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Monday, September 22, 2008
A book written by June Emerson in 1994. She is the first western musician to have studied the evolution of Albanian music. Her book is the fruit of much travel in Albania and many meetings with performers, composers. She is founder of Emerson Edition and Albanian Musicians Trust in UK.I had a pleasure to meet her in Tirana on 2002 and to have her support in several my projects.
Arts (music) manager with a career as professional musician prior to that. Founder of Albsounds String Orchestra Assoc. in 2000 and from 2004 Manager of RTSH - Albanian National Symphony Orchestra. I have managed those ensembles concert's seasons and international tours. As member of ISPA and IAMA, I have been collaborating with many international events, agencies and artists worldwide and mostly from Balkan area.Active in promoting the regions music tradition, I've done researches and published articles about the arts and specially music sector in the Balkan countries.
1-with Doron Salomon (conductor) Israel and my wife Entela (violin) 2-with Leonid Nikolayev(conductor) Russia 3 -with Alberto Negroni(oboe) & Marco Ambrosini(conductor) Italy 4-with Richard Galliano (accordeon&composer) France 5-with Andrea Giuffredi (trumpet) Italy 6-with Xavier Rist (conductor) France
Balkan orchestras
1-New Sounds orchestra performing open air concert in Tirana 2-Montenegrin Philharmonic Orch., 3 - Poster of Kosovo Philharmonia, 4- RTV Serbia Symph. Orchestra, 5 - Macedonian Philharmonic Orch, 6- Belgrade Philharmonic.