Bram Invites

Suite Delights

There are 3 special suites on the program. A suite is a series of dancing that have been put to music. Mikayel opens with a cello suite from Bach, one of the baroque icons from the cell orcher. Bram continues with Schubert's Moments Musicaux; Finally, they play the polystilistic suite im Alten from Schnittke;

About Mikayel Voskanyan

The Armenian cellist Mikayel Voskanyan (2003) is 2nd prize winner of the International Chieti Classica Cello Competition. Mikayel played chamber music with renowned artists such as Kristóf Baráti, Shunske Sato, Kyoko Yonemoto, Mihai Cocea and Shuann Chai. He is currently continuing his cello study with Professor Alexander Chaushian in the Master's degree in the Maastricht Conservatory.

Bram de Vree: “Mikayel follows a Master's study Cello at the Maastricht Conservatory and is the kind of student that you come across once every few years. A natural talent on the cello, with a great storytelling and the necessary Armenian enthusiasm. Nice to be able to offer such a young talent a stage before he spreads his wings. "

• “A Cellist with Fantastic Technique and Great Intensity”* - Gustav Rivinius (Cellist)

About Bram de Vree

Bram de Vree plays many concerts in both the Low Countries and worldwide. As a pianist of the Belgian-Dutch Mosa Trio, he tours internationally and was a guest at festivals such as the Grachtenfestival, Klara Festival and the Festival International de Piano de la Roque d’ Anthéron. Bram made his debut at the age of thirteen as a soloist with a piano concert by Haydn and has since performed with, among other things. The Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon, the Amman Symphony Orchestra and various Dutch and Belgian orchestras.

As a soloist and chamber musician, he played in halls as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, De Bijloke, Bozar and Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, and performed in Germany, France, the VK, Austria, China and Australia, among others. Bram recorded his solo debut CD in 2010 and released an internationally praised debut album with the Mosa Trio in 2018. He won prizes on prestigious competitions in Lyon, Brussels, the Netherlands and Australia, and regularly judges at (room) music competitions.

Bram obtained his master's degree with distinction at the Maastricht conservatory, where he studied with Tonie Ehlen and Håkon Austbø, and took lessons at, among others. Jacques Ogg and the Trio Wanderer. With the Mosa Trio he was a member of the European Chamber Music Academy for three years. Bram is Coordinator Chamber Music and Master Research Supervisor at the Maastricht Conservatory and was a piano teacher at the CMD in Valkenswaard for many years.

• "Extremely compelling, Imaginative and Vivid"* - Mark Steinberg, Brentano Quartet

• "Unter de Vrees fingern klingt das klavier so fells who selten bei gergleichbaren einspielungen, so nah who möglich dran klang der streicher, und, wenn es sein muss, auch so weit away, so perkmmernd

• "They play as if they have dissected and boned Shostakovich's trio, the great promising Mosa Trio."* - Biëlla Luttmer, de Volkskrant

• "Ein Junges und Erstaunliches Neues Trio!"* - Your Krusch, Pizzicato

• "An incredible virtuosity"* - Henk Pruijsen, Wieringer Courant