Duo Flute and Piano - Berten D’Hollander, Anna Granik

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Berten D’Hollander

Dr. Berten D'Hollander, a laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, is a concert flutist and Professor of Flute from Belgium who is known for his popular performances and masterclasses internationally. He holds a PhD in Music with First Prize awards in solfege, flute and chamber music, a pedagogical degree from the Conservatory of Antwerp and a Diplome Superieur in flute. His career spans 30 years of performing in orchestras, chamber groups and as a soloist and professor of the flute. He presently has eight cds to his credit.

He amazed everyone when he decided not to go to university but instead chose the conservatory after completing his Latin-Greek education. His mother and father were not exactly overjoyed with this decision but Professor Jan Van Reeth at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and principal flute at the Belgian radio orchestra saw something in him despite his lack of earlier music education. He decided to give Berten a chance and admitted him to higher music studies and the rest is history!

Very soon Berten was unexpectedly given the possibility to become a piccoloist in the Antwerp Opera Orchestra. This led quickly to many more orchestral engagements with the 'Filharmonie', the 'National Orchestra' and the ‘National Opera’ (better known as ‘La Monnaie-DeMunt’). In the meantime Berten finished his studies 'cum laude' and proceeded to combine a busy orchestra practice with a nearly full-time schedule teaching little children in music schools.

For the last fifteen years, the instrumentally technical groundbreaking demands of today’s contemporary music as principal flute at the 'Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles' and the high level of education that is required in the 'Musikhochschule Köln' contributed to his greater evolution as an artist with a highly personal language and a unique view on music and the world in general.

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Anna Granik

Anna Granik was born in Zagreb. Barely 11 years old, she won the first prize at the Yugoslavian National Piano Competition, and in the same year she was admitted to the Preparatory Class of the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest.

During her studies she won several prizes at international piano competitions in Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic. Since 1996, she has been the official pianist and accompanist of "Upbeat" music summer school in Croatia. During this period of time she had been working with world known artists/musicians, such as: Dora Schwarzberg (Russia /Austria), Asja Kouschner (Russia), Ofer Falk (Israel /UK), Anna Kandinskaya (Russia /Austria) - violin, Michael Kugel (Belgium), Illan Schneider (Luxembourg) - viola, David Grigorian (Russia/Germany), Monika Leskovar (Croatia), László Mező (Bartók quartet, Hungary) - cello, Geert Baeckelandt (Belgium), Radovan Cavallin (Croatia/Spain) - clarinet.

She is serving as an official pianist of the Antonio Janigro International Cello competition in Croatia and the Bartók Violin World Competition in Hungary.

Since 2015, she is official accompanist at the Franz Liszt Academy and since 2025 also at the Music Academy in Zagreb (Croatia).

In 2019 she had been awarded the prize for best piano accompanist in the woodwind category at the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, Russia.

She contributed in masterclasses with the following artists: Berten D'Hollander, Denis Bouriakov, Emmanuel Pahud and Paolo Taballione.

She forms a regular duo with Belgian flutist Berten D'Hollander and with Hungarian violinist, Vilmos Oláh.

PROGRAMME

Les Bonbons de Paris

Composer /Piece

André Caplet:  Rêverie; Valsa
Gabriel Fauré: Morceau de Concours
Francis Poulenc: Un Joueur de Flûte berce les Ruïnes
Emmanuel Rhené-Baton: Passacaille
Victor-Alphonse Duvernoy: Lamento; Intermezzo
Philippe Gaubert: Romance; Madrigal
Claude Debussy: Syrinx
Maurice Ravel: Habanera
Camille Saint-Saëns: Romance
Guy-Claude Luypaerts: Acanthes; Sérvia