Born in Moncofa, Spain into a family of clarinetists and Zarzuela singers, JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER* has been called “that rare find, an artist whose brilliant mastery of his instrument is matched by sound and secure gifts as a musician,” by The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana), and The New York Sun proclaimed, “Young Concert Artists has a winner!”
During the 2006-2007 season, Mr. Franch-Ballester performs at the JCC of Greater Washington, Princeton University Concerts, the University of Georgia, Camerata Pacifica (CA), and Merkin Hall in New York, and appears as soloist with the Napa Valley Symphony and the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra. In January 2007, he will appear at the first Cartagena Festival in Colombia. Mr. Franch-Ballester is a member of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, and also performs with the woodwind quintet Astral Winds.
Mr. Franch-Ballester has given recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the La Jolla Music Society (CA), the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts (FL), the Washington Center for the Performing Arts, Missouri State University, and Monmouth College (NJ). As a chamber musician, he has performed Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Arnold Steinhardt, violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, and appeared at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire (NM), the Usedomer Musikfestival in Germany and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. He also performed in the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s song cycle Winter Roses with mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade in 2004. In May 2006, he appeared at the first Young Concert Artists Festival at Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokyo.
In Spain, he performed with the Musica de Vall de Uxo Orchestra and won First Prize in the Competition of the Cultural Council of Valencia for three consecutive years (2001-2003), First Prize in the 2001 “Allegro” Clarinet Competition, and First Prize in the “Francisco Hernandez Guirado” Interpretive Soloists Competition.
Mr. Franch-Ballester won First Prize in the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He was also awarded the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, which sponsored his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, and the Claire Tow Prize, which sponsored his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y. In April 2006, Mr. Franch-Ballester made his New York concerto debut, performing the Copland Clarinet Concerto in YCA’s annual Irene Diamond Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall with Keith Lockhart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He is also on the roster of Astral Artistic Services in Philadelphia, having won first prize at their 2004 National Auditions.
Mr. Franch-Ballester began clarinet lessons at the age of nine with Venancio Rius Marti. He gave his first recital in Valencia at the age of sixteen, and graduated from the Joaquin Rodrigo Music Conservatory in Valencia in 2000. He came to the U.S. to study at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied clarinet with Donald Montanaro and chamber music with Pamela Frank and earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 2005. When he is not playing his clarinet, Mr. Franch-Ballester has a passion for archaeology and is an avid photographer.
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How are you, dear friend?? I hope you got over your virus quickly the other day - how scary... Anyway, let's see each other soon! When... where... we'll just have to hope. I was listening to Brahms Clar Quintet ealier today. Can't wait to play with you again!
We just wanted to let you know that we have a new video up on our profile and youtube page (www.youtube.com/nccosf) of the trailer for our special event on January 19th, 2008: REWIND! Pass the word on!
We also added new photographs - a few of our REWIND guest artists and a few of our guest concertmasters this season.
For a talented musican: kiss I’m too a clarinetiste... I haven’t music in myspace but come to my myspace and write a comment... ;) Kiss Sandrine (sorry for my bad english)
