![]() He has also performed with the King of Pop’s drummer, and met Stevie Wonder’s daughter. He is the youngest person in the Western Cape to be officially endorsed by music equipment-makers, Yamaha. In November 2007, he performed at the Edu-Jazz event at the Baxter Theatre. They discovered his amazing drumming talent when they found him playing drums rhythmically at just 14 months old!īy the age of five he was performing at prestigious events, including functions attended by the deputy president. He maintains a video journal of daily improvisations on his YouTube channel.Instead of school, its a combination and homeschool and university for South African musical prodigy, Daniel Petersen.Īt age 11, he holds the record for being South Africa’s youngest university student, having been accepted to study music at the University of the Western Cape Performing Arts Centre in February 2014.ĭaniel, springs from a line of both professional and amateur musicians and both his parents play music instruments too. He is an avid composer of French mélodies, and is known for his mastery in transcribing music for the piano. In 1996, he opened his own summer academy at the Château de Rangiport in Gargenville, France, in the spirit of Nadia Boulanger. ![]() In recent years Emile has been invited to numerous music festivals such as San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music's Menuhin Seminars, Santander Summer Masterclasses, Verbier Academy Festival, the Banff Center, and residencies at Conservatory of Barcelona (ESMUC). ![]() under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich. ![]() Some highlights of his performing career include a performance of the Grieg Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and his own piano concerto version of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has also collaborated with musicians including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Gerard Souzay, Yo-Yo Ma, Gary Hoffman, Olivier Charlier, Patrice Fontanarosa, Regis Pasquier, Philippe Graffin, Philippe Bernold, Gerard Caussé, Jean Ferrandis, Dominique de Williencourt and the Fine Arts Quartet. Naoumoff is regularly invited by the world's premier orchestras: the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Symphony, the Vienna Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony in Washington, Moscow Symphony, NHK Symphony, the Residentie Orkest of the Hague, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, Camerata Bern, and has worked closely with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, Igor Markevitch, Leonard Slatkin, Mstislav Rostropovich and Eliahu Inbal. He was later appointed at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, Paris. Boulanger, Naoumoff took over her classes at the summer sessions of the Conservatoire d'Art Americain in Fontainebleau. At the same time, he pursued studies at the Paris Conservatory with Lelia Gousseau, Pierre Sancan, Genevieve Joy-Dutilleux, as well as at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Pierre Dervaux (conducting). Lord Menhuin conducted the premiere of Emile's first piano concerto, with the composer as a soloist when he was ten years old. Boulanger gave him the opportunity to work with Clifford Curzon, Igor Markevitch, Robert and Gaby Casadesus, Nikita Magaloff, Jean Francaix, Leonard Bernstein, Soulima Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturian and Yehudi Menhuin. During this auspicious apprenticeship, Mlle. At the age of seven, after a fateful meeting in Paris, he became the last disciple of Nadia Boulanger, who referred to him as "The gift of my old age." Naoumoff studied with her until her death in late 1979. Emile revealed himself as a musical prodigy at age five, taking up the piano and adding composition to his studies a year later. He was also signed as a composer at age 18 - the youngest on their roster - with the music publisher Schott, Mainz. He has been likened to both Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein as a pianist, displaying - as one critic remarked - the fire of the former and the poetry of the latter. Polish Jewish Culture Beyond the Capital: Centering the PeripheryĮmile Naoumoff is professor of music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he has been on faculty since 1998.Policy on Rights of Ownership and Use of Recordings.
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