as “recommended top-version” among all existing versions according to BBC Radio 3 in its Record Review program - “Building a library”, and her Biber Rosario Sonatas were described as “ referencial” by Gramophone, France Musique and Scherzo. Her recordings of unreleased Vivaldi concertos and sonatas have also been recommended by Bayerische Rundfunk, SWR, Radio Berlin, and on Spanish and Austrian radio. Crescendo Joker for “La Bellezza”. Two GEMA Awards for best recording of 2015 and 2018. 10/10 for Luister for her CD dedicated to Ravel. Two Diapason d'OR for her album “La Belleza” and for the CD “Biber Sonatas” 1681. Award for best album of the year 2022 in the chamber music category, in the considered Japanese “Grammy” of Record Geijutsu Magazine Magazine. CHOC from CLassica for the CD of Bach Violin Concertos.
She has performed all the Rosario Sonatas in Tokyo, Madrid, Granada and Vienna; has been concertmaster of more than a hundred Bach Cantatas and his Passions - including the St. Matthew Passion at the Konzertgebouw in Amsterdam with Concerto Köln. She has premiered solo violin works written for her by José Maria Sánchez Verdú, Mauricio Sotelo and Josep María Guix, and performed as a soloist with Orchestra in solo concerts and works by Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Ravel, Chausson, Mendelssohn, Bartok or Piazzolla with chamber and symphony orchestras. She was invited to the Montreal Festival to perform the entire work for solo violin by J.S. Bach. Both Lina Tur Bonet and her group MUSIca ALcheMIca were resident artists of the CNDM in its 2021-2022 season, and “Artist in Residence” of the Bach Biennale Weimar.
Lina Tur Bonet conducts orchestras from her Violin all over the world. She is currently professor of baroque violin and viola at the Musikhochschule “Franz Liszt” in Weimar, and concertmaster of Le Concert des Nations with Jordi Savall.
Jadran Duncumb
is an English/Croatian/Norwegian guitarist and lutenist. He studied classical guitar at the Royal College of Music in London and lute and basso continuo with Rolf Lislevand at the Musikhochschule Trossingen (Germany).
In 2008 he was a finalist in the guitar competitions BBC Young Musician of the Year in England and NRK Virtuos in Norway, which enabled him to play concerts throughout Europe as a soloist with professional orchestras. In recent years, he has specialised in the baroque repertoire and has played theorbo, lute and baroque guitar in solo concerts with various European ensembles. In 2015 he won first prize in the ‘Maurizio Pratola’ lute competition in L'Aquila. His first two recordings of baroque lute music will be released soon.
In 2011, he founded the Duo Repicco together with violinist Kinga Ujszáaszi, with the aim of devoting himself to the repertoire of the 17th century. Other partners include his brother, rortepianist Emil Duncu, guitarist André Lislevand, soprano Giulia Semenzato and violinists Johannes Pramsohler, Giuliano Carmignola and Lina Tur Bonet.
In 2017 Duncumb published lute suites by S. L. Weiss, in 2018 lute sonatas by Weiss and J. A. Hasse.
The CD Bach works for Lute (Audax Records) released in 2020 received the Diapason d'Or.
Since October 2021 he teaches lute at the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan.
