Giorgio Koukl
Giorgio Koukl (born Jiří Koukl in 1953) is a Czech-Swiss composer, pianist and musical journalist. He lives in Lugano, Switzerland.
Giorgio Koukl
- Born
- 1953 · Prague.
- Nationality
- Czech Republic
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · harpsichordist
- Languages
- Czech
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Koukl was born on born 1953 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His family roots were going back to Belarusian noble family of Grigori Minaiev. Through studies with Rudolf Firkušný, Nikita Magaloff, Stanislav Neuhaus and Carlo Vidusso, Koukl was first introduced to the piano music of Bohuslav Martinů. Koukl, considered now as one of the major world specialists of Parisian music of the twenties and of the "silver age" composers from Saint Petersburg, has recorded the only one existing complete set of solo piano music of Martinů, released between November 2006 and August 2009, a 5-CD set of complete vocal music of Martinů and a 2-CD set of Martinů's complete piano and orchestra. A series of eight CDs of the complete solo piano music of Alexander Tcherepnin added to his discography the valuations as best CD of the month (four times), best CD of the year (2 times), so as the recordings of Vítězslava Kaprálová, Paul Le Flem (French prize Diapason d'Or), Witold Lutoslawski (first world recordings), Arthur Lourié (first world recording), Tibor Harsanyi, (a project completed in January 2021, all first world recording), Carl Maria von Weber, Johannes Brahms,Alexandre Tansman, and the complete piano and two pianos work recording of Vittorio Rieti. He also worked on a release of Claude Delvincourt complete piano work for Brilliant Classics. Giorgio Koukl is an honorary member of the International Martinů society.
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