Always looking for new repertoire, Antoine Moriniere is invited to play solo concerts, chamber music and concertos all around the world. He performed in many countries like France, Canada (Toronto), Greece (Athens), Cyprus (Nicosia), Belgium, Poland (Olsztyn, Warsaw), Portugal (Casa de Musica de Porto, Barcelos), Romania (Targu Mures, Cluj Napoca), Spain (Madrid, Petrer, Coria, Cheste, Valencia, St Sebastian), Germany (Hamburg, Weimar, Berlin), Austria (Wien), Czech Republic (Kutna Hora), Danemark (Copenhagen).
Interested in contemporary music, he collaborates with the japanese composer Rikako Watanabe (composition teacher at in the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) for the piece "Suite pour guitare" which is also dedicated to him. He premiered during his tour in Spain in November 2012. He also plays a composition for guitar and clarinet named “Obscurs”, dedicated to him by the excellent french clarinetist, Raphaël Sévère.
He will also perform an other creation during 2017 with piano, clarinet and 2 guitars, a piece composed by the pianist Jean Frederic Neuburger with Raphaël Sévère and Thibaud Garcia. Recently, as the winner of Sevilla and Wien guitar competitions, Antoine is having an international tour. More than 30 concerts all around the world (Spain, Austria, Thaïland, Germany, Canada, Greece, Austria, Montenegro, England, Slovakia, Danemark...). He also recorded a CD in june 2016 with the label “Contrastes Records” (Naxos Distribution). Antoine is also involved in chamber music projects as a guitar clarinet duo with Raphael Sévère and as a guitar duo with guitarist Thibaut Garcia and started a new collaboration with the contempory dancer named Louis Nam Le Van Ho.
In 2016, Antoine obtained his Masters degree at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in Olivier Chassain's class. He started guitar with Jean Luc Rocchietti, then he continued with Olivier Chassain at the Conservatory of Bordeaux where he graduated with the highest jury distinction. He also received professional guidance from Jeremy Jouve during 2 years. Antoine is teaching now in the St Maur des Fossés Regional Conservatory in France. -1er prize International Sevilla Guitar Competition (Spain) -1er prize Wien Guitar competition (Austria) -1er prize Antony Guitar Competition (France) -1er prize Sta Cecilia Music Competition (Porto) -1er prize Olsztyn International Guitar Competition (Poland) -1er prize Leopold Bellan Music Competition (Paris) -2nd prize Internation Jose Thomas Guitar Competition (Petrer, Spain) -2nd prize Coria Guitar Competition (Spain) -2nd prize Kutna Hora Guitar Competition (Rep. Tchèque) -2nd prize Anna Amalia guitar competition (Germany) -Special Prize for the best contempory music interpretation in Wien Guitar Competition -Special Prize in Kutna Hora Antoine is using Savarez strings, plays a guitar from Martin Blackwell.
Dmytro Omelchak is an internationaly outstanding Ukrainian guitar player, born in a small town of Shchastya in the east of Ukraine, where he got his first guitar lesson at the age of eight.
In the course of getting his education in Ukraine at Luhansk Music College and at I.P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts, he could improve his play under the influence of such teachers like Mykhail Tushchenko and Yurii Fomin.
Being a DAAD scholarship holder (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – German Academic Exchange Service), he continued his studies in Germany at Münster Music School with Prof. Reinbert Evers. Since 2015, Dmytro has been completing his course of learning with Prof. Tomasz Zawierucha at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
During his studies, Mr. Omelchak had the privilege to attend master classes of great performers of our time, such as: Jens Wagner, Olaf van Gonnissen, Hubert Käppel, Thomas Müller-Pering (Germany), Roman Viazovskyi (Ukraine-Germany), Zoran Dukic, Dejan Ivanovic (Croatia), Pedro Mateo Gonzales, Marco Socias (Spain), Lorenzo Mikeli (Italy), Allan Neave (Scotland), Judicael Perroy (France), Roberto Aussel (Argentina).
Dmytro is a prizewinner of various international competitions, including:
He plays concerts as a soloist worldwide, namely in Ukraine, Estonia, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, China, Great Britain.
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