Mikael Darmanie
The Catskill High Peaks Festival
The Catskill High
Peaks Festival (Artistic Director, Yehuda Hanani) is a performing and teaching
summer institute bringing together renowned musicians, pedagogues and
exceptionally gifted international students. It is held in the majestic Northern
Catskill Mountains, surrounded by the iconic scenery – mountain peaks, water
falls and charming hamlets – that inspired the Hudson
River painters, and that continues to inspire generations of
artists, musicians and writers. The
intimate scale and highest level of talent make possible an invigorating ten
days of discovery, exploration, bonding, and growth.
First
recipient of the Jerome Wright Scholarship
Pianist Mikael Darmanie began his music studies
at age 12 in Trinidad and
Tobago. Mikael continued his studies as a
student of Clifton Matthews at the University of North Carolina School of the
Arts where he received his Bachelor of Music. He went on to receive his
Master of Music and an Artist Diploma at the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of
Awadagin Pratt. In the fall he is beginning his doctoral studies with pianist
Gilbert Kalish in New
York.
Mr. Darmanie
has performed throughout the United
States, France, Switzerland, Germany and the Caribbean. As a soloist, he has won first prize in a
number of competitions, including the Southeastern Regional Piano Competition,
Bearcat Festival Chopin Competition, Eurterpe Scholarship Competition, and the
North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs Competition. He also won Second
Prize in the North Carolina MTNA Solo Piano Competition and was a Laureate at
the New York Chopin Competition. He has performed at several festivals,
including Pianofest in the Hamptons, Art of Piano
Festival, and L'Acadèmie de Musique de Sion (Switzerland).
Mr. Darmanie has also recently performed in Master Classes for Leon
Fleisher, Paul Schenly, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jerome Lowenthal, Joseph
Kalichstein, and Menahem Pressler.
A versatile
musician, Mr. Darmanie is equally adept as a soloist and chamber musician.
As a member of the Transverse Trio, he won First Prize in the North
Carolina MTNA Chamber Music Competition. He has performed at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music as part of the
Apple Hill Fellowship Trio. In 2010, he performed in unique programs of
Brazilian and French music for violin and piano at Lincoln Center Institute's
Kenan Fellowship performance series. In 2012, Mikael performed on the Taft
Museum of Art Chamber Music Series (Cincinnati) with members of the Cincinnati
Symphony. He is a Graduate Assistant under the direction of Sandra Rivers
at CCM, and works as a collaborative pianist performing a wide variety of
repertoire.
Mr. Darmanie studied
conducting with Serge Zehnacker, Robert Moody, and Ransom Wilson. He has given
performances in North Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio conducting various piano concerti from
the keyboard and has also conducted symphonic works by Bach, Brahms, Beethoven,
Haydn and Liszt. He has composed a handful of works, primarily for piano,
and has performed his music throughout the United
States and Western
Europe.
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